A NEW HOPE: 27x more effective than Remdesivir against #COVID19 in lab study –Aplidin is a drug derived from a marine sea squirt found only in waters off Flag of Spain island of Ibiza. A cancer drug for multiple myeloma, it’s showing COVID success in lab studies.
Aplidin, already approved in Australia for treating multiple myeloma, has been developed as a potential COVID-19 treatment by the Spanish drug company PharMar.
The drug was identified as a potential treatment after scientists at UCSF tried an unconventional approach…
Instead of randomly testing vast libraries of existing drugs or targeting key proteins in the virus, the UCSF team focused on human proteins needed by the virus. The scientists then looked for existing drugs that would prevent #SARSCoV2 from hijacking those human proteins.
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Aplidin, also known as Plitidepsin, has gone through a Phase II clinical trial against COVID-19 and is now awaiting the start of Phase III testing. It comes from sea squirts, marine creatures that look like plants and have tubular openings allowing them to draw water.
to be clear— this is not some small minor study — it was published in SCIENCE!!! One of the top science journals in the world.
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing