Fighting against covid-19: the Chinese scientific community is taking action

On February 17, science and Technology Daily reported the following contents comprehensively: China has launched novel coronavirus pneumonia novel coronavirus technology response in the fight against the new coronavirus pneumonia There are four batches of 20 emergency projects in total, and actively recommend two major scientific and technological projects of major new drug development and major infectious disease prevention and control as well as a series of national key R & D plans, and the scientific and technological achievements have been used in the first line of epidemic prevention and control In terms of drug screening, the first-line personnel of different research teams cooperated with the existing research foundation to systematically and massively screen the drugs that have been on the market and are undergoing clinical trials, and found potential effective drugs such as chloroquine phosphate, rendisivir, and fabiravir In recent days, many clinical trials have been urgently promoted, and the results show that the efficacy of the drugs for patients is gradually showing Based on the research and development level and early accumulation in the field of cell therapy, traditional Chinese medicine and plasma therapy in China, under the organization of joint prevention and control research team, the clinical trials of three therapies are gradually carried out, playing an important role in improving the patients with critical and severe diseases In order to provide a more cutting-edge and effective response plan for the use of stem cell therapy technology, the leaders of the Ministry of science and technology went to the Institute of stem cell and regenerative medicine innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to actively investigate The new cell medicine of castem independently developed by the hospital has made great progress in the experiment of treating severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the early stage The team has applied to the Drug Administration for emergency approval, cooperated with the relevant medical institutions, approved by the ethics committee, and is conducting clinical observation and evaluation Novel coronavirus infection in the integrative medicine was officially launched in February 3rd in the field of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, which is supported by the Ministry of science and technology Novel coronavirus pneumonia, the principal of the project, said Zhang Boli, President of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine On February 6, the first batch of 23 patients in Hubei Province Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital and Wuhan traditional Chinese medicine hospital were cured and discharged after treatment with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.