--- title: Ebola: Emory Researchers Turn to Ebola Drugs description: Emory University is becoming a one stop shop for tackling Ebola. The hospital's team of biochemists at Emory University known for their work on the mechanisms of stopping viruses like HIV have successfully applied their approach to treating other viruses, and now the team is turning to Ebola. canonical: https://time.com/3544839/ebola-drug-emory/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-29T17:07:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:04:28.746Z article:section: Health og:title: Scientists Explore 10,000 Compounds for an Ebola Drug og:description: Emory University experts go looking og:url: https://time.com/3544839/ebola-drug-emory/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9d53cefe98985cf/6987633406f2c11c49331a0c/ebola-emory-cure.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: Emory Hospital To Receive American Ebola Patients From Liberia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Scientists Explore 10,000 Compounds for an Ebola Drug twitter:description: Emory University experts go looking twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9d53cefe98985cf/6987633406f2c11c49331a0c/ebola-emory-cure.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Scientists Explore 10,000 Compounds for an Ebola Drug > Sponsored content. 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Dr. Bruce Ribner an epidemiologist and professor in the School of Medicine's Infectious Diseases Division, confirms that Emory University Hospital will be receiving and treating two American patients diagnosed with Ebola virus during a press conference at Emory University Hospital on Aug. 1, 2014 in Atlanta. Jessica McGowan—Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 29, 2014 5:07 PM UTC Emory University is becoming a one-stop shop for tackling Ebola. The hospital’s infectious disease team has [already treated four patients with Ebola](http://time.com/3543985/ebola-amber-vinson-dallas-emory/), and now a team of biochemists known for their work on HIV wants to take on Ebola. Scientists at Emory’s Children’s [Center for Drug Discovery](http://www.pedsresearch.org/centers/detail/drug%5Fdiscovery) have extensively studied the development of drugs for HIV that stop the replication of the virus in the body. The center provided breakthroughs for HIV drug development and, more recently, [the development of a drug for Hepatitis C](http://wabe.org/post/drug-linked-hepatitis-c-cure-has-atlanta-tie). The viruses, though different, have similar replicating mechanisms (viral RNA replication), and now they think they can do it for Ebola. The team, led by director Baek Kim, is fast-tracking a program to screen a library of over 10,000 chemical compounds that can treat viruses at the molecular level to see if one or more of them may show promise with Ebola. “We need to start screening many, many compounds,” says Kim, anywhere from 500 to 10,000 of them—each of which will be evaluated one by one. Emory chemist Raymond F. Schinazi, who discovered compounds used in multiple very successful anti-HIV drugs, will be working with five to 10 virologists, chemists and biochemists to get the job done. And if a compound that can treat Ebola is identified and tested on a live virus in a lab, the next step would be to get that compound into a drug of some kind, and then test it in a clinical trial in West Africa. And while there are ongoing trials in the works for an Ebola vaccine and industry and scientists are [racing to find drugs that can treat the virus](http://time.com/3544024/ebola-tests-fast-tracked-by-fda/), Kim’s team and [several other research groups nationwide](http://time.com/3481378/ebola-emerging-diseases/) have been eyeing emerging and re-emerging diseases for years. “It’s good to recognize that scientists are the only ones who can initiate solving this problem,” says Kim. “Other pathogens will emerge and re-emerge one day or another, and this is a good exercise in how academics, government and industry can work together toward a single target when we need a fast response.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3544839/ebola-drug-emory/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3544839/ebola-drug-emory/"},"headline":"Scientists Explore 10,000 Compounds for an Ebola Drug","datePublished":"2014-10-29T17:07:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:04:28.746Z","description":"\"Scientists are the only ones who can initiate solving this problem\"","url":"https://time.com/3544839/ebola-drug-emory/","keywords":["Sierra Leone","ebola","Guinea","Liberia","West Africa","ebola vaccine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9d53cefe98985cf/6987633406f2c11c49331a0c/ebola-emory-cure.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9d53cefe98985cf/6987633406f2c11c49331a0c/ebola-emory-cure.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Emory Hospital To Receive American Ebola Patients From Liberia","caption":"Emory Hospital To Receive American Ebola Patients From Liberia","creditText":"Jessica McGowan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3544839/ebola-drug-emory/","name":"Scientists Explore 10,000 Compounds for an Ebola Drug"}}]}] ```