Drug Repurposing can be an effective way to identify treatments for diseases, especially when time is of the essence.
Research scientists at National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a part of the NIH, embarked on a drug repurposing strategy as the quickest route to generating data that would help the pharma industry drive towards an effective treatment for the COVID-19 virus.
Find out how in a matter of months the NCATS team was able to screen 3,384 molecular entities and narrow them down to a field of 25 quality "hits" capable of disrupting SARS-Cov-2 S1 protein:ACE2 receptor binding in this case study.