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Compassionate Use Study Of Namilumab Starts In Italy

The UK biotech's CEO tells Scrip that Izana's objective is to treat rapidly deteriorating COVID-19 patients before ICU admission and prior to ventilation.

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One of the trials for namilumab will be in Milan, a city hit hard by COVID-19 • Source: Shutterstock

The UK's Izana Bioscience is the latest company to evaluate an immunomodulator as a treatment for coronavirus, and has initiated trials in Italy of its late-stage granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) targeting antibody namilumab in patients with the infection.

The Oxford-based private biotech has just received the go-ahead from Italian regulators to start a two-center compassionate use study (in...

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