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CompletedNCT03254810Updated Nov 19, 2018

Comparison of the Safety and PK of SYN060 to Humira® in Healthy Adult Subjects

A Phase 1 interventional study of SYN060 and Adalimumab North American source in Arthritis, Rheumatoid, sponsored by Synermore Biologics Co., Ltd.. Completed at 1 site in Australia. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 50 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-11-19.

Sponsored by Synermore Biologics Co., Ltd. · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
94
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 50 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a single site, parallel randomized, double blinded comparison of the safety, pharmacokinetics, and immunogenicity of a single 0.57 mg/kg dose of SYN060 to a single 0.57 mg/kg dose of adalimumab (Humira®) reference product from North American and European sources. The study is open to healthy individuals on no medications that might confound the results of this safety study.

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This is a single site, parallel randomized, double blinded comparison of the safety, pharmacokinetics, and immunogenicity of a single 0.57 mg/kg dose of SYN060 to a single 0.57 mg/kg dose of adalimumab (Humira®) reference product from North American and European sources. The study is open to healthy individuals on no medications that might confound the results of this safety study.

A total of 90 subjects will be randomized in a 1:1:1 ratio to from a centrally generated randomization schedule to SYN060 or adalimumab of American or European sources resulting in 30 subjects in each group.

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Conditions studied

  • Arthritis, Rheumatoid
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In context

Arthritis, Rheumatoid

3,332 studies on the registry are indexed under Arthritis, Rheumatoid; 443 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 94 is close to the median of 96 across 2,220 interventional studies indexed under Arthritis, Rheumatoid.

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Lead sponsor

Synermore Biologics Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Male or female subjects between 18 and 50 years of age, inclusive
  2. between 18 and 30 kg/m², inclusive
  3. Female subjects physically capable of pregnancy (i.e., not sterilized and still menstruating or within 1 year of the last menses if menopausal) must:

    1. Agree to avoid pregnancy from the Study Day screening visit through six months after receipt of Study Drug.
    2. If in a sexual relationship with a man, use an acceptable method of avoiding pregnancy during this period, still menstruating or within 1 year of the last menses if menopausal) in sexual relationships with men must use an acceptable method of avoiding pregnancy during this period. Acceptable methods of avoiding pregnancy include a sterile sexual partner, sexual abstinence (not engaging in sexual intercourse), hormonal (oral, injection, transdermal patch, or implant), vaginal ring or intrauterine device (IUD).
  4. Women of must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 24 hours preceding receipt of the dose.
  5. Can understand and sign the document, can communicate with the investigator and provide updated contact information as needed for the duration of the study, has no current plans to move from the study area for the duration of the study, and can understand and comply with the requirements of the protocol.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Acute illness on Study Day 1
  2. Oral temperature ≥37.5°C on Study Day 1
  3. Inability to discontinue daily medications other than oral or other hormonal therapy.
  4. Receipt of an immunoglobulin or blood product within 90 days prior to Study Day 1
  5. Any receipt of adalimumab, or other licensed monoclonal antibody
  6. Any receipt of another product within 4 weeks or 4 half-lives whichever is longer prior to Study Day 1
  7. Abnormal laboratory values per local laboratory parameters from blood collected at screening prior to Study Day 1 randomization as follows:

    • Severe anemia, defined as \<100 g/L or hematocrit \<0.3 L/L
    • , below lower limit of normal (LLN)
    • white blood cell count above (ULN) or below LLN (i.e., must be within normal limits)
    • , AST, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) above ULN with exception that a one of the three values may be permitted up to 10% above ULN.
    • Creatinine above upper limit of normal ,
    • , or activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) above ULN
  8. Abnormal screening urinalysis result that is, per the investigator, , or a screening urine dipstick result of ≥2+ protein
  9. Positive screening urine test for illicit drugs (amphetamines, methamphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepine, cocaine, opiates, PCP, MDMA, methadone)
  10. History of systemic allergic reactions, to more than one medication.
  11. History or evidence of .
  12. Receipt of medications other than inhaled or topical immunosuppressant drugs such as within 45 days prior to Study Day 1
  13. surface antigen positive, positive, antibody positive
  14. Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes or Type I diabetes
  15. History systemic fungal infection.
  16. Shared a residence within the last year with an individual on anti-tuberculosis treatment or with culture or smear positive tuberculosis
  17. Previous medical history that may compromise the safety of the subject in the study, including but not limited to: severe impairment of pulmonary function or other pulmonary disease; chronic illness with signs of cardiac or renal failure; suspected progressive neurological disease or poorly controlled epilepsy
  18. History or evidence on physical examination of any systemic disease or any acute or chronic illness that, in the opinion of the investigator, may interfere with the evaluation of the safety of the Study Drug
  19. History or evidence of tuberculosis infection
  20. Positive Quantiferon test
  21. Chest X ray with evidence of malignancy or chronic infection (such as tuberculosis or other)
  22. Any current medical, psychiatric, occupational, or substance abuse problem such as alcoholism that, in the opinion of the investigator, will make it unlikely that the subject will comply with the protocol.
  23. Elective surgery that would interfere with participation.
  24. within 60 days and during the study.
  25. Blood donation less than 30 days prior to Study Day 1.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(18)

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BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

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.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

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.

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.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
94 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    SYN060

    a single 0.57 mg/kg dose of SYN060

    Biological: SYN060

  • Active comparator
    Adalimumab North American source

    a single 0.57 mg/kg dose of adalimumab from North American source

    Biological: Adalimumab North American source

  • Active comparator
    Adalimumab European source

    a single 0.57 mg/kg dose of adalimumab from European source

    Biological: Adalimumab European source

Interventions

  • BiologicalSYN060

    a single subcutaneous 0.57 mg/kg dose of SYN060

  • BiologicalAdalimumab North American source

    a single subcutaneous 0.57 mg/kg dose of adalimumab (Humira®) reference product from North American source

  • BiologicalAdalimumab European source

    a single subcutaneous 0.57 mg/kg dose of adalimumab (Humira®) reference product from European source

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. AUC0-last (area under the concentration-time curve from time zero to the last non-zero concentration) and AUC0-inf (area under the concentration-time curve from time zero to infinity)

    AUC0-last and AUC0-inf will be estimated using non-compartmental analysis fpr SYN060 to adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources.

    Time frame: 85 days

  2. Cmax (maximum observed concentration)

    Cmax will be estimated using non-compartmental analysis for SYN060 and adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources

    Time frame: 85 days

  3. Residual area (%AUCextrap) [percent extrapolated area under the curve to infinity calculated as 100*(1- AUC0-last / AUC0-inf)]

    Residual area (%AUCextrap) will be estimated using non-compartmental analysis for SYN060 and adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources

    Time frame: 85 days

  4. Tmax (time of observed Cmax)

    Tmax will be estimated using non-compartmental analysis for SYN060 and adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources

    Time frame: 85 days

  5. t½ (elimination half-life)

    t½ will be estimated using non-compartmental analysis for SYN060 and adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources

    Time frame: 85 days

  6. λz (elimination rate constant)

    λz will be estimated using non-compartmental analysis for SYN060 and adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources

    Time frame: 85 days

  7. CL/F (apparent body clearance, calculated as Dose/AUC0-inf)

    CL/F will be estimated using non-compartmental analysis for SYN060 and adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources

    Time frame: 85 days

  8. Vz/F [apparent volume of distribution, calculated as Dose/ (λz x AUC0-inf)]

    Vz/F will be estimated using non-compartmental analysis for SYN060 and adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources

    Time frame: 85 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Adverse event incidence of SYN060 compared to adalimumab (Humira®) from North American and European sources

    Safety monitoring will include vital signs (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, oximetry and respiration rates), physical examination, electrocardiogram (ECG) and clinical laboratory tests (serum chemistry, hematology, troponins, creatinine phosphokinase \[CPK\], human anti-SYN060 antibodies, human anti-adalimumab antibodies and urinalysis). Adverse events will be recorded throughout the study and will be coded using the most current version of MedDRA (Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities) at the time of study commencement.

    Time frame: 85 days

  2. anti-SYN060 antibodies

    The development of anti-SYN060 antibodieswill be determined on Study Days 0, and 7 through 85, or the last blood specimen available for subjects who leave the study prior to Day 85. The development of anti-SYN060 antibodies will be analyzed as a continuous measure across categorical groups and compared to anti-adalimumab antibodies with descriptive statistics.

    Time frame: 85 days

  3. anti-adalimumab antibodies

    The development of anti-adalimumab antibodies will be determined on Study Days 0, and 7 through 85, or the last blood specimen available for subjects who leave the study prior to Day 85. The development of anti-adalimumab antibodies will be analyzed as a continuous measure across categorical groups and compared to anti-SYN060 antibodies with descriptive statistics.

    Time frame: 85 days

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Study locations

1 site
  • Nucleus Network
    Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 19, 2018, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03254810
Lead sponsor
Synermore Biologics Co., Ltd.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 21, 2017
Start date
Sep 26, 2017
Primary completion
Jul 17, 2018
Completion
Jul 17, 2018
Last update
Nov 19, 2018

Study contacts

Niquita Tugiono, MD
principal investigator · Nucleus Network, Center for Clinical Studies Study Site

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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