A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Proxalutamide (GT0918) in Hospitalized COVID-19 Subjects

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019 and spread rapidly, resulting in a global pandemic.SARS-CoV-2 encodes nonstructural and structural proteins required for its viral life cycle. Among them, the spike glycoprotein plays a pivotal role in SARS-CoV-2 infection by recognizing and attaching to ACE2 transmembrane protein on host cells. Kintor protocol has been designed to evaluate efficacy and safety of GT0918 in hospitalized subjects with COVID-19 illness. The target population of this study are hospitalized subjects with COVID-19 illness with positive SARS-CoV-2 virus test within 72 hours of randomization. The study will evaluate anti-androgen therapy may effectively prevent progression to the more severe form of COVID-19 illness and death, shorten the time to sustained recovery and decrease the mortality rate. Subject will receive either GT0918 plus standard of care or matched placebo plus standard of care. GT0918/placebo will be given 300mg orally once a day around 30 minutes after meal for 7 days and can be extended up to 14 days per investigator discretion