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CompletedNCT04601909Updated May 25, 2022

FX-322 in Adults With Age-Related Sensorineural Hearing Loss

A Phase 1 interventional study of FX-322 and placebo in Presbycusis, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural and Noise Induced Hearing Loss, sponsored by Frequency Therapeutics. Completed at 5 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 66 Years to 85 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-05-25.

Sponsored by Frequency Therapeutics · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was May 2022, 4 years 5 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
66 Years to 85 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a Phase 1b, prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single-dose, multicenter, safety study of FX-322, administered by intratympanic injection, in adults with age-related sensorineural hearing loss.

Read the detailed description

This is a Phase 1b placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized, single-dose safety study of intratympanic FX-322 dosed in subjects with age-related sensorineural hearing loss.

Approximately 30 subjects are planned to be enrolled in this study. The subjects will be randomized to receive one dose FX-322 (24) or placebo (6) and will return for safety, otologic, and audiologic assessments at Days 30 and 90 after the study injection.

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Conditions studied

  • Presbycusis
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
  • Noise Induced Hearing Loss
  • Sudden Hearing Loss

Keywords

  • Intratympanic administration
  • Restoration of hearing loss
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In context

Presbycusis

66 studies on the registry are indexed under Presbycusis; 21 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 30 is below the median of 60 across 45 interventional studies indexed under Presbycusis.

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Lead sponsor

Frequency Therapeutics is the lead sponsor of 7 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Of its 6 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 3 (50%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
66 Years to 85 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Subject has read and voluntarily signed the Form (ICF) after all questions have been answered and prior to any study-mandated procedure.
  2. Adult aged 66-85 years inclusive.
  3. Documented medical history consistent with age-related sensorineural hearing loss (documented audiogram at least 6 months prior to screening required).
  4. A pure tone average of 26-70 dB at 500Hz, 1000Hz, 2000Hz, and 4000Hz at Screening in the ear to be injected.
  5. Ability to communicate well with the Investigator and is willing to comply with and complete all the study procedures.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subject has previously participated in a FX-322 clinical trial.
  2. Any subject with a flat audiogram between 500Hz and 8000Hz at Screening in the study ear. The difference in the range of threshold values across frequencies is ≤15 dB for the definition of a flat audiogram.
  3. abnormalities on safety laboratory tests.
  4. Perforation of tympanic membrane or other tympanic membrane disorders that would interfere with the delivery and safety assessment of an intratympanic medication or reasonably be suspected to affect tympanic membrane healing after injection in study ear. This includes a current tympanostomy tube.
  5. Any conductive hearing loss of greater than 15 dB at a single frequency or greater than 10 dB at two or more contiguous octave frequencies in the study ear at the Screening visit or on the prior audiogram (if the Investigator feels there is not a true conductive hearing loss, the Medical Monitor should be consulted).
  6. Active chronic middle ear disease or a history of major middle ear surgery, as an adult, in the ear to be injected.
  7. Subject has had an intratympanic injection in either ear within 3 months of the screening visit.
  8. History of clinically significant vestibular symptoms at the discretion of the investigator. For example, BPPV may be considered acceptable whereas Meniere's would not.
  9. History of clinically significant systemic disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis).
  10. Exposure to another drug within 28 days prior to injection of study drug.
  11. Evidence of any active or chronic disease or condition that could interfere with, or for which the treatment of might interfere with, the conduct of the study, or that would pose an unacceptable risk to the subject in the opinion of the investigator following a detailed medical history, physical examination, and vital signs (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, body temperature).
  12. Females of (those who are not surgically sterilized or ) may not participate in the study if any of the following conditions exist:

    • Pregnant or intend to become pregnant
    • Nursing (lactating)
    • Does not agree to use adequate methods for the duration of the study (adequate birth control methods are: hormonal- oral, implantable, transdermal or injectable contraceptives; mechanical- spermicide in conjunction with a barrier such as a condom or diaphragm, IUD, or surgical sterilization of a partner.

    NOTE: all female subjects of childbearing potential must consent to a urine pregnancy test as described in the Schedule of Assessments

  13. Any known factor, condition, or disease that, in the view of the Investigator, might interfere with treatment compliance, study conduct or interpretation of the results (e.g. previous high-dose aminoglycoside treatment).
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

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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.

Autoimmune disease

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Investigational drug or device

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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.

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.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
30 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    FX-322

    FX-322, 1 dose (N=24)

    Drug: FX-322

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Placebo, 1 dose (n=6)

    Other: placebo

Interventions

  • DrugFX-322

    active comparator

  • Otherplacebo

    placebo

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Systemic Safety: Number of patients with treatment-related adverse events

    Number of patients with treatment-related adverse events assessed by CTCAE v5.0

    Time frame: 3 months

  2. Local Safety: Number of patients with abnormal changes from baseline in otoscopic examinations

    Microscopic otoscopy will be included to specifically record any abnormalities of the external ear canal, tympanic membrane and middle ear.

    Time frame: 3 months

  3. Local Safety: The number of patients with abnormal changes from baseline in tympanometry

    Tympanometry tests the integrity of the tympanic membrane by varying air pressure in the ear canal. Middle ear compliance (mL), peak pressure (daPa), and ear canal volume (mL) will be recorded.

    Time frame: 3 months

  4. Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)

    Risk assessment through a series of simple, plain-language questions

    Time frame: 3 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Audiologic Response Endpoints: Speech Intelligibility - Word Recognition in Quiet (WR)

    Assessment of speech intelligibility using the Word Recognition in Quiet test measured with Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant (CNC) word lists.

    Time frame: 3 months

  2. Audiologic Response Endpoints: Speech Intelligibility - Words-In-Noise (WIN)

    Speech intelligibility using the Words-in-Noise test measured with Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant (CNC) word lists

    Time frame: 3 months

  3. Standard Pure Tone Audiometry

    Standard pure tone audiometry will be measured to determine a subject's threshold for hearing at standard frequencies (Hz)

    Time frame: 3 months

  4. Extended High Frequency Pure Tone Audiometry

    Pure tone audiometry will be measured to determine a subject's threshold for hearing at extended high range frequencies (Hz)

    Time frame: 3 months

  5. Tinnitus Assessment

    Measured by the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI), with a scale ranging from 0 to 100 that defines severity categories based on 25 self-reported answers.

    Time frame: 3 months

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Study locations

5 sites
  • Clinical Trial Site
    Sarasota, Florida 00000, United States
  • Clinical Trial Site
    Omaha, Nebraska 00000, United States
  • Clinical Trial Site
    Amherst, New York 00000, United States
  • Clinical Trial Site
    San Antonio, Texas 00000, United States
  • Clinical Trial Site
    Norfolk, Virginia 00000, United States
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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 May 25, 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
NCT04601909
Lead sponsor
Frequency Therapeutics
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 26, 2020
Start date
Sep 17, 2020
Primary completion
May 16, 2022
Completion
May 16, 2022
Last update
May 25, 2022

Study contacts

Carl LeBel, PhD
study director · Frequency Therapeutics

Oversight

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