University of Southampton

From left: Southampton professors Ratko Djukanovic, Donna Davies and Stephen Holgate, founded Synairgen decades ago after finding patients’ defences against viruses could be boosted if a missing protein were replaced. Picture: Collected
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A breakthrough in Covid-19 drug makes 3 UK professors millionaires

The academics created a company, Synairgen, to turn their discoveries into treatments