Source: Amanda Lamb, WRAL, 4/30/20

 The drug being touted as one of the biggest medical breakthroughs so far in the coronavirus pandemic has connections to both major research universities in the Triangle. Remdesivir, an anti-viral drug manufactured by a company called Gilead Sciences, originated in a lab at UNC Hospitals six years ago. It was first studied on Ebola patients.

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