Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Volume 21 Issue 2, February 2022
https://www.nature.com/nrd/volumes/21/issues/2

Comment | 07 December 2021
Choosing drugs for UK COVID-19 treatment trials
In 2020, the UK government funded a portfolio of platform trials to develop new treatments for COVID-19. A key feature was the independent prioritization of candidate drugs with central coordination to prevent duplication, accelerating recruitment to deliver definitive trial results. A similar approach could be used for non-communicable diseases where treatment advances have been limited.
Patrick F. Chinnery, Marion Bonnet, Tao You