Urgent needs to accelerate the race for COVID-19 therapeutics

• Carolina Batista,
• Shmuel Shoham,
• Onder Ergonul,
• Peter Hotez,
• Maria Elena Bottazzi,
• J. Peter Figueroa,
• Sarah Gilbert,
• Mayda Gursel,
• Mazen Hassanain,
• Gagandeep Kang,
• David Kaslow,
• Jerome H Kim,
• Bhavna Lall,
• Heidi Larson,
• Denise Naniche,
• Timothy Sheahan,
• Annelies Wilder-Smith,
• Samba O. Sow,
• Prashant Yadav,
• Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft

Affiliations

Carolina Batista

Médecins Sans Frontières, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Corresponding Author:

Shmuel Shoham

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Onder Ergonul

Koc University Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey

Peter Hotez

Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

J. Peter Figueroa

University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

Sarah Gilbert

Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Mayda Gursel

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Mazen Hassanain

College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Gagandeep Kang

Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

David Kaslow

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) Essential Medicines, PATH Seattle, WA, USA

Jerome H Kim

International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Bhavna Lall

University of Houston College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Heidi Larson

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Denise Naniche

ISGlobal-Barcelona Institute for Global Health-Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Spain

Timothy Sheahan

University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Annelies Wilder-Smith

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Samba O. Sow

Center for Vaccine Development, Bamako, Mali; University of Maryland, MD, USA

Prashant Yadav

Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Affiliate Professor, Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD

Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft

Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland