Veronica Di Sarno, Gianluigi Lauro, Simona Musella, Tania Ciaglia, Vincenzo Vestuto, Marina Sala, Maria Carmina Scala, Gerardina Smaldone, Francesca Di Matteo, Sara Novi, Mario Felice Tecce, Ornella Moltedo, Giuseppe Bifulco, Pietro Campiglia, Isabel M Gomez-Monterrey, Robert Snoeck, Graciela Andrei, Carmine Ostacolo, Alessia Bertamino
COVID-19 pandemic, starting from the latest 2019, and caused by SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, led to the hardest health-socio-economic disaster in the last century. Despite the tremendous scientific efforts, mainly focused on the development of vaccines, identification of potent and efficient anti-SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics still represents an unmet need. Remdesivir, an anti-Ebola drug selected from a repurposing campaign, is the only drug approved, so far, for the treatment of the infection. Nevertheless, WHO in later 2020 has recommended against its use in COVID-19...
December 15, 2021: European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry