Traumakine to participate in World Health Organization’s (WHO) Solidarity trial investigating potential COVID-19 treatments. Faron Pharma

Faron Pharmaceuticals OY the clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, announces that the Company will donate supplies of its investigational intravenous (IV) interferon (IFN) beta-1a (Traumakine) for 2,000 patients in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Solidarity trial investigating potential COVID-19 treatments.

The global Solidarity trial is comparing four treatment options against standard of care, to assess their relative effectiveness against COVID-19 – remdesivir; lopinavir/ritonavir; lopinavir/ritonavir with IFN beta-1a; and chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine. Over 90 countries are involved in the trial, which aims to rapidly discover whether any of the drugs slow disease progression or improve survival, using an adaptive trial design to enable the rapid worldwide comparison of multiple interventions simultaneously.

Separate from this Solidarity trial the Company has previously announced participation in the global REMAP-CAP trial (Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia) underway across more than 60 sites and 13 countries .