Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Deuterium in drug discovery: progress, opportunities and challenges

RMC Di Martino, BD Maxwell, T Pirali - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Substitution of a hydrogen atom with its heavy isotope deuterium entails the addition of one
neutron to a molecule. Despite being a subtle change, this structural modification, known as …

VV116 versus nirmatrelvir–ritonavir for oral treatment of Covid-19

Z Cao, W Gao, H Bao, H Feng, S Mei… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir has been authorized for emergency use by many
countries for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). However, the supply …

Bench-to-bedside: Innovation of small molecule anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs in China

L Yang, Z Wang - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of deaths globally, highlighting
the need to develop potent prophylactic and therapeutic strategies against SARS-CoV-2 …

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned

SJR da Silva, JCF do Nascimento… - ACS infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible
and virulent human-infecting coronavirus that emerged in late December 2019 in Wuhan …

Small molecules in the treatment of COVID-19

S Lei, X Chen, J Wu, X Duan, K Men - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
The outbreak of COVID-19 has become a global crisis, and brought severe disruptions to
societies and economies. Until now, effective therapeutics against COVID-19 are in high …

Oral GS-441524 derivatives: Next-generation inhibitors of SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase

Z Wang, L Yang, X Song - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
GS-441524, an RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitor, is a 1′-CN-substituted
adenine C-nucleoside analog with broad-spectrum antiviral activity. However, the low oral …

A new generation Mpro inhibitor with potent activity against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants

C Huang, H Shuai, J Qiao, Y Hou, R Zeng… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, particularly the Omicron variant and its
sublineages, continually threaten the global public health. Small molecule antivirals are an …

An open, prospective cohort study of VV116 in Chinese participants infected with SARS-CoV-2 omicron variants

Y Shen, J Ai, N Lin, H Zhang, Y Li, H Wang… - Emerging microbes & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has become the predominant variant worldwide. VV116 is
an oral drug with robust anti-SARS-CoV-2 efficacy in preclinical studies. We conducted an …

Safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of VV116, an oral nucleoside analog against SARS-CoV-2, in Chinese healthy subjects

H Qian, Y Wang, M Zhang, Y **e, Q Wu… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract VV116 (JT001) is an oral drug candidate of nucleoside analog against SARS-CoV-
2. The purpose of the three phase I studies was to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and …