MIT’s Love Lab developing a Covid-19 vaccine to potentially reach billions
After cities shut down and citizens were urged to stay home to slow the spread of Covid-19, scientists in major cities like Boston were suddenly far removed from their labs. At MIT, on-campus research was ramped down, reduced to only the most critical activities. That includes important work to better understand the virus and help stop the spread. In the lab of Professor J. Christopher Love at MIT’s Koch Institute for Iterative Cancer Research, a small team was cleared to return to the lab to continue their mission: generating and testing preclinical materials to push new vaccines for Covid-19 to reach the stage of conducting human trials on a much faster timeline than the many years that vaccine development typically takes. “It was like a blitz at the beginning to see if something would work,” says Neil Dalvie, a graduate research assistant who’s part of the Love Lab’s onsite team, together...