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Safety, Efficacy, and Frequency of Administration of VNX001 in the Treatment of Interstitial Cystitis / Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS)

A Phase 2 interventional study of VNX001 in Interstitial Cystitis and Bladder Pain Syndrome, sponsored by Vaneltix Pharma, Inc.. Recruiting at 5 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-01-22.

Sponsored by Vaneltix Pharma, Inc. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jun 2026, 5 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Dec 2024; still recruiting 1 year 10 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is an open-label study that will enroll participants with Interstitial Cystitis / Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS).

The study will assess PRN (as needed) dosing of up to 6 intravesical (via catheter) doses of VNX001 (study drug) to treat acute instances of moderate to severe bladder pain over a 14-day period. The main aim of the study is to tally the number of doses and assess pain before and after doses. The study will review the safety and tolerability of VNX001.

Participants will need to attend up to seven (7) clinic visits (1 for screening and up to 6 visits for VNX001 dosing) or at least one (1) clinic visit (for a combined screening/dosing visit) and 5 telephone visits over the course of 14 days. Participants will also be asked complete a diary or telephone call each day of the study, in order to record bladder pain, urinary urgency, side effects, and medications taken.

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Conditions studied

  • Interstitial Cystitis
  • Bladder Pain Syndrome

Keywords

  • interstitial cystitis (IC)
  • bladder pain syndrome (BPS)
  • alkalinized lidocaine
  • heparin
  • intravesical
  • VNX001
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In context

Cystitis, Interstitial

236 studies on the registry are indexed under Cystitis, Interstitial; 35 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 50 is close to the median of 51 across 158 interventional studies indexed under Cystitis, Interstitial.

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Lead sponsor

Vaneltix Pharma, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Enrolled and completed Study VNX001-111 (i.e., at any site that is concurrently conducting the VNX001-111 study, a subject must have previously enrolled and completed Study VNX001-111 to be eligible for entry into the VNX001-110 study) and meet all other inclusion/exclusion criteria.
  2. Be able and willing to give a signed and to follow study instructions.
  3. Be male or female, ≥ 18 years of age.
  4. Have a history of IC/BPS for at least 9 months prior to the study, either treated (e.g. Elmiron®, RIMSO-50®), or untreated.
  5. Have received a cystoscopy in association with their diagnosis of IC/BPS within 1 year of screening.
  6. Have a score of ≥ 14 and ≤ 30 on the PUF questionnaire, completed at screening.
  7. Have an episode of acute bladder pain of moderate to severe intensity with a minimum score of 4 on the 11-point bladder pain NRS at time of screening and 15 minutes post void immediately prior to study drug administration.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. For females, have a positive pregnancy test at screening or be pregnant or lactating.

    Note: Females considered to be of must commit to using a consistent and medically acceptable method of for the duration of the study: hormonal (i.e., oral, transdermal patch, implant, or injection) on a stable dose for at least 3 months prior to screening; double barrier (i.e., condom with spermicide or diaphragm with spermicide) consistently for at least 2 weeks prior to screening; and intrauterine device for at least 3 months prior to screening; or only have a partner who has been vasectomized for at least 6 months prior to screening or exclusively has same-sex partners. Female participants who are abstinent from heterosexual intercourse as part of their usual lifestyle will also be eligible for participation. Females considered to be of non-childbearing potential include: At least 1 year ; surgically sterile (tubal ligation, bilateral oophorectomy, salpingectomy, of hysterectomy); congenitally sterile; diagnosed as infertile and not undergoing treatment to reverse infertility.

  2. Males who are sexually active with females and are not willing to commit to an acceptable method of birth control for the duration of the study.
  3. Postmenopausal women who, if taking hormone replacement therapy, have not been stabilized on a regimen of hormone replacement therapy within 3 months of screening.
  4. Have a known to heparin or lidocaine.
  5. Have used any local anesthetic by any route (other than intravesical instillation) within 48-hours prior to study drug administration, or used a lidocaine patch or lidocaine containing topical compounds within 14 days prior to study drug administration.
  6. Have used a tricyclic antidepressant, or a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) analogue (gabapentin or pregabalin), unless taking a stable dose of the medication for ≥ 3 weeks. The stable dose of gabapentin may not exceed 1,200 mg per day, and the stable dose of pregabalin may not exceed 150 mg per day.
  7. Have used prohibited drugs as determined by self-report, positive urine drug screen, or in the opinion of the investigator be under the influence of drugs affecting mentation precluding their ability to follow the study protocol or bias study results.
  8. Have a known abnormal laboratory test value that, in the investigator's judgement, is .
  9. Have a neurogenic bladder or other disorder that, in the opinion of the investigator, may cause neurogenic bladder (including Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, myasthenia gravis, movement disorders, spinal cord damage).
  10. Have pain or a pain disorder that, in the opinion of the investigator, would make it difficult to discriminate pelvic pain of bladder origin from the other pain.
  11. Have any of the following central nervous system (CNS) conditions that in the opinion of the investigator would impact the subject's study participation due to their ability to follow the study protocol or bias study results, severe diagnosed: major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, general anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, or other major CNS disorder.
  12. Have history of arrhythmias, conduction disturbances, or cardiac disease, or any coexisting medical condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, may be significant or interfere with study procedures or interpretation of study results.
  13. Had bladder instillation therapy within 14 days prior to study entry.
  14. Had an in-office cystoscopy within 7 days prior to study drug administration.
  15. Had dilatation (hydrodistension) of bladder within 3 months of study entry.
  16. Evidence or suspected presence of cancer detected during cystoscopy.
  17. Has received any drug or device within 30 days prior to screening.
  18. Is currently enrolled in another investigational drug or device study.
  19. Is unwilling or unable to abide by the requirements of the study.
  20. Have an actively bleeding lesion or area in the bladder as detected by dipstick urinalysis and investigator assessment, immediately prior to randomization (Section 9.5.1.6). If the investigator determines that active bleeding is not occurring and that it is safe for the subject, the subject may continue in the study.
  21. Have a history of coagulopathy or taking anticoagulants.
  22. Are taking any of the following medications:

    • Phenytoin
    • Carbamazepine
    • St. John's Wort
    • Phenobarbital
    • Rifampin
  23. Have had any of the following:

    • Bacterial cystitis within 30 days as demonstrated by a positive urine culture (≥ 105 bacteria per mL)
    • History of pelvic irradiation or radiation cystitis
    • History or presence of uterine, cervical, pelvic, rectal, ovarian, or vaginal cancer
    • History of benign or malignant bladder tumors
    • Current chemotherapy
    • History or presence of tuberculous cystitis
    • History or presence of chemical cystitis, including that due to cyclophosphamide
    • History or presence of urinary schistosomiasis
    • Bladder or ureteral calculi
    • Clinically significant infectious vaginitis
    • Currently uncontrolled genital herpes
    • History or presence of urethral diverticulum
    • Presence of bladder fistulae
    • History of ketamine use
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

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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.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Open Label Arm

    VNX001 intravesical administration PRN up to 6 doses over 14 days. The VNX001 effective dose is 15 mL of buffered lidocaine HCl (200 mg) and sodium heparin (50,000 USPU).

    Drug: VNX001

Interventions

  • DrugVNX001

    Intravesical administration of VNX001

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Frequency of PRN intravesical administrations of VNX001

    Time frame: 14 Days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in bladder pain from first dose baseline to 1, 2, 6, 12, and 24 hours post-dose

    Average absolute change and average percentage change in bladder pain from baseline to 1, 2, 6, 12, and 24 hours post-dose, as determined using an 11-point numerical rating scale (NRS) for bladder pain. The 11-point NRS for bladder pain is a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 indicating no bladder pain and 10 indicating the worst imaginable bladder pain.

    Time frame: Through 24 Hours

  2. Change in bladder pain after each repeat dose to 1, 6, 12, and 24 hours post-dose

    Average absolute change and average percentage change in bladder pain from after each repeat dose to 1, 6, 12, and 24 hours post-dose, as determined using an 11-point numerical rating scale (NRS) for bladder pain. The 11-point NRS for bladder pain is a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 indicating no bladder pain and 10 indicating the worst imaginable bladder pain.

    Time frame: Through 24 Hours

  3. Sum of bladder pain intensity differences from baseline to 6, 10, and 24 hours post-dose (SPID-6, SPID-10, and SPID-24, respectively)

    A measure of the sum of bladder pain intensity differences from baseline to 6, 10, and 24 hours post-dose (SPID-6, SPID-10, and SPID-24, respectively), as determined using an 11-point numerical rating scale (NRS) for bladder pain. The 11-point NRS for bladder pain is a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 indicating no bladder pain and 10 indicating the worst imaginable bladder pain.

    Time frame: Through 24 Hours

  4. Change in the Patient Overall Rating of Improvement of Symptoms (PORIS) questionnaire

    Change in percentage of subjects achieving ≥ 50% improvement in pain, urgency and overall improvement using the PORIS questionnaire at 1, 12, and 24 hours post-dose. The PORIS questionnaire is an assessment of the subject's condition after treatment compared to before treatment. Subjects will be asked to select the category that best describes the overall change in their condition compared to before receiving study medication; the choices are: worse, no better (0% improvement), slightly improved (25% improvement), moderately improved (50% improvement), greatly improved (75% improvement), or symptoms gone (100% improvement).

    Time frame: Through 24 Hours

  5. Pain scale threshold associated with subjects seeking repeat dosing

    The average NRS pain assessment threshold before each PRN repeat intravesical VNX001 treatment. The 11-point NRS for bladder pain is a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 indicating no bladder pain and 10 indicating the worst imaginable bladder pain.

    Time frame: 14 Days

  6. Adverse events (AEs)

    Incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs), drug-related adverse events (AEs), and discontinuations due to AEs through the last follow up call at 48-72 hours after the last clinic or telephone visit.

    Time frame: up to 17 Days

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Study locations

2 of 5 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 Jan 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
NCT06394830
Lead sponsor
Vaneltix Pharma, Inc.
Collaborators
Prevail Infoworks
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 1, 2024
Start date
Dec 13, 2024
Primary completion
Jun 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jan 22, 2026

Study contacts

Vaneltix Pharma, Inc.
Contact
info@vaneltix.com
732-354-3217

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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