German Association Ready to Finance Bulgarian Project for Combating COVID-19
NW 11:34:31 17-08-2020
LG1146NW.106
106 HEALTHCARE - RESEARCHERS - PROJECT - COVID-19
German Association Ready
to Finance Bulgarian Project
for Combating COVID-19
Varna, on the Black Sea, August 17 (BTA) - The Regiowelt Association of Germany is ready to finance a Bulgarian scientists' project for combating COVID-19, Prof. Dr Wolfgang Luepke told BTA. He specified that financial support for the idea will also come from Bulgarians living in Chicago.
"With time, the coronavirus evolves into various strains, and over 30 structures of COVID-19 are already circulating in Bulgaria," Dr Luepke said. The reason is in the carriers arriving from various parts of the world, where the virus exists in multiple varieties. He noted that Bulgarian and Chinese researchers maintain their partner relationship tracking the condition of patients who have gone through the disease because the cardiovascular system and blood coagulation tend to be affected in the most serious cases after recovery.
The project for developing coronavirus antibodies applied for financing in a competition held by the Bulgarian National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science but was not approved, said Dr Hristo Naydenski of the Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is nevertheless optimistic because the project team includes a Humboldt scholarship winner and there is a chance of the German research organization helping its Bulgarian colleagues.
"Our project for developing coronavirus antibodies has already been registered in Germany and will get financing there," Dr Luepke told BTA. He specified that the Bulgarian scientists will infect calves with the virus and the animals will produce antibodies in their blood within four weeks. The blood will then be processed to obtain a medicine that will be used as a spray or in the ventilators of the most severe cases.
The Regiowelt Association, which is headquartered in Neuwied near Bonn, showed interest in the development and undertook to purchase the required number of calves and agreed that they will be kept in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian partners are now looking for a suitable farm where the animals can be isolated.
"The best thing is that Bulgarians living in Chicago have also taken interest in the project," Luepke said. They are ready to provide financial support for the idea. RI/LG
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LG1146NW.106
106 HEALTHCARE - RESEARCHERS - PROJECT - COVID-19
German Association Ready
to Finance Bulgarian Project
for Combating COVID-19
Varna, on the Black Sea, August 17 (BTA) - The Regiowelt Association of Germany is ready to finance a Bulgarian scientists' project for combating COVID-19, Prof. Dr Wolfgang Luepke told BTA. He specified that financial support for the idea will also come from Bulgarians living in Chicago.
"With time, the coronavirus evolves into various strains, and over 30 structures of COVID-19 are already circulating in Bulgaria," Dr Luepke said. The reason is in the carriers arriving from various parts of the world, where the virus exists in multiple varieties. He noted that Bulgarian and Chinese researchers maintain their partner relationship tracking the condition of patients who have gone through the disease because the cardiovascular system and blood coagulation tend to be affected in the most serious cases after recovery.
The project for developing coronavirus antibodies applied for financing in a competition held by the Bulgarian National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science but was not approved, said Dr Hristo Naydenski of the Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is nevertheless optimistic because the project team includes a Humboldt scholarship winner and there is a chance of the German research organization helping its Bulgarian colleagues.
"Our project for developing coronavirus antibodies has already been registered in Germany and will get financing there," Dr Luepke told BTA. He specified that the Bulgarian scientists will infect calves with the virus and the animals will produce antibodies in their blood within four weeks. The blood will then be processed to obtain a medicine that will be used as a spray or in the ventilators of the most severe cases.
The Regiowelt Association, which is headquartered in Neuwied near Bonn, showed interest in the development and undertook to purchase the required number of calves and agreed that they will be kept in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian partners are now looking for a suitable farm where the animals can be isolated.
"The best thing is that Bulgarians living in Chicago have also taken interest in the project," Luepke said. They are ready to provide financial support for the idea. RI/LG
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