Candidate: Immunotherapy designed to produce inhaled mRNA-based antibodies directly in the lungs of COVID-19 patients
Type: mRNA-encoded, neutralizing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies administered by inhalation
Status: The companies on March 31 announced their COVID-19 collaboration, designed to combine Neurimmune’s expertise in developing human antibodies via its RTM™ Technology platform, based on high-throughput immunoglobulin sequence analyses from COVID-19 patients who have recovered from the disease with Ethris’ pulmonary SNIM®RNA therapeutics platform.
The first product candidate is expected to begin clinical testing in the fourth quarter, pending regulatory approval, Neurimmune and Ethris said. The companies have agreed to jointly conduct R&D activities while sharing costs and revenues resulting from the collaboration—and intend to begin manufacturing of the drug product for clinical trials this summer.
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
