Repurposing existing drugs for COVID-19 a more rapid alternative to a vaccine, say researchers

Repurposing existing medicines focused on known drug targets is likely to offer a more rapid hope of tackling COVID-19 than developing and manufacturing a vaccine, argue an international team of scientists in the British Journal of Pharmacology.

Alexander SP, Armstrong J, Davenport AP, Davies J, Faccenda E, Harding SD, Levi‐Schaffer F, Maguire JJ, Pawson AJ, Southan C, Spedding MJ. A rational roadmap for SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19 pharmacotherapeutic research and development. British Journal of Pharmacology. 2020 May 1.

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