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    China's new crown drug candidates start phase I clinical trials in the U.S.

    • Last Update: 2021-03-17
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    China's new crown drug candidate launches phase I clinical trials in the U.


    According to the announcement of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences on March 15th, the new drug candidate DC402234, a new anti-coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) drug candidate, launched a phase I clinical trial in the United States on the same day.


    DC402234 is a new anti-SARS-CoV-2 candidate drug jointly developed by the teams of Liu Hong, Xu Yechun, and Jiang Hualiang from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the teams of Yang Haitao, Rao Zihe, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, and the teams of Zhang Leipi and Xiao Gengfu, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.


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    According to reports, DC402234 is a peptidomimetic compound designed and synthesized based on the three-dimensional structure of the coronavirus main protease (M pro ).


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    It is worth mentioning that on June 19, 2020, the top academic journal "Science" reported the above research results on the cover, and the research title is "Structure-based design of antiviral drug candidates targeting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease".


    A reporter from The Paper ( reported the results of the research at the time.


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    It is reported that the results of this candidate new drug have reached an agreement on the transfer and transformation of results with the domestic enterprise Frontier Biopharmaceutical (Nanjing) Co.


    On March 15th, the US Phase I clinical study of DC402234 was officially launched, with Professor Gregory Tarcey from the Frontage Phase 1 Clinical Research Center in the US as the main researcher to advance the work.


    The Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences stated that at present, DC402234 has not been approved for marketing in any country, and its safety and effectiveness in humans have not been confirmed, but it has been shown to beexcellentfor SARS-CoV-2 Mproin vitro.


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