A collaboration between Fort Wayne University and three Michigan hospitals are teaming up looking to crack the coronavirus code. | Stock Photo
A collaboration between Fort Wayne University and three Michigan hospitals are teaming up looking to crack the coronavirus code. | Stock Photo
Several of Michigan's brightest are teaming up to bring COVID-19 clinical trials to Detroit, according to a local report.
A collaborative effort from Ascension Michigan, Beaumont and the Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System and Wayne State University are seeking to be part of the effort to discover the best practices and treatments for COVID-19, the Macomb Daily reported on April 5.
The collaboration has been successful in the past, having developed a protocol that has lowered the death rate for a cardiogenic shock from 50% to more than 70%.
“We moved the needle on survival on [the] cardiogenic shock for the first time in 20 years with our first collaboration then,” Dr. Brian O’Neill said, according to the Macomb Daily. “We hope to duplicate that success on a much larger scale with COVID-19 today and support our colleagues who are on the front lines.”
The group will run two trials, the Macomb Daily reported. One is Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. A healthy volunteer received the vaccine in March and if trials prove successful, it could go commercial within 18 months.
The second trial is Takeda’s hyperimmune globulin, which uses plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19, according to the publication.