Ethereum Founder’s Fund Donates $15M To Fight Airborne Pathogens
The Balvi Filantropic Fund, directed by Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, has gifted the University of California San Diego $15 million in USDC, the largest cryptocurrency gift to date to fund open-source research on aerosols. This generous donation has established the Meta-Institute for Airborne Disease in a Changing Climate, or “The Airborne Institute,” at UC San Diego.
The institute plans to develop a standard for sampling and analyzing airborne microbes and pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, fungal spores, and pollutants to achieve its goals. Researchers will set up air samplers in various locations worldwide to measure the distribution of airborne pathogens around the globe. They are currently testing the samplers in Imperial Beach, California, a coastal site heavily impacted by pollution runoff and sewage flowing into the ocean. The team is studying ocean sources of airborne pathogens.
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