CEL-SCI starts developing COVID-19 immunotherapy

10 March 2020

US biotech CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE: CVM) has announced that it is developing an immunotherapy with the potential to treat the COVID-19 coronavirus.

The company’s patented LEAPS peptide technology will use conserved regions of coronavirus proteins to stimulate protective cell mediated T-cell responses and reduce viral load.

According to CEL-SCI, the technology can be used to construct immunotherapeutic peptides that exhibit both antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, meaning that these products not only target the virus infection against which they are directed, but also elicit the appropriate protective response against it.

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