====== Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative ======

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The **Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative (RaDVaC)** is an American non-profit organization based in [[united_states:massachusetts:Boston]], [[united_states:Masschusetts]].

===== History =====

RaDVaC was formed in March 2020 by [[Preston Estep]] and colleagues.

In December 2021, [[ACX Grants]] announced that RaDVaC had been awarded USD $100,000 "to make open-source modular affordable vaccines."((Alexander, S. (2021, December 28). //ACX Grants Results.// Substack. https://archive.ph/Hq23b)) In May 2022 RaDVaC tweeted it had been awarded USD $2.5 million from [[Balvi Filantropic Fund]], established by [[Vitalik Buterin]].((//Updates.// (2022, May 3). RaDVaC. https://web.archive.org/web/20230114180817/https://radvac.org/press-release/)) ((@VitalikButerin. (2022, May 4). //“Update from Balvi! (moonshot anti-covid effort funded by  @ShibainuCoin   @CryptoRelief_  ). We have our first round of funding recipients”:// [Tweet]. Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20230114175508/https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1522017142320685057))

===== Organization =====

==== Participants ====

RaDVaC is affiliated with the [[Open COVID Pledge]].

  * [[Ranjan Ahuja]]
  * [[George Church]]((Regalado, A. (2020, July 29). //Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine, and nobody knows if it’s legal or if it works.// MIT Technology Review. https://archive.ph/EObRH))
  * [[Brian Delaney]]
  * [[Preston Estep]]
  * [[Alexander Hoekstra]]
  * [[Don Wang]]

===== External links =====

  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Deployment_Vaccine_Collaborative|Wikipedia]]

==== Profiles ====

  * [[https://www.linkedin.com/company/radvacproject/|LinkedIn]]