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Active, not recruitingNCT05739643REKLAIMUpdated Nov 4, 2026

Gene Transfer Clinical Trial for Infantile and Late Infantile Krabbe Disease Treated Previously With HSCT

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of FBX-101 in Krabbe Disease, sponsored by Duke University. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged Up to 18 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-04.

Sponsored by Duke University · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
9
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
Up to 18 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a non-blinded, non-randomized dose escalation study of intravenous FBX-101 in which subjects will receive a single infusion of an adeno-associated virus gene therapy product, after more than 21 days of the HSCT (UCBT preferred HSCT source). Data from previously transplanted patients with infantile and late infantile Krabbe disease will be used as a comparator group.

Read the detailed description

The FBX-101-REKLAIM study has been modified on Q4 2023 to allow a broader patient recruitment of infantile and late infantile Krabbe patients. The updated REKLAIM study merges the recruitment populations of the previous FBX-101-RESKUE clinical trial (NCT04693598) and the FBX-101-REKLAIM clinical trial (NCT05739643).

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Conditions studied

  • Krabbe Disease

Keywords

  • Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell
  • Hereditary Central Nervous System Demyelinating Diseases
  • Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn
  • Brain Diseases, Metabolic
  • Brain Diseases
  • Central Nervous System Diseases
  • Nervous System Diseases
  • Sphingolipidoses
  • Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System
  • Leukoencephalopathies
  • Demyelinating Diseases
  • Metabolism, Inborn Errors
  • Genetic Diseases, Inborn
  • Lipidoses
  • Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
  • Lysosomal Storage Diseases
  • Metabolic Diseases
  • Lipid Metabolism Disorders
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In context

Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell

31 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell; 8 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 9 is below the median of 38 across 15 interventional studies indexed under Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell.

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Lead sponsor

Duke University is the lead sponsor of 2,063 studies on the registry; 273 are open to participants now.

Of its 204 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 167 (82%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 18 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Group Infantile Krabbe: Subjects who are going to be transplanted or have already been transplanted for asymptomatic infantile onset Krabbe disease with initial diagnosis based on:

    1. Galactocerebrosidase (GALC) activity levels in leukocytes compatible with the diagnosis of infantile Krabbe disease; AND AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
    2. Psychosine levels predictive of infantile onset by Dried Blood Spot (DBS); OR
    3. Imaging or neurophysiological findings consistent with Krabbe disease (CSF, MRI, NCV, ABR); OR
    4. Two GALC mutations predictive to result in infantile onset phenotype.
  2. Group Late Infantile Krabbe: Subjects who are going to be transplanted or have already been transplanted for symptomatic late infantile onset Krabbe with initial diagnosis based on:

    1. Galactocerebrosidase (GALC) activity levels in leukocytes compatible with the diagnosis of late infantile Krabbe disease; AND AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
    2. Psychosine levels predictive of late infantile onset by DBS; OR
    3. Imaging or neurophysiological findings consistent with Krabbe disease (CSF, MRI, NCV, ABR); OR
    4. Two GALC mutations predictive to result in late infantile onset phenotype; OR
    5. Neurological/developmental exam findings consistent with late infantile Krabbe disease
  3. Participants must be considered candidates for or have received HSCT at least 21 days prior to dosing date
  4. For patients already transplanted and followed for more than 3 months chimerism should reflect at least 30% of myeloid cells from the donor by month 3 post-transplant, from 30 to 10% between 3 months and one year post-transplant or 10% by one year post-transplant.
  5. Participant must have adequate organ function at time of screening or evaluation as measured by:

    1. of > 50% by echocardiogram or other appropriate study without evidence of pulmonary hypertension.
    2. Pulmonary evaluation testing demonstrating resting pulse oximeter > 95% on room air.
  6. Absence of active aspiration
  7. Participant's parents or legal guardian consent to participate in the study and provide according to IRB/IEC guidelines prior to any study procedures being performed
  8. Parent(s) and/or legal guardian able to comply with the clinical protocol

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Immunoassay with total anti-AAV10 antibody titers of >1:100. This criterion will not apply to children screened before they have received or for children who sign the inform consent within 6 months from HSCT. In children who test positive to anti-AAV10 antibody with titers of >1:100 under this exception, the ISR regime proposed by the PI and approved/modified by the ISR committee may include drugs that prevent the potential development of a secondary immune response to AAVrh10 after FBX-101 administration.
  2. History of prior treatment with a gene therapy product
  3. Motor function evaluated by age with PDMS-II by a study physical therapist:

    a. Inability to hold head for patients older than 5 months; b. Inability to sit independently for patients older than 12 months; c. Inability to walk with assistance for patients older than 24 months.

  4. In patients that sign the before HSCT or up to 90 days post-HSCT, abnormalities in white count, and found from conditioning regime to Day -1 (the day before FBX-101 administration) will be evaluated by the PI (with referral to the DSMB if indicated). If abnormal, they will not be considered an exclusion criteria if the PI considers they are consistent with expected consequences of the HSCT (and related management) and upon confirmation they were not present before commencement of the conditioning regime.
  5. Grade 2 or higher abnormalities in LFTs, , creatinine, white count, hemoglobin, platelets, and PTT according to latest version of
  6. Presence of any neurocognitive deficit, motor deficit, or brain damage not attributable to Krabbe disease
  7. Signs of active infections or disease from cytomegalovirus, adenovirus, EBV, or C, and or other viruses excluding rhinovirus from RVP and asymptomatic norovirus presence in stool. Patients showing HIV positive results will be excluded from the study.
  8. Active bacterial or fungal infection documented the preceding 7 days.
  9. Presence of any for MRI or lumbar puncture (LP)
  10. Use of any product prior to study enrollment or current enrollment in another study that involves clinical interventions
  11. Immunizations with live viruses in the 30 days prior to immune suppression
  12. Active acute (GvHD) Grade II or higher according to modified Glucksberg criteria (Przepiorka et al., 1995) or active, moderate or severe, chronic GvHD according to revised NIH criteria (Jagasia et al., 2015)
  13. Any other medical condition, serious intercurrent illness, other genetic condition or extenuating circumstance that, in the opinion of the PI, would preclude participation in the study
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

Informed consent

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Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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.

GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)

After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
9 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1 - Low Dose FBX-101 (aka AAVrh.10-GALC)

    N=3 patients with Infantile or Late Infantile Krabbe disease will receive a single infusion at the low dose

    Biological: FBX-101

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2 - High Dose FBX-101 (aka AAVrh.10-GALC)

    N=3-6 patients with Infantile or Late Infantile Krabbe disease will receive a single infusion at the high dose

    Biological: FBX-101

Interventions

  • BiologicalFBX-101

    A replication-deficient adeno-associated virus gene transfer vector expressing the human galactocerebrosidase (GALC) cDNA will be delivered one-time through a venous catheter inserted into a peripheral limb vein.

    Also known as: AAVrh.10-hGALC

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety as assessed by incidence and severity of adverse events and serious adverse events that are attributed to FBX-101

    Time frame: 24 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Efficacy as assessed by improvement of gross motor function as measured longitudinally by PDMS-2, BOT-3, or by GMFM-88, depending on the age, compared to patients receiving HSCT only

    Time frame: 12 months and 24 months

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Publications

  • Bascou N, DeRenzo A, Poe MD, Escolar ML. A prospective natural history study of Krabbe disease in a patient cohort with onset between 6 months and 3 years of life. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2018 Aug 9;13(1):126. doi: 10.1186/s13023-018-0872-9. PubMed 30089515 ↗
  • Beltran-Quintero ML, Bascou NA, Poe MD, Wenger DA, Saavedra-Matiz CA, Nichols MJ, Escolar ML. Early progression of Krabbe disease in patients with symptom onset between 0 and 5 months. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2019 Feb 18;14(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s13023-019-1018-4. PubMed 30777126 ↗
  • Escolar ML, Poe MD, Provenzale JM, Richards KC, Allison J, Wood S, Wenger DA, Pietryga D, Wall D, Champagne M, Morse R, Krivit W, Kurtzberg J. Transplantation of umbilical-cord blood in babies with infantile Krabbe's disease. N Engl J Med. 2005 May 19;352(20):2069-81. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa042604. PubMed 15901860 ↗
  • Escolar ML, West T, Dallavecchia A, Poe MD, LaPoint K. Clinical management of Krabbe disease. J Neurosci Res. 2016 Nov;94(11):1118-25. doi: 10.1002/jnr.23891. PubMed 27638597 ↗
  • Rafi MA, Luzi P, Wenger DA. Conditions for combining gene therapy with bone marrow transplantation in murine Krabbe disease. Bioimpacts. 2020;10(2):105-115. doi: 10.34172/bi.2020.13. Epub 2020 Mar 24. PubMed 32363154 ↗
  • Yoon IC, Bascou NA, Poe MD, Szabolcs P, Escolar ML. Long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for late-infantile Krabbe disease. Blood. 2021 Apr 1;137(13):1719-1730. doi: 10.1182/blood.2020005477. PubMed 33150395 ↗
  • Wright MD, Poe MD, DeRenzo A, Haldal S, Escolar ML. Developmental outcomes of cord blood transplantation for Krabbe disease: A 15-year study. Neurology. 2017 Sep 26;89(13):1365-1372. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004418. Epub 2017 Aug 30. PubMed 28855403 ↗
  • Gupta A, Poe MD, Styner MA, Panigrahy A, Escolar ML. Regional differences in fiber tractography predict neurodevelopmental outcomes in neonates with infantile Krabbe disease. Neuroimage Clin. 2014 Sep 26;7:792-8. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.09.014. eCollection 2015. PubMed 25844309 ↗
  • Escolar ML, Poe MD, Smith JK, Gilmore JH, Kurtzberg J, Lin W, Styner M. Diffusion tensor imaging detects abnormalities in the corticospinal tracts of neonates with infantile Krabbe disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2009 May;30(5):1017-21. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A1476. Epub 2009 Apr 22. PubMed 19386732 ↗
  • Bradbury AM, Bagel J, Swain G, Miyadera K, Pesayco JP, Assenmacher CA, Brisson B, Hendricks I, Wang XH, Herbst Z, Pyne N, Odonnell P, Shelton GD, Gelb M, Hackett N, Szabolcs P, Vite CH, Escolar M. Combination HSCT and intravenous AAV-mediated gene therapy in a canine model proves pivotal for translation of Krabbe disease therapy. Mol Ther. 2024 Jan 3;32(1):44-58. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2023.11.014. Epub 2023 Nov 11. PubMed 37952085 ↗
  • Greco MR, Lopez MA, Beltran-Quintero ML, Tuc Bengur E, Poe MD, Escolar ML. Infantile Krabbe disease (0-12 months), progression, and recommended endpoints for clinical trials. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2024 Dec;11(12):3064-3080. doi: 10.1002/acn3.52114. Epub 2024 Nov 5. PubMed 39499628 ↗
  • Heller G, Bradbury AM, Sands MS, Bongarzone ER. Preclinical studies in Krabbe disease: A model for the investigation of novel combination therapies for lysosomal storage diseases. Mol Ther. 2023 Jan 4;31(1):7-23. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2022.09.017. Epub 2022 Oct 4. PubMed 36196048 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
Sites
2 sites removed
Show 2 removed
  • Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) · Orange, United States
  • University of Michigan Hospitals - Michigan Medicine · Ann Arbor, United States
Nov 4, 2026
Primary completion
Nov 2026→Jun 2028
Nov 4, 2026
Study completion
Nov 2026→Jun 2028
Nov 4, 2026
Publications
1 publication citing this study linked from PubMed, e.g. PubMed 36196048 ↗
Nov 4, 2026
Sponsor
Forge Biologics, Inc→Duke University
Nov 4, 2026
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  1. Nov 4, 2026
    Publications 1 publication citing this study linked from PubMed, e.g. PubMed 36196048 ↗
    2 sites removed
    Show 2 removed
    • Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) · Orange, United States
    • University of Michigan Hospitals - Michigan Medicine · Ann Arbor, United States
    Primary completion Nov 2026→Jun 2028
    Study completion Nov 2026→Jun 2028
    Sponsor Forge Biologics, Inc→Duke University
    + 3 other changes: identifiers, verification date and contact details

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05739643
Lead sponsor
Duke University
Responsible party
Joanne Kurtzberg, MD (Jerome Harris Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Pathology Director, Marcus Center for Cellular Cures Director, Carolinas Cord Blood Bank Director, Stem Cell Transplant Laboratory President, Cord Blood Association, Duke University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 22, 2023
Start date
Feb 3, 2023
Primary completion
Jun 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 4, 2026

Study contacts

Joanne Kurtzberg, MD
principal investigator · Duke University

Oversight

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