Sir Graham Le Gros runs a little medical research outfit that
occasionally makes headline news: the Malaghan Institute, in
Wellington. Here is a report <
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360935853/he-spent-decades-backing-idea-others-dismissed-now-patients-are-alive-because-it>
on their use of CAR-T cell therapy, where the patient?s own immune
cells are re-engineered to fight cancer tumours. It?s a technology
with potential to treat many other conditions, and there are others
that have put the same sort of idea into practice overseas (often with
much better funding); but this small NZ-based group has managed to
come up with an innovative new variant.
Some nonprofit foundations that fund this sort of development can be
remarkably far-sighted:
As an independent organisation, the Malaghan benefited from
hands-off supporters, including private donors and groups like the
Wellcome Trust.
?I remember I had to ring [Wellcome] up and say, ?Hey, do you want
a report? You just gave me so many million dollars.? They said,
?Graham, we don't waste our time with that stuff? ? which is quite
an opposite attitude to what you have these days. But, honestly,
you need that.?
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