Drug discovery
Drug discovery

COVID-19 therapies investigated

Benjamin Schwarz of the Rocky Mountain National Labs discusses two therapeutics projects on efficacy against SARS-CoV2 in the macaque model.

17 / 06 / 2020 | Benjamin Schwarz

Many therapeutics approaches are proposed based on their results in cell culture. Benjamin Schwarz of the Rocky Mountain National Labs shares why measuring how much of a drug gets to the site of infection is important when translating these therapeutic approaches to clinical trials and human efficacy.

“During normal times, we think of the animal model as this translational kind of gateway between cell culture in vitro experiments and clinical trials.”

Benjamin Schwarz