The first episode will be published in time for the European Researchers’ Night on 27 November 2020. In it, the pharmacist Andreas Kungl (University of Graz) talks about the research project “Stop Covid-19”. The project is researching a drug to prevent the coronavirus from entering human cells. In the podcast, Professor Kungl describes how he has taken advantage of the fact that tumour cells spread in a similar way to virus cells. This allowed Kungl to work with findings from cancer research and use them as a basis.
Episodes of Arqus Knowledge Pills will be released at regular intervals on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, anchor.fm and other channels and are available for subscription. The interviews will be conducted by Gerhild Leljak (University of Graz) and Pietro Osti (University of Padua).