Spanish firm PharmaMar says trials show drug’s efficacy against Omicron

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Results from in-vitro tests published in the Life Science Alliance journal showed that Plitidepsin, also known as Aplidin, had a potent antiviral effect in all variants and decreased the viral load detected in animal lung tissue by 99%, the company said.

The same paper also included previously published positive effects in Phase I and II clinical trials carried out on patients who were hospitalised with COVID-19."All data we have seen so far with Plitidepsin corroborate our initial hypothesis about its antiviral activity," PharmaMar chairman Jose Maria Fernandez Sousa said in a statement.

Alvaro Lenze, an analyst with Spanish brokerage Alantra, sounded a note of caution, however, saying it is too soon to draw definitive conclusions about the drug's effectiveness against coronavirus variants.

 

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