Bioxytran’s Oral Antiviral Drug to Enter Dose Optimization Clinical Trial for COVID-19
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BIOXYTRAN, INC. (OTCQB: BIXT), (the “Company”), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing oral and intravenous drugs to treat viral diseases, announced that the first patients have been treated with ProLectin-M in its dose optimization trial. ProLectin-M is intended to become a first line treatment for standard risk COVID-19 patients, but based on the broad-spectrum in vitro discovery could easily expand to upper respiratory tract infections. Following this dose optimization trial, Bioxytran intends to use the trial data to inform the design of the Phase 3 registrational trial in India, while also adhering to the FDA’s request for additional data.
- Following this dose optimization trial, Bioxytran intends to use the trial data to inform the design of the Phase 3 registrational trial in India, while also adhering to the FDA’s request for additional data.
- The multi-center clinical trial in India will be a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial and is set to enroll 40 patients.
- “After we complete the dose optimization trial, the next regulatory milestone is a registrational trial,” said Dr. Leslie Ajayi, Bioxytran’s medical director.
- “We are on the cusp of completing a clinical trial of standard risk patient that contracted COVID-19.