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RecruitingNCT05849389Updated Jun 24, 2024

Vosoritide for Short Stature in Turner Syndrome

A Phase 2 interventional study of Vosoritide in Turner Syndrome and Short Stature, sponsored by Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, MBBS, MS. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 3 Years to 11 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-06-24.

Sponsored by Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, MBBS, MS · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Apr 2024; still recruiting 2 years 6 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
20
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
3 Years to 11 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

Turner syndrome (TS) is characterized by a missing whole or part of the second sex chromosome in a phenotypic female, resulting in short stature due to haploinsufficiency of the short-stature homeobox-containing (SHOX) gene. Growth hormone (GH) is an approved therapy for this condition, although not associated with GH deficiency, and benefits are modest. Vosoritide, a C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) analog, targets chondrocytes within the growth plate leading to increased cell proliferation and hypertrophy. We hypothesize that patients with TS and short stature will respond to vosoritide treatment leading to increased growth velocity. This study will enroll pre-pubertal girls with TS who are either naïve to GH or have had a poor response to GH therapy. All subjects will be treated with vosoritide for 12 months and will be assessed for safety monitoring and improvement in height outcomes. Annualized growth velocity (AGV) on vosoritide will be compared to AGV in the 6-18 months prior to initiation of vosoritide based on historical data available in the medical record. Subjects with a positive response to therapy will be given the option to continue in the extension phase of the study during which they will continue to receive vosoritide until growth cessation.

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Conditions studied

  • Turner Syndrome
  • Short Stature

Keywords

  • Turner syndrome
  • Short Stature
  • Vosoritide
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In context

Turner Syndrome

125 studies on the registry are indexed under Turner Syndrome; 33 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 20 is below the median of 67 across 52 interventional studies indexed under Turner Syndrome.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, MBBS, MS as lead sponsor.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
3 Years to 11 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Parent(s) or guardian(s) are willing and able to provide written, signed after the nature of the study has been explained and prior to performance of any research-related procedure. Also, subjects under the age of 18 are willing and able to provide assent (if required) after the nature of the study has been explained and prior to performance of any research-related procedure.
  2. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study
  3. Age >3 years 0 days AND \<10 years 364 days
  4. Pre-pubertal defined as Tanner Stage 1 breasts in females.
  5. Patient height \<-2 SDS. All height SDS values are calculated using the CDC growth charts/data tables.
  6. Patients must have a confirmed diagnosis of Turner Syndrome based on a karyotype with a minimum of 30 cells or on a chromosomal microarray. Subjects with Turner Syndrome mosaicism (such as a 46,XX/45,X karyotype) must have a minimum of 10% mosaicism of 45,X cell line in order to participate in the study.
  7. Subjects must either be naïve to growth hormone or have a poor response to growth hormone therapy defined as either:

    1. Subjects completed at least one year of treatment with GH and first year height velocity (HV) below -1 SD according to the National Cooperative Growth Study TS 1st year response to growth hormone height velocity curve.
    2. Subjects receiving GH for more than a year with AGV in the last 6 months \< 50%ile for US girls for age/sex). Subjects meeting this criterion are no longer showing catch up growth and may benefit from an alternative form of therapy.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Growth plate fusion - Defined as a bone age via the Greulich and Pyle method of 13 years. These patients have limited remaining growth potential.
  2. Concomitant treatment with growth hormone or recombinant insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). Patients may have been previously treated with growth hormone or IGF-1 therapy. If the patient is currently on one of these therapies, they will be required to discontinue at least 1 week prior to the screening visit. That decision will be deferred to their treating clinical endocrinologists in conjunction with the patient's guardians. We anticipate that only patients who are having a poor response to their therapy will be interested in enrolling in the current study as there is no rationale for a patient who is receiving growth hormone therapy and having a positive response to enroll in the current study.
  3. Prior or concomitant treatment with any form of estrogen, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analog, aromatase inhibitor or oxandrolone
  4. History of any type of
  5. Subjects known to have Y-chromosome material unless they have undergone gonadectomy and have fully external female genitalia
  6. Chronic medical condition known to affect growth including but not limited to:

    A. Cystic fibrosis B. Diabetes C. Inflammatory Bowel Disease D. Untreated Celiac Disease - If a subject has been diagnosed with celiac disease and has been on a gluten free diet for >12 months and has a tissue transglutaminase antibody within the normal range at screening, then they are eligible for the trial.

    E. Asthma requiring a daily inhaled dose > 400 micrograms of inhaled budesonide per day or equivalent F. Taking daily oral glucocorticoids for any reason G. Note - Attention Deficit hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) treated with a stimulant and treated hypothyroidism with a normal thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) will NOT exclude the subject from participating in the trial. Subjects on either stimulant medication or thyroid hormone replacement must be on a stable dose for 3 months prior to the screening visit.

    H. Congenital heart disease which places the subject at increased risk of an adverse cardiac outcome in the setting of hypotension including but not limited to: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aortic stenosis with peak gradient >50mmHg, severe aortic regurgitation (defined as pressure half time >500ms by echocardiogram), coronary insufficiency, or any anatomy with a need for an afterload reducing agent. Any patient with baseline abnormalities on echocardiogram will be reviewed with a pediatric cardiologist for appropriateness for inclusion in the study.

  7. Malnutrition - Defined as a \<5th percentile (CDC growth charts)
  8. Any abnormality on screening tests as determined by the principal investigator. Abnormal screening labs may be repeated up to 3 months after the screening visit. If those labs are normal on repeat, the subject may proceed into the trial.
  9. Known or suspected allergy to trial medication, , or related products
  10. The receipt of any drug within 90 days prior to this trial
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

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Corticosteroids (steroids)

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BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
20 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Vosoritide treatment arm

    Vosoritide will be administered daily via subcutaneous injection for 12 months using the FDA approved weight-based dosing band strategy for achondroplasia.

    Drug: Vosoritide

Interventions

  • Vosoritide administered daily via subcutaneous injection for 12 months using the FDA approved weight-based dosing band strategy for achondroplasia.

    Also known as: Voxzogo

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events

    Number of treatment-emergent adverse events or serious adverse events per study participant

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. Change from baseline in annualized growth velocity

    To evaluate the change from baseline in annualized growth velocity after 12 months of daily subcutaneous injections of vosoritide

    Time frame: 12 months

  3. Change from baseline in age-sex standardized height standard deviation score

    To evaluate the change from baseline in age-sex standardized height standard deviation score (SDS) after 12 months of daily subcutaneous injections of vosoritide

    Time frame: 12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes in seated height ratio

    To evaluate the seated height ratio as a measure of body proportions compared to baseline after daily subcutaneous injections of vosoritide

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. Changes in arm span minus standing height

    To evaluate the arm span minus standing height as a measure of body proportion compared to baseline after daily subcutaneous injections of vosoritide

    Time frame: 12 months

  3. Change in Bone Age

    To evaluate changes from baseline in bone age/chronological age after 12 months of daily subcutaneous injections of vosoritide

    Time frame: 12 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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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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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Apr 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Sep 2026, 29 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Apr 28, 2023
First posted
May 8, 2023
StartActual
Apr 12, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Sep 2026
CompletionEst.
Sep 2026
Last update
Jun 24, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 24, 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
NCT05849389
Lead sponsor
Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, MBBS, MS
Responsible party
Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, MBBS, MS (Director, Turner Syndrome Program, Children's National Research Institute) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
May 8, 2023
Start date
Apr 12, 2024
Primary completion
Sep 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 24, 2024

Study contacts

Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, MBBS, MS
Contact
roopa.shankar@childrensnational.org
202-476-2121
Kimberly Boucher, RN
Contact
kboucher@childrensnational.org
202-476-1403
Roopa Kanakatti Shankar, MBBS, MS
principal investigator · Children's National Research Institute

Oversight

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