Candidate: Namilumab (IZN-101)
Category: ANTIBODY
Type: Fully human monoclonal antibody therapy targeting granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), in development for rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis
Status: Izana said April 6 it initiated a two-center compassionate use study of namilumab to treat patients with rapidly worsening COVID-19 before ICU admission and prior to ventilation. The study is being conducted in cooperation with the Humanitas research group, led by Prof. Carlo Selmi, MD, PhD, head of the Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Humanitas University.
Separately, Ergomed said it is providing support for namilumab’s clinical development program. The study will take place in Bergamo and Milan, Italy.
According to Izana, namilumab is a Phase III-ready treatment being studied under emergency access. Discussions focused on COVID-19 are in progress with global regulatory authorities, including in the U.K.
COVID-19: 200 Candidates and Counting
To navigate through the >200 potential therapeutic and vaccine options for COVID-19, GEN has grouped the candidates into four broad categories based on their developmental and (where applicable) clinical progress:
● FRONT RUNNER – the most promising therapeutics/vaccines based on clinical progress, favorable data or both.
● DEFINITELY MAYBE – earlier phases with promising partners, or more advanced candidates in development that have generated uneven data
● KEEPING AN EYE ON… – interesting technology, attracting notable partners, or both, but preliminary data.
● TOO SOON TO TELL – longshots pending additional experimental and/or clinical data.
GEN has also tagged the most common treatment types:
● ANTIVIRAL
● VAX
● ANTIBODY
● RNA
