COVID-19: IIIM Jammu conducts clinical trials of 3-4 COVID-19 drug formulations
The Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) Jammu has announced that it is undertaking clinical trials of 3-4 formulations for developing a COVID-19 drug.
The Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) Jammu has announced that it is undertaking clinical trials of 3-4 formulations for developing a COVID-19 drug. The IIIM is also in the final stage of validating a new machine-less coronavirus diagnostics kit, that can help the country scale-up COVID-19 testing, a senior official said.
“For COVID-19, we are undergoing clinical trials. In collaboration with Ayush ministry and industry, we are involved in it. Three to four clinical trials are going in different plant species with regard to COVID-19 drugs on 3 to 4 formulations,” Director CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Dr. D Srinivasa Reddy, told PTI.
“If they (all the requisite trials) are successful, we can make medicines soon available”, Reddy said.
“We are definitely getting closer. So many research groups from across the world are giving their best to find treatment for COVID-19. Discovering new medicines is a very long and costly process”, he said.
The director said that repurposing already known drugs to treat COVID-19 patients is the best option under the present circumstances.
“Several academic and industry groups across the globe are continuously working. In India, in particular, the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) is a frontrunner in this direction”, he added.
“We started testing in the first week of April, in collaboration with Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu. We have completed over 40,000 samples till date. We are in the process of increasing the number of samples tested,” he said.
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