SARS-CoV-2 evolution poses a risk to vaccine and antiviral drug efficacy. Here, Gagne et al. report the development of a variant-agnostic protein, RBD-62, with enhanced ACE2 binding obtained through in vitro evolution and show that RBD-62 inhalation protects nonhuman primates against SARS-CoV-2 Delta challenge.
- Matthew Gagne
- Barbara J. Flynn
- Daniel C. Douek