{"id":2096,"date":"2020-03-30T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2022-06-29T21:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:05:42","slug":"innovative-research-to-better-understand-and-treat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/cancer-awareness\/innovative-research-to-better-understand-and-treat-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Research to Better Understand and Treat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Clinical trials are research studies that are designed to evaluate experimental (or &ldquo;investigational&rdquo;) medical treatments or procedures. At the Saint John&rsquo;s Cancer Institute we are not only conducting various clinical trials for cancer treatment, but we are now a designated site for clinical trials that are evaluating the two most promising drugs in treating patients and combating COVID-19.<\/p>\n<h2>Learn About Our COVID-19 Clinical Trails:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, we are conducting a phase 2 &amp; 3 clinical trial to evaluate sarilumab in adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19.<\/li>\n<li>In collaboration with Gilead Sciences, we are conducting a phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate Remdesivir in participants with moderate coronavirus disease compared to standard of care treatment.<\/li>\n<li>In collaboration with Gilead Sciences, we are conducting a phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate Remdesivir in participants with severe coronavirus disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Be a part of tomorrow&rsquo;s breakthroughs and talk to your doctor to see if participating in a clinical trial is right for you.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn--secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/clinical-trials\/covid-19-clinical-trials\/participate-in-a-covid-19-clinical-trial\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here to Participate in a COVID-19 Clinical Trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinical trials are research studies that are designed to evaluate experimental (or &ldquo;investigational&rdquo;) medical treatments or procedures. At the Saint&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[183,144,150],"tags":[178,176,177],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-cancer-awareness","category-research","tag-caronavirus","tag-clinical-trial","tag-covid-19"],"acf":{"doc_author":"0","header_scripts":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}