TANG PRIZE/Drug developed by Tang Prize laureate plays role in COVID-19 treatment
11/25/2021 04:45 PM
Japanese immunologist Tadamitsu Kishimoto never expected that a drug he and his research team at Osaka University developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) would one day play a role in the fight against a global pandemic.
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