A professor from Perth is leading Scotland's first trial of a medicine to treat COVID-19.As the world eagerly awaits a medical breakthrough, a Scottish university team has condensed a year's worth of research into three weeks to come up with a treatment.It is hoped the treatment could prevent the need for patients to be ventilated.
Professor James Chalmers, who lives in Perth, is heading up the Dundee University team conducting the trial. The team has partnered with global biopharmaceutical company Insmed Inc.
to conduct trials of brensocatib (formerly known as INS1007). Insmed will provide funding and clinical drug supply for the STOP-COVID19 (Superiority Trial of Protease inhibition in COVID-19) trial.Trials will begin next week with 300
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