[opensourcepharma] Draft Open Ebola Letter

Fri Aug 8 16:02:26 UTC 2014

Marburg happens to be one of two places in Germany which has a BSL4 lab 
and the current strain of the virus is being analyzed here as we speak. 
I could try to talk the lead PI (e.g. Hans-Dieter Klenk or Thomas 
Strecker) of the team into supporting this letter, if that sounds 
interesting.

Would have to dig up bit more background on both.

Peter

On 08.08.2014 17:56, Matthew Todd wrote:
> Further to Els's very interesting suggestion, here's Draft 1.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/10qD0-CLlBKp_6COmMUffZp9mp4NwJGlmcwb5Jjt_wDA/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Edit away or comment, here or on the document itself. It needs to be 
> short! I think given who it's addressed to it needs to be clearly a 
> recommendation of the idea, rather than a direct appeal for any 
> funding. We can do a lot here in advance of any up-front financial 
> commitment, but which may lead to more substantial efforts later that 
> require dollars.
>
> I'd suggest the letter come from a defined group of us, and when 
> published we could ask for wider expressions of support somewhere, 
> from the public.
>
> It feels like we'd have more impact with the support of an Ebola 
> researcher - we are addressing the letter to one of the discoverers of 
> the virus, I understand, so maybe that's the way to do it.
>
> Els - do you have a venue for this, and a way to alert people to it?
>
> Best,
>
> M
>
>
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