Clinical trial

mulTi-Arm Therapeutic Study in Pre-ICu Patients Admitted With Covid-19 - Experimental Drugs and Mechanisms (TACTIC-E)

Name
TACTIC-E
Description
TACTIC-E is a randomised, parallel arm, open-label platform trial for investigating potential treatments for COVID-19 disease. While SARS-CoV infection evades detection by the immune system in the first 24 hours of infection, it ultimately produces a massive immune system response in the subgroup of people who develop severe complications. Most tissue damage following infection with COVID-19 appears to be due to a later, exaggerated, host immune response (Gralinski and Baric 2015). This leads to lung and sometimes multi-organ damage. Most people who develop these severe complications still have virus present in their respiratory tract at the time-point when the disease starts to evolve. Immune modulation in the presence of active infection has potential to cause more harm than benefit. Safety considerations when studying immune modulation strategies are paramount. This study will assess the efficacy of a novel immunomodulatory agent and a novel combination of approved agents which may protect the patient against end-organ damage and modulate the pulmonary vascular response. This study will compare the novel therapeutic agent EDP1815 and a novel combination of the approved agents dapagliflozin and ambrisentan against Standard of Care. A trial arm (UNI911) with the IMP Niclosamide was added to the protocol with one patient recruited into this arm. Following an AESI and after discussions between the funder and the Sponsor the arm was stopped.
Trial arms
Trial start
2020-07-03
Estimated PCD
2022-06-01
Trial end
2022-06-08
Status
Completed
Phase
Early phase I
Treatment
EDP1815
EDP1815 is an orally administered pharmaceutical preparation of a single strain of Prevotella histicola isolated from the duodenum of a human donor. EDP1815 is currently in phase 2 clinical development and has European and US approval to initiate a multinational psoriasis study.
Arms:
EDP1815
Dapagliflozin
Dapagliflozin is a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor. Dapagliflozin is licensed for use in the UK for treatment of Type II diabetes. Since this trial is evaluating Dapagliflozin in an unlicensed indication, it is being carried out under a Clinical Trial Authorisation (CTA)
Arms:
Dapagliflozin and Ambrisentan
Other names:
Forxiga
Ambrisentan
Ambrisentan is an endothelin receptor antagonist, and is selective for the type A endothelin receptor (ETA). Ambrisentan was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and indicated for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Arms:
Dapagliflozin and Ambrisentan
Other names:
Letairis, Volibris, Pulmonext
Standard of care
Regular standard of care for COVID-19 patients
Arms:
Standard of care
Size
454
Primary endpoint
Time to incidence of the composite endpoint of: Death, Mechanical ventilation, ECMO, Cardiovascular organ support, or Renal failure
up to Day 14
Eligibility criteria
General Inclusion Criteria: * Be aged 18 and over * Have clinical picture strongly suggestive of COVID-19-related disease (with/without positive COVID-19 test) AND * Risk count (as defined below) \>3 OR * Risk count ≥3 if it includes "Radiographic severity score \>3" * Be hospitalized or eligible for hospitalization on clinical grounds * Be considered an appropriate subject for intervention with immunomodulatory or other disease modifying agents in the opinion of the investigator * Is able to swallow capsules/tablets General Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to supply direct informed consent from patient or from Next of Kin or Independent Healthcare Provider on behalf of patient * Invasive mechanical ventilation at time of screening * Contraindications to study drugs, including hypersensitivity to the active substances or any of the excipients * Currently on any of the study investigational medicinal products * Concurrent participation in an interventional clinical trial (observational studies allowed) * Patient moribund at presentation or screening * Pregnancy at screening * Unwilling to stop breastfeeding during treatment period * Known severe hepatic impairment (with or without cirrhosis) * Requiring dialysis Cockcroft Gault estimated creatinine clearance \< 30 ml /min/1.73m2 at screening * Inability to swallow at screening visit * Any medical history or clinically relevant abnormality that is deemed by the principal investigator and/or medical monitor to make the patient ineligible for inclusion because of a safety concern. EDP1815-Specific Exclusion Criteria: * Patient is taking a systemic immunosuppressive agent such as, but not limited to, oral steroids, methotrexate, azathioprine, ciclosporin or tacrolimus, unless these are given as part of COVID standard of care treatment. * Patient has known primary or secondary B cell disorder Dapagliflozin- and Ambrisentan-Specific Exclusion Criteria: * Type 1 diabetes * Known idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis * Previous hospital admission with ketoacidosis * Patients concurrently on other SGLT2 inhibitors * History of symptomatic heart failure within 3 months of admission * Sustained blood pressure below 100/70 mmHg at admission * Metabolic acidosis defined as pH\< 7.25 AND ketones \> 3.0 mmol/L * Alanine transaminase and/or aspartate transaminase (ALT and/or AST) \> 3 times the upper limit of normal (only one needs to be measured) Risk Count Patients will be given a Risk Count equal to the cumulative points received for the following criteria (no = 0 points, yes = 1 point): Male gender, Age \> 40 years, Non-white ethnicity, Diabetes, Hypertension, Neutrophils \> 8.0x10\^9/L, CRP \> 40mg/L, Radiographic severity score \>3
Protocol
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Updated at
2023-07-28

1 organization

2 products

1 drug

1 indication

Product
EDP1815
Indication
COVID-19