2 November 2026
OCTOPUS (PLATYPUS in Australia)
- Medicines: metformin, thioctic acid
- Approach: Mitochondrial / oxidative stress
- Area: Nerve and brain biology
- Curation note: Interim stage-1 analysis (Sep 2026): alpha-lipoic acid continues to stage 2; metformin arm discontinued
Registry redacts arm drugs. First two arms named publicly as metformin and R/S alpha-lipoic acid.
Mechanism node assigned from the named arm drugs.
Interim result. Not a final efficacy result.