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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2025
Scientists hail new Israeli Covid drug as 'huge breakthrough'

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TBS Report
06 February, 2021, 08:30 pm
Last modified: 06 February, 2021, 08:32 pm

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Scientists hail new Israeli Covid drug as 'huge breakthrough'

The treatment was administered to 30 coronavirus patients whose conditions ranged from mild to serious

TBS Report
06 February, 2021, 08:30 pm
Last modified: 06 February, 2021, 08:32 pm
Medical teams celebrate before receiving coronavirus vaccines as Israel kicks off its coronavirus vaccination drive, at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
Medical teams celebrate before receiving coronavirus vaccines as Israel kicks off its coronavirus vaccination drive, at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Scientists have hailed a new coronavirus drug that successfully treated 30 cases of the disease in Israeli hospital patients as a 'massive breakthrough'.

The substance EXO-CD24 was developed at the Ichilov Medical Centre in Tel Aviv and its first phase of clinical trials was successfully completed on Friday.

The treatment was administered to 30 coronavirus patients whose conditions ranged from mild to serious, reports The Telegraph.

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Over the next three to five days, twenty-nine of the patients were then released from the hospital, while one patient took slightly longer to recover.

Exosomes in the drug carry a protein known as CD24 to the lungs, which helps to rebalance the immune system and stop it from overreacting to the virus.

Professor Nadir Arber originally designed EXO-CD24, which is breathed in as a gas and taken once every five days, in order to treat patients who had ovarian cancer.

"Even if the vaccines do their job, and even if there aren't any new mutations, one way or another, the coronavirus will be staying with us," Prof Arber told the news site Arutz Sheva.

"That's why we developed this special medication. It's been about half a year from the time the idea was hatched to the first human trials [being] conducted."

Roni Gamzu, the director of the Ichilov Medical Centre, said that the research during phase one of the trial was "advanced and sophisticated and may save coronavirus patients".

Speaking to the Times of Israel, he said: "The results of the phase one trials are excellent, and all give us confidence in the method Arber has been researching in his lab for many years."

No placebo was used in the first stage of the trial, and the next phase of the clinical trials will continue to examine the effects and efficacy of the treatment.

The drug Allocetra, which has been developed at the Hadassah Medical Centre, has also reported promising results in the second stage of its clinical trial.

Israel announced yesterday that it will ease lockdown restrictions but keep its borders closed after a drop in its number of coronavirus cases.

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