中國人民之福 —— 韓裔美國人 J. Joseph Kim 博士為 

 總裁 & CEO、位於加州聖地亞哥的美國製藥公司 

 Inovio Pharmaceuticals 研發中心科學家 

 僅用三個小時就破解了新型冠狀病毒的

 DNA測序 成功構建了相關疫苗 

 今年夏季開始用於人體臨床試驗

A team of San Diego laboratory scientists has reportedly created a vaccine for the coronavirus, or COVID-19, and in potentially record-breaking time.

According to Fox Business, the scientists, operating at a satellite location of Pennsylvania-based American biotech company Inovio Pharmaceuticals, discovered and tested the successful vaccine within three hours of receiving a full overview of the virus’ genetic composition.

“We were able to rapidly construct our vaccine in a matter of about three hours once we had the DNA sequence from the virus available because of the power of our DNA medicine platform,” Inovio president and CEO Dr. J. Joseph Kim told the outlet.

“Our goal is to start phase one human testing in the U.S. early this summer.”

Now, the race is on for the innovators at Inovio to move into the human testing phase and begin working with partners to mass produce its vaccine for international markets.

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Kim’s company, which has been responsible this past decade for speedy turnarounds on vaccines for both the MERS virus — a coronavirus strain he referred to as being “in the same family as COVID-19” — and the more recent Zika virus outbreak, is looking to dramatically reduce its typical research, development and production time in response to the world’s latest emerging public health threat.

“We’ve done this many, many times before,” Kim said. “We’re planning to beat our own record.”

That record reportedly came in 2016, when Inovio managed to move from vaccine discovery to the human testing phase in under seven months, according to Reuters.

But Kim told Fox Business that at the rate Inovio is currently moving, it may be able to do the same thing this year “in close to half that time.”

Meanwhile, in Wuhan, China, where international health officials believe the virus originated, no such progress is being made.

In fact, all warning signs seem to indicate disaster, as revised totals released by Chinese officials Friday show a spike in virus-related deaths, pushing the death toll to nearly 1,400 — well number of people killed by the similar 2002 SARS outbreak.

All but a few of those deaths have occurred on mainland China, according to CNN.

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