Volume 31, Number 1—January 2025
Online Report
Research and Development of Medical Countermeasures for Emerging Infectious Diseases, China, 1990–2022
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Figure 4. Distribution of NSFC projects and R&D pipeline by disease in study of R&D of medical countermeasures for emerging infectious diseases, China, 1990–2022. The figure shows a rough comparison between basic and applied research because NSFC projects were collected during 1990–2019 and the R&D pipeline was updated in September 2022. A) Diseases with crucial gaps in basic research indicated by lack of NSFC projects. B) Diseases with crucial gaps in applied research indicated by lack of R&D pipeline. C) Disease that might enhance translational research from basic to application include those with a large discrepancy between the number of NSFC projects and R&D pipeline (in descending order). MERS-CoV, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; NSFC, National Natural Science Foundation of China; R&D, research and development.