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- Patent Title: Shark VNARs for treating COVID-19
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Application No.: US17343444Application Date: 2021-06-09
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Publication No.: US11345742B1Publication Date: 2022-05-31
- Inventor: Aziz Gauhar , Cyril V. Privezentzev , Pawel Stocki , Julia Lynn Rutkowski
- Applicant: Ossianix, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US PA Philadelphia
- Assignee: Ossianix, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Ossianix, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Philadelphia
- Agency: KDB Firm PLLC
- Main IPC: C07K16/10
- IPC: C07K16/10 ; A61P31/14

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides coronavirus S1-fragment specific binding moieties comprising Type II VNAR domains, VNAR antibodies, methods of using those moieties and antibodies to treat COVID-19. In some embodiments, a VNAR antibody, originally selected from a phage display library as a VNAR clone using S1fragments from the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain, are also effective at specifically binding to and/or neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 and certain SARS-CoV-2 mutants.
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