A Chinese Drugmaker Has Started Mass-Producing an Experimental Drug for COVID-19
Wang Chen, first on the right, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, speaks at a conference in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 5, 2020. The registration for clinical trials on the antiviral drug remdesivir has been approved, and the first batch of pneumonia patients infected by the novel coronavirus are expected to start taking the drug on Thursday, according to an official conference Wednesday.
Suzhou-based BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology said in a statement filed to the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Tuesday night that it has developed the technology to synthesize the active pharmaceutical ingredients of remdesivir, Gilead’s drug that is a leading candidate to treat the highly-infectious virus that’s killed more than 1,000 people. The drug isn’t licensed or approved anywhere in the world yet.
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