ノバルティスのインスタグラム(novartis) - 5月13日 22時37分
Meet Florencia, a physician-scientist focused on infectious diseases. Florencia’s bringing her expertise to the fight against COVID-19, designing a large-scale trial to study the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine.
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Why the urgency to design this new study?
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A pandemic brings a lot of speculation with it. There is no guarantee that a treatment will prove safe and effective, but it is critical to find out if it works. We can defeat this pandemic only with science.
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How were you able to design the study so quickly?
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Typically, it takes months to design a clinical trial and get the necessary approvals from health authorities to begin, but we managed to achieve this in weeks.
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In March, a Novartis COVID-19 R&D Task Force was formed, and we quickly evaluated which of our medicines had the potential for investigation.
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Within an hour of the decision, I wrote a study synopsis that the team assembled around the same day. Within a week we had a concept to share with health authorities, and within three weeks, we had permission to move the study forward.
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What are your hopes for the scientific response to the pandemic?
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I believe that science and technology will deliver vaccines and therapies to treat patients with COVID-19. People are coming together with a common goal and a sense of urgency.
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This makes me very hopeful.
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For more on Florencia’s work in the fight against #COVID19, click the link in bio.
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