‘Agile’ Approach Aims To Accelerate Ridgeback’s COVID-19 Timeline

UK Leading On Innovative Adaptive Trials

The Bayesian adaptive trial design is looking to slash development times, starting with a Phase II trial of Ridgeback’s drug, a potential challenger to Gilead’s remdesivir.

Liverpool School Of Topical Medicine Accelerator at Royal Liverpool University Hospital
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Accelerator at Royal Liverpool University Hospital is part of the AGILE partnership • Source: AGILE trial

A promising new antiviral therapy against COVID-19 is to be at the center of an innovative trial collaboration between Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP and academic researchers in the UK. 

US company Ridgeback has already fast-tracked its antiviral candidate EIDD-2801 through Phase I trials, and will now work with the...

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