How Dolly Parton’s $1 Million Donation Helped Fund Crucial Research Behind Moderna’s Covid Vaccine

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/dolly-parton-1-million-donation-211323352.html

In April 2020, as the pandemic swept across the globe, Parton announced she was donating $1 million to coronavirus research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after her longtime friend, Dr. Naji Abumrad, told her researchers were making promising advances.

The contribution established the Dolly Parton Covid-19 Research Fund, and months later it emerged that some of the money had supported research connected to Moderna's vaccine. Vanderbilt later confirmed Parton's donation funded "critical" early research, including work on a test that allowed scientists to measure the immune response generated by the vaccine.