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• The US FDA has launched Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program (CTAP) to expedite the development of safe and effective drugs targeting COVID-19. FDA’s CTAP is a tool to bring new therapies to the patients as soon as possible
• Under CTAP- FDA is redeploying staff and streamlining processes to hasten the reviews of clinical trial protocols and single-patient expanded-access requests
• FDA unveiled that 10 therapeutic agents are in active trials and 15 agents in the planning stages. The FDA highlights some treatments that are currently being investigated for COVID-19 including Gilead’s remdesivir- Roche’s Actemra (tocilizumab) and Sanofi & Regeneron’s Kevzara (sarilumab)

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