Revive Therapeutics Announces Submission of Investigational New Drug Application (IND) with U.S. FDA for Phase 3 Confirmatory Study for Bucillamine in COVID-19

TORONTO, June 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Revive Therapeutics Ltd. (“Revive” or the “Company”) (CSE: RVV), a specialty life sciences company focused on the research and development of therapeutics for medical needs and rare disorders, is pleased to announce it has submitted today its Investigational New Drug (“IND”) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“U.S. FDA”) for a Phase 3 confirmatory study for Bucillamine as a potential treatment in COVID-19.  Once the U.S. FDA allows the IND to go into effect, Revive will initiate a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of Bucillamine in patients with mild-moderate COVID-19 in Q3-2020.

“We are very pleased in achieving this major milestone of filing our IND for a Phase 3 confirmatory study to evaluate Bucillamine in the treatment of patients with mild-moderate COVID-19, which was based on the recommendation from the U.S. FDA from our pre-IND meeting earlier this year,” said Michael Frank, Revive’s Chief Executive Officer.  “We are preparing plans for initiating the Phase 3 study upon the IND becoming active by the U.S. FDA and we look forward to advancing Bucillamine as a potential new treatment option for patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 globally.”

Phase 3 Confirmatory Clinical Study Design

The Phase 3 confirmatory clinical study titled, “A Multi-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Bucillamine in Patients with Mild-Moderate COVID-19”, will enroll up to 800 patients that will be randomized 1:1:1 to receive Bucillamine 100 mg three times a day (“TID”), Bucillamine 200 mg TID or placebo TID for up to 14 days.  The primary objective is to compare frequency of hospitalization and mortality in patients with mild-moderate COVID-19 receiving Bucillamine therapy with those receiving placebo.  The primary endpoint is the proportion of patients with the following outcomes attributed to COVID-19 from time of the first dose through Day 28 following randomization: death, alive and hospitalized, and alive and not hospitalized.  Efficacy will be assessed by comparison of clinical outcome (death and hospitalization), disease severity using the eight-category National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (“NIAID”) COVID ordinal scale, supplemental oxygen use, and progression of COVID‑19 between patients receiving standard-of-care plus Bucillamine (high dose and/or low dose) and patients receiving standard-of-care plus placebo.  Safety will be assessed by incidence and severity of adverse events and treatment-emergent adverse events (including serious adverse events and adverse events of special interest), laboratory values (hematology and serum chemistry), vital signs (heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature), and peripheral oxygen saturation.