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Merck and CureVac strike Ivy League deals

by Ryan Cross
August 24, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 33

 

A photo of Arlene Sharpe.
Credit: Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School's Arlene Sharpe

Merck & Co. is providing Harvard Medical School professor Arlene Sharpe with an undisclosed amount of research funding for 4 years. Sharpe, who is chair of the Department of Immunology, helped discover the function of PD-1, a protein that is targeted by checkpoint inhibitor cancer therapies, including Merck’s Keytruda. Merck hopes to discover new immunotherapy drug targets. Separately, the German messenger-RNA-therapy company CureVac signed an agreement with Yale University pulmonologist Geoffrey Chupp to conduct preclinical research on mRNA therapies for lung diseases.

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