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CompletedNCT04587908Updated Aug 17, 2026

A Phase 3 Study of TAS-205 in Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy(REACH-DMD)

A Phase 3 interventional study of TAS-205 [Ambulatory Cohort] [Non-ambulatory Cohort] and Placebo [Ambulatory Cohort] only in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, sponsored by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. Completed at 5 sites in Japan. Open to male participants aged 5 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-17.

Sponsored by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (part of Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd.) · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
104
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
5 Years and older
Sex
Male
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of TAS-205 in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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[Ambulatory Cohort] The main purpose of this cohort is to assess the efficacy of TAS-205 in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) compared with placebo as measured by the mean change from baseline to 52 weeks in the time to rise from the floor. Following completion of the treatment period, patients may elect to continue in open-label extension study.

[Non-ambulatory Cohort] The main purpose of this cohort is to assess the safety of TAS-205 in patients with DMD by collecting the incidence of adverse events for 52 weeks.

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Conditions studied

  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
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In context

Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne

481 studies on the registry are indexed under Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne; 108 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 104 is above the median of 26 across 332 interventional studies indexed under Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne.

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Lead sponsor

Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 43 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
5 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Male
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Key Inclusion Criteria [Ambulatory Cohort]

  • Patients with a diagnosis of dystrophinopathy as determined by a dystrophin genetic test at the time of , symptoms or signs characteristic to DMD (e.g., proximal muscular weakness, waddling gait, Gower's sign)
  • Patients aged 5 years or more at the time of informed consent
  • Patients weighing more than 7.5 kg and less than 60 kg at the time of screening test
  • Patients who meet all of the following at the time of screening test
  • walk by themselves
  • time to rise from the floor on own is ≥ 3 seconds and \<10 seconds
  • Patients who can expect a 6-minute walking test of 350 meters or more
  • If taking oral no significant change in the total daily or dosing 6 months before enrollment.

[Non-ambulatory Cohort]

  • Patients with a diagnosis of DMD as determined by a dystrophin genetic test at the time of informed consent.
  • Patients weighing more than 7.5 kg and less than 90 kg at the time of screening test
  • Patients who meet all of the following criteria as definition of non-ambulatory at the time of enrollment
  • Use of a wheelchair on a daily basis.
  • No orthopedic pathology (fracture, sprain, injury, etc.) or acute deterioration associated with surgical treatment.
  • Inability to walk 10 meters within 30 seconds on the 10-meter run/walk test at enrollment.
  • Patients with a Brooke Score of 5 or less in the arm and shoulder at enrollment.
  • Patients who are able to take the drug orally throughout the treatment period (crushed or suspended doses are not acceptable)
  • If taking oral glucocorticoids no significant change in the total daily or dosing 90 days prior to obtaining consent, or not taking oral glucocorticoids for more than 90 days prior to obtaining consent and whose symptoms are stable.
  • Patients on angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, beta-blockers, and angiotensin II receptor blockers for the treatment (including prophylaxis) of heart failure who are symptomatically stable with no change in dosage (prescription basis) within 90 days prior to enrollment.

Key exclusion Criteria [Ambulatory Cohort]

  • Patients who have serious concomitant drug or medical history
  • Patients who have used cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) or COX-2 inhibitors, or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) during 7 days before the measurement of time to rise from the floor in the screening period
  • Patients who have incurred an injury (trauma/damage) that may affect muscle strength or motor function within 3 months before enrollment or who have an uncured injury (trauma/damage) that may affect muscle strength or motor function at the enrollment
  • Patients who have received gene-/cell-based therapy or stop-codon readthrough therapy with antisense oligonucleotides
  • Patients who have participated in another clinical trial and received a study drug within 90 days before study drug administration in the present study
  • Patients with a (EF) of \<40% or left ventricular fractional shortening (FS) of \<25% on the cardiac ultrasonography (echocardiography) at observation period

[Non-ambulatory Cohort]

  • Patients with severe cardiac disease (including a history of pacemaker surgery)
  • Patients with left ventricular EF \<40% on echocardiography within 14 days prior to enrollment
  • Patients with %FVC less than 40% within 14 days prior to enrollment
  • Patients with respiratory diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, , bronchiectasis, emphysema, pneumonia, etc. (including chronic use of beta2 agonists, inhaled steroids, sympathomimetics, anticholinergic agents, etc.)
  • Patients on continuous ventilator use (excluding use while sleeping)
  • Patients who have undergone surgery within 180 days prior to enrollment that may affect muscle strength or exercise, pulmonary function, or cardiac function, or are planning such surgery during the study period
  • Injury (trauma/injury) within 90 days prior to enrollment that may affect muscle strength or motor, pulmonary, or cardiac function, or that has not healed at the time of enrollment
  • Patients who are judged by the principal investigator or subinvestigator to have brain dysfunction such as intellectual disability, autistic tendencies, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder that would interfere with the performance of efficacy and safety evaluation
  • Patients with systemic allergic or chronic inflammatory diseases that may interfere with the interpretation of efficacy or safety data (except allergic rhinitis, localized or mild atopic dermatitis, eczema, etc.)
  • Patients enrolled in Treatment Phase Part A of this study's Ambulatory Cohort
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(5)

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Informed consent

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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.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

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

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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.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
104 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    TAS-205

    Drug: TAS-205 [Ambulatory Cohort] [Non-ambulatory Cohort]

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Drug: Placebo [Ambulatory Cohort] only

Interventions

  • ・Treatment period:oral administration for 52 weeks, BID after meal

  • DrugPlacebo [Ambulatory Cohort] only

    * Observation period:oral administration for 2 weeks, BID after meal * Treatment period:oral administration for 52 weeks, BID after meal

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Mean change from baseline to Week 52 in the time to rise from the floor

    Ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 52 of treatment

  2. Incidence of Adverse Events and Adverse Reactions

    Non-ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: Week 52

Secondary outcomes

  1. Time measured in the time to rise from the floor test, as well as the change from baseline in each measured value

    Ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment

  2. Change from baseline in the Timed Up and Go Test (TUG)

    Ambulatory Cohort Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) The time required for the subject to stand up from a sitting position on a table (chair), walk to a cone placed 3 m ahead as quickly as possible, and then return to the table will be evaluated. The time required for the subject to stand up from a sitting position on a table (chair), walk to a cone placed 3 m ahead as quickly as possible, and then return to the table will be evaluated.

    Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment

  3. Change from baseline in North Star Ambulatory Assessment (NSAA)

    Ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment

  4. Change from baseline in Six-minutes Walk Test (6MWT)

    Ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment

  5. Measured values of Muscle volume index (MVI), Percent Muscle volume index (%MVI) and skeletal muscle mass in skeletal muscle computed tomography (CT), as well as the change from baseline in each measured value

    Ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: Baseline to 52 weeks of treatment

  6. Assessment of upper limb function: The Brooke upper extremity scale, measured values of performance of the upper limb (PUL) and change from baseline in measured values

    Non-ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: week 52

  7. Change from baseline in grip strength

    Non-ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: week 52

  8. Pulmonary function tests: measured effort lung capacity (FVC, %FVC), volume in 1 second (Forced Expiratory Volume :FEV1.0), fraction in 1 second (FEV1.0%), and change from baseline (at enrollment) of measured values.

    Non-ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: week 52

  9. Echocardiography: Measured EF and FS and change from baseline in measured values

    Non-ambulatory Cohort

    Time frame: week 52

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Study locations

5 sites
  • A site selected by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Aichi, Japan
  • A site selected by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Fukuoka, Japan
  • A site selected by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Hokkaido, Japan
  • A site selected by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Osaka, Japan
  • A site selected by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Tokyo, Japan
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Data will not be shared according to the Sponsor policy on data sharing. Taiho policy on data sharing may be found at https://www.taiho.co.jp/en/science/policy/clinical_trial_information_disclosure_policy/index.html.

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 Aug 17, 2026, 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
NCT04587908
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 14, 2020
Start date
Nov 1, 2020
Primary completion
Jun 18, 2026
Completion
Jun 18, 2026
Last update
Aug 17, 2026

Study contacts

Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
study director · Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Oversight

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