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CompletedNCT05164614Updated Oct 31, 2022

Study Evaluating PK of PTH Administered Orally Via RaniPill™ Capsule

A Phase 1 interventional study of RT-102 (80 μg) and Forteo in Healthy Volunteers, sponsored by RANI Therapeutics. Completed at 1 site in Australia. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-10-31.

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

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

A prospective, single-center, open-label, phase I study evaluating the pharmacokinetics (PK) of human parathyroid hormone (1-34) ("PTH") administered via the RaniPill™ capsule ("RT-102").

Read the detailed description

The RaniPill device is a capsule-like ingestible device, which injects a microneedle containing a micro tablet (payload/drug) into the intestinal wall. This is a single-center, prospective, open-label, feasibility study being conducted in two parts.

Part 1: Healthy women volunteers, 18-65 years of age, of any race, recruited from the general population and assigned to one of the following groups:

RT-102:

  • RT-102 Group 1: 20 µg (N=15)
  • RT-102 Group 2: 80 µg (N=15)

Subcutaneous (SC):

  • SC Group: 20 µg of Forteo (N=10)

Part 2: Healthy women, 18-65 years of age, or healthy post-menopausal or surgically sterile with bilateral oophorectomy women of any race, recruited from the general population will have once-a-day repeat dosing with 20 μg dose of RT-102 for 7 days (N= up to 12):

  • Healthy women: N = up to 12
  • Post-menopausal or surgically sterile volunteers: N = up to 7
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Conditions studied

  • Healthy Volunteers

Keywords

  • Healthy Volunteers
  • Forteo
  • Parathyroid Hormone
  • PTH
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In context

Lead sponsor

RANI Therapeutics is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

Part 1

  1. Participant understands and voluntarily signs the approved informed consent document prior to the performance of any study-specific procedures
  2. Willing to comply with all study procedures and available for the entire duration of the study
  3. Participant is ambulatory female between 18 to 65 years of age.
  4. BMI between 19 to 32 kg/m2.
  5. In good health, determined by no clinically significant findings from medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and vital signs.
  6. Non-menstruating, non-pregnant or non-lactating women during study participation NOTE: Females who are of childbearing potential must have had a negative pregnancy test on day of screening. Contraception (double barrier contraception and be protected by a daily combination birth control pill containing estrogen and progestin or any other form of hormonal contraceptive if cannot use the contraceptive pill) should be used between Screening visit and 30 days after dosing if actively engaged in penile-vaginal intercourse.

Part 2: Healthy Women

  1. Participant understands and voluntarily signs the approved informed consent document prior to the performance of any study-specific procedures
  2. Willing to comply with all study procedures and available for the entire duration of the study
  3. Participant is ambulatory female between 18 to 65 years of age.
  4. BMI between 19 to 32 kg/m2.
  5. In good health, determined by no clinically significant findings from medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and vital signs.
  6. Non-menstruating, non-pregnant or non-lactating women during study participation NOTE: Females who are of childbearing potential must have had a negative pregnancy test on day of screening. A double barrier approach using highly effective methods of contraception (e.g., oral contraceptives containing combined estrogen and progesterone, a vaginal ring, injectable and implantable hormonal contraceptives, intrauterine hormone-releasing system [e.g., Mirena], progestogen-only hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation, nonhormonal intrauterine device, bilateral tubal occlusion) should be used between Screening visit and 30 days after dosing if actively engaged in penile-vaginal intercourse.

Part 2: Post-menopausal/surgically sterile

  1. Participant understands and voluntarily signs the approved informed consent document prior to the performance of any study-specific procedures
  2. Willing to comply with all study procedures and available for the entire duration of the study
  3. Healthy ambulatory female post-menopausal for at least 1 year or surgically sterile with bilateral oophorectomy
  4. BMI between 19 to 32 kg/m2.
  5. In good health, determined by no clinically significant findings from medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and vital signs.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Part 1

  1. Participants with known history of chronic constipation, gastroparesis / delayed gastric emptying, gastric or duodenal ulcers, dysphagia, dyspepsia, esophagitis, esophageal spasm, GERD, IBD, Crohn's disease, stomas, tumors, ischemic or ulcerative colitis
  2. Participant has known history of intolerance of PTH (1-34)
  3. Participant has known history of high levels of uric acid outside normal ranges
  4. Participant has known history of osteoporosis or other bone disorders (such as Paget's disease)
  5. Participant has known history of Cushing's disease, hypo- or hyper-parathyroidism or malabsorptive syndromes within the past year
  6. Participant is taking calcium and/or vitamin D supplements within 7 days of treatment (including multi-vitamins containing calcium and/or vitamin D)
  7. Participant has febrile illness within 30 days of the study procedures
  8. Participant currently treated with parathyroid hormone, parathyroid hormone-related peptide-derived drugs, or bone anabolic steroids, including abaloparatide, teriparatide, or parathyroid hormone (1-84)
  9. Participant currently treated with intravenous bisphosphonates for at least 1 month or oral bisphosphonates within the past year (12 months). Subjects who have received a short course of oral bisphosphonate therapy (3 months or less) may be enrolled if the treatment occurred 6 or more months prior to enrollment
  10. Participants on a regimen of proton pump inhibitors (e.g. omeprazole) or histamine H2 receptor antagonists (e.g. ranitidine)
  11. Participants with known bowel obstruction/stricture/fistula
  12. Participants who have undergone gastrointestinal surgery (Roux-en-Y, Billroth II, Whipple, intestinal resection for any reason)
  13. Participants who have undergone a recent (less than a month) barium X-ray procedure
  14. Participants with known allergies or sensitivity to contrast media or barium sulfate
  15. Participant with history of chronic disease that in the investigator's judgement may impact subject safety or study outcomes
  16. Participants with congestive heart failure, renal failure
  17. Presence of cardiac pacemaker or implanted electromedical device
  18. Participant who is pregnant or lactating
  19. Participant has received an investigational or marketed drug during a trial within the past 1 month or 5 half-lives of the investigational drug, whichever is longer
  20. Participant received COVID-19 vaccine within 7 days of dosing
  21. Participant is unlikely, in the investigator's judgment, to be able to complete participation in the study as required per study plan
  22. Any other history which, in the investigator's judgment, makes the participant ineligible or places the participant at risk

Part 2: Healthy Women

  1. Participants with known history of chronic constipation, gastroparesis / delayed gastric emptying, gastric or duodenal ulcers, dysphagia, dyspepsia, esophagitis, esophageal spasm, GERD, IBD, Crohn's disease, stomas, tumors, ischemic or ulcerative colitis
  2. Participant has known history of intolerance of PTH (1-34)
  3. Participant has known history of high levels of uric acid outside normal ranges
  4. Participant has known history of osteoporosis or other bone disorders (such as Paget's disease)
  5. Participant has known history of Cushing's disease, hypo- or hyper-parathyroidism or malabsorptive syndromes within the past year
  6. Participant is taking calcium and/or vitamin D supplements within 7 days of treatment (including multi-vitamins containing calcium and/or vitamin D)
  7. Participant has febrile illness within 30 days of the study procedures
  8. Participant currently treated with parathyroid hormone, parathyroid hormone-related peptide-derived drugs, or bone anabolic steroids, including abaloparatide, teriparatide, or parathyroid hormone (1-84)
  9. Participant currently treated with intravenous bisphosphonates for at least 1 month or oral bisphosphonates within the past year (12 months). Subjects who have received a short course of oral bisphosphonate therapy (3 months or less) may be enrolled if the treatment occurred 6 or more months prior to enrollment
  10. Participants on a higher than the lowest approved therapeutic dose regimen of proton pump inhibitors (see Section 8.3.9 for details)
  11. Participants on a H2 receptor antagonists (e.g. ranitidine)
  12. Participants with known bowel obstruction/stricture/fistula
  13. Participants who have undergone gastrointestinal surgery (Roux-en-Y, Billroth II, Whipple, intestinal resection for any reason)
  14. Participants who have undergone a recent (less than a month) barium X-ray procedure
  15. Participants with known allergies or sensitivity to contrast media or barium sulfate
  16. Participant with history of chronic disease that in the investigator's judgement may impact subject safety or study outcomes
  17. Participants with congestive heart failure, renal failure
  18. Presence of cardiac pacemaker or implanted electromedical device
  19. Participant who is pregnant or lactating
  20. Participant has received an investigational or marketed drug during a trial within the past 1 month or 5 half-lives of the investigational drug, whichever is longer
  21. Participant received COVID-19 vaccine within 7 days of dosing
  22. Participant is unlikely, in the investigator's judgment, to be able to complete participation in the study as required per study plan
  23. Any other history which, in the investigator's judgment, makes the participant ineligible or places the participant at risk

Part 2: Post-menopausal/surgically sterile

  1. Participants with known history of chronic constipation, gastroparesis / delayed gastric emptying, gastric or duodenal ulcers, dysphagia, dyspepsia, esophagitis, esophageal spasm, GERD, IBD, Crohn's disease, stomas, tumors, ischemic or ulcerative colitis
  2. Participant has known history of intolerance of PTH (1-34)
  3. Participant has known history of high levels of uric acid outside normal ranges
  4. Participant has known history of osteoporosis or other bone disorders (such as Paget's disease)
  5. Participant has known history of Cushing's disease, hypo- or hyper-parathyroidism or malabsorptive syndromes within the past year
  6. Participant is taking calcium and/or vitamin D supplements within 7 days of treatment (including multi-vitamins containing calcium and/or vitamin D)
  7. Participant has febrile illness within 30 days of the study procedures
  8. Participant currently treated with parathyroid hormone, parathyroid hormone-related peptide-derived drugs, or bone anabolic steroids, including abaloparatide, teriparatide, or parathyroid hormone (1-84)
  9. Participant currently treated with intravenous bisphosphonates for at least 1 month or oral bisphosphonates within the past year (12 months). Subjects who have received a short course of oral bisphosphonate therapy (3 months or less) may be enrolled if the treatment occurred 6 or more months prior to enrollment
  10. Participants on a higher than the lowest approved therapeutic dose regimen of proton pump inhibitors (see Section 8.3.9 for details)
  11. Participants on a H2 receptor antagonists (e.g. ranitidine)
  12. Participants with known bowel obstruction/stricture/fistula
  13. Participants who have undergone gastrointestinal surgery (Roux-en-Y, Billroth II, Whipple, intestinal resection for any reason)
  14. Participants who have undergone a recent (less than a month) barium X-ray procedure
  15. Participants with known allergies or sensitivity to contrast media or barium sulfate
  16. Participant with history of chronic disease that in the investigator's judgement may impact subject safety or study outcomes
  17. Participants with congestive heart failure, renal failure
  18. Presence of cardiac pacemaker or implanted electromedical device
  19. Participant has received an investigational or marketed drug during a trial within the past 1 month or 5 half-lives of the investigational drug, whichever is longer
  20. Participant received COVID-19 vaccine within 7 days of dosing
  21. Participant is unlikely, in the investigator's judgment, to be able to complete participation in the study as required per study plan
  22. Any other history which, in the investigator's judgment, makes the participant ineligible or places the participant at risk
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
50 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    RT-102 Group 1

    In 15 subjects, a RaniPill capsule containing 20 µg of PTH will be administered and serial blood samples will be collected for PK analysis.

    Combination Product: RT-102 (20 μg)

  • Experimental
    RT-102 Group 2

    In 15 subjects, a RaniPill capsule containing 80 µg of PTH will be administered and serial blood samples will be collected for PK analysis.

    Combination Product: RT-102 (80 μg)

  • Active comparator
    SC Group

    In 10 subjects, 20 µg of Forteo will be administered subcutaneously and serial blood samples will be collected for PK analysis.

    Drug: Forteo

  • Experimental
    Part 2; Group 1

    In up to 7 subjects, once-a-day repeat dosing with RT-102 (20 mcg) for 7 days in healthy post-menopausal or surgically sterile with bilateral oophorectomy women.

    Combination Product: RT-102 (20 μg)

  • Experimental
    Part 2; Group 2

    In up to 12 subjects, once-a-day repeat dosing with RT-102 (20 mcg) for 7 days in healthy women.

    Combination Product: RT-102 (20 μg)

Interventions

  • Combination productRT-102 (80 μg)

    RaniPill capsule containing PTH with doses of 20 and 80 μg

  • DrugForteo

    A commercial formulation of PTH for SC control (20 µg)

  • Combination productRT-102 (20 μg)

    RaniPill capsule containing PTH with dose of 20μg

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Evaluate Cmax of PTH administered via the RaniPill capsule

    To obtain PK profiles of single doses of PTH given via RaniPill™ capsule in healthy participants with doses of 20 and 80 μg. Cmax of PTH will be calculated from the PK profiles.

    Time frame: Within 24 hours after ingestion of the device

  2. Evaluate Tmax of PTH administered via the RaniPill capsule

    To obtain PK profiles of single doses of PTH given via RaniPill™ capsule in healthy participants with doses of 20 and 80 μg. Tmax of PTH will be calculated from the PK profiles.

    Time frame: Within 24 hours after ingestion of the device

  3. Evaluate AUC of PTH administered via the RaniPill capsule

    To obtain PK profiles of single doses of PTH given via RaniPill™ capsule in healthy participants with doses of 20 and 80 μg. Absorption (AUC) of PTH will be calculated from the PK profiles.

    Time frame: Within 24 hours after ingestion of the device

Secondary outcomes

  1. Safety and tolerability of RT-102

    Monitoring and recording of adverse events possibly related to RT-102.

    Time frame: Within 24 hours after ingestion of the device

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Study locations

1 site
  • Nucleus Network
    Melbourne, Australia
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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 Oct 31, 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
NCT05164614
Lead sponsor
RANI Therapeutics
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 20, 2021
Start date
Feb 21, 2022
Primary completion
Oct 10, 2022
Completion
Oct 17, 2022
Last update
Oct 31, 2022

Study contacts

Joshua Myers
study director · RANI Therapeutics

Oversight

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