‘Major’ breakthrough in Covid-19 drug makes UK professors millionaires – The Guardian

Three professors at the University of Southampton school of medicine have this week made a major breakthrough in the treatment of coronavirus patients and become paper millionaires at the same time.
Almost two decades ago professors Ratko Djukanovic, Stephen Holgate and Donna Davis discovered that people with asthma and chronic lung disease lacked a protein called interferon beta, which helps fight off the common cold. They worked out that patients defences against viral infection could be boos…

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