After being fired, I became the light of medicine

Chapter 61 I don’t believe it!
The news soon reached Zhang Yang's ears.

Looking at the notification that just came on his phone, he was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help laughing.

My goodness, I have been wondering how to reasonably start the clinical trial of "Abrocitinib" recently. I didn't expect that the country would hand me a pillow this time.

It is conceivable that with the launch of the "Starlight Project", many domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies will inevitably participate in the "Starlight Project".

As a member of China's pharmaceutical companies, Tsingshan Pharmaceutical responded to the country's call and started to develop hepatitis B drugs. Is this reasonable?

Reasonable!

During the development of hepatitis B drugs, a compound that can eliminate the hepatitis B virus was discovered by chance. It was eventually improved and became another special medicine with good curative effect.

Is this reasonable?
It must be reasonable!

Thinking of this, Zhang Yang hurriedly called the head of the drug research and development department, Wei Tian.

Wei Tian was one of the four "drug researchers" initially recruited into the company's R&D department. With his good performance, he has been recognized by Zhang Yang and became the head of the department.

At the same time, he is also the research and development leader of the newly established "Hepatitis B Cure Project" of Qingshan Pharmaceutical.

"Mr. Zhang, are you looking for me?"

Wei Tian and Zhang Yang are about the same age. Wei Tian often acts as Zhang Yang's experimental assistant, so he doesn't feel restrained when facing Zhang Yang.

"Well, it's like this. I'm going to let you take our internal 'Hepatitis B Cure Project' to participate in the 'Starlight Project'."

Wei Tian was stunned.

"'Project Starlight'?"

"Mr. Zhang, are you sure we want to join the 'Starlight Project'?"

"Yes."

Zhang Yang smiled and nodded. He could understand Wei Tian’s surprise.

The "Hepatitis B Cure Project" within Qingshan Pharmaceutical has only been established for two or three months, and even the most basic research and development ideas and plans have just been sorted out.

With such a research and development progress, participating in the "Starlight Project" is undoubtedly "accompanying the prince to study."

However, he did not give any extra explanations, and waved his hand and said:
"Go ahead and apply to the organizers of the 'Starlight Project' to participate, and attach the development status of our project."

"Okay... I'll do it then!"

……

Zhang Yang's response was already very quick, but other pharmaceutical companies were even faster!

On the second day after the official launch of the “Starlight Project”, the organizer announced the first batch of pharmaceutical companies that applied to join the “Starlight Project” on its official website!

China's top innovative pharmaceutical companies, Hengrui Medicine and BeiGene, are on the list.

Also attracting attention are domestic pharmaceutical companies such as Zhengda Tianqing and Guangshengtang that specialize in the development of hepatitis B drugs.

On the third day, another piece of breaking news came.

Gilead, a well-known American pharmaceutical company in the medical field that has successfully developed a cure for hepatitis C and the best hepatitis B treatment drug "Tenofovir Alafenamide", has also joined the "Starlight Project"!
The official announcement immediately caused a stir in the entire domestic pharmaceutical industry. Everyone knew Gilead’s unique capabilities in the field of liver disease drug research.

However, despite being surprised, the companies did not lose heart.

Currently, the medical community has multiple treatment options in the development of a cure for hepatitis B. No one knows which route is right until the last moment!

Gilead is strong, but it may not necessarily succeed!
Having said that, major pharmaceutical companies still felt tremendous pressure. On the fourth day, a familiar but surprising name appeared on the official list of the "Starlight Project".

Qingshan Pharmaceutical. Seeing the name of Qingshan Pharmaceutical, many pharmaceutical companies suddenly felt relieved and laughed.

Wow, I admit that Tsingshan Pharmaceutical has strong research and development capabilities in blood diseases, but this is liver disease and hepatitis B!
They are two completely different types of pathology!

Are you here to join in the fun?

You should know that the entire pharmaceutical industry has many sub-sectors, and most pharmaceutical companies only conduct research and development in areas that they are familiar with.

Just like Gilead.

Gilead mainly develops drugs for liver diseases.

For example, the previous AkaRx company also focused on the research and development of blood diseases.

Only large-scale innovative pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Hengrui have sufficient funds and strength to carry out research and development for different diseases.

And Qingshan Pharmaceutical obviously does not have this scale yet!

The appearance of Tsingshan Pharmaceutical in the "Starlight Project" caused many domestic pharmaceutical companies to sneer, but only Su Wenping of Hengrui Medicine was full of trepidation.

"Could it be that Mr. Zhang has developed a new drug?"

but.

Compared with the excitement within the pharmaceutical industry, the news that the government has invested 20 billion yuan in research and development to conquer hepatitis B seems very calm on the Internet.

To be precise, the patients' reactions were very flat.

Baidu Tieba, Hepatitis B Bar.

Like most patient forums in the forum, the Hepatitis B Forum gathers thousands of patients with hepatitis B.

The Hepatitis B forum has a lot of traffic every day. Every day, many netizens post questions with their "Hepatitis B two-pair-and-a-half test report" asking for help, asking if they have hepatitis B.

Or patients who have just been diagnosed with hepatitis B may come to ask what to do next?
No matter what the post is about, as long as it is about hepatitis B, as long as it is posted, it will soon receive enthusiastic responses from fellow patients on the forum.

but,

After the post about the "Starlight Project" was published today, the number of views has exceeded 1,000, but not a single enthusiastic forum friend responded.

Finally, half an hour later.

This post finally received its first reply:
"What a bullshit 'Starlight Project'. Before that there was the Everest Project and the Climbing Project, but what was the result? It's been at least ten years, right? Which of the projects was successful? A cure? Haha!"

A little later, there was a second reply:
“我记得2010年的时候，就提出来了2015年要全面治愈乙肝；2019年的时候又说2025年要全面治愈乙肝；现在2024年了，又说2030年要完全治愈乙肝……谁还信，反正我不信了。”

The negative responses make it hard to believe that this is hepatitis B.

This is where the largest number of hepatitis B patients gather in China.

Soon, the third and fourth replies appeared.

"Oh, I don't believe it either, but this time several foreign pharmaceutical companies are going to participate. I feel like there is finally some hope, right?"

"Hope? I don't believe it!"

"I don't believe it either. It's not that I don't believe it, but I have believed it too many times, but I was disappointed every time."

……

PS: Thanks to eldll Dongnanzhi for the reward of 1500 coins!
Thanks to the boss for giving me the most handsome bald haircut and the 100 coins reward!
Thanks to Francisco for the 500 coins!
(End of this chapter)