Emory’s Drug Inventors

This section samples the inspiring careers of Emory inventors—brilliant researchers who work tirelessly to advance treatments from bench to bedside, freeing patients from a range of often-fatal or life-limiting diseases. For nearly two decades, millions of grateful HIV patients around the world have had their lives extended by Dennis Liotta and Raymond Schinazi. Similarly, COVID-19 patients soon will benefit from molnupiravir, developed by George Painter. Though small, coming in pill form for the first time, the drug packs a big punch, reducing hospitalization and death by 50 percent. To a person, there are "heads-down" researchers, thankful when they achieve breakthroughs—when their work improves human health for generations to come—and equally grateful to get to work on the next big challenge.