Pardes Biosciences Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel oral-antiviral therapeutics to improve the lives of patients suffering from life-threatening disease, starting with the lead product candidate, pomotrelvir (formerly known as PBI-0451), which is in clinical development and intended to treat COVID-19 in adult and pediatric patients. COVID-19 is caused by infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Pomotrelvir inhibits the main coronaviral cysteine protease, a viral protein essential for the replication of all known coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
