Virios Therapeutics, Inc.

Virios Therapeutics, Inc. is a development-stage biotechnology company. The Company is focused on advancing novel antiviral therapies to treat diseases associated with a viral triggered abnormal immune response such as fibromyalgia (FM) and Long-COVID (LC). Its lead candidate, IMC-1, is a novel, proprietary, fixed dose combination of famciclovir and celecoxib. IMC-1 represents a novel combination, dual mechanism antiviral therapy designed to synergistically suppress herpes virus activation and replication, with the end goal of reducing viral mediated disease burden. IMC-2 is a combination of valacyclovir and celecoxib that is believed to have specific activity against Epstein-Barr virus (herpesvirus HHV-4), as well as other herpesviruses. IMC-1 and IMC-2 combine two specific mechanisms of action purposely designed to inhibit herpesvirus activation and replication, thereby converting activated herpesvirus back to dormancy and/or by keeping the herpesvirus in a latent or dormant state.