Coronavirus Update: RedHill’s Opaganib Fails As Company Accelerates RHB-107 Study

Plus, New Data From Pharming, CalciMedica

The Israeli biotech announced disappointing Phase II/III data for opaganib while expanding its Phase II/III RHB-107 study. Pharming unveiled promising data from a company-sponsored study, but an imbalance in an investigator-led study confounded results, while CalciMedica built on the case for its drug as a treatment for COVID-19 pneumonia.

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A late-stage program by RedHill Biopharma Ltd. to develop a drug to treat patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 pneumonia has fizzled, though the company is awaiting data in patients with less severe disease and also has an additional COVID-19 drug it is evaluating.

The Israeli biotech said on 14 September that opaganib did not show statistical significance for the primary endpoint in its...

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