UK-based rare disease-focused Healx has leveraged its AI platform Healnet to identify combinations of approved therapies that could be effective against Covid-19.
Using two or more drugs to target different aspects of disease pathology has been very effective against over viruses, particularly HIV.
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Despite their success, in general, combination approaches have proven harder to discover than single drug candidates. However, this approach is a speciality of Healx’s Healnet platform due to its ability to integrate and analysis vast amounts of data from multiple sources.
Healx co-founder and chairman Dr David Brown, who will be leading the Covid-19 project, said: “The company’s AI technology is perfectly positioned to support the efforts to find treatments for Covid-19.
“Healx’s data-driven AI platform is able to predict, within weeks, which known drugs can be repurposed to treat other conditions such as COVID-19.
“This approach significantly shortens discovery-to-clinic timelines [and] ensures that any potential treatments we identify can be used by clinicians to help patients very quickly.”
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