The university said that while significant efforts were being made in early stage drug discovery, there was a bottleneck when it came to the lead optimisation stage of molecules targeting these so called "neglected" diseases.

BBC: Bill gates

We have the capability through the DDU to help break the bottleneck which occurs at a key stage of the drug discovery process.

BBC: Bill gates

You need hundreds of such tricks, at every stage in the chipmaking process, with most of them concentrated in the bottleneck.

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