MADRID: Spain's PharmaMar said on Tuesday trials made in vitro and on animals showed its Plitidepsin drug had positive antiviral effects on the variants of COVID-19, including Omicron.
The results of Phase I trials have shown the drug, also known as Aplidin, had a powerful antiviral activity against all the variants in vitro and a distribution into the lungs of animals tested, resulting in a 99 per cent reduction of viral load in the lungs, the company said. The results of the trials were released in a paper published in the scientific journal Life Science Alliance, PharmaMar said."All data we have seen so far with Plitidepsin corroborate our initial hypothesis of its activity as antiviral," PharmaMar's Jose Maria Fernandez Sousa said in a statement.Shares in PharmaMar rose 5.3 per cent in early trading.
Plitidepsin is a drug developed by PharmaMar originally to treat cancer, but has an effect as an antiviral.
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