Can An Antibody Cocktail Block COVID-19 Infection? Regeneron’s Warp Speed Research Aims To Find Out Soon

Could Be Available In Late Summer

The only non-vaccine project backed by Operation Warp Speed, Regeneron’s antibody cocktail could play a crucial role in the fight against SARS-CoV2 – if it works. Clinical development chief David Weinreich talks to Scrip about its innovative adaptive trial collaboration, and how it could provide answers in a matter of months.

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While each day brings fresh updates on the progress of companies developing vaccines to fight COVID-19, which are rightly seen as the most powerful weapon against the novel coronavirus, the potential of novel antibody cocktails is also being explored at pace by biopharma companies, government and academic researchers.

The promise is that a mix of two or more antibodies, either discovered in the lab or based on antibodies taken from patients who have recovered from COVID-19, can fix on two distinct locations on the receptor binding domain of

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