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Enrolling by invitationNCT06674577ORIGIN EXTENDUpdated Jun 22, 2026

A Rollover Study to Evaluate the Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Atacicept

A Phase 2 interventional study of Atacicept 150 mg in IgA Nephropathy (IgAN), Renal and Urinary Disorders and Berger Disease, sponsored by Vera Therapeutics, Inc.. Enrolling by invitation at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 99 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-22.

Sponsored by Vera Therapeutics, Inc. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
750
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 99 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to collect long-term safety and tolerability data for atacicept in patients with IgAN that completed Vera trial investigating atacicept in IgAN population.

Read the detailed description

Eligible participants will receive atacicept 150 mg once weekly (QW) self-administered subcutaneously (SC). Participants will be grouped by whether they are restarting atacicept after cessation in the parent study (Group 1: Atacicept Drug Holiday) or are continuing atacicept with no disruption in treatment (Group 2: Continuous Atacicept Treatment). Long-term safety and tolerability of atacicept is assessed by routine clinical and laboratory tests and adverse events.

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Conditions studied

  • IgA Nephropathy (IgAN)
  • Renal and Urinary Disorders
  • Berger Disease

Keywords

  • IGA Glomerulonephritis
  • IGA Nephropathy
  • Iga Nephropathy 1
  • Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy Nephritis
  • IGA Type Nephropathy, IGA
  • renal and urinary disorders
  • Berger Disease
  • Berger's Disease
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In context

Glomerulonephritis, IGA

275 studies on the registry are indexed under Glomerulonephritis, IGA; 107 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 750 is above the median of 62 across 221 interventional studies indexed under Glomerulonephritis, IGA.

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Lead sponsor

Vera Therapeutics, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  • Must have the ability to understand and sign a written form, which must be obtained prior to initiation of study assessments
  • Completed the protocol-defined treatment period on treatment in a parent study of atacicept in patients with IgAN
  • For Atacicept Drug Holiday Group only: Systolic blood pressure ≤150 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure ≤90mmHg at screening and Day 1
  • A participant who was assigned female at birth is eligible if not pregnant (ie, after a confirmed menstrual period, a negative serum pregnancy test at screening and has a negative urine pregnancy test at Day 1), is not breastfeeding (for at least three months prior to screening), and at least one of the following conditions applies:

    • Is not a woman of (WOCBP) OR
    • Is a WOCBP who agrees to use a highly effective method (ie, has a failure rate of less than 1% per year) at least 7 days prior to enrollment, through 175 days after the last dose of study drug.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Evidence of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (loss of ≥50% of within 3 months of screening)
  • For Atacicept Drug Holiday Group only: History of splenectomy
  • Known to atacicept or any component of the formulated atacicept
  • For Atacicept Drug Holiday Group only: Major surgery within 6 weeks prior to screening or planned/expected major surgery during the study period (including the safety follow-up period). Major surgery often involves opening one of the major body cavities (abdomen or chest) and/or use of general anesthesia. Types of surgery that have the highest risk include heart or lung, liver, abdomen, or major operations on the bones and joints (eg, hip replacement)
  • history of alcohol or drug abuse in the 1 year prior to Day 1 as per Investigator opinion
  • Unwillingness or lack of capacity to follow all study procedures
  • For Atacicept Drug Holiday Group only: Treatment with other agents within the last 4 weeks or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to screening
  • Evidence of nephrotic syndrome (serum albumin \<30g/L in association with UPCR >3.5 mg/mg) within 6 months of screening
  • Currently on chronic dialysis, or expected to initiate dialysis within 12 weeks of screening
  • Renal or other organ transplantation prior to, or expected during, the study, with the exception of corneal transplants
  • Clinically significant or predefined abnormalities per central laboratory tests at screening, meeting any of the criteria: Clinical evidence of and/or hypogammaglobulinemia as determined by the Investigator.
  • For Atacicept Drug Holiday Group only: , alanine aminotransferase or alkaline phosphatase level >2.5 × (ULN) or total >1.5 x ULN. If the participant has a known history of Gilberts (history of isolated increase in total bilirubin without increase in liver transaminases), contact the Medical Monitor for further discussion.
  • For Atacicept Drug Holiday Group only: Administration of live and within 30 days prior to enrollment.
  • For Atacicept Drug Holiday Group only: History or current diagnosis of any demyelinating disease such as, but not restricted to, multiple sclerosis (MS) or optic neuritis (ON)
  • Active clinically significant viral, bacterial or fungal infection, or any major episode of infection requiring hospitalization or treatment with parenteral anti-infectives within 4 weeks prior to enrollment, or completion of oral anti-infectives within 2 weeks prior to enrollment, ora history of recurrent infections (ie, 3 or more of the same type of infection in a 12-month rolling period). Vaginal candidiasis, onychomycosis and genital or oral herpes simplex virus considered by the Investigator to be sufficiently controlled are not exclusionary.
  • Atacicept Drug Holiday Group only: If the participant is undergoing current treatment for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), they must have received at least 4 continuous weeks of an appropriate LTBI treatment prior to screening without evidence of re-exposure to be eligible for this study. If on LTBI treatment at the Screening visit, the participant will be expected to complete an appropriate LTBI treatment regimen to remain in the trial

Prohibited medications:

  • Use of systemic (including oral budesonide) or immunosuppressive medications (eg, MMF, azathioprine, cyclophosphamide, hydroxychloroquine) for the treatment of IgAN within 2 months prior to Screening
  • For glucocorticosteroids (GCS), "Systemic" is defined as oral, rectal or injectable (intravenous or intramuscular) routes of administration, Other routes of administration are allowed, including intra-articular, inhaled, topical, ophthalmic, optic and intranasal
  • Use of B-cell-directed biologic therapies including belimumab, rituximab, ocrelizumab within 12 months of screening
  • Use of other biologics (eg, anti-TNF, abatacept, anti-IL-6) and investigational biologics for the treatment of IgAN within 6 months of screening
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(13)

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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.

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Atacicept 150mg once weekly subcutaneous (SC) injection

    Other Names: VT-001

    Drug: Atacicept 150 mg

Interventions

  • The atacicept drug product is available as a ready to use injection solution in the following prefilled syringe (PFS) that is composed of: \*BD Hypak™ SCF™ Barrel Glass barrel 1ml long with staked needle 27G ½" 5B with Rigid Needle Shield BD260 \*BD SCF™ Stopper 1ml long W4023 Flurotec

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of adverse events observed during the dosing period

    Patient incidence of reported Adverse Events (AEs)

    Time frame: Baseline until end of study up to week156

Secondary outcomes

  1. To evaluate the effect of atacicept on change in proteinuria

    Changes in proteinuria based on UPCR (Urine Protein Creatinine Ratio) and UACR (Urine Albumin-Creatinine Ratio) on spot urine.

    Time frame: Baseline until end of study up to week156

  2. To evaluate the effect of atacicept on the change in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) using serum creatinine and cystatin C, respectively

    Changes in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) based on serum creatinine and cystatain C, respectively

    Time frame: Baseline until end of study up to week156

  3. To evaluate the effect of atacicept on hematuria

    Hematuria level based on blood on urine dipstick

    Time frame: Baseline until end of study up to week156

  4. To evaluate the effect of atacicept on serum galactose-deficient IgA1 (Gd-IgA1) levels

    Changes in serum Gd-IgA1 levels

    Time frame: Baseline until end of study up to week156

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Dec 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for May 2031, 77 months after the start.

Of 41 phase 2 interventional studies under Glomerulonephritis, IGA, half reached primary completion within 33 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 17 and three quarters within 50. This study's planned 77 months is above that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Oct 3, 2024
First posted
Nov 5, 2024
StartActual
Dec 1, 2024
Primary completionEst.
May 21, 2031
CompletionEst.
May 21, 2031
Last update
Jun 22, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 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
NCT06674577
Lead sponsor
Vera Therapeutics, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 5, 2024
Start date
Dec 1, 2024
Primary completion
May 21, 2031 (estimated)
Completion
May 21, 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 22, 2026

Study contacts

Eric Michael, MD
study director · Senior Director, Clinical Development

Oversight

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