Resverlogix Corp. announced that enrollment and dosing of patients has commenced in a Phase 2b study at a site at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. The trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of apabetalone as a potential oral treatment for COVID-19.

Apabetalone's unique dual epigenetic mechanism may help stop disease progression by regulating the expression of disease and inflammation causing genes, without altering DNA. Through this mechanism, apabetalone has the potential to address both the viral and the more deadly inflammatory aspects of COVID-19.