{"id":114378,"date":"2020-10-14T01:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/report-eli-lilly-halts-covid-19-treatment-trial"},"modified":"2020-10-15T01:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T08:39:52","slug":"report-eli-lilly-halts-covid-19-treatment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/report-eli-lilly-halts-covid-19-treatment-trial","title":{"rendered":"Report: Eli Lilly halts COVID-19 treatment trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/report-eli-lilly-halts-covid-19-treatment-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MassDevice.com coverage of Eli Lilly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massdevice.com\/tag\/eli-lilly-co\">Eli Lilly<\/a> (NYSE: <a title=\"Eli Lilly stock ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=ETR%3ALLY\">LLY<\/a>) reportedly paused a clinical trial testing its COVID-19 antibody treatment candidate because of a \u201cpotential safety concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2020\/10\/13\/world\/coronavirus-covid#eli-lilly-antibody-trial-is-paused-because-of-potential-safety-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reported that Eli Lilly\u2019s testing site researchers were notified of the pause by emails sent by government officials (it is a government-sponsored trial) and the company later confirmed it. A spokesperson from the company told <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/520845-eli-lilly-pauses-study-of-covid-19-treatment-over-safety-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Hill <\/em><\/a>that \u201cSafety is of the utmost importance to Lilly. We are aware that, out of an abundance of caution, the ACTIV-3 independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) has recommended a pause in enrollment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eli Lilly\u2019s trial was comparing its therapy to a placebo, while all study participants also received the experimental drug remdesivir, which has been used in treating COVID-19 throughout the pandemic. The company\u2019s therapeutic uses monoclonal antibodies in an effort to block the virus from infecting cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) reportedly paused a clinical trial testing its COVID-19 antibody treatment candidate because of a \u201cpotential safety concern.\u201d The New York Times reported that Eli Lilly\u2019s testing site researchers were notified of the pause by emails sent by government officials (it is a government-sponsored trial) and the company later confirmed it. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114433,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114378\/revisions\/114433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}