Veru is all set to advance its drug, VERU-111, into a Phase III registration clinical study in hospitalised high-risk Covid-19 patients on obtaining clinically meaningful benefits in a Phase II clinical trial.
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The latest development comes after a meeting with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which agreed that clinical data from Phase III was promising.
Veru chairman, president and CEO Mitchell Steiner said: “FDA was extremely collaborative and thought that the clinical data from the Phase II were promising and suggest a potential clinically meaningful benefit for the use of VERU-111 in hospitalised high-risk Covid-19 patients.
“Also, the FDA agreed that VERU-111 warrants further development in a Phase III programme. We have the resources to conduct a Phase III trial without impacting our cancer drugs’ clinical development.”
The Phase III clinical registration trial will analyse daily oral doses of VERU-111 as compared with placebo in 400 hospitalised Covid-19 patients at high risk for ARDS.
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By GlobalDataParticipants will be randomised in a 2:1 ratio to receive VERU-111 (267 subjects) and placebo (133 patients), with the proportion of patients alive at day 29 being the study’s primary efficacy endpoint.
Set to begin next year, the Phase III clinical trial results are anticipated by the fourth quarter of this year.
The double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled Phase II trial enrolled 40 hospitalised Covid-19 patients at high risk for ARDS in five sites across the US.
Data showed clinically meaningful reductions in various endpoints, such as respiratory failure, patient mortality, days in the ICU and days on mechanical ventilation, on using VERU-111.
Positive Phase II clinical trial results support VERU-111’s potential for two-way action against Covid-19 as an antiviral, as well as an anti-inflammatory agent.
