In case anyone is wondering, he won a pitch competition hosted by 3M who sponsored him to do research into adding imiquimod to soap: https://time.com/6996507/heman-bekele/
Unfortunately, probably nothing will come of this because as Times’s own article states, the FDA would take at least a decade before approving it, meaning the only way they’ll be able to rapidly prototype it would be with the full backing of a pharmaceutical company (3M) which means they’ll be selling 40k per unit bars of soap.
ie cough up half a million for skin cancer treatment anyway.
But thanks 3M for pretending to care about cancer after you got sued for exposing the entire US population to PFAS.
In case anyone is wondering, he won a pitch competition hosted by 3M who sponsored him to do research into adding imiquimod to soap: https://time.com/6996507/heman-bekele/
Unfortunately, probably nothing will come of this because as Times’s own article states, the FDA would take at least a decade before approving it, meaning the only way they’ll be able to rapidly prototype it would be with the full backing of a pharmaceutical company (3M) which means they’ll be selling 40k per unit bars of soap.
ie cough up half a million for skin cancer treatment anyway.
But thanks 3M for pretending to care about cancer after you got sued for exposing the entire US population to PFAS.
It’s a fucked up world we live in!