Sorrento Therapeutics has collaborated with Mount Sinai Health System to develop an antibody cocktail, COVI-SHIELD, for the potential treatment of Covid-19.
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai screened nearly 15,000 people who may have recovered from the novel coronavirus infection for the presence of anti-Covid-19 antibodies.
Sorrento will be able to access plasma containing anti-Covid-19 antibodies to identify and generate monoclonal antibodies that could potentially neutralise SARS-CoV-2 activity.
As part of the collaboration, Mount Sinai and Sorrento aim to develop antibodies that would be a ‘protective shield’ against Covid-19 by inhibiting and neutralising the virus’ activity in naïve at-risk populations, as