From the earliest days of the still-unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, scientists mobilized like never before. Researchers worked collaboratively in unprecedented numbers across institutions and corporations to understand how the new virus works and to explore the potential for existing drugs to take it down. Companies are getting new diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments into the clinic at lightning speed. Scientists are publishing results on preprint servers practically in real time and using social media to communicate their findings.

Science has never moved faster. C&EN is holding a series of conversations with thought leaders across pharma and the life sciences to learn how the pandemic has transformed science--and which changes are here to stay. Join us for the first of these, featuring Jay Bradner, President of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, and David Liu, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, and hosted by C&EN's Lisa Jarvis.