Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, a research and development (R&D) consultant at Swiss pharma company Relief Therapeutics, Yves Sagot, realised that a drug developed in the early 2000s for acute respiratory distress and other lung diseases and acquired by Biogen could be effective at treating Covid-19.
Relief then reached out to US-based NeuroRx to help them co-develop this drug for Covid-19, because the latter has a “history of taking already known molecules and moving them very quickly through the FDA”, explains NeuroRx CEO and chairman Professor Jonathan Javitt.