Azn1 May 2020 04:50
AstraZeneca is joining forces with public research bodies and academic institutions as part of a UK government-led initiative to speed up the development of medicines to treat patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
The government-sponsored ACCORD (Accelerating COVID-19 Research & Development) platform is a new, single Phase II clinical trial platform launched in the UK to fast-track research into potential treatments and is part of a co-ordinated therapeutic development pathway that the UK Government has put in place as part of the overall Therapeutics Taskforce.
Funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and UK Research and Innovation, ACCORD has been made possible by partnership working between the Government Scientific Office, the National Institute for Health Research’s Biomedical Research Centres and Clinical Research Facilities, and expert centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, clinical research company IQVIA, and AstraZeneca. The ACCORD platform has received rapid regulatory approval and will immediately begin enrolment of COVID-19 patients.