Our Work
Currently there are relatively few antiviral therapeutics and most with disadvantages. We have developed a new broad-spectrum antiviral approach with the potential to be effective for numerous clinical and priority viruses.
What's New
We are excited to announce that we have signed an exclusive license agreement for US patent 7566694, “Anti-Pathogen Treatments,” which is the one and only remaining active patent related to Todd Rider’s original DRACO work. This gives us an excellent IP foundation for work with our compound in the United States.
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Development of a new broad-spectrum antiviral drug
Kimer Med is a post-seed biotech start-up, located in Nelson, New Zealand, developing a new broad-spectrum antiviral drug. The compound, which we call VTose, is a derivative of DRACO, which was tested and found effective in vitro against 15 different viruses in 11 tissue types, and against Influenza H1N1 in mice.
Antivirals are an indispensible tool to deal with viral disease
The harm to human life caused by pathogenic viruses, historically and currently, is on an enormous scale. Historically, viruses such as smallpox killed hundreds of millions, perhaps over 300 million as late as the 20th century. The polio virus paralyzed over 15,000 annually. The 1918 flu pandemic killed upwards of 100 million.
Read more about our work on addressing this age old problem.
Articles
Why now? Why us? Why “VTose”? How long? How much?
There are a few questions that seem to come up with almost every extended conversation about Kimer Med and what we're doing. This isn't meant to be an investor disclosure…
Rebuttal to OpenPhilanthropy.org’s list of objections to DRACO
Will VTose® work on this virus?
With a broad-spectrum antiviral such as VTose, one of the most common questions we get is whether it will work on particular viruses. The short answer is that we won't…
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