Javier Tebas has been able to consult with his family since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, because his brother, Pablo Tebas Medrano, is one of the researchers who is at the forefront of one of the most advanced projects in the search for a vaccine. , specifically the one financed by Bill and Melinda Gates. Infectious diseases specialist and professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he collaborates in the project financed by the Gates Foundation, carried out by the pharmaceutical Inovo.

Also based in Pennsylvania, where the brother of the president of LaLiga, Inovo, who develops biotech projects, has just announced in a statement that his DNA vaccine has just passed preclinical tests and that the North American health administration has just approved the beginning of human trials.

The first phase of the trial will include volunteers, about 40, from Philadelphia and Kansas City. "We publish the registration for the study in advance," says Pablo Tebas Medrano. "There has been great interest in this vaccine among people who want to do what they can to help protect the general public from this pandemic as soon as possible," adds the researcher based in the United States.

The family relationship with the president of LaLiga has allowed the organization to have first-hand hypotheses to assess the situation of the pandemic and its possible consequences since its inception, while designing alternative protocols for the competition when they had not even been established in other areas. . However, LaLiga, like other organizations, depend on the authorizations of the Ministry of Health for any action.

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