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Within Subject Crossover Study of Cognitive Effects of Neflamapimod in Early-Stage Huntington Disease

A Phase 2 interventional study of neflamapimod and Placebo in Huntington Disease, sponsored by EIP Pharma Inc. Terminated at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 30 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-04-06.

Sponsored by EIP Pharma Inc · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Due to the long delay because of COVID-19 and results from another study suggesting a higher dose may be more beneficial, EIP Pharma decided on October 15th, 2020, to end the trial prematurely.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
30 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a double-blind, placebo-controlled 2-period 10-week treatment within-subject crossover study of neflamapimod in early-stage Huntington disease (HD). The primary objective is to determine whether neflamapimod can reverse hippocampal dysfunction in patients with early-stage HD, as assessed by the virtual water-maze-test for evaluating spatial learning and selected tests on the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB).

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The study was designed as within-subject crossover study. However, due to the Covid19 lockdowns and restrictions on clinical research, and only one subject entered the second crossover period. As a result, the baseline and outcomes are reported by the actual treatment received in the subjects during what would have been the first treatment period, i.e. placebo or neflamapimod treatment.

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Conditions studied

  • Huntington Disease

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
30 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Men and women age 30 to 70 years, inclusive.
  2. Willing and able to provide informed consent.
  3. Must have genetically confirmed HD and identified cognitive deficits:

    1. Stage 1, as defined by Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) Total Functional Capacity (TFC) score >10, and,
    2. CANTAB Paired Associate Learning Total Adjusted Error Score of >16.
  4. Normal or corrected eye sight and auditory abilities, sufficient to perform all aspects of the cognitive and functional assessments.
  5. No history of learning difficulties that may interfere with the subject's ability to complete the cognitive tests.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. A profile of impairment that is not consistent with HD.
  2. Diagnosis of any other ongoing central nervous system condition other than HD, including, but not limited to, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Parkinson's disease.
  3. Suicidality, defined as active suicidal thoughts within 6 months before Screening or at Baseline, defined as answering yes to items 4 or 5 on the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), or history of suicide attempt in previous 2 years, or, in the Investigator's opinion, at serious risk of suicide.
  4. Ongoing major and active psychiatric disorder, moderate to severe depressive symptoms, and or other concurrent medical condition that, in the opinion of the Investigator, might compromise safety and/or compliance with study requirements.
  5. Diagnosis of alcohol or drug abuse within the previous 2 years.
  6. Poorly controlled clinically significant medical illness, such as hypertension (blood pressure >180 mmHg systolic or 100 mmHg diastolic); myocardial infarction within 6 months; uncompensated congestive heart failure or other significant cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, liver, infectious disease, immune disorder, or metabolic/endocrine disorders or other disease that would preclude treatment with p38 mitogen activated protein (MAP) kinase inhibitor and/or assessment of drug safety and efficacy.
  7. Anemia with a hemoglobin ≤10 g/dL, clinically significant thyroid function abnormality, electrolyte abnormalities.
  8. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >1.5 × the upper limit of normal (ULN), total bilirubin >1.5 × ULN, and/or International Normalized Ratio (INR) >1.5.
  9. Known human immunodeficiency virus; or active hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus infection; evidence of active or latent tuberculosis.
  10. Subject participated in a study of an investigational drug less than 3 months or 5 half-lives of an investigational drug, whichever is longer, before enrollment in this study.
  11. History of previous neurosurgery to the brain.
  12. Female subjects who are pregnant or breast-feeding.
  13. Male subjects with female partners of child-bearing potential who are unwilling or unable to adhere to contraception requirements specified in the protocol (see Section 5.8).
  14. Female subjects who have not reached menopause or have not had a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy/salpingo-oophorectomy and are not willing or unable to adhere to contraceptive requirements specified in the protocol (see Section 5.8).
  15. Requires concomitant use of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 inhibitors or anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha therapies during study participation.
  16. Known allergy to any ingredient of the trial medication or placebo.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Crossover assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
15 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    neflamapimod first

    neflamapimod in Treatment Period 1, placebo in Treatment Period 2 neflamapimod: 40 mg neflamapimod hard gelatin capsules, taken twice daily with food. Placebo: hard gelatin capsules containing excipients only, weight- and size-matched; taken twice daily with food.

    Drug: neflamapimod · Other: Placebo

  • Placebo comparator
    placebo first

    placebo in Treatment Period 1, neflamapimod in Treatment Period 2 Placebo: hard gelatin capsules containing excipients only, weight- and size-matched; taken twice daily with food. neflamapimod: 40 mg neflamapimod hard gelatin capsules, taken twice daily with food.

    Drug: neflamapimod · Other: Placebo

Interventions

  • Drugneflamapimod

    40 mg neflamapimod capsule

    Also known as: VX-745

  • OtherPlacebo

    matching placebo capsule

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in Latency During the Learning Phase of Virtual Morris Water Maze Test (vMWM)

    Change from baseline of latency during the learning phase of vMWM (hidden platform training) in the neflamapimod first group compared to placebo first group

    Time frame: Baseline and 10 Weeks

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Results

Posted Apr 6, 2022
Limitations and caveats
Due COVID-19 pandemic all clinical research in the UK was halted in March 2020. Sponsor ultimately elected to terminate the study on 15 October 2020. As only one subject completed both periods of the crossover, the only efficacy analyses compared outcomes in subjects receiving neflamapimod (N=7) during Treatment period 1 to those receiving placebo during that period (N=8); i.e., an inter-subject group comparison, rather than the within-subject comparison for which the study was powered.

Participant flow

Treatment Period 1
Participant flow — Treatment Period 1
MilestoneNeflamapimod FirstPlacebo First
Started78
Completed67
Not completed11
Withdrew: Study terminated11
Treatment Period 2
Participant flow — Treatment Period 2
MilestoneNeflamapimod FirstPlacebo First
Started32
Completed10
Not completed22
Withdrew: Study terminated22

Outcome measures

PrimaryChange in Latency During the Learning Phase of Virtual Morris Water Maze Test (vMWM)

Change from baseline of latency during the learning phase of vMWM (hidden platform training) in the neflamapimod first group compared to placebo first group

Time frame:
Baseline and 10 Weeks
Reported as:
Mean · seconds
Change in Latency During the Learning Phase of Virtual Morris Water Maze Test (vMWM)
secondsNeflamapimod FirstPlacebo First
Change in Latency During the Learning Phase of Virtual Morris Water Maze Test (vMWM)-6.92 ± 3.814-14.05 ± 12.680

Adverse events

Collected over Up to 37 weeks. AEs occurring from when the subject signed the ICF until up to 30 days after the last dose were collected. Any AEs occurring before the start of treatment (i.e., before the first dose of the investigational product) were recorded in the medical history.. Non-serious events are listed at a 5% frequency threshold.

Adverse event summary by group
GroupDeathsSeriousOther
Neflamapimod First—0/7 (0%)4/7 (57.1%)
Placebo First—0/8 (0%)5/8 (62.5%)
Most frequent other events
Most frequent other events
EventNeflamapimod FirstPlacebo First
Common ColdInfections and infestations3/70/8
HeadacheNervous system disorders1/70/8
Urinary Tract InfectionInfections and infestations1/70/8
DiarrheaGastrointestinal disorders0/71/8
NauseaGastrointestinal disorders0/71/8
SoresInfections and infestations0/71/8
SinusitisInfections and infestations0/71/8
Increased AnxietyPsychiatric disorders0/71/8
Abdominal PainGastrointestinal disorders0/71/8

Baseline characteristics

Age, Categorical
Age, Categorical(Participants)Neflamapimod FirstPlacebo FirstTotal
<=18 years000
Between 18 and 65 years5712
>=65 years213
Age, Continuous
Age, Continuous(years)Neflamapimod FirstPlacebo FirstTotal
Mean51 ± 12.2654.5 ± 9.6852.87 ± 10.7
Sex: Female, Male
Sex: Female, Male(Participants)Neflamapimod FirstPlacebo FirstTotal
Female5510
Male235
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)(Participants)Neflamapimod FirstPlacebo FirstTotal
Hispanic or Latino000
Not Hispanic or Latino7815
Unknown or Not Reported000
Race (NIH/OMB)
Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants)Neflamapimod FirstPlacebo FirstTotal
American Indian or Alaska Native000
Asian202
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander000
Black or African American000
White5813
More than one race000
Unknown or Not Reported000
Region of Enrollment
Region of Enrollment(participants)Neflamapimod FirstPlacebo FirstTotal
United Kingdom7815
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Body Mass Index (BMI)(kg/m2)Neflamapimod FirstPlacebo FirstTotal
Mean26.3 ± 5.427.61 ± 6.1527 ± 5.65
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Study locations

1 site
  • John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair
    Cambridge, CB2 0PY, United Kingdom
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References and documents

Publications

  • Tormahlen NM, Martorelli M, Kuhn A, Maier F, Guezguez J, Burnet M, Albrecht W, Laufer SA, Koch P. Design and Synthesis of Highly Selective Brain Penetrant p38alpha Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Inhibitors. J Med Chem. 2022 Jan 27;65(2):1225-1242. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c01773. Epub 2021 May 11. PubMed 33974419 ↗

Study documents

  • Study protocol · Jul 30, 2019
  • Statistical analysis plan · Feb 3, 2020

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03980938
Lead sponsor
EIP Pharma Inc
Collaborators
Voisin Consulting, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 10, 2019
Start date
Jul 8, 2019
Primary completion
Oct 15, 2020
Completion
Oct 15, 2020
Results posted
Apr 6, 2022
Last update
Apr 6, 2022

Study contacts

John Alam, MD
study director · EIP Pharma

Oversight

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