A Phase 2 interventional study of NFX-179 Gel 1.50% in Epidermal Nevi and Nevus Sebaceus, sponsored by Albert Chiou. Withdrawn at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-05-28.
Sponsored by Albert Chiou · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This study of NFX-179 is an open-label study, evaluating safety, tolerability, pharmacodynamic activity, and the clinical effect in subjects with Epidermal Nevus(ENS). NFX-179 is formulated as a gel for topical administration. NFX-179 has been shown in animal studies and in human extracts to suppress p-ERK with systemic absorption of NFX-179 following topical application to be extremely low, based on serum values observed in animal studies.
Primary objectives:
Secondary objectives:
-Clinical effect of NFX-179 Gel 1.5% defined as the percent change in EN volume after 12 weeks of QD application
This is a 12-week clinical study to determine safety, tolerability, and clinical effect of NFX-179 Gel 1.50% Gel in subjects with EN.
At Visit 1 (Screening), the Investigator will select 1 Target EN lesion for treatment that meet the inclusion criteria. A biopsy tissue sample of the Target EN will be taken for histological confirmation of an EN diagnosis if required, to assess p-ERK levels and for genetic testing.
Subjects will be seen at Visit 2 for management of the Visit 1 biopsy wounds.
At Visit 3 (Baseline) eligible subjects will be provided study medication and start the 12-week, QD treatment period. Target EN assessments will be collected.
Subjects will be seen for treatment period visits, Visits 4-7, when Target EN assessments will be collected.
At Visit 8, subjects will be seen for the final treatment period visit. Target EN assessments, a biopsy sample for genetic testing and p-ERK levels will be. Subjects will start a 4-week no-treatment follow-up period.
Subjects will be seen at Visit 9, for management of the Visit 8 biopsy wound.
At Visit 10 (end of study), subjects will be seen for the final study visit and will be discharged from the study.
This is the only study on the registry with Albert Chiou as lead sponsor.
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Inclusion Criteria
In order to be eligible to participate in this study, all of the following criteria must be met:
Subject has a Target Epidermal Nevi for treatment that:
No waivers to the inclusion criteria are permitted.
Exclusion Criteria A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
Subject has applied any of the following topical products in the previous 30 days on or in proximity to the Target EN that, in the investigator's opinion, impairs evaluation of the Target EN or which exposes the subject to an unacceptable risk by study participation:
The Subject has used any of the following systemic medications in the noted time period:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
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.
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.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
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.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Biopsy and archival tissue
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NFX-179 Gel 1.50% applied QD for 12 weeks
Drug: NFX-179 Gel 1.50%
Stanford University (Stanford) is studying a selective mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK) inhibitor (NFX-179) that has been chemically engineered for topical application to treat epidermal nevus syndromes (ENS). Preclinical studies evaluating topical application of NFX-179 to human nevus sebaceous explants demonstrated that NFX-179 can penetrate the tissue and suppress the p-ERK biomarker. It was also determined that NFX-179, when incubated with the tissues in medium, also suppressed ERK phosphorylation in human keratinocytic epidermal nevi. This clinical study is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and clinical effect of NFX-179 Gel in Subjects with Epidermal Nevi.
The frequency of dermal safety and tolerability assessments including pain/burning, pruritus, erythema, edema, scabbing/crusting, and vesiculation/erosion
To determine the safety and tolerability of treatment with NFX-179 gel applied QD for 12 weeks of treatment.
Time frame: 12 weeks
The frequency of adverse events and serious adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v4.0
To determine the safety and tolerability of treatment with NFX-179 gel applied QD for 12 weeks of treatment.
Time frame: 12 weeks
Change in ILA (Investigator's Lesion Assessment)
Change in Investigator's Lesion Assessment after 12 weeks of QD application, assessed at screening, baseline, treatment period at week 2, 3, 4, and 8, and end of treatment at week 12.
Time frame: 12 weeks
Percent change in EN volume
Percent change in EN volume after 12 weeks of QD application as determined based on EN size derived from ruler measurements, and/or digital images from standardized photography performed at screening, baseline, treatment period at week 2, 3, 4, and 8, and end of treatment at week 12.
Time frame: 12 weeks
Plan to share: No — We will only be sharing participant data with the sponsor, Nflection Therapeutics.
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