The next pandemic: Researchers develop tool to identify existing drugs to use in a future outbreak cellpressnews
A global team of researchers has created an algorithmic tool that can identify existing drugs in order to combat future pandemics. The work, reported in the Cell Press journal"There is no silver bullet to defeat the COVID pandemic as it takes us over a public-health roller-coaster of deaths and devastation," explains Naomi Maria, an immunologist, a visiting scientist at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the paper's lead author.
"Drug repurposing strategies provide an attractive and effective approach for quickly targeting potential new interventions," adds Bud Mishra, a professor at NYU's Courant and one of the paper's senior authors.
Recognizing that current methods leave us chasing the virus, the team—which also included researchers from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health in New York, the Red Cross Blood Bank Foundation Curaçao, the Curaçao Biomedical Health and Research Institute, the Netherlands' University Medical Center Groningen, and Catania University's Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Sicily—conceived an approach aimed at closing the gap in future...
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