28-10-2020 | 11:18 AM
CUReD Website Launched by the Union Health Minister
Context
On October 20, the Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched an online portal. The portal will provide a detailed information about the numerous COVID-19 clinical trials that the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research is engaged in collaboration with the Industry, ministries and other government departments.
Highlights
The website launched by Dr. Harsh Vardhan has been named as ‘CSIR Ushered Repurposed Drugs or ‘CUReD’.
CUReD is a website that provides information on CSIR Partnered Clinical Trials.
The website provides information about the drugs, diagnostics and devices along with the current stage of the trials, partnering institutions and their role in the trials and other details.
The website can be accessed at https://www.iiim.res.in/cured/ or http://db.iiim.res.in/ct/index.php.
These two online portals hosted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will act as a repository for all information related to vaccine development in India.
For the potential treatment of COVID-19, CSIR is exploring several combination clinical trials of anti-virals with host-directed therapies.
CSIR also works for clinical trials of AYUSH drugs with the Ministry of AYUSH and has undertaken safety and efficacy trials of AYUSH prophylactics and therapeutics based on individual plant-based compounds and in combination.
Five clinical trials involving Withaniasomnifera, Tinosporacordifolia and Piper longum (in combination), Glycyrrhizaglabra, Tinosporacordifolia and Adhatodavasica (individually and in combination) and AYUSH-64 formulation are undergoing safety and efficacy trials.
Sepsivac (Mw) against COVID -19 in collaboration with Cadila is a key clinical trial of CSIR.
The phase two clinical trial has been completed successfully on critically ill COVID-19 patients, and more extensive Phase three trial is on the anvil.
The Phase two trial of phytopharmaceutical AQCH on Covid-19 patients with Sun Pharma and DBT is also underway.
Along with clinical trials of repurposed drugs and vaccines, CSIR has been involved in clinical trials of diagnostics and devices.
