Clinicaltrials.gov counts 104 active studies in the US.
There is also SOLIDARITY, a WHO megatrial announced on Friday.
Drugs in Clinical Trials:
Chloroquine (Plaquenil) – 70 year old treatment for malaria repurposed. Only small open label trials done so far (here, here and here) show encouraging early results.
Siltuximab, Sarilumab and Tocilizumab – all IL-6 inhibitors (for anti-inflammatory conditions) repurposed and being clinically tested.
Remdesivir – previously tested for other viruses including Ebola. Two phase III studies initiated.
Fascinating article about why viruses, like the current Corona virus outbreak, tend to come from bats.
Why Bats? They are mammals, so sufficiently close to us, not domesticated, and live in huge flocks
Bracken Cave, in Texas, is home to roughly 20 million breeding Mexican free-tailed bats, similar to the (human) population of the Mexico City urban area. In places there are 500 bat pups per square foot on the wall. To a virus that represents a tasty buffet.
Citron Research, famed for short selling reports, are recommending long this stock – Schrodinger (SDRG).
They describe it as – “the most disruptive software platform to ever hit the pharmaceutical industry, which also happens to be backed by the world’s most sophisticated investors, has just gone public.“
Looks interesting and is worth investigating. The shares are sadly ca. +100% since IPO already.
As always with investing – this is not a recommendation, do your own work, use common sense.
Biotech investors take note – Eli Lilly are out for deals.
“Eli Lilly and Co aims to announce roughly one $1 billion to $5 billion deal every quarter in 2020, its chief financial officer told Reuters, as the U.S. drugmaker looks to build up its pipeline of future products.“
“It will focus largely on earlier stage opportunities across key therapeutic areas including oncology, pain, immunology, and neurology“
