Will the next COVID drug be produced in plants?

Interview on a novel approach with Kurt Zatloukal, BBMRI.at director (Ö1 radio, 16 Feb 2022)

SARS-CoV-2, the corona virus that triggered the current pandemic, will remain. Practically all researchers are currently assuming this. Consequently also the disease COVID-19 will remain and, therefore, medication will be needed to counteract it.

An international team of researchers from Med Uni Graz, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and a company from South Africa is pursuing an exciting approach to develop a COVID drug made from plants.

 

Radio report from the EU-Africa summit in Brussels (16 Feb 2022) with BBMRI.at Director Kurt Zatloukal (pathologist at the Medical University of Graz); Josef Glößl, cell biologist at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. Arrangement: Robert Zikmund

More on the radio report (in German)