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RecruitingNCT06249919Updated Aug 13, 2025

A Phase 1b/2a, Study Evaluating the Safety, PK/PD and Efficacy of NS101 in Healthy Volunteers and SSNHL Patients

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of NS101 and Placebo in Seneorineural Deafness and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, sponsored by Neuracle Science Co., LTD.. Recruiting at 16 sites in South Korea. Open to participants aged 19 Years to 70 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-08-13.

Sponsored by Neuracle Science Co., LTD. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by May 2026, 4 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Jan 2024; still recruiting 2 years 8 months later.
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
138
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
19 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this 2 step-up, exploratory study is to test safey, tolerability and PK/PD profiles in healthy volunteers and safety, tolerability and efficacy in sudden sensorineural hearing loss patients as an early salvage therapy.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

  1. whether is it safe and tolerable when healthy volunteers and sudden sensorineural hearing loss patients take multiple doses of NS101 against FAM19A5
  2. whether is it effective in reversing hearing capability in sudden sensorineural hearing loss patients who fails to show sufficient recovery despite of oral standard steroid therapy.

Patients and heathly volunteers will be given NS101 15mg/kg or 30mg/kg systemically less than 3 months per protocol.

This is placebo controlled, double blinded study, which means there will be a group who receives placebo (i.e. fake drug) for study purpose.

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Conditions studied

  • Seneorineural Deafness
  • Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Keywords

  • Sensorineural disease
  • sudden sensorineural hearing loss
  • sensorineural hearing loss
  • sudden deafness
  • cochlear synaptopathy
  • hidden auditory synaptopathy
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In context

Hearing Loss, Sudden

44 studies on the registry are indexed under Hearing Loss, Sudden; 20 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 138 is above the median of 68 across 36 interventional studies indexed under Hearing Loss, Sudden.

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Lead sponsor

Neuracle Science Co., LTD. is the lead sponsor of 2 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
19 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Part A: healthy volunteers

Part B:

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • unilateral ideopathic SSNHL greater than 45dB at the average of 4 frequencies in PTA (contralateral hearing is less than 30dB)
  • Subject who has completed investigator-recognized standard treatment within 30 days of symptom onset and is able to undergo randomization visit within 35 days.
  • Subjects who, in the opinion of the investigator, have received sufficient systemic steroid therapy for approximately 2 weeks recovery
  • A combination regimen consisting of approximately 2 weeks of systemic steroid therapy and intratympanic steroid administration

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • other otologic or systemic diseases
  • retrocochlear lesion
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
138 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Group A

    NS101 15mg/kg IV infusion Biweekly for 6weeks in Healthy Volunteers (active:placebo=6:3)

    Biological: NS101 · Biological: Placebo

  • Experimental
    Group B

    NS101 30mg/kg IV infusion Biweekly for 6weeks in Healthy Volunteers (active:placebo=6:3)

    Biological: NS101 · Biological: Placebo

  • Active comparator
    Cohort A

    NS101 15mg/kg IV infusion Biweekly for 12weeks in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss patients

    Biological: NS101

  • Placebo comparator
    Cohort B

    Placebo 15mg/kg IV infusion Biweekly for 12weeks in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss patients

    Biological: Placebo

Interventions

  • BiologicalNS101

    NS101 is anti FAM19A5 antibody expected to play as a synapse organizer and reversing synapse dysfunction in various neurological diseases

  • BiologicalPlacebo

    Placebo (i.e. fake drug without active pharmaceutical ingredient) of NS101

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Phase 1b part: Change from Baseline in Safety Profiles

    Adverse Event, Serious Adverse Event, ratio of Treatment related Serisous Adverse Event with causality \& severity will be descriptively measured and collected in the following time frames

    Time frame: Baseline, Day1, Day2, Day3, Day14, Day15, Day16, Day17, Day28, Day29, Day30, Day32, Day43

  2. Phase 2a part: Changes from Baseline in Safety Profiles

    Adverse Event, Serious Adverse Event, ratio of Treatment related Serisous Adverse Event with causality \& severity will be descriptively measured and collected in the following time frames

    Time frame: Baseline, Week1, Week2, Week4, Week6, Week8, Week10, Week12, Week16, Week20

Secondary outcomes

  1. Phase 1b part: Change from Baseline in PK/PD profiles & Immunological Assay

    Concentrations, Areas Under the Curve versus time curve, Times and Volumes of Distribution of various status verus time curve

    Time frame: Baseline, Day1, Day2, Day3, Day14, Day15, Day16, Day17, Day28, Day29, Day30, Day32, Day43

  2. Phase 2a part : Change from Baseline in PK/PD profiles & immunological Assay

    Concentrations, Areas Under the Curve versus time curve, Times and Volumes of Distribution of various status verus time curve

    Time frame: Baseline, Week1, Week2, Week4, Week6, Week8, Week10, Week12, Week16, Week20

Other outcomes

  1. Phase 2a part : Change from Baseline in Pure Tone Audiometry, Speech Discrimination Scores and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Patients

    hearing capacity of thresholds (e.g. PTA, ABR, DPOAE, ECochG), speech discrimination (e.g. SRT, SDS) and tinnitus (e.g. THI, VAS)

    Time frame: Baseline, Week4, Week8, Week12, Week16, Week20

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Study locations

12 of 16 sites recruiting
  • SCH University Hospital Bucheon
    Bucheon-si, South Korea
    • JD Lee, MD/PhD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Chonam National University Hospital
    Gwangju, South Korea
    • HH Cho, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
    Ilsan, South Korea
    • JM Lee, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Myongji Hospital
    Ilsan, South Korea
    • DB Sim, MD/PhD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Pusan National University Hospital
    Pusan, South Korea
    • SG Kong, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Hallym Sacred Heart Hospital
    Pyeongchon, South Korea
    • HJ Lee, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
    Seongnam, South Korea
    • JJ Song, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Asan Medical Center
    Seoul, South Korea
    • HJ Park, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Catholic University Seoul St. Mary's Hospital
    Seoul, South Korea
    • SN Park, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Korea University Anam Hospital
    Seoul, South Korea
    • JY Park, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Korea University Anam Hospital
    Seoul, South Korea
    • GJ Im, MD/PhD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Samsung Medical Center
    Seoul, South Korea
    • IJ Moon, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Seoul National University Hospital
    Seoul, South Korea
    • MH Seo, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Yonsei University Severance Hospital
    Seoul, South Korea
    • JY Choi, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Ajou University Hospital
    Suwon, South Korea
    • YH Jeong, MD/PhD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Wonju Severance Christian Hospital
    Wŏnju, South Korea
    • YJ Seo, MD/PhD · Contact
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Currently there is no plan to share IPD at this stage

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 Aug 13, 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
NCT06249919
Lead sponsor
Neuracle Science Co., LTD.
Collaborators
Samsung Medical Center, Severance Hospital, Korea University Anam Hospital
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 8, 2024
Start date
Jan 19, 2024
Primary completion
May 31, 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 31, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 13, 2025

Study contacts

Yunkyung Choi
Contact
clinical@neuracles.com
+82269490409
Suhyun Cho
Contact
clinical@neuracles.com
+82269490409
Joseph Park, M.D.
study director · Neuracle Science

Oversight

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