EbolaCide2 UPDATE!
Eugene Seymour, MD, MPH, has been invited to discuss the current Ebola outbreak and the Company’s progress on a novel experimental Ebola drug on “The Independents”, a show on the Fox Business News Channel (FBN) tonight at 9PM EDT.
He will discuss some of the difficulties that could be encountered in attempts to bring the Ebola epidemic under control. Dr. Seymour has extensive field experience in the area of infectious diseases. He has previously worked on HIV/AIDS in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. D. Seymour was interviewed on FBN regarding the Ebola crisis earlier on September 16th.
The Company has now developed novel nanoviricide drug candidates against Ebola that it believes could lead to a successful therapeutic. These drug candidates are designed to mimic the host cell receptor onto which the Ebola virus binds to cause an infection. The site at which the virus binds does not change, in spite of all the mutations a virus undergoes. Thus the Company believes that its drug candidates would continue to work in spite of field mutations in the virus. This is unlike vaccines, antibodies, siRNA, antisense, and several other therapeutic modes which a virus can readily overcome due to mutations it acquires in the field.
The Company had previously developed anti-Ebola drug candidates that demonstrated the validity and potential of the Company’s approach, based on cell culture and animal testing conducted at US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in a BSL-4 facility.
