Massachusetts-based Aledyra Therapeutics announced plans to advance its investigational HSP90 inhibitor ADX-1612 into clinical trials for Covid-19.
HSP90 is a chaperone protein widely implicated in viral disease, which has been viewed a potential promising Covid-19 target.
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Aldeyra believes ADX-1612’s mechanism of action could be complementary to other anti-viral drugs in development, and so, if successful in clinical trials, it could be used in combination with other drugs.
The company’s CEO and president Todd C Brady commented: “The nanomolar potency of ADX-1612 against SARS-CoV-2 in an in vitro model announced today is consistent with a broad array of mechanistic target validation, in vitro viral inhibition, and preliminary clinical data that support investigation of ADX-1612 for the treatment of COVID-19.”
Aledyra is hoping to submit an investigational new drug application for this drug in the third quarter this year.
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