Felipe Pereira, Joseph Magagnoli, Meenakshi Ambati, Talita Fernandes de Oliveira, Juliana Angélica Estevão de Oliveira, Vinicius Oliveira Pesquero, Lucas Zago Ribeiro, Dante Akira Kondo Kuroiwa, Fernando Korn Malerbi, Sergio Atala Dib, Nilva Bueno Moraes, Michel Eid Farah, Eduardo Buchele Rodrigues, Jayakrishna Ambati
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Abstract
In this Backstory, the authors describe the journey from a basic science laboratory to the first randomized clinical trial of an anti-inflammasome drug for an eye disease, told through the lives of the patients whose situation made the question impossible to ignore.
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