Getting disparate groups of scientists, doctors, drug-makers, ethicists and regulators in several countries to agree and sign off a fast-tracked trial presented massive challenges.
The six attackers were arrested within days, and a fast-tracked trial found the assailants all guilty and charged with the death penalty less than a year after the crime was committed.
An initial, fast-tracked trial tied to the scandal ended on Tuesday, with four defendants, including a senior city official, found guilty and handed prison terms of between four and five years.
An initial, fast-tracked trial tied to the scandal ended on Tuesday, with four defendants found guilty and handed prison terms of between four and five years.
Has the fast-tracked test undergone sufficient peer review?
In other developments, fast-tracked clinical trials of Ebola treatments were announced today, which will see experimental drugs tested on Ebola patients in West Africa for the first time.
This watershed moment in cystic fibrosis therapeutics then led to fast-tracked clinical trials to investigate the efficacy of ivacaftor as an orally bioavailable drug in patients who had at least one Gly551Asp allele.
The case was fast-tracked for trial due to the severity of groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson's cancer.
Johnson's case, filed in 2016, was fast-tracked for trial due to the severity of his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system that he alleges was caused by Roundup and Ranger Pro, another Monsanto glyphosate herbicide.
