Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News for May 2020

Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News Archive

Oxford BioDynamics biomarker platform is selected to help identify COVID-19 patients at risk of severe disease and profile patients who will benefit from therapeutic treatment Oxford BioDynamics biomarker platform is selected to help identify COVID-19 patients at risk of severe disease and profile patients who will benefit from therapeutic treatment

Oxford BioDynamics’ EpiSwitch technology has been chosen as the biomarker platform for prognostic and predictive profiling of COVID-19 patients in the GETAFIX clinical study.Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, and NHS Scotland are leading the effort to identify patients at risk of severe immune complications and those patients who can benefit from treatment with the anti-viral favipiravir.The EpiSwitch platform has already delivered prognostic and predictive biomarker developments and validations in collaboration with University of Glasgow Professors Iain McInnes and Carl Goodyear, as well as with EMD Serono, Pfizer, Genentech, Roche, Mayo Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital.