Scott Jones, Vice President of Scientific Affairs, helps BioBridge Global and its subsidiaries ensure R&D (research and development) develops processes and products that generate business opportunities. He answers the basic question – “What is R&D?”

What is R&D?

The “R” in R&D stands for research, and the “D” stands for development. BBG uses basic and applied research to discover a solution to a problem or create a new product. We perform the appropriate work and processes for the solution or new product. 

Our focus is to take knowledge or technologies from the scientific community and apply them to solve problems or develop new products at BBG. Here at BBG, we perform more development than research, and the form of research we focus on is applied research rather than basic research.

The R&D process involves multiple steps:

A patient in England reportedly has been cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, via a stem cell transplant.

The case, which was reported in the journal Nature and made news around the world, is just the second instance in which a patient’s body has been cleared of the virus. The researchers referred to it as long-term remission, but some experts say it is a cure.

The first case of complete clearing of HIV from the body occurred 12 years ago, in much the same way. The most recent patient, who has not been identified, underwent treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, and in the process received a stem cell transplant in May 2016.