Jonathan Hill, the planner of Themis Mission from Arizona State University, said,“Themis
has been on Mars for the last 16 years, but for the first time we have been able to fold the spacecraft to see Phobos.”.
In France on 19 March 2020, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations(CEPI) announced a US$4.9 million investment in a COVID-19 vaccine
research consortium involving the Institut Pasteur, Themis Bioscience(Vienna, Austria),
and the University of Pittsburgh, bringing CEPI's total investment in COVID-19 vaccine development to US$29 million.