{"id":30021,"date":"2020-03-25T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/?p=30021"},"modified":"2020-12-15T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:41:31","slug":"uga-researchers-are-developing-vaccines-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/uga-researchers-are-developing-vaccines-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"UGA researchers are developing vaccines to fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the University of Georgia are developing and testing new vaccines and immunotherapies to combat the novel coronavirus that has infected hundreds of thousands across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The team is led by <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.uga.edu\/person\/ted-ross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ted M. Ross<\/a>, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and director of UGA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.uga.edu\/research\/research-centers\/center-for-vaccines-and-immunology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Vaccines and Immunology<\/a>. He has partnered with other laboratories and biotechnology companies to create new vaccines that could one day provide protection against the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/uga-researchers-developing-coronavirus-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UGA researchers work on new vaccines that could one day provide protection against the virus that causes SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":30012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"watch-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[539],"post_medium":[315],"publications":[],"authors":[338],"photographers":[],"video_credit":[450],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-30021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-disease","tag-covid-19","post_medium-watch","authors-james-hataway","video_credit-uga-marketing-and-communications","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30021"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=30021"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=30021"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=30021"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=30021"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=30021"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=30021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}