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.
Emergency INDs
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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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.
Incyte Corporation
This was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 29-day, multicenter study to assess the efficacy and safety of ruxolitinib + standard-of-care (SoC) therapy, compared with placebo + SoC therapy, in patients aged ≥12 years with COVID-19 disease.
University College, London
An open-label, randomised, Best-Available-Care (BAC) and historic-controlled trial of nebulised dornase alfa [2.5 mg BID] for 7 days in participants with COVID-19 who are admitted to hospital and are at risk of ventilatory failure (the COVASE study). Controls will include a randomised arm to receive BAC, historic data from UCLH patients with COVID-19 and biobanked samples will be used to demonstrate an effect of dornase alfa. CRP will be measured to assess the effect of dornase alfa on inflammation. Clinical endpoints and biomarkers (e.g. d-dimer) will be used to assess the clinical response. Exploratory endpoints will explore the effects of dornase alfa on features of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs).
Unity Health Toronto
Coagulopathy of COVID-19 afflicts approximately 20% of patients with severe COVID-19 and is associated with need for critical care and death. COVID-19 coagulopathy is characterized by elevated D-dimer, an indicator of fibrin formation and clot lysis, and a mildly prolonged prothrombin time, suggestive of coagulation consumption. To date, it seems that COVID-19 coagulopathy manifests with thromboembolism, thus anticoagulation may be of benefit. We propose to conduct a parallel pragmatic multi-centre open-label randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of therapeutic anticoagulation compared to standard care in hospitalized patients admitted for COVID-19 with an elevated D-dimer.
Philipps University Marburg Medical Center
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ruxolitinib in the treatment of patients with COVID-19 severe pneumonia.
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
For limiting COVID-19 spreading, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended worldwide confinement on 2010. In France, unessential institutions were closed on March 14th and population confinement was decided on March 17th. Quarantine and/or confinement could lead to psychological effects such as confusion, suicide ideation, post-traumatic stress symptoms or anger COVID-19 outbreak highlighted a considerable proportion of health care workers (HCW) with depression, insomnia, anxiety and distress symptoms. In front line, facing the virus with the fear of contracting it and contaminate their closest. During previous outbreaks (H1N1, SARS), HCWs have been shown to experience such negative psychological effects of confinement as well as work avoidance behaviour and physical interaction reduction with infected patients (4-7). In France, Covid 19 outbeak led to increase ICU bed capacity with a full reorganization of the human resources. Some caregivers were reassigned to newly setup units admitting or not Covid-19 patients. In the same time, non-caregivers were also encouraged to work at home whenever possible. Thus, every hospital staff member's private and professional life could be altered by the Covid-19 outbreak. As all these changes in the daily life could induce psychological disturbances, the present study was aimed at assessing the acute anxiety level (main objective) of the staff in our Tertiary University Hospital, (6300 employees). Secondarily, the self-reported insomnia, pain, catastrophism and work avoidance behaviour levels were assessed
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
This study aims to determine if provider-recommended guidance on supine (on back) vs. prone (on stomach) positioning of patients testing positive for COVID-19 requiring supplemental oxygen, but not yet mechanically ventilated, improves outcomes in the inpatient setting. This study will be performed as a pragmatic clinical trial.
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.
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a major public health issue. Researchers want to collect plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19, and use this plasma to treat people who are sick with the disease. The plasma will have antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19. Persons who have received a COVID-19 vaccine may also donate plasma that contains antibodies against the virus if they meet criteria according to the FDA. Objective: To collect plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 or have been vaccinated against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, so that the plasma can be used to treat people with the disease. Eligibility: Adults ages 18 and older who have been diagnosed with, and have recovered from, COVID-19. Design: Participants will be screened with a physical exam, medical history, and blood sample. Their pulse, blood pressure, and temperature will be taken. Their height and weight will be recorded. Participants will donate plasma. It will be collected through whole blood donation or through apheresis. For whole blood donation, a needle will be placed in the participant s arm vein. Blood will be withdrawn. For apheresis, a needle will be placed in the participant s arm vein. Blood will be withdrawn. A machine will separate the plasma from the red cells. The plasma will be removed, and the rest of the cells will be returned to the participant either through the same needle or through a needle in their other arm. Participants will have 3 to 20 plasma donations. Participation will last up to 3 years.