Galveston National Laboratory finds promise in oral anti-virus drug
The Galveston County Daily News, Jan. 31, 2025
UTMB researchers identified a potential new treatment for Marburg virus, the Daily News reports. In a study published in Nature Medicine, UTMB’s scientists showed that the oral drug Obeldesivir “was associated with a survival rate of 80 percent” in nonhuman primates. “This is one of those things where you can hopefully really head off or deal with an outbreak, or better control it, if you can give a pill or a tablet that somebody can take,” Dr. Thomas Geisbert tells the Daily News.