Candidate: Immunolid ISR50
Category: VAX
Type: Vaccine based on TCER AB’s platform technology for the production of proteins and ISR’s drug pipeline with immunostimulating immunolides.
Status: ISR said March 19 that it is partnering with TCER to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Data from animal studies are expected to be ready during the second quarter of 2020, with the goal of starting testing in humans during the last quarter of this year. TCER conducts its research in close collaboration with Hans Grönlund, PhD’s research group Therapeutic Immune Design at the Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institutet.
ISR said in February it was exploring the potential of developing its Immunolid ISR50 vaccine as a treatment for COVID-19. Immunolid50 is in the final phase of toxicological studies, carried out in collaboration with Innostars in Shanghai, in anticipation of a future IND application allowing for human clinical trials.
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
