SPI-1005 Treatment in Severe COVID-19 Patients

Summary

The study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose escalation, multi-center clinical trial (RCT) of SPI-1005 in adult subjects with positive PCR test for novel SARS-CoV-2 (nCoV2) and severe symptoms of COVID-19 disease.

Timeline

Start

2021-08-27

Primary completion

2023-05-05

Completion

2023-06-06

Publications

• Background Jin Z, Du X, Xu Y, Deng Y, Liu M, Zhao Y, Zhang B, Li X, Zhang L, Peng C, Duan Y, Yu J, Wang L, Yang K, Liu F, Jiang R, Yang X, You T, Liu X, Yang X, Bai F, Liu H, Liu X, Guddat LW, Xu W, Xiao G, Qin C, Shi Z, Jiang H, Rao Z, Yang H. Structure of Mpro from SARS-CoV-2 and discovery of its inhibitors. Nature. 2020 Jun;582(7811):289-293. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2223-y. Epub 2020 Apr 9.
• Background Menendez CA, Bylehn F, Perez-Lemus GR, Alvarado W, de Pablo JJ. Molecular characterization of ebselen binding activity to SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Sci Adv. 2020 Sep 11;6(37):eabd0345. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd0345. Print 2020 Sep.
• Background Weglarz-Tomczak E, Tomczak JM, Talma M, Burda-Grabowska M, Giurg M, Brul S. Identification of ebselen and its analogues as potent covalent inhibitors of papain-like protease from SARS-CoV-2. Sci Rep. 2021 Feb 11;11(1):3640. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83229-6.
• Background Brown AS, Ackerley DF, Calcott MJ. High-Throughput Screening for Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 Protease Using a FRET-Biosensor. Molecules. 2020 Oct 13;25(20):4666. doi: 10.3390/molecules25204666.
• Background Haritha CV, Sharun K, Jose B. Ebselen, a new candidate therapeutic against SARS-CoV-2. Int J Surg. 2020 Dec;84:53-56. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.10.018. Epub 2020 Oct 23. No abstract available.
• Background Chen T, Fei CY, Chen YP, Sargsyan K, Chang CP, Yuan HS, Lim C. Synergistic Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Replication Using Disulfiram/Ebselen and Remdesivir. ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci. 2021 Mar 26;4(2):898-907. doi: 10.1021/acsptsci.1c00022. eCollection 2021 Apr 9.
• Background Sies H, Parnham MJ. Potential therapeutic use of ebselen for COVID-19 and other respiratory viral infections. Free Radic Biol Med. 2020 Aug 20;156:107-112. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2020.06.032. Epub 2020 Jun 26.

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