Pandemic early alert system

The dream product is a pandemic early alert system that constantly monitors circulating bacteria and viruses in all areas of the world with an early warning system for newly emerging pandemics.

Rationale

The coronavirus crisis has clearly shown that a global pathogen surveillance and monitoring system is urgently required to early detect the emergence of a new infectious agent with pandemic potential. Monitoring could be done in planes or public places e.g. via whole environmental genome sequencing and in-silico analysis.

"The Future Insight prize supports basic science that has a bold vision and great impact in the future and I can’t thank Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany enough for that support." Khalid Salaita, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia

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