ClinicalTrials.gg
RecruitingNCT06509984EBULOUpdated Feb 24, 2025

A 20-Week Study Assessing the Efficacy of Apremilast in Patients with EB Simplex Generalized

A Phase 2 interventional study of Apremilast treatment in Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex and Genodermatosis, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice. Recruiting at 4 sites in France. Open to participants aged 6 Years to 99 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-02-24.

Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Oct 2025, 1 year 1 month ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Aug 2024; still recruiting 2 years 3 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
20
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
6 Years to 99 Years
Sex
All
01

Study summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Apremilast in Patients > 6 years of age with EB simplex generalized . The main question it aims to answer are: describe efficacity of this treatment.

Participants will take treatments and have to use bullets during the study period.

Read the detailed description

The patient will have 7 visits. After Confirmation of inclusion criteria and no exclusion criteria, the study will be explain to the patient after signing the inform consent and be included in the study Treatment Period (Period 1); challenge period This period will be the first treatment period that will occur from 8 weeks. During this period the patient will see the doctor at the hospital, he will perform the study procedures The second period : dechallenge (period 2): All patients stop their treatment for 4 weeks.

The second treatment period - rechallenge (period 3) the patient will take the treatment for a second 8 weeks period At week 20 - End of study

At each visit:

The investigator at each visit compliance to the treatment and adverse events, Measure vital signs and perform clinical examination.

The patient will assess the different questionnaires, for the study

02

Conditions studied

  • Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex
  • Genodermatosis

Keywords

  • Apremilast
  • Children
  • Pediatric
03

In context

Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex

20 studies on the registry are indexed under Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex; 5 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 20 is close to the median of 19 across 17 interventional studies indexed under Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex.

Browse Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex studies →

Lead sponsor

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice is the lead sponsor of 723 studies on the registry; 176 are open to participants now.

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

04

Who can participate

Ages eligible
6 Years to 99 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  • Male or female patients 6 years or older
  • Laboratory confirmed diagnosis of EBS-sev due to KRT5 or 14 mutation (autosomal)
  • Mean daily number of new blisters >3.
  • Subject/caregiver agrees not to use any topical therapies other than the investigator approved

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

    • EBS lesions requiring oral therapy to treat an infection
  • Use of any diacerein containing product within 6 months prior to Visit 1
  • Use of systemic immunotherapy or cytotoxic chemotherapy within 60 days prior to Visit 1
  • Use of systemic steroidal therapy within 30 days prior to Visit 1
  • Use of any systemic product that, in the opinion of the investigator, might put the subject at undue risk by study participation or interferes with the study assessments within 30 days prior to Visit 1
05

Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    apremilast treatment

    treatment by apremilast in two phases of challenge

    Drug: Apremilast treatment

Interventions

  • DrugApremilast treatment

    treatment of apremilast

06

What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. To describe efficacy of apremilast

    number of new blister conting every day

    Time frame: weeks 20

Secondary outcomes

  1. Safety of apremilast treatment

    number of SAE

    Time frame: weeks 20

07

Study locations

1 of 4 sites recruiting
08

References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

09

Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 24, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
10

Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06509984
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 19, 2024
Start date
Aug 6, 2024
Primary completion
Oct 1, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 1, 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 24, 2025

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
View the source record on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

Interested in this study?

Eligibility is decided by the study team. Share this record with your doctor or contact the team directly.

No contact was published for this record. The registry link below has the sponsor’s details.

Follow this study

Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.

Sign in to follow

Discussion

Questions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.

Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.

Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.

Start the discussion