The objectives of the trial are to evaluate the efficacy and safety of trimodulin as add-on therapy to standard of care (SoC) compared to placebo treatment in adult hospitalized subjects with severe COVID-19. Additionally, pharmacodynamic (PD) and pharmacokinetic (PK) properties of trimodulin will be evaluated in all subjects.
This is a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-center, phase II trial investigating the efficacy and safety of trimodulin compared to placebo treatment, as add-on therapy to SoC in adult subjects with severe COVID-19. Severe COVID-19 patients with need for non-invasive ventilation or high flow oxygen and with dysregulated inflammatory responses demonstrated by an elevated CRP level, will be enrolled. Subjects will be randomized to receive either trimodulin or placebo on a 1:1 basis, stratified by center. Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) treatments will be blinded. Subjects will be administered IMP once daily on five consecutive days (day 1 through day 5) as add-on therapy to SoC. The subsequent follow-up phase comprises 23 \[+3\] days (day 6 through day 28) followed by an end-of-trial visit/ telephone call on day 29 \[+3\]. For evaluation of this trial, a 9-category ordinal scale will be used. The primary aim of trimodulin treatment in the enrolled severely ill patients with a score of 5, is to prevent their clinical deterioration to a critical disease stage (score 6-7, e.g. requiring invasive mechanical ventilation or ECMO) and death (score 8). Accordingly, a composite primary efficacy endpoint reflecting the deterioration / mortality rate is used.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
166
IMP will be administered via IV infusion on 5 consecutive days.
IMP will be administered via IV infusion on 5 consecutive days.
Investigational site # 5503
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Investigational site # 5502
Santo André, Brazil
Investigational site # 5505
Clinical detoriation rate
Percentage of subjects with a change of clinical status to score 6 or 7 on the 9-category ordinal scale
Time frame: Between day 6 and day 29
28-day all-cause mortality rate
Percentage of subjects with a change to score 8 on the 9-category ordinal scale
Time frame: Between day 1 and day 29
Clinical deterioration rate
Percentage of subjects with a change to score 6-7
Time frame: Days 1-29 and days 6-29
28-days all-cause mortality rate on day 29
Percentage of subjects with score=8, assessed at the end-of-trial visit on day 29 \[+3\].
Time frame: Day 29
Time to clinical deterioration
Number of days to first change from score 5 (enrollment) to score 6-7
Time frame: Time Frame: between Days 1-29 and days 6-29
Time to Mortality
Number of days to change to score =8
Time frame: Time Frame: between Day 1 and day 29
Proportion of subjects in each of the 9-categories of the ordinal scale
Number of patients by score on specific study days
Time frame: Days 7, 14, 21, 29
Time to clinical improvement
Number of days to change to score 4 (mild disease, with supplemental oxygen) or score 3 (mild disease, no supplemental oxygen)
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Santo André, Brazil
Investigational site # 5501
São Paulo, Brazil
Investigational site # 3304
Paris, France
Investigational Site # 3301
Paris, France
Investigational site # 3305
Saint-Etienne, France
Investigational site # 0707
Kemerovo, Russia
Investigational site # 0709
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Investigational site # 0702
Moscow, Russia
...and 7 more locations
Time frame: Day 29
Proportion of subjects with score ≤2
Proporation of subjects that improved to score ≤2
Time frame: Day 29
Days on IMV
Number of calendar days on IMV until day 29
Time frame: Until day 29
Days without oxygen supply
Number of calendar days without any form of oxygen support until day 29
Time frame: Until day 29
Time to discontinuation from any form of oxygen supply
Time to definite stop of any form of additional oxygenation, irrespective of short interruptions
Time frame: Until day 29
Proportion of subjects without any form of oxygen supply
Proportion of subjects that improved to not requiring supplemental oxygen.
Time frame: Day 29
Hospital-free-days
Calendar days between hospital discharge and day 29
Time frame: Until day 29
SARS-CoV-2 status
Time to SARS-CoV-2 negative status
Time frame: Until day 29
Adverse events (AEs), treatment-emergent AEs (TEAEs), AEs of special interest, infusional TEAEs
Number, severity, causality, outcome, and seriousness of all. AE, TEAEs that led to permanent withdrawal of IMP, and TEAEs that led to discontinuation of the trial.
Time frame: Until day 29
TEAEs
Number of all infusion related TEAEs
Time frame: Until day 29
SAEs
Number, severity, causality, and outcome of all SAEs
Time frame: Until day 29
Dose modifications
Dose modifications (incl. reductions and changes in infusion rate)
Time frame: Day 1-5
Time to recovery
Number of days to change to score ≤2 (hospital discharged or meets discharge criteria)
Time frame: Day 29
Change over time in ECG parameters
ECG recordings, (including heart rate, PR interval, RR interval, QRS interval, QT-interval, QTcF) showing abnormal, clinically relevant findings will be reported as adverse event.
Time frame: Until day 29
Change over time in vital signs
Changes in recordings of vital sign parameters (including systolic and diastolic blood pressure, Arterial oxygen saturation, heart rate, respiratory rate and body temperature) showing clinically significant measurements outside the normal range will be reported as adverse event.
Time frame: Until day 29