• Question: Do you know anyone who has ever made a cure or updated one?

    Asked by anon-266983 to Melanie on 5 Nov 2020.
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      Melanie S. answered on 5 Nov 2020:

      Hi! I don’t personally know anyone who discovered a cure, but my boss/supervisor invented a method of DNA sequencing that a lot of people around the world use nowadays, including people who are working to find cures for illnesses!

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    Romain commented on :

    Hey, it’s a difficult question because I don’t think there ever is one person who discovers a cure. It’s always a huge team of researchers across the world and during many years who lead to the understanding of what can be used effectively as a cure! It’s never one person, always a team. So to answer your question, I think I meet people everyday who may have and will have contributed in one small ways to developing a cure! So what matters is that every contribution matters in science, however small, towards this!

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    Guy commented on :

    I have had the pleasure of having wonderful discussions with John Finberg, one of the inventors of Rasagiline, a drug for treating Parkinson’s disease, who is an incredibly nice and modest man. His lab was on the same floor as mine, so most of these occurred in the hallway! 🙂