Sorrento Therapeutics’ (SRNE) competitors might be further down the line with their COVID-19 programs, but H.C. Wainwright analyst Ram Selvaraju highlights two separate routes the biotech could take to bring possible treatments and/or preventative therapies to market.Last week, Sorrento disclosed that in preclinical trials, the company’s monoclonal antibody (MaB), STI-4938, code named COVIDTRAP, inhibited SARS-CoV-2 viral infection in vitro.The data showed that STI-4938, an ACE2-Fc decoy protein, binds solidly to the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein, and is able to stop the virus from infecting the respiratory cells (specifically, in African green monkey kidney epithelial cells).Sorrento has another antibody in development, …read more
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