NEW PROCESS TO IDENTIFY EXISTING DRUGS FOR POTENTIAL COVID-19 TREATMENTS

The Chen Lab, led by Bin Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, and the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, put its expertise to work. They developed a computational process for identifying existing drugs that may be repurposed to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus without needing access to the virus itself.