Cold War Triangle : How Scientists in East and West Tamed HIV

• Tác giả: Renilde Loeckx
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9461663979
• ISBN-13: 978-9462701137
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.1969792 Physical illness
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (186 pages) : , portraits
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 243863
• Chủ đề: 1. AIDS (Disease)--International cooperation; 2. AIDS (Disease)--Research; 3. HIV infections--Internatinal cooperation; 4. HIV infections--Research

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index.

Tóm tắt

The extraordinary story of scientists in East and West combatting HIV. A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand challenges of modern biology of the twentieth century, scientists worked across the political divide of the Cold War to produce a new class of antivirals. Their molecules were developed by a Californian start-up together with teams of scientists at the Rega Institute of KU Leuven and the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. These molecules became the cornerstone of the blockbuster drugs now used to combat and prevent HIV. Cold War Triangle gives an insight into the human face of science as it recounts the extraordinary story of scientists in East and West who overcame ideological barriers and worked together for the benefit of humanity.