How drugs are born

What you will learn during the episode

• How people discovered and explored medicines throughout human history?
• How many lives it cost and when we realized we needed a different approach?
• How long and challenging the journey a medicine must take today before it reaches the patient?
• What to expect soon in the field of medicines and what the future of pharmacology might look like?

Who is the guest?

Jan Strojil

Jan Strojil considers himself primarily a teacher, then a doctor and scientist. He works in the infectious diseases department at the University Hospital Olomouc. He received the Fulbright-Masaryk scholarship before it became widely popular. He is troubled by the resignation from proper and rational thinking and fears doctors.