About the research
"In science, we tend to look at the world like it's a messy room that needs organizing. We divide things into boxes, such as the biology box or the chemistry box." In his research David Salazar Marcano (KU Leuven) is trying to break down these cardboard walls in order to develop new biomaterials that have potential as antiviral drugs.
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