Industree Communication Hub supports Virostatics for the treatment of Coronavirus
At a time when all Italians feel involved in the national emergency caused by Coronavirus, Industree Communication Hub has chosen to do its part, supporting an Italian excellence in pharmaceutical research and innovation: Virostatics. The company that is based in Sardinia and is led by Prof. Franco Lori (international researcher with over 20 years of experience in the management of biotechnology, recognized in 2000 as a "Hero in Medicine" for his achievements in HIV therapy) is carrying out an important research project against the COVID-19 virus based on the combination of antiviral drugs, which are already available but which individually do not aim to combat that specific virus; if well combined, however, they can have an optimal synergy against the virus being researched. The Virostatics research team intends to work by testing already approved drugs, in this way the results can be immediately implemented in clinical practice and at the same time it will be possible to identify combinations of drugs that inhibit the entire CoV family as a first attack line to contain the virus.
Industree Communication Hub is supporting Virostatics'communication activities pro bono, in order to raise public awareness of the need to support the scientific structure, including through fundraising for research. Virostatics has equipped staff, decades of experience, and biological containment facilities, but additional financial resources are needed to carry out the experiments. Hence the idea of launching an appeal for a fundraiser, to fight the battle against Coronavirus, through the non-profit company RIGHT (Research Institute for Genetic and Human Therapy or Research Institute for Human Gene Therapy) which has based in the USA and Italy. RIGHT has direct access to the laboratories and a direct link with ViroStatics. For further information on the campaign, see www.rightinstitute.net.
Industree Communication Hub, in this moment of difficulty where the importance of communication is fundamental, wants to offer a concrete contribution, making its expertise available to the world of medical, pharmaceutical and scientific research, with the aim of helping companies to connect with the media in the most effective, rapid and at the same time consistent manner with the period of health crisis.