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Accelerating the search for a drug for COVID-19

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $70,620

  • Funder

    IVADO

  • Principal Investigator

    Yoshua and Mike Bengio and Tyers

  • Research Location

    Canada

  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Therapeutics research, development and implementation

  • Research Subcategory

    Pre-clinical studies

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

In a prerequisite for drug development, this project seeks to identify molecules that may specifically associate with SARS-CoV-2. To do this, researchers from Mila and IRIC will first use neural networks to automatically generate billions of potential molecules. An enhancement algorithm will then be used to select the most promising ones for biological evaluation and possible clinical trials.