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Cyclica Teams Up with Top-Tier Academic Institutions to Identify a Repurposed COVID Drug

Cyclica Teams Up with Top-Tier Academic Institutions to Identify a Repurposed COVID Drug
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Cyclica : Teams Up with Top-Tier Academic Institutions to Identify a Repurposed COVID Drug

Cyclica, academics team up to investigate COVID-19 treatment

The drug-discovery firm has partnered with several academic institutions to explore a Novartis lung-cancer treatment’s potential in treating COVID-19. Cyclica, a company specializing in data-driven drug discovery, has determined that the lung-cancer drug capmatinib shows evidence of attenuating the impact of coronavirus. The firm made the discovery via collaboration with Ryerson, the Vector Institute, and other Canadian institutions; funding came through COVID-19 grants from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance COVID-19 grants, with funding support from FedDev Ontario. Capmatinib is an FDA-approved MET inhibitor, marketed by Novartis under the name Tabrecta; the treatment is used in clinical applications to treat patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. According to the researchers, testing capmatinib in a collection of experiments evaluating viral infect

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