This Thursday sees the fifth event in the Second Nature Scientist series:
The lives of poor people in developing countries should not be dependent upon their ability to pay for medicines that cure infectious diseases. There is an opportunity to make cost-affordable medicines for patients who do not receive any treatment at all. Millions rather than billions of pounds can have a major impact in many parts of the world where big pharma has little interest.
Sunil Shaunak is Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London and a co-founder of PolyTherics. He is dedicated to showing how academics can produce medicines for a fraction of the existing cost and proving that this approach represents an exciting new opportunity for making patented cost-affordable medicines available to patients who currently receive no treatment.
Join us for a talk by and informal discussion with Professor Shaunak on Second Nature. No specialist knowledge required – all welcome.
Title: Prospecting for “Ethical Pharmaceuticals”
Speaker: Professor Sunil Shaunak
Date: Thurs 4th Oct
Time: 11am SLT, 2pm EST, 6pm GMT, 7pm BST
Location: Second Nature Island
Contact: Joanna Wombat.
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More info:
Nature article about Professor Shaunak’s work
Feature 1 on Professor Shaunak’s work
