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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The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of Xylitol plus Grapefruit Seed Extract (Xlear) nasal spray as an adjunct treatment of COVID-19.
Paion UK Ltd.
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic increase in the number of patients hospitalized in intensive care units for an acute respiratory failure in all countries. This situation has quickly led to massive shortage in masks, mechanical ventilation machines and common medications such as hypnotics. All countries over the world are currently experiencing a major shortage in basic hypnotic medications (propofol, midazolam) in the intensive care as well as in the operating theatre. The Principal Investigator proposes to perform a pilot study assessing the benefit-risk ratio of Remimazolam (a novel benzodiazepine with a short half-life) in the critical care units of Nantes University Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Clene Nanomedicine
This is a multi-site, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study assessing the efficacy and safety of ZnAg liquid solution in symptomatic participants with acute COVID-19 that are not hospitalized at the time of enrollment.
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic represents a major therapeutic challenge. The highly contagious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) and the long duration of the disease have led to a massive influx of patients admitted in health services and intensive care units. To current knowledge, there is no treatment yet that that can prevent infection from SARS-COV-2 virus, nor the disease progression to a severe form. Daily active smokers are rare among outpatients or hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Several arguments suggest that nicotine could be responsible for this protective effect thank to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR). Based on epidemiological data and experimental data from scientific literature, we hypothesize that nicotine could inhibit the penetration and spread of the virus and improve the management of COVID19 , particularly in hospitalized patients to prevent adverse outcomes (death, transfer to intensive care unit, care limitation, mechanical ventilation an high flow oxygen).
Debiopharm International SA
COVID-19 is a viral respiratory and systemic disease that has been rapidly spreading globally since the first cases were reported in December 2019 and has now become pandemic. The causative agent of COVID-19 was identified as a novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, first designated as 2019-nCoV). The disease manifestations of COVID-19 can range from mild, self-resolving respiratory disease to severe pneumonia, ARDS, multiorgan failure, and ultimately death. In early reports, the mortality rate among patients admitted to hospital and with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported to be between 4 and 15%. Although the disease can afflict all age groups, elderly patients and patients with underlying comorbidities such as high body mass index, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cerebrovascular disease are at risk of developing severe disease and dying. There are currently no etiologic treatments for COVID-19, and efforts are underway to identify therapeutics that could be effective in controlling this disease.
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
The overall objective of the study is to determine the therapeutic effect and tolerance of Camostat mesylate, compared to placebo in adult patients with ambulatory COVID-19 disease, presenting with risk factors of severe COVID-19. Camostat mesylate is a serine protease TMPRSS2 (Transmembrane Serine Protease 2) inhibitor which has been successfully and safely used to treat pancreatitis-associated pain and post-operative reflux oesophagitis in Japan. More recently, it has been shown to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 viral entry and reduce infection of human primary pneumocytes and lung cell lines. Camostat mesylate or placebo will be administered to consenting adult patients with virologically confirmed COVID-19, not requiring initial hospitalization. All patients will receive standard of care along with randomized treatments. Outcomes of included patients will be compared between the 2 groups.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
SARS-CoV-2 is a member of a class of viruses: angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)-binding viruses that study calls "ABVs". The World Health Organization (WHO) and others are performing randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of vaccines and novel antivirals to address SARS-CoV-2 directly. However, the critical illness complications of COVID-19 are caused in part by SARS-CoV-2's binding and inhibiting ACE2 and the consequent host response. ACE 2 is the receptor for H1N1, H5N1, and SARS-CoV-2. After binding ACE2, SARS-CoV-2 is endocytosed, and surface ACE2 is down-regulated, increasing angiotensin II (ATII a potent vasoconstrictor) in COVID-19. The original ARBs limits lung injury in murine influenza H7N9 and decreases viral titre and RNA. Study has a unique opportunity to complement vaccine and anti-viral RCTs with an RCT modulating the host response using an angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker (ARBs) to decrease the mortality of hospitalized COVID-19 patient.
SynaVir
New outpatient treatments for COVID-19 are urgently needed. There is some evidence that a combination of three medications currently used to treat other viral infections could be effective in fighting this new virus. The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the efficacy of Nitazoxanide (NTZ), Ribavirin (RBV) and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) versus placebo in participants with proven SARS-CoV-2 infection The study will enroll 70 participants within the 7 days after having been diagnosed with coronavirus infection. The purpose is to determine if those randomized to 5-day dosing with the three medication combination have decreased viral load and severity of illness in the 10 days following treatment as compared to those taking placebo. Participants will be actively followed for 28 days.
University of Sao Paulo
Currently, there are few approved treatments for COVID-19, antiretroviral (remdesivir) and corticoids. With about 15% of COVID-19 patients suffering from severe disease health system will be overwhelmed. Treatments approaches to inhibit viral replication (antiretroviral and extended spectrum antiviral drugs), such as Remdesivir and Hydroxychloroquine are being used. In severe cases, by CT scans investigators are able to observe that these patients seem to be dying with fibrosis and lung vasculitis. It is hypothesised that targeting vasculitis and lung inflammation secondary to the viral infection may help patients' survival (reducing mortality) and/or decrease time in mechanical ventilators. It is proposed a 4-arm trial, converted to 2 after interim analysis (60 patients for the initial phase, sample size recalculation after initial analysis and 2 arms beyond). In initial phase, IL-6 indirect inhibitor (colchicine), in first arm; IL-17 inhibitor, an innovative target never tested (at this moment) in COVID-19 severe patients, in second study arm. Both approaches (indirect IL-6 and Il-17) are related to modulation of inflammatory immune response. Finally, in third arm, IL-2 low dose. This cytokine was identified as Treg upregulation. Treg levels decrease in hepatitis C virus (HCV) associated vasculitis and increase in vasculitis resolution. In fourth arm, control group, standard of care. Initially, for the first 60 included patients, the study will comprise 4 arms (15 patients per arm, randomization ratio 1:1:1:1). An interim effectiveness and safety analysis at this point will guide the selection of one single treatment strategy (adaptative study) to be carried on after that, comparatively with the control group. The multi-site trial planned enrollment duration of 4-6 months and for each participant will be approximately 4 weeks. This trial will bring complementary data to the global effort in COVID-19 cases resolution.
National Medical Research Radiological Centre of the Ministry of Health of Russia
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic of unprecedented proportions with an exponential increase in incidence. Airway epithelium infection caused by coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) triggers a cascade of difficult-to-control reactions, a so-called "cytokine storm". In contrast to the previously used method of external beam radiation therapy for patients at high risk of a cytokine storm, in present study a different dose delivery mechanism through inhalation of 99mTc-labeled carbon ultrafine aerosol obtained from a TechnegasPlus generator is used. By utilizing anthropometric phantoms the dosimetric characteristics of the applied technique and obtained the coefficients of the transition from the count rate over the area of interest to the activity contained in this area (in kBq) were studied. By observing a group of healthy volunteers after inhalation of 99mTc-labeled carbon ultrafine aerosol, the accumulated dose in the human lungs under internal irradiation of 99mTc was determined. A novel technique has been developed and the possibility of using inhaled low-dose radionuclide therapy in the complex treatment of patients with COVID-19 - associated pneumonia has been studied. As a result, a significant improvement of hematological parameters in the group of patients after inhalation of 99mTc-labeled carbon ultrafine aerosol as compared to the control group is expected.