COVID-19 drug repurposing research

Drug repositioning (also known as drug repurposing, re-profiling, re-tasking, or therapeutic switching) is the repurposing of an approved drug for the treatment of a different disease or medical condition than that for which it was originally developed.[1] This is one line of scientific research which is being pursued to develop safe and effective COVID-19 treatments.[2][3][4] Other research directions include the development of a COVID-19 vaccine[5] and convalescent plasma transfusion.[6]

Several existing antiviral medications, previously developed or used as treatments for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), HIV/AIDS, and malaria, have been researched as potential COVID-19 treatments, with some moving into clinical trials.[7][8][9]

In a statement to the journal Nature Biotechnology in February 2020, US National Institutes of Health Viral Ecology Unit chief Vincent Munster said, "The general genomic layout and the general replication kinetics and the biology of the MERS, SARS and [SARS-CoV-2] viruses are very similar, so testing drugs which target relatively generic parts of these coronaviruses is a logical step".[2]

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  3. ^ MacRaild CA, Mohammed MU, Murugesan S, Styles IK, Peterson AL, Kirkpatrick CM, et al. (October 2022). "Systematic Down-Selection of Repurposed Drug Candidates for COVID-19". International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23 (19): 11851. doi:10.3390/ijms231911851. PMC 9569752. PMID 36233149.
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  6. ^ Duan K, Liu B, Li C, Zhang H, Yu T, Qu J, et al. (April 2020). "Effectiveness of convalescent plasma therapy in severe COVID-19 patients". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117 (17): 9490–9496. Bibcode:2020PNAS..117.9490D. doi:10.1073/pnas.2004168117. PMC 7196837. PMID 32253318.
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