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The most innovative pharmaceutical agents of 2020

By Danielle Kirsh | August 3, 2020

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SIGA Technologies

Tpoxx, or tecovirimat, to treat smallpox disease in adults and pediatric patients weighing at least 13 kg.

CDC notes that the drug “may be considered for treatment in people infected with Monkeypox virus.”

The drug is designed to inhibit the systemic spread of the virus that causes smallpox by preventing the formation of a secondary viral envelope. When the envelope doesn’t exist, viral particles remain inside the cell that they are produced in and don’t spread and infect other cells.

The World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated in 1980, but research in U.S. continues to focus on the development of vaccines and drugs to protect people against the virus in case its used as an agent of bioterrorism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Common side effects include headache, nausea, abdominal pain and vomiting.

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Filed Under: Drug Discovery, Drug Discovery and Development, Neurological Disease, Oncology, Orphan Drugs
Tagged With: AbbVie, Adlon Therapeutics, Advanced Accelerator Applications, Astellas Pharma, Bayer, Eli Lilly & Co., Galien Foundation, Genentech, Greenwich Biosciences, GW Pharmaceuticals, Janssen Biotech, Johnson & Johnson, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Medicines Development for Global Health, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Population Council, Purdue Pharma, Roche Group, Servier Pharmaceuticals, SIGA Technologies, Sobi, TB Alliance, Theravance Biopharma
 
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Danielle Kirsh

Danielle Kirsh is an award-winning journalist and senior editor for Medical Design & Outsourcing, MassDevice, and Medical Tubing + Extrusion, and the founder of Women in Medtech and lead editor for Big 100. She received her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and mass communication from Norfolk State University and is pursuing her master's in global strategic communications at the University of Florida. You can connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn, or email her at dkirsh@wtwhmedia.com.

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