{"id":134960,"date":"2020-08-26T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=134960&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-08-26T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:37:30","slug":"fukuoka-pref-and-bio-venture-ahead-of-schedule-for-clinical-testing-of-corona-remedy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-pref-and-bio-venture-ahead-of-schedule-for-clinical-testing-of-corona-remedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Pref and Bio-venture Ahead of Schedule for Clinical Testing of Corona Remedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture will conduct clinical trials for the drug development to fight COVID-19 as early as October 2021. The prefectural governor, Hiroshi Ogawa, told a press conference on Aug. 25 that the co-research project with Bonac Corporation has already narrowed down drug candidates. The program is seven months ahead of the original schedule, and also aims to step up an expanded clinical trial during 2022. <strong>Sources: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=5046473&amp;ymd=2020-08-25\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20200825\/5010009156.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134961\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fukuoka-venture.jpg?resize=1400%2C747&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fukuoka-venture.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fukuoka-venture.jpg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fukuoka-venture.jpg?resize=1024%2C546&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fukuoka-venture.jpg?resize=768%2C410&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Prefecture will conduct clinical trials for the drug development to fight COVID-19 as early as October 2021. The prefectural governor, Hiroshi Ogawa, told a press conference on Aug. 25 that the co-research project with Bonac Corporation has already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":134961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-134960","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","location-kurume","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/134960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}