Biotech giant Regeneron now aims to have doses of a potential COVID-19 drug ready to start human testing by early summer — a significant acceleration of its timeline.
said it aims to have doses of a potential drug for COVID-19 ready to start human clinical trials by early summer.
"There are always so many moving parts, but … we're hitting our best numbers, our best timelines, and things are going really well," Dr. George Yancopoulos, Regeneron's co-founder, president and chief scientific officer, said in a telephone interviewRegeneron is developing the therapy the same way it created a drug for Ebola, which is now under review by the FDA, and four other drugs already on the market: It uses mice genetically engineered to have human-like immune systems.
The approach has been heralded by health experts including former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb as among the most promising for new tools to apply against the novel coronavirus potentially in the fall, when infections could resurge even if theyFor COVID-19, the mice were exposed to part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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