{"id":55410,"date":"2021-09-11T11:54:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=55410"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:14:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:14:33","slug":"durhams-brii-biosciences-bets-100m-to-advance-possible-covid-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/durhams-brii-biosciences-bets-100m-to-advance-possible-covid-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham\u2019s Brii Biosciences Bets $100M to Advance Possible COVID Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50063\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg\" alt=\"david-wohl\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Wohl, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wraltechwire.com\/2021\/09\/07\/durhams-brii-biosciences-bets-100m-to-advance-possible-covid-therapy\/\">WRAL TechWire<\/a> report says <a href=\"http:\/\/briibio.com\/\">Brii Biosciences<\/a>, which has operations in Durham as well as Beijing, has announced its commitment to support a combination therapy called BRII-196\/BRII-198.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, this therapy and other monoclonal antibodies show effectiveness against the Delta variant, which now accounts for almost all the COVID-19 cases in the U.S.,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-wohl-md\/\">David Wohl<\/a>, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to need effective ways to treat patients to help them avoid severe illness and death. 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That said, according to everything we\u2019ve learned since the beginning of the pandemic, the best tools we have to prevent hospitalization and death are vaccines and masking in public indoor places,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wraltechwire.com\/2021\/09\/07\/durhams-brii-biosciences-bets-100m-to-advance-possible-covid-therapy\/\">Read the article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WRAL TechWire report says Brii Biosciences, which has operations in Durham as well as Beijing, has announced its commitment to support a combination therapy called BRII-196\/BRII-198. \u201cSo far, this therapy and other monoclonal antibodies show effectiveness against the Delta variant, which now accounts for almost all the COVID-19 cases in the U.S.,\u201d said David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/durhams-brii-biosciences-bets-100m-to-advance-possible-covid-therapy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Durham\u2019s Brii Biosciences Bets $100M to Advance Possible COVID Therapy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":24302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-55410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Durham\u2019s Brii Biosciences Bets $100M to Advance Possible COVID Therapy | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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