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RecruitingNCT06049082Serpentine-1Updated Jul 22, 2025

A Study of KB408 for the Treatment of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

A Phase 1 interventional study of KB408 (Nebulization) in Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency, sponsored by Krystal Biotech, Inc.. Recruiting at 3 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-07-22.

Sponsored by Krystal Biotech, Inc. · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2025, 11 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Feb 2024; still recruiting 2 years 8 months later.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The Sponsor is developing KB408, a replication-defective, non-integrating herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)-derived vector engineered to deliver functional full-length human SERPINA1 to the airways of people with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) via nebulization. This study is designed to evaluate safety and pharmacodynamics of KB408 in adults with AATD with a PI*ZZ or PI*ZNull genotype. Three planned dose levels of KB408 will be evaluated in single dose escalation cohorts. Repeat dosing will be evaluated at the mid dose level. Subjects taking intravenous AAT augmentation therapy are not required to wash out from IV AAT in the low and mid dose cohorts. In the repeat dose and the high dose cohorts, subjects must wash out from IV AAT for at least 10 days, as applicable.

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Conditions studied

  • Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
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In context

alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

142 studies on the registry are indexed under alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency; 32 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 15 is below the median of 32 across 86 interventional studies indexed under alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency.

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Lead sponsor

Krystal Biotech, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 18 studies on the registry; 9 are 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 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. The subject or legally authorized representative must have read, understood, and signed an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved Form and must be willing and able to comply with study procedures and instructions.
  2. Subject is aged ≥18 to ≤70 years, at the time of informed consent.
  3. Subject has a genetically confirmed diagnosis of AATD with a PI*ZZ or PI*ZNull genotype.
  4. Cohort 2b and Cohort 3: Subjects receiving AAT augmentation therapy must be willing to for at least 10 days prior to Screening and be willing to remain off augmentation therapy for the duration of the study.
  5. Cohort 2b and Cohort 3: Serum AAT level \<11 μM at Screening.
  6. Willing to remain on a stable regimen of treatment during the study.
  7. Resting oxygen saturation ≥92% on room air at Screening.
  8. Clinically stable and in good general health, except for AATD, as determined by the Investigator.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Pulmonary function test with percent predicted forced expired volume in 1 second (ppFEV1) after inhalation of a bronchodilator is \<40% at Screening.
  2. Diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide (DLCO) \<30 percent predicted (historical DLCO within 2 years prior to Screening without any intervening change in clinical status since the measurement was taken, or as measured at Screening).
  3. Known ongoing or history of pulmonary impairment other than AATD.
  4. A pulmonary exacerbation within six weeks (42 days) of first dose.
  5. Initiation of any new chronic therapy or any change in ongoing therapy routine within 28 days of first dose.
  6. Participation in another interventional clinical study or treatment with an agent within 30 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, of first dose. Previous treatment with a genetic therapy for AATD, where the investigational product was demonstrated to be non-efficacious, is not exclusionary.
  7. History of or listed for solid organ transplantation or has undergone major lung surgery (e.g., lobectomy) within 6 months of first dose.
  8. Any clinical condition or illness (including a history or current evidence of substance abuse or dependence) that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would impact a subject's ability to complete all study-related procedures and/or poses an additional risk to the assessment of safety of KB408.
  9. An active oral herpes infection 30 days prior to the first dose.
  10. Clinically significant hepatic dysfunction defined as any one of the following:

    1. and ALT ≥3× (ULN) at Screening
    2. Total ≥2× ULN at Screening (unless associated with Gilbert's syndrome)
    3. Evidence of liver cirrhosis with clinical manifestations of portal hypertension (e.g., ascites, encephalopathy, variceal hemorrhage)
  11. History of cigarette smoking or any other tobacco use, or use of e-cigarettes or other recreational inhalant, within 6 months of Screening.
  12. Unwilling to refrain from smoking, e-cigarette use, or vaping throughout the duration of the study.
  13. A positive urine cotinine result that is consistent with active smoking at Screening. (A positive cotinine test due to nicotine replacement therapy for the purpose of smoking cessation, as attested by the Investigator, is allowed.)
  14. Abnormal hematology or chemistry testing at Screening as defined below, or any other clinically significant abnormalities that the Investigator believes may interfere with the assessment of safety of the study treatment.

    • count \<100×10\^9/L
    • \<9 g/dL
    • White blood cell count \<3 or >15×10\^9/L
    • Sodium \<130 or >150 mmol/L
    • Potassium \<3 or >5.5 mmol/L
    • Carbon dioxide \<16 mmol/L
    • Creatinine >2 mg/dL
  15. Subject is known to be noncompliant or is unlikely to comply with the requirements of the study protocol, in the opinion of the Investigator.
  16. Females who are pregnant or nursing.
  17. Subject who is unwilling to comply with requirements per protocol
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(10)

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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.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

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.

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.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

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.

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.

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).

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
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
15 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1: Low dose KB408

    Single dose of KB408 (low dose)

    Drug: KB408 (Nebulization)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2: Mid dose KB408

    Single dose of KB408 (mid dose)

    Drug: KB408 (Nebulization)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 3: High dose KB408

    Single dose of KB408 (high dose)

    Drug: KB408 (Nebulization)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2b: Mid dose KB408

    Multiple doses of KB408 (mid dose)

    Drug: KB408 (Nebulization)

Interventions

  • DrugKB408 (Nebulization)

    Nebulized solution of KB408, a replication-defective HSV-1 vector expressing full length human SERPINA1

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. To evaluate safety and tolerability of KB408 based upon assessment of adverse events (frequency, severity, relatedness), and changes from baseline in vital signs, ECG, spirometry, and clinical laboratory test results

    Number of subjects with treatment related adverse events as assessed by NCI-CTCAE v5

    Time frame: 2 months (Cohorts 1, 2, 3); 3 months (Cohort 2b)

Secondary outcomes

  1. To assess the effect of KB408 on serum alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) concentration

    Change from baseline in serum AAT levels

    Time frame: 2 months (Cohorts 1, 2, 3); 3 months (Cohort 2b)

  2. To assess the effect of KB408 on plasma neutrophil elastase (NE) concentration

    Change from baseline in plasma NE levels

    Time frame: 2 months (Cohorts 1, 2, 3); 3 months (Cohort 2b)

  3. To evaluate the effect of KB408 on AAT concentration in the lung

    Change from baseline in AAT levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid

    Time frame: 2 months (Cohorts 1, 2, 3); 3 months (Cohort 2b)

  4. To evaluate the effect of KB408 on NE concentration in the lung

    Change from baseline in NE levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid

    Time frame: 2 months (Cohorts 1, 2, 3); 3 months (Cohort 2b)

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Study locations

3 of 3 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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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 22, 2025, 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
NCT06049082
Lead sponsor
Krystal Biotech, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 21, 2023
Start date
Feb 15, 2024
Primary completion
Dec 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 22, 2025

Study contacts

David Sweet, MD, PhD
Contact
dsweet@krystalbio.com
412-586-5830
Brittani Agostini, RN, CCRC
Contact
bagostini@krystalbio.com
412-586-5830
David Sweet, MD, PhD
study director · Director of Clinical Development

Oversight

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