Some Light COVID News for a change -- Name That Drug ! Not Bamlanivimab!

The Quarantine Zone
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So we can see ~ANgiogenesis Inhibitor, VIral, Monoclonal AntiBody, which is ~ANIVIMAB.

What is BAML ? Bacterial Mammalian breast tumor? Bacterial Viral doesn’t make sense to me, but what do I know?

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Obviously it’s from “sweet home AMBLBAML.”

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The prefixes have no specific meaning; they just have to distinguish the drug from other drugs.

So it was chosen for beauty and uniqueness, I guess.

(As someone who’s taken nivolumab and ipilumab, and is gonna try atezolizumab for the first time tomorrow, I really didn’t find the name all that weird!)

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Am sure that our pommie friend would make a play for:

Antivirus McVirusface

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ROTFL!

I used to make a little extra pocket change doing market research for new-drug brand names.

Those monoclonal antibodies are a whole new language all their own.