Novak Djokovic has purchased 80% of Danish biotech firm QuantBioRes, aiming to develop a medical treatment against COVID-19, the company's chief executive told Reuters reut.rs/3rzUZkq
QuantBioRes CEO Ivan Loncarevic, who describes himself as an entrepreneur, says the investment was made in June 2020 but declined to reveal the amount reut.rs/3FDhMAR
QuantBioRes has around 11 researchers working in Denmark, Australia and Slovenia, according to Loncarevic, who stresses they were working on a treatment, not a vaccine
The company is developing a peptide, which inhibits the coronavirus from infecting the human cell and expects to launch clinical trials in Britain this summer, Loncarevic added
Djokovic has stoked global debate about the rights of people who opt not to get vaccinated after he was deported from Australia on Sunday night, ruling him out of the #AusOpenreut.rs/3FDhMAR
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The Trump administration's freeze of foreign funding has begun impacting an international effort to hold Russia responsible for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, according to eight sources, halting dozens of jobs and tens of millions of dollars in aid 1/6reut.rs/4gtiV0o
Ukraine has opened more than 140,000 war crime cases since Moscow's February 2022 invasion, which has killed tens of thousands, ravaged vast swathes of the country and left behind mental and physical scars from occupation. Russia says its forces have not committed war crimes 2/6
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