3M awards research grant to fund Covid response

3M awards €420,000 to RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences to advance scientific knowledge relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The science-based technology company’s latest grant forms part of a $5 million initiative. This supports research into treatments as well as vaccine development for COVID-19 at leading educational establishments around the world.

Studies aim to improve patient outcomes through an investigation of micro blood clot formation within the lung. It will also develop the ability of a drug to slow or stop the virus from causing severe damage leading to sepsis/septic shock.

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