A Phase 2/3 interventional study of UX111 and Prophylactic Immunomodulatory (IM) Therapy in MPS IIIA, Sanfilippo Syndrome and Sanfilippo A, sponsored by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. Recruiting at 5 sites in 3 countries. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-22.
Sponsored by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc · Phase 2/3, Interventional, and Treatment
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of UX111 for the treatment of MPS IIIA.
Open-label, single dose, dose-escalation clinical trial of UX111 (scAAV9.U1a.hSGSH) injected intravenously through a peripheral limb vein. A limited course of prophylactic immunomodulatory (IM) therapy will be administered. At approved sites adjuvant IM therapy may be administered to selected participants. The Principal Investigator and/or caregiver, in consultation with the medical monitor, will determine whether to initiate adjuvant IM therapy. Not all participants may receive adjuvant IM therapy.
This study was previously posted by Abeona Therapeutics, Inc and was transferred to Ultragenyx in August 2022.
58 studies on the registry are indexed under Mucopolysaccharidosis III; 16 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 36 is above the median of 12 across 33 interventional studies indexed under Mucopolysaccharidosis III.
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Diagnosis of MPS IIIA confirmed by the following methods:
Age:
Exclusion Criteria:
Cohorts 1-3: Abnormal laboratory values Grade 2 or higher as defined in (CTCAE) v4.03 for gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), total , creatinine, , white blood cell (WBC) count, count, (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), Cohort 4: Any of the following abnormal laboratory values from screening assessment:
Cohort 4 only:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CTCAE grade
The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Dose of 0.5 X 10\^13 vg/kg
Biological: UX111 · Drug: Prophylactic Immunomodulatory (IM) Therapy · Drug: Adjuvant IM Therapy
Dose of 1 X 10\^13 vg/kg
Biological: UX111 · Drug: Prophylactic Immunomodulatory (IM) Therapy · Drug: Adjuvant IM Therapy
Dose of 3 X 10\^13 vg/kg
Biological: UX111 · Drug: Prophylactic Immunomodulatory (IM) Therapy · Drug: Adjuvant IM Therapy
Dose of 3 X 10\^13 vg/kg
Biological: UX111 · Drug: Optimized Prophylactic IM Therapy · Drug: Adjuvant IM Therapy
Self-complementary adeno-associated virus serotype 9 carrying the human SGSH gene under the control of a U1a promoter (scAAV9.U1a.hSGSH) will be delivered one time through a venous catheter inserted into a peripheral limb vein.
Also known as: scAAV9.U1a.hSGSH, ABO-102, rebisufligene etisparvovec
The Principal Investigator and/or caregiver, in consultation with the medical monitor, will determine whether to initiate adjuvant IM therapy. Not all participants may receive adjuvant IM therapy.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Heparan Sulfate (HS) (Disaccharide) Exposure
Exposure is defined as the time-normalized area under the curve (AUC) of the percentage reduction from baseline.
Time frame: Up to Month 24 Visit
Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-Third Edition (BSITD-III) Cognitive Raw Score Over Time
Time frame: Up to Month 24 Visit
CSF Ganglioside Type 2 (GM2) Exposure
Exposure is defined as the time-normalized area under the curve (AUC) of the percentage change from baseline.
Time frame: Up to Month 24 Visit
CSF Ganglioside Type 3 (GM3) Exposure
Exposure is defined as the time-normalized area under the curve (AUC) of the percentage change from baseline.
Time frame: Up to Month 24 Visit
Percent Change from Baseline in CSF HS
Time frame: Baseline, Up to Month 24 Visit
BSITD-III Receptive Communication Raw Score Over Time
Time frame: Up to Month 24 Visit
BSITD-III Expressive Communication Raw Score Over Time
Time frame: Up to Month 24 Visit
Percent Change From Baseline in Total Cortical Volume
Time frame: Baseline, Up to Month 24 Visit
Number of Participants with Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events, and Treatment-Emergent Serious Adverse Events
Time frame: Up to Month 24 Visit
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Started Apr 2016 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2029, 155 months after the start.
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