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Evaluation of Imaging Characteristics of [18F]PI-2620 PET in AD and PSP Patients Using High and Low Specific Activity

A Phase 1 interventional study of [18F]-PI2620 in Alzheimer Disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, sponsored by Life Molecular Imaging GmbH. Completed at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 50 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-05-18.

Sponsored by Life Molecular Imaging GmbH · Phase 1, Interventional, and Diagnostic

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
10
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
50 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is an open-label study without randomisation. All eligible patients will receive two administrations of the investigational imaging agent [18F]PI-2620 at a radioactive dose of 185 MBq, one with high specific activity (≤ 5 µg tracer mass dose), another one with low specific activity (40-50 µg tracer mass dose).

Read the detailed description

This is an open-label, single center study to visually assess and quantitatively compare brain PET images obtained after application of [18F]PI-2620 with different specific activities: 1) High specific activity (low mass dose): 185 MBq containing a maximum mass dose of ≤5 μg in up to 10 mL and 2) Low specific activity (high mass dose): 185 MBq containing a maximum mass dose of 40-50 μg in up to 10 mL).

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Conditions studied

  • Alzheimer Disease
  • Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Keywords

  • Tau PET
  • [18F]PI-2620
  • Mass dose
  • Specific activity
  • Alzheimer Disease
  • Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
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In context

Alzheimer Disease

3,678 studies on the registry are indexed under Alzheimer Disease; 872 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 10 is below the median of 70 across 2,808 interventional studies indexed under Alzheimer Disease.

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Lead sponsor

Life Molecular Imaging GmbH is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
50 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Males and females aged 50-80 years
  • Able to understand, sign and date written informed consent, which is confirmed by the judgment of the referring physician
  • Written informed consent must be obtained before any assessment is performed
  • Prior evaluable MRI
  • Female patients must be documented by medical records or physician's note to be either surgically sterile (by means of hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy or bilateral oophorectomy) or post-menopausal for at least 1 year (no menses for 12 months without an alternative medical cause). If they are of child-bearing potential, must commit to use of a highly effective contraceptive measure for the duration of the study
  • Male patients and their partners of childbearing potential must commit to the use of a highly effective method of contraception for a minimum of one week following each PET scan
  • Male patients must commit to not donate sperm for a minimum of one week after each PET scan.

Inclusion Criteria for mild-moderate AD patients

  • Patients with mild or moderate AD in accordance with NIA-AA guidelines 2011
  • Have a CDR score of ≥ 0.5 at screening
  • Have an MMSE score of ≤ 24 at screening
  • Prior evaluable amyloid PET imaging confirming presence of beta-amyloid brain pathology
  • Medications taken for symptomatic treatment of AD must be maintained on a stable dosage regimen for at least 30 days before the [18F]PI-2620 PET imaging visits

Inclusion Criteria for patients with probable PSP

  • Patients with a clinical diagnosis of probable PSP based on the Movement Disorder Society criteria (Höglinger et al., 2017).
  • Have a PSP rating score between 20 - 60
  • Medications taken for symptomatic treatment of PSP must be maintained on a stable dosage regimen for at least 30 days before the [18F]PI-2620 PET imaging visits

Exclusion Criteria (for all patients)

  • Laboratory tests with clinically significant abnormalities and/or clinically significant unstable medical illness equivalent to CTC v5.0 (common toxicity criteria) toxicities greater than grade 2
  • Evidence of clinically significant disease that is expected to interfere with cognitive assessments or the ability to complete the study procedures
  • Patient has received an investigational drug including treatments targeting amyloid-beta plaques or tau within 3 months of screening
  • Pregnant (or intention of getting pregnant), lactating or breastfeeding
  • MRI exclusion criteria include: Findings of cerebrovascular disease (more than two lacunar infarcts, any territorial infarct >1 cm3, or deep white matter abnormality corresponding to an overall Fazekas scale of 3 with at least one confluent hyperintense lesion on the Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) sequence that is >=20 mm in any dimension), infectious disease, space-occupying lesions, normal pressure hydrocephalus or any other abnormalities associated with Central Nervous System (CNS) disease
  • Implants such as implanted cardiac pacemakers or defibrillators, insulin pumps, cochlear implants, metallic ocular foreign body, implanted neural stimulators, CNS aneurysm clips and other medical implants that have not been certified for MRI, or history of claustrophobia in MRI
  • Unwilling and/or unable to cooperate with study procedures
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
10 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Tau deposition in the brains of Alzheimer Disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy patients

    All patients will receive two administrations of \[18F\]PI-2620 at a radioactive dose of 185 MBq, one with high specific activity (≤ 5 µg tracer mass dose), another one with low specific activity (40-50 µg tracer mass dose)

    Drug: [18F]-PI2620

Interventions

  • Drug[18F]-PI2620

    \[18F\]PI-2620 is a radioactive diagnostic agent being developed for the indication of PET imaging of the brain to detect tau pathology in adult patients who are being evaluated for neurodegenerative decline. All patients will receive two administrations of \[18F\]PI-2620 at a radioactive dose of 185 MBq, one with high specific activity (≤ 5 µg tracer mass dose), another one with low specific activity (40-50 µg tracer mass dose).

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Comparability of visual assessment of PI-2620 tau PET images obtained after injection of high specific activity and low specific activity in AD and PSP patients.

    PI-2620 tau PET images obtained with \[18F\]PI-2620 using high specific activity (185 MBq and ≤ 5 µg mass dose) and with \[18F\]PI-2620 using low specific activity (185 MBq and 40-50 µg mass dose) in AD and PSP patients will be visually analyzed. Visual analysis of the tau signal pattern will be compared for high and low specific activity images within the same subject.

    Time frame: 4-54 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Comparability of quantitative assessment of PI-2620 tau PET images obtained after injection of high specific activity and low specific activity in AD and PSP patients.

    PI-2620 tau PET images obtained with \[18F\]PI-2620 using high specific activity (185 MBq and ≤ 5 µg mass dose) and with \[18F\]PI-2620 using low specific activity (185 MBq and 40-50 µg mass dose) in AD and PSP patients will be quantitatively analyzed. Quantitative analysis of the tau signal pattern will be compared for high and low specific activity images within the same subject.

    Time frame: 4-54 days

  2. Number of adverse events

    Safety will be evaluated by collection of Adverse Events.

    Time frame: From injection of [18F]PI-2620 until up to 6 days after injection

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Study locations

1 site
  • Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig
    Leipzig, Germany
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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 18, 2025, 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
NCT04715750
Lead sponsor
Life Molecular Imaging GmbH
Collaborators
Life Molecular Imaging SA
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 20, 2021
Start date
Nov 12, 2020
Primary completion
Oct 26, 2022
Completion
Oct 26, 2022
Last update
May 18, 2025

Study contacts

Andrew Stephens, MD, PhD
study director · Life Molecular Imaging GmbH

Oversight

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