New Corona drug from German start-up being tested on humans

The drug developed by the Munich-based start-up Eisbach Bio is entering its first clinical trial. Eight million in funding is coming from the German government.
Hope for a drug against corona: The start-up Eisbach Bio from Martinsried near Munich has developed its own drug against the covid disease and is now taking it into initial clinical trials. Previously, it was already tested on animals. "We can now start the clinical phase and tests on humans," co-founder and CEO Adrian Schomburg tells the Editorial Network Germany. Funding of eight million euros is coming from the German Federal Ministry of Research, which will cover 80 percent of the development costs. Eisbach Bio is developing tablets that can be taken orally, making them easy to produce as well as easy to transport and administer.
The drug enters clinical phase 1, in which side effects are observed in healthy people. Only if there are no side effects will the drug enter the second phase, in which it will be tested for efficacy in patients. If all goes well, production could start as early as the middle of next year. So far, there are only two drugs recommended by the WHO against Sars-CoV-2, both of which are very expensive. Eisbach Bio hopes to be cheaper; a one-week treatment is expected to cost less than 100 euros.
Schomburg founded the start-up two years ago together with Andreas Ladurner, a professor of biochemistry from Munich. Together, they actually wanted to develop a drug against cancer. They discovered that the gene sequences of the coronavirus are similar to a protein that their drug also combats. That is why they are currently researching a drug against the coronavirus.

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