Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Northwell Health Conduct ODYSSEY Trial In Patients With Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia - Enrollment of the first patient in Vanda's clinical trial, ODYSSEY VLY-686-3501 (NCT04326426), at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. ODYSSEY is a Phase III double-blind placebo-controlled trial investigating the efficacy and safety of tradipitant, a neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, in the treatment of neurogenic inflammation of the lung secondary to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection. This novel coronavirus is associated with a lower respiratory tract inflammation that often progresses to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) requiring mechanical ventilation.

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