Candidate: HTCC (N-(2-hydroxypropyl)-3-trimethylammonium 47 chitosan chloride)
Category: ANTIVIRAL
Type: Antiviral compound designed to potentially inhibit 48 currently circulating coronaviruses
Status: Professor Krzysztof Pyrć, PhD, and colleagues at the Virogenetics Laboratory of Virology at Jagiellonian University’s Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology joined researchers from Nanjing University in publishing a March 31 preprint study in bioRxiv describing the antiviral activity of HTCC, which the researchers concluded may be used as a potential inhibitor of 48 highly pathogenic coronaviruses based on its inhibition of viral replication in Vero cells: “We believe that HTCC is a promising drug candidate that should be further studied, as it provides a ready-to-use solution for SARS-CoV-2 and future emerging coronaviruses.
COVID-19: 200 Candidates and Counting
To navigate through the >200 potential therapeutic and vaccine options for COVID-19, GEN has grouped the candidates into four broad categories based on their developmental and (where applicable) clinical progress:
● FRONT RUNNER – the most promising therapeutics/vaccines based on clinical progress, favorable data or both.
● DEFINITELY MAYBE – earlier phases with promising partners, or more advanced candidates in development that have generated uneven data
● KEEPING AN EYE ON… – interesting technology, attracting notable partners, or both, but preliminary data.
● TOO SOON TO TELL – longshots pending additional experimental and/or clinical data.
GEN has also tagged the most common treatment types:
● ANTIVIRAL
● VAX
● ANTIBODY
● RNA
