RE: The Emerging Evidence for a Genetic Susceptibility to Severe Covid-19. St Emlyn’s17 Dec 2020 08:09
Nice one Citizen.
"JAK-inhibitors, such as baricitinib, which are currently being tested in COVID-19, are hypothesised to inhibit TYK2 activity and therefore represent exciting therapeutic candidates. By remarkable coincidence, on the same day the GenoMICC study was printed, the NEJM published a study showing a moderate improvement in time to recovery for hospitalized adults with Covid-19 who received baricitinib plus remdesivir, over remdesivir alone."
When the world's scientists are excited by TYK2, as a shareholder in a company with a second gen tyk2 inhibitor it's hard not to be excited.
Then you look at the links to Gilead that Thoth pointed out and you get even more excited, then you look at their recent Filgotinib abandonment and now they have space for another JAK inhibitor, they will have professionals waiting for the next candidate and a tyk2/jak1 will be right up their street.
World need for treatment, scientific community said tyk2 inhibitors are needed, we have a second gen tyk2 - not difficult really.