Not exact matches
A panel of
small molecules that inhibit Zika virus infection,
including one that stands out as a potent
inhibitor of Zika viral entry into relevant human cell types, was discovered by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
That produced a class of drugs known as angiotensin - converting enzyme, or ACE,
inhibitors that hit the market in the early 1980s, and during the next 25 years or so, there followed a string of blockbuster
small -
molecule drugs that
included such familiar names as Lipitor, Zantac and Prozac.
The team is taking several approaches to inhibit HIF - 1 activity,
including RNA interference, dominant negative constructs, and
small molecule inhibitors.
AG490 is a
small molecule inhibitor that blocks several tyrosine kinases
including Jak2 (Gazit et al., 1991); Ruxolitinib is a
small molecule inhibitor that specifically suppresses Jak kinases (Quintas - Cardama et al., 2010).
Particular expertise in fields relating to antibody therapeutics and formats, nucleic acid therapeutics, various
small molecule therapeutics
including covalent
inhibitors, and vaccines.