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IMAGE: Sumit Chanda, co-senior study author and director of the Immunity and Pathogenesis Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys. view more
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Nature study authored by scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and the University of Hong Kong shows that the leprosy drug clofazimine, which is FDA approved and on the World Health Organization s List of Essential Medicines, exhibits potent antiviral activities against SARS-CoV-2 and prevents the exaggerated inflammatory response associated with severe COVID-19. Based on these findings, a Phase 2 study evaluating clofazimine as an at-home treatment for COVID-19 could begin immediately.
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March 12, 2021
UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News.
On a cold Tuesday evening in January, Blanca Lopez and her son Criztiaan Juarez drove from their home in Glendale to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center… Five months earlier, she had nearly died of COVID-19, and an ambulance, following the same route she drove today, took her to UCLA. (UCLA’s Susan Valentine, Dr. Peymon Benharash and Dr. Vadim Gudenzko were quoted. Valentine, Gudenzko, Beharash and UCLA’s Cathy Levenstein were quoted in an accompanying Los Angeles Times article.)
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Cement production makes up eight percent of man-made carbon emissions. But a new technology developed by the University of California, Los Angeles might change that.
Iman Mehdipour, UCLA project scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering, was part of a team that developed CO2Concrete. That technology uses flue gas from power plants to make cement, which is the biggest component in concrete. We utilize the carbon dioxide permanently and directly. We converted the carbon dioxide into some solid minerals. We inject it into the construction materials, he said. We were able to reduce the cement.