Around the world, researchers are working extremely hard to develop new treatments and interventions for COVID-19 with new clinical trials opening nearly every day. This directory provides you with information, including enrollment detail, about these trials. In some cases, researchers are able to offer expanded access (sometimes called compassionate use) to an investigational drug when a patient cannot participate in a clinical trial.
The information provided here is drawn from ClinicalTrials.gov. If you do not find a satisfactory expanded access program here, please search in our COVID Company Directory. Some companies consider expanded access requests for single patients, even if they do not show an active expanded access listing in this database. Please contact the company directly to explore the possibility of expanded access.
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To learn how to apply for expanded access, please visit our Guides designed to walk healthcare providers, patients and/or caregivers through the process of applying for expanded access. Please note that given the situation with COVID-19 and the need to move as fast as possible, many physicians are requesting expanded access for emergency use. In these cases, FDA will authorize treatment by telephone and treatment can start immediately. For more details, consult FDA guidance. Emergency IND is the common route that patients are receiving convalescent plasma.
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Displaying 40 of 277Johns Hopkins University
Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) is a devastating viral illness that originated in Wuhan China in late 2019 and there are nearly 2 million confirmed cases. The mortality rate is approximately 5% of reported cases and over half of patients that require mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure. As the disease continues to spread, strategies for reducing duration of ventilator support in patients with COVID-19 could significantly reduce morbidity and mortality of these individuals and future patients requiring this severely limited life-saving resource. Methods to improve gas exchange and to reduce the inflammatory response in COVID-19 are desperately needed to save lives. The ketogenic diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate, adequate-protein diet that promotes metabolic ketosis (ketone body production) through hepatic metabolism of fatty acids. High fat, low carbohydrate diets have been shown to reduce duration of ventilator support and partial pressure carbon dioxide in patients with acute respiratory failure. In addition, metabolic ketosis reduces systemic inflammation. This mechanism could be leveraged to halt the cytokine storm characteristic of COVID-19 infection. The hypothesis of this study is that the administration of a ketogenic diet will improve gas exchange, reduce inflammation, and duration of mechanical ventilation. The plan is to enroll 15 intubated patients with COVID 19 infection and administer a 4:1 ketogenic formula during their intubation.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
This phase III trial compares the effect of adding tocilizumab to standard of care versus standard of care alone in treating cytokine release syndrome (CRS) in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. CRS is a potentially serious disorder caused by the release of an excessive amount of substance that is made by cells of the immune system (cytokines) as a response to viral infection. Tocilizumab is used to decrease the body's immune response. Adding tocilizumab to standard of care may work better in treating CRS in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to standard of care alone.
University Medical Center Groningen
Rationale: The investigators hypothesize that genetics and the nasal epithelial response to SARS-CoV2 are critical determinants of the immune response to viral infection, and predict clinical outcome in COVID-19 patients. Objective: The main objective is to assess whether genetic background and/or the nasal epithelial gene expression in response to SARS-CoV2 is different in patients with mild, severe or very severe disease. The secondary goal of this study is to investigate a) the role of the ACE2-AngII system during SARS-CoV2 in relation to outcome b) the long-term consequences of mild, severe, and very severe COVID-19 infection c) the association between mild, severe and very severe COVID-19 with clinical & molecular markers of disease progression d) whether the faeces microbiome, virome or metabolomics profile predicts clinical outcome in COVID-19 patients and e) to investigate whether pre-existing antibodies towards other coronaviruses play a role in severe disease development. Study design: Prospective open label clinical observational study. In this study samples will be collected from 150 COVI-19 patients ( 50 mild (group 1), 50 severe (group 2) and 50 very severe (group 3) ). Blood, nasal brushes and stool will be collected for all groups at hospital admission and 3 months after recovery, and for groups 2 & 3 at day 3, at day 14, and before detubation Study population: A total of 150 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 will be included. The investigators aim for 50 patients per group, divided over 3 groups: Group 1 Patients with mild disease who tested positively for SARS-CoV2 infection, but only experience mild symptoms and do not need hospitalization. Group 2 Patients with severe disease admitted to hospital, without the need to be admitted to the intensive care. Group 3 Patients with very severe disease admitted to intensive care, who require mechanical ventilation. Main study parameters/endpoints: The primary endpoint of this study is the identification of genes, pathways and cell populations that associate with clinical outcome and disease progression in mild, severe and very severe COVID-19 patients.
University Hospital, Tours
To date, there is no efficient therapeutics to prevent or treat COVID-19 related pulmonary failure. Corticosteroids (CS) could be a helpful therapeutic. Retrospective reports suggested survival improvement in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). CT scan for COVID19 hospitalized patients showed sometimes unusual aspects of pneumonia, suggestive of an organizing phase of diffuse alveolar damage (DAD). We hypothesize that, in the context of alveolar aggression induced by COVID-19, CT scan could help to individualize patients with a high probability of pulmonary organizing process who could benefit from CS treatment.
University of Colorado, Denver
This trial will determine the safety and estimate efficacy of targeted corticosteroids in mechanically ventilated patients with the hyper-inflammatory sub phenotype of ARDS due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by implementing a Phase 2A clinical trial.
University of Cape Town
Clinical manifestations of Covid-19 are poorly characterised in HIV co-infection, which may predispose to more severe disease. Reducing hospitalisation and severe illness in this population has important individual and public health benefits. The investigators propose a pragmatic multi-centre, randomized controlled trial in South Africa to evaluate the efficacy and safety of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to prevent progression of disease and hospitalisation amongst HIV-positive people with Covid-19 not requiring hospitalisation at initial assessment.
4D pharma plc
This is a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of MRx-4DP0004 in patients with COVID-19. 90 hospitalised patients will be enrolled and randomised (2:1) to receive MRx-4DP0004 or placebo for up to 14 days. MRx-4DP0004 is an immunomodulating Live Biotherapeutic Product (LBP) which is expected to prevent or reduce the hyperinflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 infection without impairing viral clearance.
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
The objectives of PROVIDE are to: 1. Determine if prophylactic once weekly hydroxychloroquine reduces the incidence of conversion from SARS-2-CoVnasopharyngeal swab negative to positive 2. To determine if weekly prophylactic hydroxychloroquine reduced the severity of COVID-19 symptoms 3. To determine the safety of taking weekly prophylactic hydroxychloroquine
I-site University Lille North Europe
No optimal antiviral intervention has been yet validated to treat COVID-19 disease. Comorbidities, such as older age, obesity, diabetes, history of cardiovascular diseases are associated with poor prognosis. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of two experimental antiviral treatments, compared to standard of care (SOC), to prevent clinical worsening, hospitalization or death at day 14 in adults with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection, asymptomatic or with symptoms lasting less than 8 days, and associated comorbidities without any severity criteria of the disease at inclusion. Participants will be randomized to receive SOC alone or SOC + hydroxychloroquine 200 mg three times a day during 10 days or SOC + association of niclosamide 2 g at J1 then 500 mg two times a day with diltiazem 60 mg three times a day during 10 days. Efficacy and tolerance of each treatments will be compared across the three treatment groups during the 28 days of follow-up.
Walter K. Kraft
This is a double-blinded, two-arm, randomized, placebo controlled study comparing the virological efficacy of add-on sirolimus with standard care to placebo and standard care. Virological efficacy is defined as the change from baseline to day 7 in SARS-CoV-2 viral burden measured by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction.