Juan Manuel Sarasua
Juan Manuel Sarasua is a Brussels-based science journalist covering science, health, and technology topics for several publications in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. He currently covers COVID-19 news for the medicine portal Medscape. Biologist by training, he also has over 15 years of experience creating science communicating strategies for scientists, universities and research institutions in Europe, such as the European Research Council (ERC), the University College London (UCL) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG).-
The key role of antivirals in COVID-19 treatment (remdesivir)
A few weeks after the SARS-CoV-2 was identified by Chinese researchers as the cause of ‘COVID-19’, an antiviral called remdesivir, originally used during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, came into play as the first available option to treat patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Even if the approval...
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A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof Martijn van Hemert about covid-19 treatment
Interview with Martijn van Hemert, Associate professor and Principal Investigator in molecular virology and antiviral strategies at the Leiden University Medical Center. In recent years, his group has mainly been studying the Chikungunya and Zika viruses, but in the past he has also studied SARS-CoV....