Brincidofovir

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Brincidofovir
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Trade namesTembexa
Other namesCMX001; Cidofovir-HDP; hexadecyloxypropyl-cidofovir
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administration		By mouth
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FormulaC27H52N3O7P
Molar mass561.701 g·mol−1
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Brincidofovir, sold under the brand name Tembexa, is an antiviral drug used to treat smallpox. Brincidofovir is a prodrug of cidofovir.[2] Conjugated to a lipid, the compound is designed to release cidofovir intracellularly, allowing for higher intracellular and lower plasma concentrations of cidofovir, effectively increasing its activity against dsDNA viruses, as well as oral bioavailability.[3]

The most common side effects include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.[1]

Brincidofovir was approved for medical use in the United States in June 2021.[1]

Medical uses[]

Brincidofovir is indicated for the treatment of human smallpox disease caused by variola virus.[1][4]

History[]

Because smallpox is eradicated, the effectiveness of brincidofovir was studied in animals infected with viruses that are closely related to the variola virus.[1] Effectiveness was determined by measuring animals' survival at the end of the studies.[1]

Safety information to support approval of brincidofovir was derived from clinical trials of the drug for a non-smallpox indication, primarily from patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplants.[1]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the application for brincidofovir priority review, fast track, and orphan drug designations.[1] The FDA approved brincidofovir under the agency's Animal Rule, which allows findings from adequate and well-controlled animal efficacy studies to serve as the basis of an approval when it is not feasible or ethical to conduct efficacy trials in humans.[1]

Ethical considerations[]

Brincidofovir (CMX001) was the subject of widespread social media campaigning in 2014, which was then picked up by national news sources about a boy with an adenovirus infection following a bone marrow transplant.[5] The family requested legal access to the still-unapproved drug outside of any clinical trial, and Chimerix initially denied the request. After a short and intense media campaign, Chimerix got permission from the FDA to start a limited open-label trial which allowed the boy to receive the drug.[5] This media event sparked a debate on the ethics of using social media, the allocation of limited resources of a small company, and the emphasis on the individual over the group. The new use of any drug has the potential to interfere with the process to get the drug approved and widely marketed, through means such as consuming limited staff time that may be needed elsewhere – staff time that has the potential to save thousands of lives in the long-term, rather than one life now – overwhelming manufacturing capabilities, or by causing adverse effects or even death.[5] These adverse events are more likely during these programs, because the people seeking access are usually much sicker than most, and problems experienced by these people can result in an unfavorable and inaccurate perception of the drug's safety profile.[5] In this case, the boy recovered from the infection in 2014, and died in 2016 from complications of cancer.[6]

Brincidofovir is one of several experimental drugs administered to a small number of patients to treat Ebola virus disease during the 2014 outbreak. The WHO published a report on the ethics of using unregistered interventions to treat Ebola, where they concluded that "In the particular context of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, it is ethically acceptable to offer unproven interventions that have shown promising results in the laboratory and in animal models but have not yet been evaluated for safety and efficacy in humans as potential treatment or prevention."[7]

Research[]

Brincidofovir is under investigation for the treatment of cytomegalovirus, adenovirus, poxvirus, and ebolavirus infections.[8]

Adenovirus and cytomegalovirus[]

As of 2014, brincidofovir is in Phase III clinical trials for use in humans against cytomegalovirus and adenovirus. Preliminary safety data from a database of 1000 patients supported progression into later phase trials,[9] Chimerix announced in December 2015 that the Phase III trials for use of the drug in preventing cytomegalovirus infection in stem cell transplant patients had failed, and in February 2016 shut down two other late-stage trials for use of the drug in preventing infection after kidney transplants. Brincidofovir is not yet FDA approved for adenovirus or cytomegalovirus due to lack of efficacy in clinical trials.[10] In a trial of brincidofovir for patients with CMV brincidofovir was associated with a 15.5% week 24 all-cause mortality compared with 10.1% among placebo recipients. Additionally brincidofovir was associated with increased serious adverse events (57.1% versus 37.6%) compared with placebo.[11] Brincidofovir was initially offered via an FDA expanded access trial; however as of May 9, 2019, Chimerix discontinued clinical trials of brincidofovir for the treatment of adenovirus and discontinued the expanded access program in 2019.[12]

Ebola[]

On October 6, 2014, Chimerix received an FDA authorization for emergency investigational new drug applications of brincidofovir for the treatment of Ebola virus disease. Brincidofovir was administered to the first patient diagnosed in the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the US in 2014.[13][14] The patient was given the drug starting six days after hospital admission when he was already critically ill; he died four days later.[15][16] Brincidofovir was also given to Ebola patient Ashoka Mukpo at the Nebraska Medical Center, who had developed the disease and then was pronounced Ebola-free and released from the Center on 22 October 2014.[17]

In October 2014, Chimerix reported it had been given approval by the FDA to start Phase 2 trials in patients infected with ebolaviruses for brincidofovir's safety, tolerability, and efficacy.[18] Organised by a team of scientists at the University of Oxford, including Peter Horby, Jake Dunning, Laura Merson and Trudie Lang,[19] a trial commenced during January 2015 in Liberia,[20] but was subsequently discontinued. Because of a lack of suitable subjects in Liberia, Oxford University and Médecins Sans Frontières planned to extend the trial to Sierra Leone, where there were still Ebola cases; but on the 30th of January 2015, the manufacturer decided to withdraw support for the trial and end discussion of future trials.[21][22]

Animals[]

In animal trials brincidofovir has shown activity against cytomegalovirus, adenoviruses, BK virus, poxviruses, and herpes simplex viruses.[2][23] It appears to have potential for the treatment of Ebola virus disease, which is somewhat paradoxical, as ebolaviruses are RNA viruses and thus do not contain DNA.[24]

References[]

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External links[]

  • "Brincidofovir". Drug Information Portal. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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