SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eFFECTOR Therapeutics, Inc., today announced that preliminary results from an independent preclinical study showed that oncology product candidate zotatifin (eFT226) had in vitro antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The results of the research, led by Nevan Krogan, Ph.D., professor, department of cellular and molecular pharmacology and director of the Quantitative Bioscience Institute at UCSF, wer

Study Presented in Virtual Session at AACR Annual Meeting Provides Evidence of Potential for Zotatifin to Drug an Important Class of Oncogene Drivers SAN DIEGO, April 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eFFECTOR Therapeutics, Inc., a leader in the development of selective translation regulator inhibitors (STRIs) for the treatment of cancer, announced that data presented today in a virtual session at the AACR Annual Meeting, showed the anti-tumor activity of the company’s product can

Vir's has two candidates that have proved highly potent in neutralising SARS-CoV-2 in live virus-cellular assays GlaxoSmithKline PLC (LON:GSK) is to invest US$250mln into Nasdaq-listed Vir Biotechnology Inc (NASDAQ:VIR), with the two companies to work together on potential treatments for coronavirus. It is the pharma major and vaccine specialist’s first announcement specifically about the virus since the outbreak. The collaboration will use Vir's platform technology to identi