The Australian biotech taking on the world’s third biggest killer

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For two decades, the world’s biggest drugmakers tried to silence a single inflammatory receptor in the lungs and failed. Now, an Australian biotech company thinks it has found a solution.

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You can’t breathe; you basically drown”, that’s how Siro Perez, chief executive officer of Atisama Therapeutics, describes what advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) feels like. 

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