SCIENCE
Cell Block
Monday 20 March 2006 20:00-20:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Peter Day follows the efforts of one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies to develop a treatment for HIV/Aids.
Finding and developing a new pharmaceutical drug takes years and costs millions. Five years ago, Peter Day gained unique behind the scenes access to track a potentially groundbreaking HIV/Aids treatment as it moved out of the laboratory at Sandwich in Kent and into the vital test stages.
In the first of three weekly reports, he tells how the world's biggest drug company spent years on fruitless research... until inspiration struck.
