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Ebola research in NDM

12 March 2015

As of 11th March 2015, a Phase II clinical trial of a potential Ebola treatment is underway in Sierra Leone. The trial of the therapy, TKM-Ebola-Guinea, is being led by Professor Peter Horby. TKM-Ebola-Guinea is a synthetic small interfering RNA therapeutic designed specifically to target the strain of the Ebola virus responsible for the present outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.