Phase 3 Inhaled Novaferon Study in Hospitalized Patients With Moderate to Severe COVID-19

NCT ID: NCT04669015

Last Updated: 2022-06-03

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

914 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-06-10

Study Completion Date

2022-08-31

Brief Summary

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This study is a randomized, double-blind, multicenter, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a novel therapeutic agent, Novaferon, in hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The study is comprised of two cohorts:

* Cohort A: This is a blinded safety lead-in comprising two arms. 40 patients will be randomized on a 1:1 basis to receive either Novaferon or matched placebo via a commercial nebulizer, plus Standard of Care (SOC)
* Cohort B: This is the main portion of the study, which comprises two arms. Up to 874 patients will be randomized on a 1:1 basis to receive either Novaferon or matched placebo via a commercial nebulizer, plus SOC

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Covid19

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators

Study Groups

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Active plus SOC

Inhaled Novaferon, given 20 ug BID, daily for 10 days, plus Standard of Care

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Novaferon

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

a novel recombinant antiviral protein drug

Placebo plus SOC

Inhaled vehicle formulation (placebo), given BID, daily for 10 days, plus Standard of Care

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Placebo

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Formulation vehicle

Interventions

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Novaferon

a novel recombinant antiviral protein drug

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Placebo

Formulation vehicle

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Other Intervention Names

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Standard of Care Standard of Care

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Signed informed consent form by any patient capable of giving consent, or, when the patient is not capable of giving consent, by his or her legal/authorized representatives prior to initiation of any study procedures.
2. Men and women, ≥18 years of age at time of enrollment.
3. Laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection as determined by PCR, or other health authority-approved commercial assay or other validated public health assay in any specimen within 72 hours prior to randomization (point-of-care viral infection test allowable if RT-PCR test result not available only at the time of screening).
4. Less than or equal to 9 days from COVID-19 symptom onset to starting treatment.

• Symptoms are defined as one or more of the following: cough, fever, shortness of breath, chest pain, abdominal pain, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, body aches, weakness/fatigue, chills/sweating, headache, confusion, sore throat, runny nose/congestion, loss of taste or smell, or any other COVID-19 symptoms as determined by the Investigator.
5. Hospitalized and i) requiring supplemental oxygen by face mask or nasal prongs, or ii) non-invasive ventilation or iii) high-flow oxygen (WHO category 4 or 5)
6. Female patients participating in this study must agree to avoid becoming pregnant and have a negative pregnancy test prior to randomization. Male and female patients of reproductive potential must use a highly effective, protocol-specified method of contraception during the study and up to post 30 days after the last dose of study drug. For a list of protocol-specified contraceptive methods, and the definition of reproductive potential, refer to Appendix 1.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Known hypersensitivity or intolerance to Interferon (IFN) or Novaferon or any excipient(s) of Novaferon, including pre-existing allergy or hypersensitivity to ampicillin.
2. Currently undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation (including venous ECMO).
3. Inability to use a nebulizer with a mouthpiece.
4. ALT/AST \> 5 times the Upper Limit of Normal (ULN) or a history of decompensated cirrhosis.
5. Stage 4 severe chronic kidney disease or requiring dialysis (i.e. eGFR \< 30 mL/min/ 1.73m2).
6. In the opinion of the Investigator, progression to death is imminent and inevitable within the next 48 - 72 hours, irrespective of the provision of treatment.
7. In the opinion of the Investigator, progression to mechanical ventilation is imminent and inevitable within the next 24 hours, irrespective of the provision of treatment.
8. Possibility of the patient being discharged from hospital within 24 hours.
9. Concurrent participation in other anti-COVID-19 therapeutic or interventional trials. Patients may, at the discretion of the Investigator, concurrently participate in other non-interventional COVID-19 studies.
10. Prior or concurrent use of experimental antiviral therapy for COVID-19 (see Appendix 2.
11. Prior or concurrent use of any interferons other than the investigational product (see Appendix 2)
12. Other known active infections or other clinical conditions (e.g., severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that contraindicate aerosolized inhalation.
13. Patients with current or prior psychiatric illness, seizure disorders, retinal autoimmune disorders, pre-existing severe cardiovascular disease, or patients with prior transplants.
14. Females who are breast-feeding, lactating, pregnant or intending to become pregnant.
15. The subject has any medical condition that in the opinion of the investigator would compromise subject's safety or compliance with study procedures.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Genova Inc.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos Dr Jose Penna

Bahía Blanca, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

Clinica Zabala

Buenos Aires, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

CEMIC

Ciudad Autonoma Buenos Aires, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

Clinica Adventista Belgrano

Ciudad Autonoma Buenos Aires, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital San Roque

Córdoba, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

Sanatorio del Salvador Privado S.A.

Córdoba, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

Sanatorio Privado Duarte Quiroz De Clinica Colombo SA

Córdoba, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

Instituto Medico Rio Cuarto

Río Cuarto, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

Clinica Central S.A.

Villa Regina, , Argentina

Site Status RECRUITING

HCPA- Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Alegre, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Fundação PIO XII Hospital de Amor de Barretos

Barretos, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Casa de Saúde Vera Cruz (Coordenador)

Campinas, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital São José

Criciúma, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital das Clínicas UFG

Goiânia, , Brazil

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Hospital Geral Prof. Dr. Waldemar de Carvalho Pinto Filho de Guarulhos - BR TRIALS

Guarulhos, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Felício Rocho

Horizonte, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Centro de Pesquisas Clínicas da Fundação Doutor Amaral Carvalho

Jaú, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

CePCLIN - Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas em Moléstias Infecciosas

Natal, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital São Luiz de Jabaquara

Porto Alegre, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital 9 de Julho

São Paulo, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital São Luiz de Jabaquara

São Paulo, , Brazil

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Instituto de Moléstias Cardiovalsculares Tatuí Ltda

Tatuí, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

Lobus Centro de Pesquisa

Volta Redonda, , Brazil

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Lóbus Centro de Pesquisa Clínica

Volta Redonda, , Brazil

Site Status RECRUITING

University Hospital - London Health Sciences Centre

London, , Canada

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Victoria Hospital -London Health Sciences Centre

London, , Canada

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

St Paul's Hospital

Vancouver, , Canada

Site Status RECRUITING

St. Boniface Hospital

Winnipeg, , Canada

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Hospital Base Osorno

Osorno, , Chile

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Sotero del Rio

Santiago, , Chile

Site Status WITHDRAWN

Fundacion Cardiovascular de Colombia - Instituto del Carazon Floridablanco

Floridablanca, Santander Department, Colombia

Site Status RECRUITING

Clinica de la Costa Ltda

Barranquilla, , Colombia

Site Status RECRUITING

Fundacion Hospital Universidad del Norte

Barranquilla, , Colombia

Site Status RECRUITING

Fundacion Oftalmologica

Floridablanca, , Colombia

Site Status RECRUITING

Clinica SOMER

Medellín, , Colombia

Site Status RECRUITING

Corporacion Clinica

Villavicencio, , Colombia

Site Status RECRUITING

RS Universitas Udayana

Bali, , Indonesia

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Royal Taruma Hospital

Jakarta, , Indonesia

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

M. Djamil Hospital

Padang, , Indonesia

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Sardjito Hospital

Yogyakarta, , Indonesia

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

KEMRI Kericho

Kericho, , Kenya

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

KEMRI/CGHR Siaya Clinical Research Annexe

Kisumu, , Kenya

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Victoria Biomedical Research Institute

Kisumu, , Kenya

Site Status RECRUITING

CREATES - Strathmore University Medical Centre

Nairobi, , Kenya

Site Status RECRUITING

Kenyatta National Hospital

Nairobi, , Kenya

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

University Malaya Medical Centre

Kuala Lumpur, , Malaysia

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Miri

Miri, , Malaysia

Site Status RECRUITING

Sunway Medical Centre

Petaling Jaya, , Malaysia

Site Status RECRUITING

HPUPM

Serdang, , Malaysia

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Centro Medico Naval Cirujano Mayor Santiago Tavara

Callao, , Peru

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Hospital III Daniel Alcides Carrion - Red Essalud de Tacna

Lima, , Peru

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo

Lima, , Peru

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza

Lima Cercado, , Peru

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Tiervlei Trial Centre

Cape Town, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

Tread Research

Cape Town, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

Johese Clinical Research: Unitas

Centurion, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

Drs Sarvan and Moodley

Durban, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

TASK Eden

George, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

MERC SiReN

Johannesburg, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

Nelson Mandela Academic Clinical Research Unit (NeMACRU)

Mthatha, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

Into Research

Pretoria, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

Dr JM Engelbrecht Trial Site

Somerset West, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

Clinical Projects Research SA (PTY) LTD

Worcester, , South Africa

Site Status RECRUITING

Ankara City Hospital

Ankara, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Hacettepe University Medical Faculty

Ankara, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Dicle University, Medical Faculty

Diyarbakır, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Acibadem Atakent Hospital

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Istanbul University Cerrahpasa - Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Kartal Lutfi Kirdar Research and Training Hospital

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Ege University Medical Faculty

Izmir, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Kayseri City Hospital

Kayseri, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Kocaeli Universitesi Tip Fakultesi

Kocaeli, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Selcuk Universitesi Selcuklu Tip Fakultesi Hastanesi

Konya, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Ondokuz Mayis Univ. Med. Fac.

Samsun, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Karadeniz Tecnical Uni. Med. Fac.

Trabzon, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

CI Dnipropetrovsk CCH #6 of DRC Dept of Therapy (with pulmonological beds) SI DMA of MoHU

Dnipro, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CNE CCH #16 of Dnipro City Council, DSMU, Ch of Intern Med #1

Dnipro, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CNE Ivano-Frankivsk Reg Clin Infectious Hospital of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council

Ivano-Frankivsk, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CNE of Kharkov RC Reg Cl Infectious Hospital

Kharkiv, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Communal Non-Commercial Medical Enterprise "O.T.Bohayevskyi Kremenchuk City Hospital #1"

Kremenchuk, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Kyiv Municipal Clinical Hospital #17 O. O. Bogomolets NMU

Kyiv, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

City Hospital #1

Mykolaiv, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

City Clinical infectious Hospital

Odesa, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Poltava Regional Clinical Infectious Hospital Dept of Diagnostics HSEIU Ukrainian Medical Stomatolog

Poltava, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Municipal Non-Profit Enterprise Central City Hospital Of Rivne City Council

Rivne, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CCH #1 Vinnytsia M.I.Pyrogov NMU Ch of Infectious Diseases

Vinnytsia, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CI Central City Hospital #1 of Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr, , Ukraine

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Countries

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Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Indonesia Kenya Malaysia Peru South Africa Turkey (Türkiye) Ukraine

Central Contacts

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Huimei Huang

Role: CONTACT

+6582027938

Wang Joyce

Role: CONTACT

(1 604) 306 6003

Facility Contacts

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Ditondo Juan Carlos, MD

Role: primary

Iastrebner Claudio Marcelo, MD

Role: primary

Valentini Ricardo, MD

Role: primary

Casas Marcelo Martin, MD

Role: primary

Parody Maria Leonor, MD

Role: primary

Garcia Nestor Horacio, MD

Role: primary

Colombo Hugo, MD

Role: primary

D'Andrea Nores Ulises, MD

Role: primary

Ariza Horacio Alberto, MD

Role: primary

Eduardo Sprinz, MD

Role: primary

Cesar Mauricio da Silva, MD

Role: primary

Florentino de Araujo Cardoso Filho, MD

Role: primary

Felipe Dal Pizzol, MD

Role: primary

Daniela Graner Schuwartz Tannus Silva, MD

Role: primary

Paulo Fernando Tierno, MD

Role: primary

Thaís de Paula Guimarães, MD

Role: primary

Patrícia Medeiros Milhomem Beato, MD

Role: primary

Kleber Giovanni Luz, MD

Role: primary

Oscar Pereira Dutra, MD

Role: primary

Cláudio Marcel Berdun Stadnik, MD

Role: primary

Celso Mitsushi Massumoto, MD

Role: primary

Daniel Wagner de Castro Lima Santos, MD

Role: primary

Wladmir Faustino Saporito, MD

Role: primary

Vicente Junior, MD

Role: primary

Vicente Lopes da Silva Júnior, MD

Role: primary

Sarah Shalhoub, MD

Role: primary

Sarah Shalhoub, MD

Role: primary

John Boyd, MD

Role: primary

Gloria Vazquez-Grande, MD

Role: primary

Bernardo Goecke Hochberger, MD

Role: primary

Reyes Martinez, Carlos Fernando, MD

Role: primary

Shirley Patricia Iglesias, MD

Role: primary

Hugo Macareno Arroyo, MD

Role: primary

Juan Diego Higuera Cobos, MD

Role: primary

Gomez Vega, Cristian Jose, MD

Role: primary

Franco Rodriguez, Adriana Paola, MD

Role: primary

Wahyu Purnamasidhi Cokorda Agung, MD

Role: primary

Erni Juwita Nelwan, MD

Role: primary

Irvan Medison, MD

Role: primary

Harik Firman Thahadian, MD

Role: primary

Isaac Tsikhutsu, MD

Role: primary

Kevin K Orimba, MD

Role: primary

Lucas Otieno Tina, MD

Role: primary

Bernhards Ogutu, MD

Role: primary

John Kinuthia, MD

Role: primary

Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar, MD

Role: primary

Ting Ingrid Pao Lin, MD

Role: primary

Kow Ken Siong, MD

Role: primary

Daut Ummi Nadira, MD

Role: primary

Emma Mercedes Huamani de la Cruz, MD

Role: primary

Miguel Hueda, MD

Role: primary

Cesar Augusto Gamarra Ayarza, MD

Role: primary

Zandra Moncada Vilela, MD

Role: primary

Matthys Basson, MD

Role: primary

Lesley Burgess, MD

Role: primary

Rani Elenjical, MD

Role: primary

Mahomed Sarvan, MD

Role: primary

Kirsten McHarry, MD

Role: primary

Natasha Joseph, MD

Role: primary

Thozama Dubula, MD

Role: primary

Richard Siebert, MD

Role: primary

Johannes Engelbrecht, MD

Role: primary

Louis van Zyl, MD

Role: primary

Rahmet Guner, MD

Role: primary

Serhat Unal, MD

Role: primary

Mustafa Kemal Celen, MD

Role: primary

Iftihar Koksal, MD

Role: primary

Fehmi Tabak, MD

Role: primary

Ayse Batirel, MD

Role: primary

Husnu Pullukcu, MD

Role: primary

Ilhami Celik, MD

Role: primary

Sila Cetin Akhan, MD

Role: primary

Fikret Kanat, MD

Role: primary

Ilkay Bozkurt

Role: primary

Firdevs Aksoy, MD

Role: primary

Kseniia Bielosludtseva, MD

Role: primary

Tetiana Kirieieva, MD

Role: primary

Oleksandra Pryshliak, MD

Role: primary

Anatoliy Gavrylov, MD

Role: primary

Viktoriia Vypovska, MD

Role: primary

Sergii Dubrov, MD

Role: primary

Valeriy Molodtsov, MD

Role: primary

Svitlana Lavryukova, MD

Role: primary

Tetiana Koval, MD

Role: primary

Halyna Martynyuk, MD

Role: primary

Larysa Moroz, MD

Role: primary

Ivan Vyshnyvetskyy, MD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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JH-COR-003

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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