Berkshire Innovation Center’s Post

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My mother had a pharmacy at home and as a child I always dreamt of bringing one of those new drugs to the pharmacy. So that seemed to me like the most incredible thing to do and the most ambitious thing to do. And so after my studies Ask Pharmacist, I went into research and then really focused on the aspects where scientists need to design, make tests and select that file molecule that is the direction that makes the difference in patients. It takes a combination of skills to be good. But I've done it for over 30 years. I've found it fascinating to be over every day coming the lap and dream that is going to be the next drug that's going to end up in the pharmacy. And so finally, 4 drugs currently are in the pharmacy that I've been selecting. I've made two drugs for patients infected with the HIV. One of them is one of the most salt HIV drugs and has been helping patients for over 20 years now. Another one was a cure for patients infected with hepatitis C, So the industry made a huge progress there and currently can cure patients from hepatitis C, So I discovered one of those as well. And then more recently, I did find a drug that is blocking the symptoms of patients with arthritis, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease. I've worked with Fiber Core for many years as I was leading. And research team of about 100 scientists working on fibrosis and part of that program was together with Fibercore and going forward 10 years at the end in fact of the whole research program, the best data we got with the fiber course targets. And so when then for another reason the company decided to stop that and fiber cord needed help to really one, select the right direction, put them in the right patients, do the right things to bring them to patients. I did not. Not a second, because I knew how good that research was.