Cryptocurrency billionaire Vitalik Buterin helps establish UC San Diego's new Meta-Institute for Airborne Disease in a Changing Climate
UC San Diego has received a $15 million donation in cryptocurrency to help boost research into airborne disease, university officials announced Tuesday.
“Over the last several years, it has become abundantly apparent that we need more open-source scientific research to better understand airborne pathogens and pollutants and how they affect us,” said Buterin in a press statement.In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, UCSD plans to use the cash injection to help launch its new. The interdisciplinary initiative will focus on aerosolized pathogens and their potential health impacts, from allergies and asthma to fast-spreading diseases.
The institute will be housed at the university’s School of Biological Sciences, led by researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the School of Physical Sciences. Rommie Amaro, professor of theoretical and computational chemistry and co-director of the Visible Molecular Cell Consortium, will help lead the project.
Atmospheric chemist Kim Prather, the founding director of the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment, will also help spearhead the new effort.
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