The Drug Repurposing Strategy in the Exscalate4CoV Project: Raloxifene Clinical Trials
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
; : 19-26, 2023.
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in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-2321929
ABSTRACT
Drug repurposing is a cost-effective process to identify therapeutic candidates during a medical crisis or pandemic. The supercomputing platform, EXaSCale smArt pLatform Against paThogEns for CoronaVirus (EXSCALATE4CoV;E4C), was used to identify drug candidates for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. E4C identified raloxifene as having great therapeutic potential, confirmed by in vitro data, which led to the progression of clinical trials to assess its efficacy. Raloxifene met the primary virologic endpoint in the treatment of early mild coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and although additional clinical trials are needed to confirm these results, there is evidence in support of in silico drug repurposing to provide cost-effective and rapid drug screening to identify treatment options for the pandemic and future pandemics. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
Year:
2023
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