Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the first patient enrolled in a Phase 2a trial to assess the effectiveness of AZD5847, a new test drug for patients with tuberculosis (TB), including patients with HIV co-infection.
The study is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. It is being conducted by the NIAID-supported Tuberculosis Research Unit of Case Western University School of Medicine of Cleveland, Ohio, and is taking place in Cape Town, South Africa with TASK Applied Science, a South African clinical research group that specializes in TB trials.
TB, which causes 1.4 million deaths per year, is the leading infectious cause of death among people with HIV/AIDS . The emergence of drug-resistant TB and the lack of new drugs to fight the disease effectively are major challenges to controlling this serious global public health concern.
"New medications are greatly needed to improve and shorten the treatment of TB in high-burden countries," says John L. Johnson, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and staff physician at University Hospitals Case Medicine Center. "This trial is the first step in testing this new potential drug in humans with active TB."
Johnson is an internationally-renowned investigator with the Tuberculosis Research Unit at Case Western Reserve, an inter-disciplinary, inter-national consortium of investigators and institutions with expertise in epidemiology, microbiology, immunity, prevention and treatment of TB. Supported by the NIH, the Tuberculosis Research Unit is the only NIH-funded research unit in the US focused on human TB.
AZD5847 has been developed by AstraZeneca and belongs to a class of antibiotics that are active against Gram-positi
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| Contact: Jessica Studeny jessica.studeny@case.edu 216-368-4692 Case Western Reserve University Source:Eurekalert |
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