Chiral Pharma Corporation, a subsidiary of New Marketlink Pharmaceutical Corporation (NMPC) and a frontrunner in the anti-rabies vaccine market, is working with CytoDyn Inc., a biotechnology company in the US focused on developing innovative treatments for multiple therapeutic indications, to obtain Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval for CytoDyn’s product leronlimab to treat Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the Philippines.
Chiral Pharma is excited for the opportunity to bring leronlimab (PRO 140) to the Philippines, given its promising results against Covid-19 in the United States. leronlimab is a monoclonal antibody CCR5 receptor antagonist used as a platform drug for a variety of indications. The drug blocks the immunologic receptor CCR5 to protect healthy T cells from viral infection. CytoDyn has already completed its Phase 2 clinical trial where mild-to-moderate COVID-19 patients in the U.S. were given leronlimab. Enrollment continues for its Phase 2b/3 randomized clinical trial for the severe-to-critically ill Covid-19 patients in several hospitals in the US and in the UK.
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