CETF's work featured on 60 Minutes

On Sunday, March 7th, 60 Minutes featured CETF in a story about using Fluvoxamine as an early treatment for COVID-19.
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See our work featured this Sunday on 60 Minutes

The shortest path to getting life back to normal now is with early treatment

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See our work featured this Sunday on 60 Minutes

The shortest path to getting life back to normal now is with early treatment

Two women talking and holding a beer mug
A afro american family hugging each other
friends smiling and talking in the middle of the crowd
A baseball fans watching the game in a stadium
a top view from a dinner table. people passing a plate of fruits to each other.
The Problem

Nearly all funded clinical trials today are focused on slow or ineffective solutions

1

New drugs/vaccines take a long time to develop and an even longer time to distribute. Some experts predict it will take many countries seven years to vaccinate 75% of their populations.

2

Repurposing existing drugs is much faster. Unfortunately, nearly all clinical trials of repurposed drugs have been conducted via inpatient trials

  • These require participants to be hospitalized before joining the trial

  • Viruses respond best when treated early, not late.

3

As a result, inpatient trials have had limited success because patients receive treatments too late

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Our Solution

Identify early treatments by funding outpatient clinical trials of the most promising existing drugs

Clinical trials ›

Promising Drugs

Learn about promising early treatment drugs such as Fluvoxamine, and the exciting clinical trial results
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Who we are

We are a team of the world’s top scientists, doctors, technologists and philanthropists working, to identify meaningful treatments for COVID-19, that could be used ASAP

Professor of cell biology; virologist and coronavirus expert at Johns Hopkins University
Carolyn Machamer, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Professor of cell biology; virologist and coronavirus expert at Johns Hopkins University
Physician-scientist; HIV clinical trials expert, Harvard Medical School
Raj Gandhi, M.D.
Harvard University
Physician-scientist; HIV clinical trials expert, Harvard Medical School
Full scientific advisory board ›

Who We Are

We are a team of the world’s top scientists, doctors, technologists and philanthropists working, to identify meaningful treatments for COVID-19, that could be used ASAP. Our hand-picked scientific advisory board reviews each credible grant proposal.

full scientific advisory board ›
Robert Siliciano
Immunologist/virologist working on HIV at Johns Hopkins
Carolyn Machamer
Virologist and coronavirus expert at Johns Hopkins
Stephen Desiderio
Professor Emeritus, Immunology and molecular biology, John Hopkins
Richard Whitley
Associate director for drug discovery and development, University of Alabama
Rich D'Aquila
HIV virology and clinical infectious disease expert at Northwestern
Raj Gandhi
Physician scientist, HIV clinical trials expert at Harvard

What medical experts are saying

“I strongly support the work CETF is doing. Testing the top antiviral drugs must be our #1 priority. It is critical to raise funds to enable this testing to take place as soon as possible.”

Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD

Pulitzer Prize winning author
Researcher & Physician
Columbia University

"It's invigorating to see that CETF is working to fund COVID-19 research in a rapid and collaborative manner and focusing their resources on strategies that are likely to have the greatest immediate impact."

Chetan Bettegowda

Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

"We agree with CETF that preventative approaches have the best chance of alleviating suffering and death from COVID-19 and commend them for supporting these much needed lines of investigation."

Bert Vogelstein

Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

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