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Under the agreement, VIB acquired Oxurion's preclinical oncology asset and will use the upfront in the development of THR-149, being evaluated in a Phase 2 clinical trial as a potential treatment for of diabetic macular edema.
XVR013 targets a conserved region in the spike S2 subunit that is essential for viral entry. It neutralizes all previous and current variants of concern and the currently most frequently circulating variants, including XBB, XBB.1.5, BQ.1.1 and BF.7.
SRF388 is a fully human anti-IL-27 antibody designed to inhibit the activity of this immunosuppressive cytokine, targets the rate-limiting p28 subunit of IL-27, and preclinical studies have shown that treatment with SRF388 blocks immunosuppressive biologic effects of IL-27.
The team has now established that the antibody can neutralize a lab variant of the virus, an important step forward in the development of a potential antiviral drug against the new coronavirus.