‘Needle in a haystack’: The hunt for coronavirus drug compounds in a Belgian biosafety lab
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4 March 2021‘Needle in a haystack’: The hunt for coronavirus drug compounds in a Belgian biosafety lab
Professor Johan Neyts, a virologist at the Rega Institute for Medical Research at KU Leuven in Belgium, leads a team searching for drugs that can help us in the fight against COVID-19. His laboratory is part of two projects that are screening millions of compounds to find some that block the coronavirus from replicating and so keep patients from falling sick. He told Horizon about why this search is so important and how it might keep us safe from future pandemics.
