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Tech Transfer Roundup: Coronavirus Research Collaborations Respond To Pandemic

 
• By Joseph Haas

Recent collaborations involving Ridgeback, Themis, Junshi, Moleculin, Can-Fite, Pluristem and Beroni highlight the intense increase in research in how to treat or prevent COVID-19.

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Privately held Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP and Emory Universityy announced on 19 March they will work together to advance EIDD-2801 – an oral ribonucleoside analog that can inhibit replication of RNA viruses – for COVID-19. No terms were disclosed but Ridgeback gets a license to EIDD-2801 and said it will take the molecule through clinical development for the virus and be responsible for making the therapy available during the pandemic.

Under an agreement signed between Ridgeback and Drug Innovations at Emory LLC (DRIVE), a non-profit company affiliated with the university, Ridgeback will employ what it learned in developing mAB114 (ansuvimab)...

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