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Home » Tekmira joins consortium conducting Ebola virus trials in West Africa

Tekmira joins consortium conducting Ebola virus trials in West Africa

September 24, 2014
CenterWatch Staff

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, a British Columbia-based developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, is collaborating with an international consortium to provide an RNAi-based investigational therapeutic for expedited clinical studies in West Africa.

Led by Dr. Peter Horby of the Center for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford and the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC), the consortium includes representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Médecins Sans Frontières—Doctors without Borders (MSF), ISARIC and Fondation Mérieux, among others.

The Wellcome Trust has awarded $5.2 million to the consortium to fund this initiative. The award will include funds for the manufacture of investigational therapeutics as well as the establishment of an operational clinical trials platform in two or more Ebola virus disease (EVD) treatment centers in West Africa. RNAi has been prioritized as an investigational therapeutic and may be selected for clinical trials at these centers.

The objective of the clinical trials is to assess the efficacy and safety of promising therapeutics and vaccines, reliably and safely, in patients with EVD by adopting strict protocols that comply with international standards. It is hoped this initiative will permit the adoption of safe and effective interventions rapidly.

The genetic sequence of the Ebola virus variant responsible for the ongoing outbreak in West Africa is now available. Tekmira will produce an RNAi based product specifically targeting the viral variant responsible for this outbreak. The ability to rapidly and accurately match the evolving genetic sequences of emerging infectious agents is one of the features of RNAi therapeutics.

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