Monday 13 October 2014

California Ebola researcher seeks more money through crowdfunding

Health workers in protective suits stand at a window in the isolation ward of the Carlos III hospital in Madrid By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California-based immunologist in charge of an international consortium developing new anti-Ebola drugs has turned to Internet "crowdfunding" for extra money needed to speed up the research. The group led by Erica Ollman Saphire, a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, helped formulate the experimental ZMapp serum that was used to treat two American aid workers who contracted Ebola in Liberia and recovered. Saphire has posted an appeal on the website www.crowdrise. ...




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