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Study to Evaluate the Pharmacokinetics (PK), Safety and Tolerability up to 6 Years of Intravenous (i.v.) Secukinumab in Pediatric Participants With Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis (JPsA).

A Phase 1 interventional study of Secukinumab in Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis, sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Recruiting at 11 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 2 Years to 17 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-09.

Sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals (part of Novartis) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Sep 2025; still recruiting 1 year 1 month later.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
20
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
2 Years to 17 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the PK, safety and tolerability of multiple doses of intravenous (i.v.) secukinumab in pediatric participants with JPsA

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This is a multicenter, open-label study with an optional treatment extension period to evaluate pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability (up to 6 years) of i.v. secukinumab in pediatric patients with JPsA.

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Conditions studied

  • Juvenile Psoriatic Arthritis

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Keywords

  • Pediatric
  • JPsA
  • Pharmacokinetic (PK)
  • safety
  • Intravenous (i.v.)
  • Secukinumab
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In context

Arthritis, Juvenile

365 studies on the registry are indexed under Arthritis, Juvenile; 101 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 20 is below the median of 52 across 230 interventional studies indexed under Arthritis, Juvenile.

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Lead sponsor

Novartis Pharmaceuticals is the lead sponsor of 2,718 studies on the registry; 221 are open to participants now.

Of its 585 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 438 (75%) have results posted.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
2 Years to 17 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Key Inclusion Criteria:

  • Participants parent's or legal representative(s) written and child's assent, if appropriate, must be obtained before any study related activity or assessment is performed. Of note, if the participant reaches age of consent (as per local law) during the study, they will also need to sign the corresponding study ICF (Informed Consent Form).
  • Males and females ≥2 years old to \<18 years old at the time of screening.
  • Confirmed diagnosis of JPsA according to the modified International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) classification criteria that must have occurred at least 6 months prior to screening.
  • Active JPsA disease defined as ≥3 active joints (swollen or if not swollen must be both tender and limited range of motion) at baseline (BSL).
  • Inadequate response (≥1 month) or intolerance to ≥1 Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) at screening.
  • Inadequate response (≥2 months) or intolerance to ≥ 1 Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (DMARD) at screening.
  • Concomitant use of the following agents such as disease-modifying and/or drugs to treat the JPsA will be allowed:

    • Stable dose of methotrexate (MTX) (maximum of 20 mg/ m2 BSA/ week) for at least 4 weeks prior to the BSL visit, with folic/folinic acid supplementation (according to standard medical practice of the center).
    • Stable dose of an oral (CS) at a prednisone equivalent dose of \<0.2 mg/kg/day or up to 10 mg/day maximum, whichever is less, for at least 7 days prior to BSL.
    • Stable dose of no more than one NSAID for at least 1 week prior to BSL.

Key Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participants with body weight less than 10 kg at screening.
  • Use of other drugs within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives of BSL, or until the expected pharmacodynamic effect has returned to BSL, whichever is longer.
  • History of to study drug or its or to drugs of similar chemical classes.
  • Participants with active inflammatory bowel disease or active uveitis at screening or BSL.
  • Fulfilling diagnostic criteria for any International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR ) juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) category other than JPsA at BSL.
  • Participants treated with prohibited medication
  • Participants taking any non-biologic DMARD at screening except for MTX.
  • Any medical or psychiatric condition which, in the investigator's opinion, would preclude the participant from adhering to the protocol or completing the study per protocol.

Other inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Secukinumab

    Secukinumab administered intravenously in pediatric participants with JPsA

    Biological: Secukinumab

Interventions

  • BiologicalSecukinumab

    Intravenous secukinumab

    Also known as: AIN457

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Maximum concentration on Day 1

    Maximum concentration of secukinumab on Day 1

    Time frame: Pre-infusion and end of infusion (EOI) at Day 1

  2. Maximum concentration at steady-state (Cmax, ss)

    Maximum concentration at steady-state.

    Time frame: Preinfusion and EOI on Day 1, Day 29 and Day 57; weekly on Day 64, Day 71, Day 78, and Day 85; on Day 141 (pre-infusion if participant continues to the optional extension treatment or anytime during the visit if does not continue); preinfusion on Day 365

  3. Minimum concentration at steady-state (Cmin, ss)

    Minimum concentration at steady-state

    Time frame: Preinfusion and EOI on Day 1, Day 29 and Day 57; weekly on Day 64, Day 71, Day 78, and Day 85; on Day 141 (pre-infusion if participant continues to the optional extension treatment or anytime during the visit if does not continue); preinfusion on Day 365

  4. Area under the concentration-time curve at steady-state (AUCtau, ss)

    Area under the concentration-time curve at steady-state during a dosing interval

    Time frame: Preinfusion and EOI on Day 1, Day 29 and Day 57; weekly on Day 64, Day 71, Day 78, and Day 85; on Day 141 (pre-infusion if participant continues to the optional extension treatment or anytime during the visit if does not continue); preinfusion on Day 365

  5. Average concentration at steady-state (Cavg,ss)

    Average concentration at steady-state

    Time frame: Preinfusion and EOI on Day 1, Day 29 and Day 57; weekly on Day 64, Day 71, Day 78, and Day 85; on Day 141 (pre-infusion if participant continues to the optional extension treatment or anytime during the visit if does not continue); preinfusion on Day 365

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of participants with Adverse Events (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)

    Number of participants with AEs and SAEs as a measure of safety and tolerability

    Time frame: Up to Week 20

  2. Number of participants with clinically significant changes in clinical laboratory measures and vital signs.

    Number of participants with clinically significant changes in clinical laboratory measures and vital signs as a measure of safety and tolerability

    Time frame: Up to Week 20

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Study locations

11 of 11 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Novartis is committed to sharing access to patient-level data and supporting clinical documents from eligible studies with qualified external researchers. Requests are reviewed and approved by an independent review panel on the basis of scientific merit. All data provided is anonymized to protect the privacy of patients who have participated in the trial in line with applicable laws and regulations. This trial data availability is according to the criteria and process described on www.clinicalstudydatarequest.com

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

2 registry updates since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Sep 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Oct 2029, 49 months after the start.

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

Registered
Dec 20, 2024
First posted
Dec 27, 2024
StartActual
Sep 24, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Oct 31, 2029
CompletionEst.
Mar 11, 2031
Last update
Nov 9, 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.
Site contacts
Changed at 2 sites. See the sites
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  • Ann and Robert H Lurie Childs Hosp · Chicago, United StatesContact g•••@luriechildrens.org · •••4811→t•••@luriechildrens.org · •••4811
  • Texas Arthritis Center · El Paso, United StatesContact m•••@aara.care→j•••@aara.care
Nov 9, 2026
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  1. Nov 9, 2026
    Site contacts Changed at 2 sites. See the sites
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    • Ann and Robert H Lurie Childs Hosp · Chicago, United StatesContact g•••@luriechildrens.org · •••4811→t•••@luriechildrens.org · •••4811
    • Texas Arthritis Center · El Paso, United StatesContact m•••@aara.care→j•••@aara.care
    + 1 other change: verification date
  2. Oct 13, 2026
    Minor edits only
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06751238
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 27, 2024
Start date
Sep 24, 2025
Primary completion
Oct 31, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 11, 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 9, 2026

Study contacts

Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Contact
novartis.email@novartis.com
1-888-669-6682
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Contact

Oversight

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