{"id":149840,"date":"2022-11-10T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=149840&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:33:32","slug":"kyudai-develops-multi-variant-covid-treatment-candidate","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyudai-develops-multi-variant-covid-treatment-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyudai Develops Multi-variant COVID Treatment Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A group of researchers at Kyushu University developed a covalent drug, YH-6, to help treat COVID-19. Professor Akio Ojida and his team succeeded in reducing the activity of an enzyme protein that supports in-body coronavirus multiplication. The discovery was published in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jmedchem.2c01081\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Medicinal Chemistry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and further research will be made to seek regulatory approval for YH-6. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phar.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/topics\/view.php?S_Publ_Year=&amp;word=&amp;page=1&amp;B_Code=633\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pharmaceutical Sciences Kyushu University<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147003\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fnn_kyudai-campus_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\" Kyudai Develops Multi-variant COVID Treatment Candidate\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fnn_kyudai-campus_2022_WEB.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fnn_kyudai-campus_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fnn_kyudai-campus_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fnn_kyudai-campus_2022_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English regularly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. Opt out at any time and privacy is protected. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get the \u201cNow\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disclaimer: These summaries are from publicly posted contents. Errors might occur during translation. Images are sourced independently for illustrative purposes and credited appropriately. Use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback or ask for edits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of researchers at Kyushu University developed a covalent drug, YH-6, to help treat COVID-19. Professor Akio Ojida and his team succeeded in reducing the activity of an enzyme protein that supports in-body coronavirus multiplication&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":147004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-149840","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-technology","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/149840","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=149840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}