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UChicago's Market Shaping Accelerator aims to catalyze market shaping tools to accelerate innovation to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. https://marketshaping.uchicago.edu/
To boost the odds of success, the U.S. should expand the program and adopt a portfolio approach funding candidates across multiple vaccine platforms.

Pairing this with pull incentives tying payments to outcomes like durability could accelerate progress and cut waste.
June 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The initiative currently supports just one approach: whole-inactivated virus vaccines.

But of the 13 universal flu vaccine candidates in development, only one uses that technology.
June 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Agriculture's climate impact is substantial but often overlooked. The sector generates 22% of global emissions (IPCC, 2023). While agriculture's share of total emissions has declined, absolute emissions have remained stubbornly constant. (FAO, 2021)

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February 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM