It's looks like this is an open source science project originating near Boston. The white paper looks pretty thorough. I think they progress by means of people

It's looks like this is an open source science project originating near Boston. The white paper looks pretty thorough. I think they progress by means of people contributing back with their findings. https://radvac.org/ https://radvac.org/ I think the reason they're (clearly) not first is because it appears they had to scale their people-network as well as actually work on the vaccine. It doesn't help that biology and genetics skills are -as yet- a bit more rare than programming or editing skills yet. Given the constraints I think they've gotten impressively far within 1 year.