As the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak causes worldwide concern, Purdue scientists say control measures are an absolute necessity and that medical treatments for similar disease are on the horizon. Andrew Mesecar, the Walther Professor in Cancer Structural Biology and head of the Department of Biochemistry, and Arun Ghosh, the Ian P. Rothwell Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, have been working to develop both oral medicines and vaccines to fight coronavirus, and over the next two weeks, will be working to test their potential drug molecules on the new SARS-like Wuhan coronavirus.