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On the ambitious mission to develop a safe, globally accessible, and affordable antiviral pill for COVID-19.
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Great news! 🎉

Following an independent expert review, we have formally nominated the broad-spectrum pan-coronavirus antiviral ASAP-0017445 as a pre-clinical drug candidate.

🔗Read the press release here: dndi.org/press-releas...
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Today, @griffen-ed.bsky.social explains at the Open Drug Discovery Symposium how @asapdiscovery.bsky.social has developed a hybrid intellectual property model that counterintuitively uses patents to support open science innovation and ensure affordability & global access.
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April 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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'We want wide, fast, and affordable access for our new antiviral. It might sound counterintuitive, but a patent will help us do that.'

Read our full opinion piece co-authored by Ed Griffen (@griffen-ed.bsky.social) and Pascale Boulet ⤵️

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Opinion: How patents can serve the common good
We want wide, fast, and affordable access for our new antiviral. It might sound counterintuitive, but a patent will help us do that
cen.acs.org
April 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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At #ACSSpring2025, Ed Griffen of MedChemica disclosed the structure of a pancoronavirus antiviral that targets the main protease of the two different coronaviruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and COVID-19. cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... 🧪
Antiviral unveiled that goes after multiple coronaviruses
Open-science consortium discloses its lead candidate to fight SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV
cen.acs.org
March 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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📢Important announcement! Today, the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social consortium disclosed the structure of our preclinical candidate, ASAP-0017445, a promising broad-spectrum antiviral with potent activity against SARS-CoV2 and other viruses belonging to the same family. (1/10)
March 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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If you missed previous Antiviral Drug Discovery Open Science Forum talks, you can find videos of all of them online here:
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Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Open Science Forum
A public venue to enable NIH-funded AViDD Centers to openly exchange and disseminate information in a pre-competitive fashion.
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December 18, 2024 at 4:28 PM
The COVID-Moonshot is an open-science, crowdsourced drug discovery initiative working to develop a straight-to-generic, accessible, and affordable #COVID19 antiviral.
Learn more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Open science discovery of potent noncovalent SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors
An open-science effort yields a promising noncovalent inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease.
www.science.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:28 AM