Pardes Biosciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel therapeutics to treat and prevent viral diseases. Its lead product candidate, pomotrelvir, which targets the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Pomotrelvir is in clinical development to treat COVID-19 in adult and pediatric patients. The Company, by leveraging its knowledge of structure-based drug design, reversible covalent chemistry and viral biology, it has discovered and is developing novel product candidates with low nanomolar potency against SARS-CoV-2 and activity against all known pathogenic human coronaviruses. Its lead product candidate, pomotrelvir, inhibits the main coronaviral cysteine protease (Mpro), a viral protein essential for replication of all known coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2. Inhibiting Mpro prevents the liberation and assembly of the viral replication complex, blocking replication before it begins.