Novel, oral, host-targeted, broad-acting antivirals, once-daily RHB-107 (upamostat) and twice-daily opaganib, demonstrated in vitro inhibition of the COVID-19-causing SARS-Cov-2 Omicron BA.5 sub-variant in testing conducted by University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Results add to previous variant-agnostic efficacy data for both investigational drugs against COVID-19 disease and several other viral diseases, highlighting their promising profile as broad acting, host-directed candidate therapies for pandemic preparedness
Development of both opaganib for hospitalized patients and RHB-107 for non-hospitalized patients is ongoing, including ongoing and planned pandemic preparedness research collaborations with US governmental agencies, pivotal Phase 3 trial design and regulatory clearances, and securing of external non-dilutive funding
