My gf works for the Yale School of Medicine in the marketing dept. She gets ALLLLLL the new trials that Yale is doing in every dept of medicine -- this trial just came up yesterday - I am posting in case there is a center in your area that is participating.... http://www.otonomyresearch.com/index.html
OTO-104 is a formulation of dexamethasone that hangs around in the inner ear for some time, apparently as a persisting gel. http://www.otonomy.com/pipeline/oto-104/ Steroids such as dexamethasone have no known anti-viral traits. --John of Ohio