27 October 2020 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the closure of enrolment into the LY-CoV555 sub-study being conducted as part of the ACTIV-3 clinical trial. THis is because of a recommendation by the trial’s independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board and a review of the data that indicated low efficacy of monoclonal antibody drug LY-CoV555 in treating hospitalised Covid-19 patients. Developed by Eli Lilly in partnership with AbCellera, LY-CoV555 is one of several investigational agents being evaluated as part of the trial.

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