Eric Lander: "Rapid research response in a pandemic" (12/8/2020)

The fourteenth lecture in the COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic Series, presented by the MIT Department of Biology. Eric Lander of Broad Institute gave a talk titled "Rapid research response in a pandemic." For more information on the class, visit bit.ly/700Covid.
Date: 12/8/2020
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