Human Intravenous Interferon Beta-Ia Safety and Preliminary Efficacy in Hospitalized Subjects With COVID-19

Stopped early · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Covid19

In brief

This double-blinded, randomized study is being conducted to see if the investigational new drug called FP-1201-lyo - intravenous Interferon beta-1a, hereafter IV IFN beta-1a, can help patients recover more quickly from COVID-19 and prevent worsening of the condition. To understand if IV IFN beta-1a can help treat patients with COVID-19, this study drug will be compared to dexamethasone. Study subjects will be treated daily with IV IFN beta-1a 10 μg or IV dexamethasone for 6 consecutive days while hospitalized and will undergo daily assessments while in hospital for a maximum of 28 days. Study specific assessments will be collected at pre-dose Day 1 through Day 28 (PD and PIM assessments), in addition, clinical routine assessments will be utilized for safety and efficacy assessments.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04860518

Run by

Faron Pharmaceuticals Ltd

People needed

7

Starts

2021-08-23

Expected to finish

2022-04-04

Last updated by the study team

2023-07-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age ≥18 years
• Positive SARS-CoV-2 test by PCR (polymerase chain reaction) or other diagnostic method within the past 7 days
• Admission to hospital with respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 requiring hospital care and oxygen supplementation (≤ 8L/min)
• Respiratory symptom onset no more than 7 days prior to hospital arrival
• Informed consent from the subject or the subject's personal legal representative or a professional legal representative must be available

You may not qualify if…

• Unable to screen, randomize and administer study drug within 48 hours from arrival to hospital
• Systemic corticosteroid, baricitinib or tofacitinib (or other JAK-STAT signalling pathway inhibitors) therapy within 7 days prior to arrival to hospital or planned for the next days
• Known hypersensitivity or contraindication to natural or recombinant IFN-beta-1a or its excipients, or to dexamethasone or its excipients
• Currently receiving IFN-beta-1a therapy
• Home assisted ventilation (via tracheotomy or non-invasive) except for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) / Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BIPAP) used only for sleep-disordered breathing
• Participation in another concurrent interventional pharmacotherapy trial during the study period
• Decision to withhold life-sustaining treatment; patient not committed to full support (except DNR after cardiac arrest only)
• Woman known to be pregnant, lactating or with a positive pregnancy test (urine or serum test)
• Subject is not expected to survive for 24 hours
• Subject has liver failure (Child-Pugh grade C)
• Any clinical condition that in the opinion of the attending clinician or Investigator would present a risk for the subject to participate in the study

Where it is running

• University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Newton-Wellesley Hospital — Newton, Massachusetts, United States
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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