Benzinga | Jun 29, 2021 04:07PM EDT

Altimmune Says Has Been Unable To enroll Subjects In Final Cohort Of T-COVID Study, Will Terminate Further Enrollment And Evaluate Options For T-COVID

T-COVID Update

The Phase 1/2 trial completed dosing in 2 of the 3 planned dose cohorts. The first 2 cohorts were designed to assess the safety of T-COVID treatment and were comprised of COVID-19 infected patients 49 years or younger with a low risk of progression to serious disease. In these cohorts, T-COVID was well tolerated without any serious adverse events observed. The 3rd cohort was intended to evaluate the efficacy of treatment and enroll patients over the age of 65 or with increased risk of serious sequelae by virtue of pre-existing comorbidities. However, the effective rollout in the United States of authorized COVID-19 vaccines and decreasing incidence of disease significantly reduced the number of patients meeting these criteria, and Altimmune has been unable to enroll subjects in the final cohort.

As a result of these enrollment challenges, the Company has decided to terminate further enrollment and evaluate options for future T-COVID development following an assessment of the available data and discussions with its partners, the U.S. Army Medical Research & Development Command (USAMRDC) and the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC).