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A team of the UB describes the action mechanism of a drug which inhibits influenza A virus

News | 14-12-2016

A research team of the University of Barcelona has identified the action mechanism of amantadine –an antiviral drug- to block the M2 channel and stop the viral infection process. The new study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is carried out by a team supervised by the professors F. Javier Luque and Santiago Vázquez, together with Salomé Llabrés and Jordi Juárez-Jiménez, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and The Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB).

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