Australian Researchers Develop New Drugs to Prevent and Treat COVID-19

Australian Researchers Develop New Drugs to Prevent and Treat COVID-19
A team led by Professor Subha Rao has developed two new drugs that could protect unvaccinated people against COVID-19. AAP Image/Supplied by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
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Researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia have developed two new drugs which can protect people from spreading COVID-19 and prevent those who are infected from developing severe disease.

A team led by Professor Sudha Rao, senior researcher and head of QIMR Berghofer’s Gene Regulation and Translational Medicine Group, has developed two peptide-based drugs, which are now being tested in hamsters at IDMIT, a pre-clinical and clinical research facility in France.