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Active, not recruitingNCT06370351AUDIOGENEUpdated Jul 8, 2026

A Phase I/II Clinical Trial With SENS-501 in Children Suffering From Severe to Profound Hearing Loss Due to Otoferlin (OTOF) Mutations

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of SENS-501 administration in OTOF Gene Mutation, DFNB9 and Congenital Deafness, sponsored by Sensorion. Active, not recruiting at 2 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 31 Months. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-08.

Primary conditionHearing LossRegistry: Hearing DisordersReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Hearing Disorders — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Hearing Loss
Why
  1. The study's listed conditions name Hearing Loss, a narrower term within Hearing Disorders.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
Wrong?
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Sponsored by Sensorion · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
12
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
6 Months to 31 Months
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study intends to assess safety, tolerability, and efficacy of SENS-501 in children between the ages of 6-31 months with pre-lingual hearing loss due to a mutation in the Otoferlin gene.

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It is a multicenter, adaptive open-label, non-randomized, dose-escalation, and expansion study to assess safety, tolerability, and efficacy following intracochlear administration of SENS-501.

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Conditions studied

  • OTOF Gene Mutation
  • DFNB9
  • Congenital Deafness
  • Hearing Disorders
  • Ear Diseases
  • Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
  • Deafness
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural

Keywords

  • OTOF Gene Mutation
  • Hearing impairment
  • Deafness
  • otoferlin
  • AUDIOGENE
  • Hearing Loss
  • DFNB9
  • Hearing disorder
  • Cochlear implant
  • SENS-501
  • Congenital Hearing loss
  • Gene therapy
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In context

Hearing Loss Reclassified

796 studies on the registry are indexed under Hearing Loss; 193 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 12 is below the median of 44 across 561 interventional studies indexed under Hearing Loss.

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Lead sponsor

Sensorion is the lead sponsor of 7 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Compared within Hearing Loss, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Hearing Disorders. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
6 Months to 31 Months
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Children (male or female) ≥ 6 to ≤ 31 months at the time of inclusion
  • Severe to profound hearing loss assessed by auditory brainstem response (ABR)
  • Biallelic mutation in the Otoferlin gene
  • Presence of Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs)
  • Documented normal cochlea and internal auditory canals
  • Patients with intact vestibular function

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of chronic, acute, or major disease, or unspecified reasons, that in the opinion of the Investigator, makes the participant unsuitable for participation in the study or constitutes an unacceptable risk.
  • Have been dosed in a previous gene therapy clinical trial
  • Patients with a prior or current cochlear implant
  • Any to the surgery determined by the surgeon or anesthesia determined by the anesthesiologist, or designee, or history of therapy known as ototoxic (e.g., cisplatin, high dose and long treatment with aminoglycosides, etc.) for an extended period (more than 2 weeks).
  • Participation in any other interventional clinical trial
  • Any other condition that, in the opinion of the Investigator, may compromise the safety or compliance of the participant or would preclude the participant from successful completion of the study or might interfere with the evaluation of study treatment
  • Anticipated noncompliance with the protocol requirements
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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.

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.

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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
12 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Dose escalation - Low dose group

    Intracochlear administration of a Low dose of SENS-501 in one ear, with a dedicated administration system

    Combination Product: SENS-501 administration

  • Experimental
    Dose escalation - High dose group

    Intracochlear administration of a High dose of SENS-501 in one ear, with a dedicated administration system

    Combination Product: SENS-501 administration

  • Experimental
    Dose expansion group

    Intracochlear administration of SENS-501 in one ear, with a dedicated administration system, at the dose recommended following the Dose escalation phase

    Combination Product: SENS-501 administration

Interventions

  • Combination productSENS-501 administration

    Administration of SENS-501 with a dedicated administration system

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety and tolerability of SENS-501

    Number of study-related adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs).

    Time frame: 5 years

  2. Efficacy of SENS-501 assessed by ABR

    Improvement of hearing threshold measured by auditory brainstem response (ABR)

    Time frame: 5 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Safety and tolerability of SENS-501

    Number of study-related adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs).

    Time frame: 5 years

  2. Efficacy of SENS-501 assessed by ABR

    Improvement of hearing threshold measured by auditory brainstem response (ABR)

    Time frame: 5 years

  3. Efficacy of SENS-501 assessed by PTA

    Improvement of hearing threshold measured by Pure-tone audiometry (PTA)

    Time frame: 5 years

  4. Clinical performance of the administration system

    Administration success ; Users' feedback questionnaire on the administration and use of the devices

    Time frame: 1 day

  5. Safety of the administration system

    Adverse device effects and Device deficiencies, Procedure complications

    Time frame: 5 years

  6. Usability of the administration system

    Usability questionnaire

    Time frame: 1 day

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Study locations

2 sites
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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 8, 2026, 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
NCT06370351
Lead sponsor
Sensorion
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 17, 2024
Start date
Jun 21, 2024
Primary completion
Jul 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 8, 2026

Study contacts

Natalie LOUNDON, Pr
study chair · Hopital Necker Enfants Malades

Oversight

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