Relief Therapeutics announces supply deals while awaiting COVID-19 trial data
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland’s Relief Therapeutics and U.S. partner NeuroRx said on Wednesday they struck deals with Bachem and Nephron Pharmaceuticals to supply and make a 50-year-old drug, aviptadil, that is in clinical trials against COVID-19.
Relief and NeuroRx said the pact with Switzerland’s Bachem, to supply peptides, and U.S. generics maker Nephron, to manufacture aviptadil, also being called RLF-100 by the companies, is aimed at having supplies sufficient to treat 1 million patients, should the drug prove effective in the studies.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
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