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USF Develops Drug That May Be Worth Millions

The St. Petersburg Times reports on its front page that researchers at the University of South Florida have developed and patented an antidepressant that may make hundreds of millions of dollars for the university.

The antidepressant came about inadvertantly; the researchers had initially sought to develop the drug, originally a blood pressure medication, as a treatment for Tourette's syndrome in the mid-1990s.

The drug may become the most lucrative development n USF's history.

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