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Veru Announces Oral Late-Breaking Presentation of Phase 2 Data of Sabizabulin for the Treatment of Hospitalized Severe COVID-19 Patients at High Risk for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome at the 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infe...
Veru Announces Oral Late-Breaking Presentation of Phase 2 Data of Sabizabulin for the Treatment of Hospitalized Severe COVID-19 Patients at High Risk for
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[{"type":"text","content":"Veru Announces Oral Late-Breaking Presentation of Phase 2 Data of Sabizabulin for the Treatment of Hospitalized Severe COVID-19 Patients at High Risk for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome at the 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases \n MIAMI, April 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veru Inc. (NASDAQ: VERU), a biopharmaceutical company, today announced that results from the randomized placebo-controlled Phase 2 study of daily, oral sabizabulin in patients with severe COVID-19 at high risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) were presented at the 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) being held in Lisbon, Portugal on April 23-26, 2022. “The data observed in this small Phase 2 study are quite dramatic and provided the support for pursuing sabizabulin in the Phase 3 setting,” said Michael Gordon MD, Chief Medical Officer, Honor Health Research and Innovation Institute, one of the lead investigators on the study. “We need a safe drug that can be utilized in the most severely ill COVID-19 patients to save lives and sabizabulin appears to meet this need.” “We are very excited about the clinically meaningful reduction in deaths in hospitalized COVID-19 patients at high risk for ARDS and death being presented from this Phase 2 study. The clinically meaningful and statistically significant reduction in deaths in this high risk population was confirmed in a Phase 3 COVID-19 study which was stopped for overwhelming efficacy based on a planned interim analysis, said Mitchell S. Steiner MD, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Veru Inc. “Sabizabulin appears to have the ability to prevent deaths in the sickest of COVID-19 patients and we are working diligently to bring sabizabulin to these patients.” The oral, late-breaking presentation was given during Session 12 – Current treatment approach to COVID-19 and was held on April 23, 2022 at 11:15 AM – 1:15 PM EDT.Abstract number: 4407Presentation title: Phase 2 study of oral sabizabulin for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalized patients at high risk for ARDSPresentation being given by: Michael Gordon MD, Chief Medical Officer at HonorHealth Research and Innovation Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona Phase 2 Trial Design: Veru conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical t...