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CompletedNCT04971200TILDVIT-1227Updated Nov 12, 2024

Pilot Study Assessing the Effect of Tildrakizumab in Vitiligo

An Early Phase 1 interventional study of Tildrakizumab in Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases, Skin Diseases and Pigmentation Disorder, sponsored by Premier Specialists, Australia. Completed at 1 site in Australia. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-11-12.

Primary conditionVitiligoRegistry: Skin and Connective Tissue DiseasesReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Vitiligo
Why
  1. The study's listed conditions name Vitiligo, a narrower term within Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by Premier Specialists, Australia · Early Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Early Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
12
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Vitiligo is a common acquired depigmentation disorder affecting approximately 2% of the world population. The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the effect and the safety of Tildrakizumab in adult participants with vitiligo.

Read the detailed description

Tildrakizumab is a monoclonal antibody against interleukin (IL) 23, specifically anti-IL23p19. It is approved in the USA, Europe and Australia for psoriasis. The psoriasis dose is 100mg administered subcutaneously at weeks 0, 4 and every 12 weeks. Recent research has shown medications used to treat psoriasis may be effective in other immune mediated or autoimmune diseases such as vitiligo. With studies underway assessing the effect of Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors in psoriasis and vitiligo, this study seeks to determine if an IL-23 inhibitor is beneficial in halting disease progression and inducing repigmentation in vitiligo. There is some data to indicate that a higher dose of Tildrakizumab is effective for other autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa. For psoriasis, 200mg dosage was more effective than 100mg dosage. For hidradenitis suppurativa, a dosage of 200mg every 4 weeks was shown to be effective. Patients included in this study will start Tildrakizumab at a dosage of 200mg every 4 weeks for 6 months. There is a total of 8 visits involved in this study. Tildrakizumab is provided during visit 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Visit 1is a screening visit. At visit 1 and visit 8 no study drug will be provided.

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Conditions studied

  • Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases
  • Skin Diseases
  • Pigmentation Disorder
  • Hypopigmentation
  • Biologic
  • Vitiligo

Keywords

  • Tildrakizumab
  • non-segmental vitiligo
  • interleukin-23
  • IL-23
  • biological treatment
  • pilot study
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
  • Vitiligo
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In context

Vitiligo Reclassified

343 studies on the registry are indexed under Vitiligo; 96 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 12 is below the median of 36 across 265 interventional studies indexed under Vitiligo.

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Lead sponsor

Premier Specialists, Australia is the lead sponsor of 7 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Compared within Vitiligo, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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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

  • 18 years of age or older
  • Diagnosis of vitiligo
  • Clinically stable vitiligo: defined as no new vitiligo patches and no enlargement of existing patches in previous 3 months.
  • Able to provide voluntary, written,

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Clinically active vitiligo: defined as new vitiligo patches or enlargement of existing patches in previous 3 months
  • Concurrent skin disease in the study area
  • Immunocompromise
  • Women of (WOCBP) who are unwilling to practice highly effective prior to the initial dose/start of the first treatment, during the study, and for at least 12 weeks after the last dose.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

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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.

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Vitiligo Patients on Tildrakizumab

    Drug: Tildrakizumab

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Percentage repigmentation: Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (VASI)

    Percentage repigmentation is assessed through change in score from baseline. Range 0-100. Higher score=greater depigmentation/worse

    Time frame: Week 24

  2. Percentage repigmentation: Vitiligo Extent Score (VES)

    Percentage repigmentation is assessed through change in score from baseline. Range 0-100. Higher score=greater depigmentation/worse

    Time frame: Week 24

  3. Percentage repigmentation: Photographs

    Percentage repigmentation is assessed through comparison of photographs of vitiligo lesions from baseline.

    Time frame: Week 24

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percentage repigmentation: Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (VASI)

    Percentage repigmentation is assessed through change in score from baseline. Range 0-100. Higher score=greater depigmentation/worse

    Time frame: Week 12

  2. Percentage repigmentation: Vitiligo Extent Score (VES)

    Percentage repigmentation is assessed through change in score from baseline. Range 0-100. Higher score=greater depigmentation/worse

    Time frame: Week 12

  3. Percentage repigmentation: Photographs

    Percentage repigmentation is assessed through comparison of photographs of vitiligo lesions from baseline.

    Time frame: Week 12

  4. Time to repigmentation

    Time frame: through study treatment completion at 24-weeks

  5. Change in Quality of Life score from baseline: Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI)

    Used to assess treatment response on subject's quality of life. Range 0-30. Higher score=larger effect on patient's life/worse

    Time frame: Baseline through week 12 and through study treatment completion at 24-weeks

  6. Change in Quality of Life score from baseline: Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC)

    1-tem questionnaire designed to assess a subject's impression of disease improvement. 7 point Likert scale ranging from "Very much better" to "Very much worse" with "no change" in the middle. Range\[1-no change, 2-almost the same, 3-a little better, 4-somewhat better, 5-moderately better, 6-better/a definite improvement, 7-a great deal better\]. Higher score=better impression of change/better

    Time frame: Baseline through week 12 and through study treatment completion at 24-weeks

  7. Change in Quality of Life score from baseline: Self-Assessment Vitiligo Extent Score (SA-VES)

    Validated patient reported outcome measurement to provide information about disease extent and repigmentation. Range 0-100. Higher score=greater depigmentation/worse.

    Time frame: Baseline through week 12 and through study treatment completion at 24-weeks

  8. Adverse events

    incidence and nature of any adverse events

    Time frame: through study treatment completion at 24-weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Premier Specialists Pty Ltd
    Sydney, New South Wales 2217, Australia
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References and documents

Publications

  • Jerjen R, Moodley A, Sinclair R. Repigmentation of acrofacial vitiligo with subcutaneous tildrakizumab. Australas J Dermatol. 2020 Nov;61(4):e446-e448. doi: 10.1111/ajd.13346. Epub 2020 May 21. No abstract available. PubMed 32441048 ↗
  • Vaccaro M, Cannavo SP, Imbesi S, Cristani M, Barbuzza O, Tigano V, Gangemi S. Increased serum levels of interleukin-23 circulating in patients with non-segmental generalized vitiligo. Int J Dermatol. 2015 Jun;54(6):672-4. doi: 10.1111/ijd.12392. Epub 2014 Nov 27. PubMed 25427848 ↗
  • Hu Y, Qi X, Hu Y, Lu Y, Liu K, Han X, Mao Z, Wu Z, Zhou X. Effects of CO2 fractional laser therapy on peripheral blood cytokines in patients with vitiligo. Dermatol Ther. 2019 Jul;32(4):e12992. doi: 10.1111/dth.12992. Epub 2019 Jun 17. PubMed 31172649 ↗
  • Hamzavi I, Jain H, McLean D, Shapiro J, Zeng H, Lui H. Parametric modeling of narrowband UV-B phototherapy for vitiligo using a novel quantitative tool: the Vitiligo Area Scoring Index. Arch Dermatol. 2004 Jun;140(6):677-83. doi: 10.1001/archderm.140.6.677. PubMed 15210457 ↗
  • van Geel N, Lommerts J, Bekkenk M, Wolkerstorfer A, Prinsen CAC, Eleftheriadou V, Taieb A, Picardo M, Ezzedine K, Speeckaert R. Development and Validation of the Vitiligo Extent Score (VES): an International Collaborative Initiative. J Invest Dermatol. 2016 May;136(5):978-984. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2015.12.040. Epub 2016 Jan 28. PubMed 26827762 ↗
  • Finlay AY, Khan GK. Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI)--a simple practical measure for routine clinical use. Clin Exp Dermatol. 1994 May;19(3):210-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1994.tb01167.x. PubMed 8033378 ↗
  • van Geel N, Lommerts JE, Bekkenk MW, Prinsen CA, Eleftheriadou V, Taieb A, Picardo M, Ezzedine K, Wolkerstorfer A, Speeckaert R; international Vitiligo Score Working Group. Development and validation of a patient-reported outcome measure in vitiligo: The Self Assessment Vitiligo Extent Score (SA-VES). J Am Acad Dermatol. 2017 Mar;76(3):464-471. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2016.09.034. Epub 2016 Nov 22. PubMed 27887798 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 12, 2024, 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
NCT04971200
Lead sponsor
Premier Specialists, Australia
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 21, 2021
Start date
Sep 16, 2021
Primary completion
Nov 10, 2024
Completion
Nov 10, 2024
Last update
Nov 12, 2024

Study contacts

Dedee Murrell, MD
principal investigator · University of New South Wales

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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