SINGAPORE - Trials for a potential treatment of Covid-19 are being accelerated, with the third and final phase for the drug due to start in a few weeks' time.
Professor Ooi Eng Eong of Duke-NUS Medical School, who is one of the founders of Tychan, told The Straits Times on Thursday that as a small company, Tychan does not have the resources to run trials with thousands of patients. Monoclonal antibodies are immune system proteins that are created in the laboratory, and can be specially designed and engineered to target Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
The process of recruitment has not started yet, because the final trial is pending approval from the authorities - the Health Sciences Authority and an ethics board. As for how long the trial will take, this would depend on how fast the 500 patients can be recruited. Usually in phase three, what is being tested is whether the drug works as intended, such as preventing disease or accelerating recovery.
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