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JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED

#29: Racing To Cure COVID-19 with Dr. Jacob Glanville

JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED

Jayson Waller

Business, Entrepreneurship, Society & Culture

4.4649 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It was wild timing for Dr. Jacob Glanville to be featured in the Netflix docuseries “Pandemic” precisely as the coronavirus spread in China in January. Even more interesting is that Glanville thinks he and his biotech company can win the race in bringing COVID-19 to its knees. True Underdog Jayson Waller and co-host John LeBlanc discover why Glanville is pursuing antibody treatments instead of a vaccine, and learn what Glanville’s forecast is for the cure.

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0:00.0

True underdog.

0:03.3

True underdog, unleash the power within.

0:06.4

True underdog, unleash the power within.

0:10.9

We have got an episode today that is going to be epic.

0:14.8

We have Dr. Jacob Glenville as our guest and our co-host, John LeBlanc.

0:19.9

How are you doing, Dr. Jacob Glenville?

0:22.0

I'm doing great, Jason. Thanks for having me on. And John, how are you doing? Doing fantastic.

0:26.4

Excited to be here. So John's in Michigan. He's really excited about this show for all the listeners

0:31.0

and viewers out there. You guys are definitely in for a treat. But Dr. Glenville, let's introduce

0:36.1

yourself. Tell us who you are,

0:38.1

what you've been working on, and where you're at right now. Sure. So, yeah, I'm Jake Glanville.

0:42.7

I'm the founder, CEO, and president of distributed bio. Also, the spentout we're creating

0:49.3

called Centivax. We have been working since 2012 when I launched the company with two friends

0:56.3

to develop new antibody-based therapeutics. These are broad spectrum vaccines and engineered

1:03.0

antibodies that do a better job than our bodies would do at fighting pathogens, which conveniently

1:08.1

means this year we are applying our technologies to the novel coronavirus.

1:11.6

So we're spinning out Cinevacs, which is holding that new therapeutic.

1:14.6

We just had multiple national laboratories confirm that that anybody is super potent at neutralizing viruses.

1:21.6

But then also the really exciting thing is that it protects hamsters from getting coronavirus.

1:25.6

So if a hamster gets our anybody, it's chilling. And so right now we're now moving that forward. We're happy to report that hamsters no longer have to worry about the coronavirus, and for them the process is over. But the exciting thing, of course, is humans, and that's what we're moving towards next. That is so cool. And I know that you're on the Netflix show pandemic, correct? Yeah, that was pretty crazy.

1:44.8

John and I were just talking about that.

1:46.5

So last year, Netflix followed us around for about seven months while we were working on our

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