COVID-19:エーザイ「エリトラン」治験開始へ:重症敗血症/治療薬候補:
COVID-19: Eisai to start clinical trial of “Eritoran”: severe sepsis/drug candidate:
COVID-19:卫材开始“ Eritlan”的临床试验:严重脓毒症/候选药物
エーザイ:
重症敗血症の治療薬候補「エリトラン」について、新型コロナウイルス感染症向けに臨床試験(治験)を始めると発表した。
新型コロナ感染症で、「重い呼吸障害をもたらす免疫機能の暴走を食い止める効果」が期待される。
世界の400人規模で治験を行い、6月中の治験開始を目指す。
早ければ年内にも結果が出るという。
「REMAP-CAP-COVID」:参画
エーザイは、新型コロナ感染症の治療薬開発のため「REMAP-CAP-COVID」に参画する。
エーザイはこの枠組みを使ってエリトランを提供し、治療薬候補として治験を進める。
エリトラン:
重症敗血症の治療薬候補としてエーザイが開発を進めていた薬剤。
サイトカインが生み出される最上流の過程を阻害するため、免疫暴走を根本から食い止める効果が期待される。
日本経済新聞
https://r.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO59056060T10C20A5XB0000?s=0
当社の新型コロナウイルス感染症(COVID-19)への取り組み
重症敗血症治療薬として開発を行っていた自社創製のTLR4(Toll-Like Receptor 4)阻害剤エリトラン(E5564)
サステナビリティ | エーザイ株式会社
https://www.eisai.co.jp/sustainability/support/antivirus.html
Our Response to the Novel Coronavirus Infection
May 15th, 2020
Eisai is conducting activities in response to the novel coronavirus infection such as support of the development of novel coronavirus remedies, the ensuring of stable supply of medicines, and the support of aid efforts being conducted in various different countries.
Contribution to Development of Remedies
Regarding the TLR4 (Toll-Like Receptor 4) inhibitor eritoran (E5564), created and developed internally as a sepsis treatment,
Eisai is participating in the international network REMAP-CAP-COVID (Randomized, Embedded, Multi-factorial, Adaptive Platform-Community Acquired Pneumonia COVID)
which aims for novel coronavirus medicine development through drug repurposing, and is to begin an international collaborative clinical trial in June 2020 which is designated for confirmed novel coronavirus patients who are hospitalized and are in a progressing disease state.
Regarding cytokine production, which is the cause of the cytokine storm that is strongly indicated as participating in the worsening of pneumonia and other symptoms of the novel coronavirus,
it is hoped that through suppressing the most upstream TLR4 activity, the production of multiple cytokine types will be suppressed and pneumonia and other symptoms can thus be prevented from becoming severe.
Eisai Co., Ltd.