Medical Xpress October 24, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed this truth: Humans are mortal—but they will also organize, strategize and fight to survive. Now, five years since the world was changed forever by COVID-19, the questions, insights and strategies on how to shape impactful scientific research and innovation in preparation for what comes next, is drawing on lessons from a unique moment of disruption on the human timeline.
Opportunities in crises
Professor Glenda Gray is Director of Wits’ Infectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute (IDORI). She was President and CEO of the South African Medical Research Council for 10 years until 2024 and is no stranger to disruption of the most devastating kind. In the 1980s, Gray, a pediatrician and clinician-researcher, turned her professional focus...
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