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Research on Coronavirus Variants at UW Lab Gets $60 Million Boost

Tens of millions of dollars in federal pandemic aid is proving to be a shot in the arm, so to speak, for Wisconsin’s contributions to the fight against the shifting terrain of COVID-19. As the number of variant coronavirus cases increases, $60 million dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a  $1.75 billion package signed into law in March, will fund COVID-related research by the AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.