COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
Edit: contact made, thank you!<p>If anyone is reading this with connections to the Gates Foundation: Please contact Dr. Robert Kruse at John Hopkins. <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertLKruse" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/RobertLKruse</a>.  I have been trying to get in touch with people at Gates.  This announcement unfortunately features no contact email address :(<p>Dr. Kruse is developing an extremely promising therapeutic, ACE2-fc, which will both neutralize the virus and treat the symptoms of the disease.  It has been shown to work in vitro; variants have been tested in animals models; and its been through Phase II human trials for a different indication.  A variant of the therapy, soluble ACE2, is being trialed in humans now in China.<p>Details on the approach can be found in his paper here:<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029759/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029759/</a> see "ACE2 immunoadhesin strategy"