antiviral Archive

  • Drug resistance: evolution in action

    Drug resistance: evolution in action

    Introduction of drugs puts an evolutionary pressure on viruses and makes the viral proteins evolve. On the other hand, the change in the protein structure should be compatible with the protein function. The degree of the protein sequence conservativity is thus a measure of the...

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  • Quantum Pharmaceuticals collaborates with University of Pittsburgh on HIV drug discovery.

    Quantum Pharmaceuticals collaborates with University of Pittsburgh on HIV drug discovery.

    Moscow, October, 20 2008 Quantum Pharmaceuticals and University of Pittsburgh announced a drug discovery collaboration in HIV sphere. Under the terms of agreement Quantum Pharmaceuticals gets access to the target data from University of Pittsburgh. Quantum Pharmaceuticals will apply its industry leading computational technology to...

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  • Quantum Pharmaceuticals and Tibotec Pharmaceuticals enter antiviral drug discovery collabortaion.

    Quantum Pharmaceuticals and Tibotec Pharmaceuticals enter antiviral drug discovery collabortaion.

    Quantum Pharmaceuticals announces a drug discovery collaboration with Tibotec Pharmaceuticals (subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson). Under the terms of the agreement Quantum Pharmaceuticals will provide Tibotec Pharmaceuticals with the family of anti-viral drug hits. The drug hits were discovered by Quantum Pharmaceuticals using its proprietary...

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  • HIV-1 integrase drug discovery collaboration

    HIV-1 integrase drug discovery collaboration

    Moscow, September, 28 2006 Quantum Pharmaceuticals and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology entered drug discovery collaboration aimed to discovery of novel small molecule inhibitors of HIV-1 integrase. HIV-1 integrase is one of the most promising targets in HIV drug discovery. Under the terms of...

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