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Phase 1b Trial of RAY121 in Immunological Diseases (RAINBOW Trial)

A Phase 1 interventional study of RAY121 in Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS), Bullous Pemphigoid (BP) and Behçet's Syndrome (BS), sponsored by Chugai Pharmaceutical. Recruiting at 77 sites in 20 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 85 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-22.

Sponsored by Chugai Pharmaceutical (part of Hoffmann-La Roche) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Aug 2024; still recruiting 2 years 2 months later.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
144
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 85 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This Phase 1b basket trial will investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, immunogenicity and preliminary efficacy of RAY121, a inhibitor of classical complement pathway, after multiple dose administration in patients with immunological diseases such as antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), bullous pemphigoid (BP), Behçet's Syndrome (BS), dermatomyositis (DM), immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) and immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).

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Conditions studied

  • Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS)
  • Bullous Pemphigoid (BP)
  • Behçet's Syndrome (BS)
  • Dermatomyositis (DM)
  • Immune-mediated Necrotizing Myopathy (IMNM)
  • Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)
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In context

Antiphospholipid Syndrome

121 studies on the registry are indexed under Antiphospholipid Syndrome; 52 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 144 is above the median of 41 across 65 interventional studies indexed under Antiphospholipid Syndrome.

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Lead sponsor

Chugai Pharmaceutical is the lead sponsor of 63 studies on the registry; 7 are open to participants now.

Of its 7 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.

First submitted after Chugai Pharmaceutical became part of Hoffmann-La Roche.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 85 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

  1. Signed form
  2. Age ≥ 18 and ≤ 85 at the time of signing informed consent form with score ≥ 60 % at screening
  3. Ability to comply with the study protocol
  4. For women of : agreement to remain abstinent (refrain from heterosexual intercourse) or use highly effective methods
  5. For men: agreement to remain abstinent (refrain from heterosexual intercourse) or use contraceptive measures, and agreement to refrain from donating sperm
  6. APS cohort: Established primary APS defined by the following criteria (at least one of the laboratory criteria and one of the clinical criteria must be met):

    • Laboratory criteria (aPL profile)

      • Persistently positive LA test
      • Persistently positive aCL IgG isotype
      • Persistently positive aβ2GPI IgG isotype
    • Clinical criteria

      • Livedoid vasculopathy and presence of skin ulcer
      • Acute/chronic aPL nephropathy
  7. BP cohort:

1) Predominant cutaneous lesions 2) Diagnosis with BP with following assessments positive:

  1. Positive direct immunofluorescence, and either
  2. Positive indirect immunofluorescence, or
  3. Positive serology on ELISA for BP180 autoantibody 3) BPDAI score >= 20 4) Weekly average of daily Peak Pruritus NRS >=4 5) Accept to take photograph of bullous lesions

    8. BS cohort:

    1. Diagnosed with BS
    2. Oral ulcers that occurred at least 3 times in the previous 12 month period
    3. Have at least 2 oral ulcers over the 4 weeks prior to screening
    4. Have at least 2 oral ulcers at Week 0
    5. Have prior treatment with at least 1 non-biologic BS therapy
    6. Patients who need systemic therapy as whose oral or mucocutaneous ulcers cannot be adequately controlled by topical therapy

    9. DM cohort:

    1. Diagnosed with definite or probable inflammatory myopathies and categorized as DM
    2. Patients with inadequate response to and/or immune-suppressants or intolerance to DM therapies
    3. MMT-8 score \< 142, with at least one abnormality in the following Core Set Measures:

      • PtGA-VAS >= 2 cm
      • PhGA-VAS >= 2 cm
      • Global extra-muscular activity >= 2 cm
      • At least one muscle enzyme > 1.5 times
      • HAQ >= 0.25
    4. Moderate to severe DM defined as CDASI activity score > 14

    10. IMNM cohort:

    1. Clinically Diagnosed with IMNM as anti-HMGCR myopathy or anti-SRP myopathy
    2. CK > 1,000 U/L
    3. Patients who have an inadequate response to corticosteroids and/or immunesuppressants or intolerance to IMNM therapies
    4. MMT-8 score \< 142

    11. ITP cohort:

    1. Confirmed diagnosis of persistent/chronic ITP based on the following criteria:

      • ITP defined per the current guidelines
      • count \<= 30 × 10\^9/L on 2 consecutive occasions
    2. Lack of an sustained adequate platelet count response to a thrombopoietin receptor agonist and at least one other ITP treatment or a second TPO-RA
    3. A history of response with an platelet counts increase more than 20 × 10\^9/L from baseline by at least one

    Exclusion Criteria:

    1. History of anaphylaxis or to a biologic agent
    2. Active infection requiring systemic antiviral, antibiotics or antifungal
    3. Planned surgery during the study
    4. Pregnant or breastfeeding, or intending to become pregnant
    5. Any serious medical condition or abnormality in clinical laboratory tests that precludes the patient's safe participation in and completion of the study
    6. abnormalities
    7. Illicit drug or alcohol abuse
    8. Clinical diagnosis of diseases other than the target disease (except for Sjögren's syndrome in DM and IMNM)
    9. Positive for surface antigen
    10. Positive for virus antibody
    11. Positive for antibody
    12. Evidence of current infection with tuberculosis
    13. History of cancer within 5 years
    14. Treatment with therapy within 28 days or 5 half-lives
    15. Previous and current treatment with anti-C1s antibody at any time
    16. Other complement inhibitors within 3 months
    17. Patients who receive any treatments which fall into the Prohibited Therapy Criteria
    18. Patients with an elevated or aspartate aminotransferase > 1.5 × ULN in combination with an elevated total > 1.5 × ULN
    19. APS cohort:

      • 1) APS associated with other systemic autoimmune disease
      • 2) Acute thrombosis (arterial or venous acute thrombosis diagnosis) within 30 days before screening
      • 3) Patients with thrombotic APS without any anticoagulation treatment
      • 4) Treatment with prohibited medications
    20. BP cohort:

      ・ 1) Initiation of treatment with or increase in the dose of systemic or topical corticosteroid within 2 weeks

      • 2) Current treatment with a drug that may cause or exacerbate BP unless the dose has been stable
      • 3) Initiation of treatment with topical calcineurin inhibitor, or topical phosphodiesterase (PDE) 4 inhibitor within 7 days
      • 4) Treatment with prohibited medications
    21. BS cohort:

      ・ 1) BS-related active major organ involvement-ocular lesions requiring therapy, pulmonary (e.g., pulmonary artery aneurysm), vascular (e.g., thrombophlebitis), gastrointestinal (e.g., ulcers along the gastrointestinal tract), and central nervous systems (e.g., meningoencephalitis) manifestations

      • 2) History of venous or arterial thrombosis within 1 year
      • 3) Treatment with prohibited medications
    22. DM cohort:

      ・ 1) PhGA-VAS improvement >= 3, or clinically relevant improvement between screening and baseline

      • 2) Overlap myositis (except for overlap with Sjögren's syndrome), connective tissue disease associated DM, inclusion body myositis, polymyositis, IMNM, juvenile DM or drug-induced myopathy
      • 3) Cancer-associated myositis
      • 4) Significant muscle damage
      • 5) Past history of severe Interstitial lung disease flare, severe non-infectious lung inflammation which required active intervention, or multiple episodes of lung disease
      • 6) Severe respiratory muscle weakness
      • 7) Severe bulbar palsy
      • 8) Treatment with prohibited medications
    23. IMNM cohort:

      ・ 1) PhGA-VAS improvement >= 3, or clinically relevant improvement between screening and baseline

      ・ 2) Overlap myositis (except for overlap with Sjögren's syndrome), connective tissue disease associated DM, inclusion body myositis, polymyositis, juvenile DM or druginduced myopathy

      ・ 3) Cancer-associated myositis

      ・ 4) Significant muscle damage

      ・ 5) Past history of severe Interstitial lung disease (ILD) flare, severe non-infectious lung inflammation which required active intervention, or multiple episodes of lung disease

      ・ 6) Severe respiratory muscle weakness

      ・ 7) Severe bulbar palsy

      ・ 8) Treatment with prohibited medications

    24. ITP cohort:

      ・ 1) Secondary ITP

      ・ 2) Clinical diagnosis or history of Myelodysplastic Syndrome or autoimmune hemolytic anemia

      ・ 3) History of venous or arterial thrombosis within 12 months

      ・ 4) Patients who experienced major bleeding within 4 weeks

      • 5) Treatment with prohibited medications
      • 6) Any laboratory test results meet either of the following criteria at screening:

        • \<10 g/dL
        • Thyroid-stimulating hormone >= 10 μIU/mL
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(20)

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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.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

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.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

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.

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.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

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.

ECG (electrocardiogram)

A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

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.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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).

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
144 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    RAY121

    All enrolled patients will receive RAY121 multiple dose

    Drug: RAY121

Interventions

  • DrugRAY121

    Injection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Adverse events (AEs)

    Incidence, severity, and causal relationship of AEs

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

Secondary outcomes

  1. RAY121 concentration

    Serum RAY121 concentration

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

  2. AUCτ

    Area under the concentration-time curve over a dosing interval (AUCτ)

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

  3. Cmax

    Maximum observed serum concentration (Cmax)

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

  4. Cmin

    Minimum observed serum concentration (Cmin)

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

  5. Active C1s

    Active C1s

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

  6. Total C1s

    Total C1s

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

  7. Complement activity (classical pathway)

    Complement activity (classical pathway)

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

  8. Anti-RAY121 antibodies

    Titer of anti-RAY121 antibodies

    Time frame: Baseline to Week 32

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Study locations

48 of 77 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Qualified researchers may request access to individual patient level data through the clinical study data request platform. For further details on Chugai's Data Sharing Policy and how to request access to related clinical study documents, see here (www.chugai-pharm.co.jp/english/profile/rd/ctds_request.html).

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, 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
NCT06371417
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 17, 2024
Start date
Aug 19, 2024
Primary completion
Mar 31, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 30, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 22, 2026

Study contacts

Clinical trials information
Contact
clinical-trials@chugai-pharm.co.jp
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Sponsor Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd
study director · clinical-trials@chugai-pharm.co.jp

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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