On Mar. 30, 2020, the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) announced it had been awarded a $1.73 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a Coronavirus Immunotherapy Consortium (CoVIC) as part of the foundation’s global efforts to stem the tide of the current coronavirus outbreak. Antibody therapies are often the first novel therapies advanced for an emerging infectious disease.