Chapter 126: HIV and Cocktail Therapy
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden.
Sweden, a Nordic powerhouse. The economy is very developed, the industry and technology are also very advanced, and the welfare is very leading in the world.
But for some scientists.
What attracted them more to this country was an award set up by a former scientist in this country.
The scientist's full name is called:
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, manufacturer of military equipment and inventor of explosives.
He had 355 patents for inventions during his lifetime. A year before his death, he decreed that the interest on his estate would be divided into five parts, and that five prizes would be awarded to those who have made significant contributions to mankind in these fields, namely the Nobel Prize, in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.
Abel said that a new drug that could be given a lecture in Stockholm, in other words, a research that might win a Nobel Prize, is "possible", not certain.
Because don't think that Nobel is fair, Nobel is actually the same as Oscar, there are shady scenes, public relations, and unspoken rules! But because it is a matter of the scientific community, it is relatively deep, but there are also some unspoken rules that are not deep.
Like what......
If Chinese people want to win the Nobel Prize, their research must be at least three layers better than that of white people in order to have any hope of winning the prize!
At night.
After dinner.
Abel didn't even have time to take a look at the company's arrangement, and at his residence in Thousand Oaks City, he was pulled to the company's laboratory by two scientific research maniacs, hoping that he could reveal the new drug topics that the company would develop next.
After all, going to Stockholm is one of the biggest dreams of all scientists in the world, except for mathematicians.
In the field of mathematics, there is the Fields Medal, which is much higher than the Nobel Prize in mathematics. But then again, the Nobel Prize has basically everything, and some of the awards have even been added later.
But there is no math prize.
Obviously, mathematics is the foundation of all science, but it has to be said that it is an accident that this most famous and popular science award does not have a mathematics award.
It is said that the reason why the Nobel Prize does not have a mathematics prize is because there is a story about licking a dog and not being able to house.
When Nobel was an adult, he once proposed to a young lady who was ambiguous and ambiguous.
Nobel was obsessed with his girlfriend's elopement with the mathematician, and he was a bachelor until the end of his life.
So.
You understand why the Nobel Prize does not have a mathematics prize? Licking a dog is not a house, even a great man like Nobel. So don't be a dog licker, you know!!
All right.
Off topic.
Although the Nobel Prize does not have a mathematics prize, it has a biology prize and a medicine prize, and being able to win the Nobel Prize in medicine is probably the biggest dream of all medical scientists.
Under such stimulation, George Lasman and Lin Fukun couldn't calm down at all, and begged Abel, at least tonight, to give them some depth.
Abel felt.
It's good to draw a flatbread, but at least you have to get the outline of the paper and the flatbread so that the two of them can continue to work hard, putting in 120% or even 200% of the effort.
In the laboratory.
Abel wears a white coat.
Looking at the two scientists who seemed to be diligent and enterprising, hoping to get some intellectual teaching from the teacher, he had to consider using the small wrecking ball, using the terminology that the current scientists can understand, to develop the future to the extreme cocktail therapy, and pick up some simple ways to talk about it.
"As I said last time, I wanted to try to crack the HIV virus. In the last time I was developing a new drug, I found an interesting phenomenon, which may have a certain effect on the reversal and treatment of the HIV virus. ”
"I found that in the antiviral anti-reversal process, using more than three ways to treat the virus can achieve good efficacy, and can also reduce the side effects and resistance of antiviral drugs, because using more than three drugs and treatments, just like a cocktail, also requires more than three drinks and drinks to mix, so I call it cocktail therapy. ”
"This cocktail treatment can also be used in the treatment of many diseases. The effect will be good, but the repair period is very long, and there are certain side effects. This treatment may not make a lot of money, because the drugs used are often cheaply substituted. ”
"But it can give us a good reputation, and if it works, I want to sell this patent to hospitals and medical individuals around the world for one dollar!"
“……”
Hearing that Abel actually wanted to use one dollar to sell and transfer a treatment that might be able to cure AIDS, an incurable demonic treatment, the two scientists, who originally thought that he was very capitalist, had a great reversal in their perception because of Abel's proposal to cooperate with the three countries of Abel.
Since the discovery of HIV in the 80s, although countries around the world have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop more than a dozen vaccines and nearly 100 drugs, no specific drug for the treatment of AIDS has been discovered so far.
In the "original plot", as a new weapon for the treatment of HIV, the "cocktail" therapy immediately caused a sensation in the entire medical community as soon as it was announced, and the media around the world competed to report it, and scientists from all over the world also gave it high praise. The inventor was immediately chosen as the cover character by Time magazine.
There are still six years to go before the interview for the cocktail therapy, but this therapy has not brought him much benefit except for the great fame it has brought to the inventor, because it is only a cure, a way of using medicine, not a medicine.
To put it simply, for example, the cocktail therapy is actually "I've found that using cephalosporin plus citrin will make your cold get better faster."
However, it is not "cephalosporin" and "cilin", two specific drugs for the treatment of colds, it is just a treatment.
So in fact, the economic benefit is not large, but it can give the inventor a better reputation and influence. Even if done right, you may be able to hope for a Nobel Prize.
Because in addition to cocktail therapy.
Abel is also preparing to conduct research on "anti-protease inhibitors", which were the world's first drugs with a specific effect on the HIV virus that appeared in 1994.
There is this drug.
Cocktail therapy can be performed, otherwise cocktail therapy is actually useless. Two years after the invention of "anti-protease inhibitors", "cocktail therapy" was officially born.
Abel is going to do it.
He is going to take out all the anti-HIV and treatment methods in the next 20 years at once, and he doesn't believe that he can't win the award!
Dr. He Dayi, a Chinese scientist who invented "cocktail therapy", only received the President's National Medal because he was Chinese, and "cocktail therapy" is only a treatment, not a treatment.
But what Abel is ready to take out is not just "cocktail therapy", he is also ready to take out several drugs that will be effective in the future, plus he is not a pure Chinese, and the hope of winning the award is much greater than He's!
After a lot of summing up, Abel gave an order to George Lasman: "Before the study begins, I want you to go to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to find a Chinese-American medical community named Freshman Ho." He has been researching HIV for 10 years, and with him on board, our research will be much easier!"