RE: potnak23 Jun 2021 13:57
Jimtom, I have to disagree with your view with regards to covid take a look at the BMJ article below from last month.
Key questions and key answers; Where are we with drug treatments for covid-19? What gaps in treatment remain?
Saye Khoo, professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool. “We have a moderate pipeline of drugs—we’re not swimming in lots of new candidates and lots of new classes of drugs at the moment,” he says.
Professor Khoo was cited on the original nature article that highlighted TYk2 as a potential treatment. He is also a lead on the Agile program. From my interpretation of the above statement there would not appear to be a great number of promising drugs in the mix.
Sareum was one of only 13 company's to receive grant funding out a total of 244 applications.
Duncan Richards, professor of clinical therapeutics at the University of Oxford, says that this is an important gap to tackle “as we think ahead to next winter when, despite vaccination, we expect there will be significant numbers of patients.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1109