IDI CAPA-CT II Partners-UNITO Publish Method Quantifying Experimental COVID-19 Drug in Blood Samples

Samples collected from IDI staff who are at the frontline of the fight against COVID-19 on 2nd June 2020, IDI-MKC, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda.

University of Turin (UNITO) investigators, partners on the Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)-led consortium CAPA-CT II, are the first to openly publish a method for quantifying remdesivir in blood. Remdesivir has recently received authorisation for emergency use in the US and European Union for patients with severe forms of COVID-19.