Sandoz, Mylan And Teva Take Bigger Steps To Tackle COVID-19

Sandoz Sponsors Hydroxychloroquine For Large Clinical Trial

 
• By Akriti Seth
  
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Sandoz is sponsoring a major hydroxychloroquine trial while other major industry players like Teva, Mylan, Apotex, Stada and Lupin are also accelerating efforts to fight the coronavirus crisis. Accord and Wavelength Pharma have stepped up their manufacturing to meet demand, as the AAM has cancelled its annual meeting.

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Major industry players are taking action to tackle the coronavirus pandemic • Source: Shutterstock

Sandoz has announced that it will sponsor the hydroxychloroquine to be used for a US Phase III clinical trial in approximately 440 coronavirus patients. According to the agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration, the company will provide the doses for the trial “to address the need for science-based investigation following early pre-clinical and clinical evidence that hydroxychloroquine may help hospitalized patients with COVID-19 disease.”

John Tsai, head of global drug development and chief medical officer at Sandoz parent company Novartis, said “we recognize the...

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