Dogwood Therapeutics Inc formerly Virios Therapeutics Inc is a development-stage biotechnology company. It is focused advancing novel antiviral therapies to treat diseases associated with a viral triggered abnormal immune response, such as fibromyalgia (“FM”) and Long-COVID (“LC”). Its product candidates includes IMC-1 and IMC-2, IMC-1, is intended to synergistically suppress herpesvirus activation and replication with a more specific activity against the Epstein-Barr virus (herpesvirus HHV-4, IMC-2 is a combination of valacyclovir and celecoxib.
Virios Therapeutics and Wex Pharmaceuticals have merged in an all-stock transaction, creating Dogwood Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DWTX), focused on clinical development of Halneuron®, IMC-1, and IMC-2.