Let me start by saying I'm not a chemist or a trained scientists, so it is a credit to your writing that I was able to actually make associations as I read your piece. When you were describing phage displays and adapting antibodies (humanizing them), I wondered how this work might relate to the challenge of treating autoimmune diseases. Then I checked the list of drugs derived from the phage displays, and saw Belimumab included. This, of course, was the drug introduced with great fanfare some years ago for the treatment of SLE.
Thanks for the introduction to Winter and to his research. I'll definitely be doing more reading about this.