That's really cool, kind of like mushrooms in a way but obviously it would be the higher tier of that, considering it would be in a medical setting.
There's a lot of medications out there that help for a plethera of different things. But, as I understand it big pharma tends to change the chemical compound of certain pre-existing medications enough to patent it and sell it, even though in some cases the new compound could have side effects.
I heard this thing it was about America, but I think it happens in every country, independant research is done in each college lets say, but, information isn't shared across the board, in order for one hub to patent and sell their findings. So multiple places could be funded and working on the same thing, but, each one hides their notes from the others. If the government just said. "No, from now on, all research and efforts are being made public instead of private." Imagine how quickly we'd advance.
Yeah it's cool that they're looking into already existing medications though and giving them new uses, for treatments like that.