Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that enrollment has surpassed 50% of the total targeted number of randomized trial participants (~n=120) in its double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial of Brilacidin for treatment of moderate-to-severe COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. Brilacidin is the only non-peptidic defensin-mimetic drug candidate in the world currently in a clinical trial as a treatment for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. Additionally, Brilacidin has shown potent inhibition in vitro against different strains of coronaviruses and alphaviruses (with lab testing against other virus families also underway), supporting Brilacidin’s potential to be developed as a broad spectrum antiviral.