PCR Spotlight: COVID-19 - planned and ongoing trials

COVID-19: Which trials are ongoing or in the pipeline?

Interventional Cardiologists Philippe Gabriel Steg, Paris, France, and William Wijns, Galway, Ireland, discuss the planned and ongoing COVID-19 trials.

Join Philippe Gabriel Steg at the PCR e-Course on 25 June at 4:15 pm Paris time for an update lecture on the status of COVID trials!

Potential agents tested against COVID

  • Anti-viral agents (re-purposing of existing drugs)
  • Antibiotics and anti-malaria drugs
  • Anti-cytokines (e.g.monoclonal antibodies against IL-1 or IL-6)
  • Immunotherapy
  • Non specific immunoglobulins or convalescent plasma
  • Possibly specific immunoglobulins in the future
  • Non specific immune stimulation with BCG
  • Many other options …

Vaccination (horizon 2021)

Speakers

Dr. Philippe Gabriel Steg

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

Hopital Bichat - Paris, France

William Wijns

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

The Lambe Institute for Translational Medicine and Curam - Galway, Ireland

This interview was recorded on 23 May 2020.

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