Ap­pil­i's Covid-19 oral an­tivi­ral fails PhI­II tri­al; On­col­o­gy biotech Ankyra rais­es $45M in Se­ries B

Ap­pili Ther­a­peu­tics’s in­ves­ti­ga­tion­al oral an­tivi­ral Avi­gan/Reeqonus failed in a Phase III tri­al, the biotech said in a state­ment this morn­ing.

The No­va Sco­tia biotech’s PRESECO tri­al, which en­rolled more than 1,200 pa­tients to test a treat­ment for mild-to-mod­er­ate Covid-19, did not achieve sta­tis­ti­cal sig­nif­i­cance on the pri­ma­ry end­point of time to sus­tained clin­i­cal re­cov­ery.

Ad­di­tion­al analy­ses of the tri­al da­ta are on­go­ing, ac­cord­ing to the biotech.

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