
A man whose become the talk of the town is suddenly Sarfaraz Niazi, whose an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois, at the College of Pharmacy. He was posing yesterday with Parliamentary Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and President Yoweri Kaguta Musveni. It looked like a scheme from the get-go. The whole sudden magical potion to fix the Corona Virus (COVID19). Well, I have doubt that sort of spray will play out well. When the official stance is cleaning your hands with soap and use antibacterial things too. Therefore, seems like a ploy to trick people in the midst of a worldwide crises.
Just briefly looking into Niazi, I found that he has patents on stuff. His latest invention in 2011 was a “Gas scrubbed perfusion filter” and before that in the same year was “ Bioreactor exhaust”. These two patents he got by 2015 together with Therapeutic Proteins International LLC. None of these are connected to a spray and neither connected to the crisis we’re in now. As I looked further, he has nothing helping here. Unless the NSAIDs invention filled in 2005 and published in 2007. That helps the pain of the musculoskeletal pain. So, its not like he did it with that either. If not, he can always sell medical chewing gum, which he patented in 1987. This is just a few, but nothing mentioning spray, neither COVID19. That is why I am struggling to see this fella as a serious deal from the start.
News from yesterday:
“Parliament was today holding a special sitting where the different ministries were presenting their ministerial policy statements. Kadaga while making her communication to MPs said the spray is expected to get on the market next week. She says that an American inventor and biologist, Prof Safaraz K. Niazi, was in Uganda over the weekend and donated the patent, free of charge to Uganda. Kadaga told the MPs during a debate on the coronavirus impact that there is hope and the treatment could start in Uganda” (URN – ‘Uganda to start producing coronavirus spray in 2 weeks – Kadaga’ 16.03.2020).
So, with the criticism in the start. When I looking into a little more… The company mentioned earlier, his the chairman and founder, it is based in Chicago, Illinois and was founded in 2003 and is still active. Maybe, the company in question for the spray. However, the company is known for this:
“Therapeutic Proteins International, LLC. manufactures and markets bio-similar recombinant therapeutic proteins. Its portfolio of products includes small-dose cytokines, large-dose monoclonal antibodies and fusion proteins, and in situ pegylation of difficult to conjugate molecules” (Crunchbase).
That is why I am super sceptical, that a guy making NSAIDs, filters and other devices actually has anything significant to sell. Unless, his just using his title and opportunity to sell hotcakes. Because, he doesn’t have this patent in the US, where his based and if he believed in it. It would have been on the patent site. Secondly, he would be hero, if he sold this at Wall-Mart.
However, he does suddenly out of nowhere show up in Uganda and selling a spray. Did, the authorities and the state organization do the research on the person? I didn’t even use long time to connect the dots. I didn’t know he existed before yesterday. Still, I could cough up this.
Use soap, hold yourself hygienic and a clean environment as possible. Crisis get people to act irrational and its natural. However, this here seems like cheap trick. Peace.
















