NanoViricides Inc. (NNVC)

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Diwan is making a CoVID-19-cide anyways, and will be testing it on a less virulent strain of coronavirus that also uses ACE2 to infect cells. From the 10-Q:

Subsequent to the reporting period, on January 30, 2020, the Company confirmed in a press release that it has undertaken an effort to develop a treatment for the novel 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak that appears to have started around November-December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The new 2019-nCoV is known to be closely related to the SARS-CoV of 2002-2003 epidemic. In fact it has been shown to use the same cell surface receptor as SARS-CoV, namely ACE2. The Company determined, based on molecular modeling screening that it had in its chemicals library ligands that could bind to SARS-CoV S1 spike protein at the same position where the S1 binds to the human receptor ACE2. It is a reasonable expectation that these relatively broad-spectrum ligands would also be able to bind the S1 spike protein of the NCP coronavirus in the same fashion. The Company intends to generate nanoviricides based on these ligands and test them in our own BSL2 virology lab facility against known available human pathogen coronaviruses, including those that use ACE2 as the cellular receptor. The Company has the capacity to produce several thousand doses of the potential drug at its cGMP-capable multi-purpose manufacturing facility in Shelton, CT. If this screening produces positive results, then the Company anticipates obtaining assistance from US government and international agencies for further testing and potential exploratory clinical use to combat the epidemic. The Company does not at present have any active collaborations with US or international agencies for this purpose. Even if the Company can develop a potential drug candidate, significant support and participation from US and international agencies would be required to make it available to patients, including for taking it through exploratory clinical trials. The outbreak was declared a global emergency by the WHO on the same date, January, 30th, 2020.