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CompletedNCT03813160DETERMINEUpdated Aug 16, 2022

Trial to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Lenabasum in Dermatomyositis

A Phase 3 interventional study of Lenabasum 20 mg and Lenabasum 5 mg in Dermatomyositis, sponsored by Corbus Pharmaceuticals Inc.. Completed at 54 sites in 13 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-08-16.

Sponsored by Corbus Pharmaceuticals Inc. · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Mar 2021, 5 years 7 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
176
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 94 studies in Dermatomyositis with a site in United States — 30 open to participants now, 33 under way, 6 of them phase 3. Dermatomyositis · United States.

Enrollment
12th of 73
176 · median 25
Started
2018
with 3 others
Phase 3
9 of 94
4 open now
Registered
46th of 94
by date

Among the 94 studies in Dermatomyositis with a site in United States, this one is the 12th largest by enrollment of the 73 interventional ones, is one of 4 that started in 2018, is one of 9 in phase 3, and was the 46th registered.

By phase

94 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.

Phase 231 · 5 open
Observational20 · 8 open
Phase 117 · 8 open
Phase 3this study9 · 4 open
Phase 2/38 · 2 open
No phase3 · 1 open
Phase 1/23 · 2 open
Phase 42 · 0 open
Other kind1 · 0 open

By the year they started

First in 1990; this study’s year is marked. 4 started in 2018.

Size and results

Median enrollment 25 across the 73 interventional studies, 540 across the 18 observational. Of the 55 that completed or were terminated, 26 (47%) have results posted.

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Study summary

This is a Phase 3 multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study assessing the efficacy and safety of lenabasum for the treatment of dermatomyositis. Approximately 150 subjects will be enrolled in this study at about 60 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. The planned duration of double-blind treatment with study drug is up to 52 weeks.

Read the detailed description

Subjects will be randomized to receive lenabasum 20 mg twice per day, lenabasum 5 mg twice per day, or placebo twice per day in a 2:1:2 ratio. The primary efficacy outcome at Week 28 will compare lenabasum 20 mg BID to placebo the Total Improvement Score (TIS), which is a weighted composite measure of improvement from baseline in six endpoints: Physician Global Assessment of Disease Activity, Physician Assessment of Extramuscular Disease Activity, Patient Global Assessment of Disease Activity, Health Assessment Questionnaire (patient-reported disability), Manual Muscle Testing (MMT), and muscle enzymes.

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Conditions studied

  • Dermatomyositis

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Keywords

  • dermatomyositis
  • cannabinoid receptor type 2 agonist
  • JBT-101
  • lenabasum
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Fulfill at least one of the following criteria for dermatomyositis:

    1. Bohan and Peter criteria (Bohan and Peter, 1975a; Bohan and Peter 1975b)
    2. ACR/EULAR criteria (Lundberg et al, 2017)
  • Disease activity/severity fulfills at least one of the following three criteria:

    1. MDGA ≥ 3 cm (0 - 10 cm Visual Analog Scale [VAS]) and MMT-8 score ≤ 142 (out of 150 total possible)
    2. Sum of MDGA, PtGA and EMGA VAS scores is ≥ 10 cm (0-10 cm VAS for each)
    3. MDGA ≥ 3 cm (0-10 cm VAS) and CDASI activity score of > 14
  • Stable doses of medications for DM as defined by:

    1. Unchanged dose of oral ≤ 20 mg per day prednisone or equivalent for ≥ 4 weeks before Visit 1
    2. Unchanged dose of immunosuppressive medications other than oral corticosteroids for ≥ 8 weeks before Screening

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unstable DM or DM with end-stage organ involvement at Screening or Visit 1
  • Significant diseases or conditions other than DM that may influence response to the study drug or safety
  • Any of the following values for laboratory tests at Screening:

    1. A positive pregnancy test (or at Visit 1)
    2. \< 9 g/dL in males and \< 8 g/dL in females
    3. Neutrophils \< 1.0 × 10\^9/L
    4. \< 75 × 10\^9/L
    5. \< 50 mL/min on screening blood test, per the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study or in 24 hour urine creatine clearance measurement
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(5)

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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.

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Corticosteroids (steroids)

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

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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).

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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
176 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Lenabasum 20 mg

    Subjects will receive lenabasum 20 mg twice daily

    Drug: Lenabasum 20 mg

  • Experimental
    Lenabasum 5 mg

    Subjects will receive lenabasum 5 mg twice daily

    Drug: Lenabasum 5 mg

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Subjects will receive placebo twice daily

    Drug: Placebo

Interventions

  • oral capsule

    Also known as: JBT-101, anabasum

  • oral capsule

    Also known as: JBT-101, anabasum

  • DrugPlacebo

    oral capsule

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Efficacy of lenabasum 20 mg BID compared to placebo BID as measured by Total Improvement Score (TIS)

    TIS from IMAC Core Set Measures (CSM) will be calculated following Aggarwal et al (2017) recommendations. Scores are based on a 0 - 100 scale; higher scores indicate better improvement in myositis.

    Time frame: Week 28

Secondary outcomes

  1. Subjects who achieve Definition of Improvement (DOI)

    Defined as ≥ 3 of 6 core set measures improved by ≥ 20% (relative to Baseline) with no more than 2 core set measures worsening by ≥ 25% (MMT-8 may not decrease by ≥ 25% from baseline)

    Time frame: Week 28

  2. Subjects who improve by at least one category on the Investigator Global Assessment (IGA) scale of skin activity

    The IGA is used by the investigator to score overall skin disease on a 0 to 4 scale; higher scores indicate greater skin disease.

    Time frame: Week 28

  3. Change in Cutaneous Dermatomyositis Disease Area and Severity Index (CDASI) activity score

    CDASI is a validated outcome measure that systematically quantifies cutaneous DM disease activity and damage (Klein et al, 2007; Yassaee et al, 2010) Disease Activity Score is rated using three activity measures. The activity score ranges from 0 to 100. Higher scores indicate greater disease severity.

    Time frame: Week 28

  4. Subjects who achieve TIS >= 40 (at least moderate improvement)

    TIS from IMAC Core Set Measures (CSM) will be calculated following Aggarwal et al (2017) recommendations. Scores are based on a 0 - 100 scale; higher scores indicate better improvement in myositis.

    Time frame: Week 28

  5. TIS in subjects receiving immunosuppressive therapies (including corticosteroids) for > 1 year at Baseline

    TIS from IMAC Core Set Measures (CSM) will be calculated following Aggarwal et al (2017) recommendations. Scores are based on a 0 - 100 scale; higher scores indicate better improvement in myositis.

    Time frame: Week 52

  6. Change in Forced vital capacity (FVC) absolute, in all subjects and those with interstitial lung disease (ILD) at Baseline.

    ILD is defined as a history of fibrosis on chest x-ray, a history of ILD on CT of lungs, and/or FVC% predicted \<80% at Screening or Visit 1

    Time frame: Week 28

  7. Change in Forced vital capacity (FVC) percent predicted, in all subjects and those with interstitial lung disease (ILD) at Baseline.

    ILD is defined as a history of fibrosis on chest x-ray, a history of ILD on CT of lungs, and/or FVC% predicted \<80% at Screening or Visit 1

    Time frame: Week 28

  8. TIS at Visit 10

    TIS from IMAC Core Set Measures (CSM) will be calculated following Aggarwal et al (2017) recommendations. Scores are based on a 0 - 100 scale; higher scores indicate better improvement in myositis.

    Time frame: Week 52

  9. TIS, lenabasum 5 mg BID versus placebo

    TIS from IMAC Core Set Measures (CSM) will be calculated following Aggarwal et al (2017) recommendations. Scores are based on a 0 - 100 scale; higher scores indicate better improvement in myositis.

    Time frame: Week 28

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Study locations

54 sites
  • HonorHealth Neurology
    Phoenix, Arizona 85018, United States
  • Mayo Clinic
    Scottsdale, Arizona 85259, United States
  • Attune Health Center
    Beverly Hills, California 90211, United States
  • UCLA Division of Rheumatology
    Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
  • Denver Arthritis Clinic
    Denver, Colorado 80230, United States
  • Georgetown University
    Washington, District of Columbia 20001, United States
  • Mayo Clinic
    Jacksonville, Florida 32224, United States
  • University of Miami
    Miami, Florida 33136, United States
  • University of South Florida
    Tampa, Florida 33612, United States
  • Northwestern University
    Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
  • University of Kansas Medical Center
    Kansas City, Kansas 66160, United States
  • DelRicht Research
    New Orleans, Louisiana 70115, United States
  • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
    Baltimore, Maryland 21224, United States
  • University of Michigan
    Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
  • University of Minnesota, Division of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases
    Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
  • Washington University in St. Louis
    Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, United States
  • Hospital for Special Surgery
    New York, New York 10021, United States
  • Cleveland Clinic
    Cleveland, Ohio 44195, United States
  • University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
  • University of Pittsburgh, Division of Rheumatology
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States
  • MUSC: Department of Neurology
    Charleston, South Carolina 29425, United States
  • Austin Neuromuscular Center
    Austin, Texas 78756, United States
  • Rheumatic Disease Center
    Glendale, Wisconsin 53217, United States
  • University Hospital "Kaspela" Rheumatology Clinic
    Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • UMHAT "St. Ivan Rilski"
    Sofia, Bulgaria
  • UMHAT
    Stara Zagora, 6000, Bulgaria
  • University of British Columbia, Dept. of Dermatology and Skin Science
    Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4E8, Canada
  • Revmatologicky ustav
    Prague, 12850, Czechia
  • Charite-Universitatsmedizin
    Berlin, Germany
  • University Hospital Erlangen Nuremberg
    Erlangen, D- 91054, Germany
  • University Medical Center Goettingen
    Göttingen, Germany
  • University of Debrecen
    Debrecen, Hungary
  • University Hospital Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele
    Catania, 95121, Italy
  • Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.Gemelli-IRCCS
    Roma, 00168, Italy
  • Gunma University Hospital
    Gunma, Japan
  • Hokkaido University Hospital
    Hokkaido, Japan
  • Yokohama City University Hospital
    Kanagawa, Japan
  • Kyoto University Hospital
    Kyoto, Japan
  • Tohoku University Hospital
    Miyagi, Japan
  • Osaka University Hospital
    Osaka, Japan
  • Keio University Hospital
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Nippon Medical School Hospital
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Wakayama Medical Hospital
    Wakayama, Japan
  • Inha University Hospital
    Incheon, Korea, Republic of
  • Seoul National University Hospital
    Seoul, 03080, Korea, Republic of
  • Hanyang University Hospital
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
  • Seoul St. Mary's Hospital
    Seoul, Korea, Republic of
  • KLIMED
    Bialystok, Poland
  • Kliniczny Szpital Wojewodzki Nr 1. im Fryderyka Chopina Klinika Dermatologii
    Rzeszow, 35-055, Poland
  • KLIMED
    Łomża, 18-404, Poland
  • Vall d'Hebron General Hospital
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Hospital 12 Octubre
    Madrid, Spain
  • Karolinska University Hospital, Rheumatology Clinic
    Stockholm, Sweden
  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    London, United Kingdom
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References and documents

Study documents

PDFs hosted by the registry, ClinicalTrials.gov.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Dec 2018 to primary completion in Mar 2021, 27 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jan 21, 2019
First posted
Jan 23, 2019
StartActual
Dec 17, 2018
Primary completionActual
Mar 31, 2021
CompletionActual
Oct 5, 2021
Last update
Aug 16, 2022
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 16, 2022, 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
NCT03813160
Lead sponsor
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 23, 2019
Start date
Dec 17, 2018
Primary completion
Mar 31, 2021
Completion
Oct 5, 2021
Last update
Aug 16, 2022

Study contacts

Victoria P Werth, MD
principal investigator · University of Pennsylvania
Chester V Oddis, MD
principal investigator · University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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