ifenprodil – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:16:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png ifenprodil – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 Tapeworm, Vertigo and Pancreatitis Drugs Are Being Trialled As COVID-19 Treatments https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/algernon-pharmaceuticals-covid19-ifenprodil-therapy/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/algernon-pharmaceuticals-covid19-ifenprodil-therapy/ Included in this news roundup is UF startup Algernon Pharmaceuticals’s trials with ifenprodil, a drug used to treat vertigo and bird flu. Algernon is testing the drug’s efficacy in preventing lung damage and increasing survivability in patients with COVID-19.

Vaccines help prevent us getting sick with COVID-19, but treatments help us get better if we do. To that end, a number of doctors and patients are at the forefront of global efforts to develop those treatments.

This article looks at a number of existing drugs approved for specific diseases and conditions that are in clinical trials for use as a COVID-19 therapeutic.

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