From Newsgroup: nz.general

Sir Graham Le Gros runs a little medical research outfit that
occasionally makes headline news: the Malaghan Institute, in
Wellington. Here is a report <https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360935853/he-spent-decades-backing-idea-others-dismissed-now-patients-are-alive-because-it>
on their use of CAR-T cell therapy, where the patientrCOs own immune
cells are re-engineered to fight cancer tumours. ItrCOs a technology
with potential to treat many other conditions, and there are others
that have put the same sort of idea into practice overseas (often with
much better funding); but this small NZ-based group has managed to
come up with an innovative new variant.

Some nonprofit foundations that fund this sort of development can be
remarkably far-sighted:

As an independent organisation, the Malaghan benefited from
hands-off supporters, including private donors and groups like the
Wellcome Trust.

rCLI remember I had to ring [Wellcome] up and say, rCyHey, do you want
a report? You just gave me so many million dollars.rCO They said,
rCyGraham, we don't waste our time with that stuffrCO rCa which is quite
an opposite attitude to what you have these days. But, honestly,
you need that.rCY
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