BOTHELL, Wash., Sept. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cocrystal Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: COCP) ('Cocrystal” or the 'Company”) announces dosing of the first subjects in the multiple-ascending dose (MAD) portion of the Phase 1 study with CDI-988, its potent, broad-spectrum, oral pan-viral protease inhibitor. Topline study results are expected in late 2024 or early 2025. CDI-988 was specifically designed and developed using Cocrystal's proprietary structure-based drug discovery platform technology and is being developed as the first-in-class pan-viral antiviral for the treatment of viral gastroenteritis and COVID-19 caused by noroviruses and coronaviruses, respectively.

'We are delighted to advance the clinical evaluation of CDI-988, a novel direct-acting antiviral (DAA) targeting the viral proteases of noroviruses and coronaviruses,” said Sam Lee, Ph.D., Cocrystal's President and co-CEO. 'Multiple-ascending dose results will further evaluate safety and tolerability of this potentially groundbreaking antiviral therapeutic.”