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A Phase 2 Trial Investigating the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of EXT608 in Adults With Hypoparathyroidism

A Phase 2 interventional study of EXT608 and Placebo in Hypoparathyroidism, sponsored by Extend Biosciences Inc.. Recruiting at 1 site in Argentina. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-05-25.

Sponsored by Extend Biosciences Inc. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started May 2025; still recruiting 1 year 6 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
35
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of EXT608 in adults with hypoparathyroidism.

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Conditions studied

  • Hypoparathyroidism

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Keywords

  • hypopara
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In context

Hypoparathyroidism

128 studies on the registry are indexed under Hypoparathyroidism; 30 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 35 is below the median of 50 across 77 interventional studies indexed under Hypoparathyroidism.

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Lead sponsor

Extend Biosciences Inc. is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; 1 is 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 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Ability to personally provide written, signed, and dated to participate in the study.
  2. An understanding, ability, and willingness to fully comply with study procedures and restrictions.
  3. Male or female between 18 and 65 years of age. Male participants with female partners of child bearing potential must agree to use barrier , e.g., condoms plus spermicide, from administration of the study drug until at least 3 months after administration of the study drug. Abstinence from heterosexual intercourse from administration of study drug until at least 3 months after administration of study drug is acceptable if it is in accordance with the participant's lifestyle. Female participants should be either surgically sterile (had a bilateral tubal ligation, bilateral salpingectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, or hysterectomy), (defined as 12 months with no menses prior to screening and a serum follicle stimulating hormone in the postmenopausal range at screening), or, if of child bearing potential, must be non-lactating and willing to use a highly effective method of birth control for 30 days prior to administration of study drug and agree to continued use of this method until at least 3 months after administration of study drug.
  4. Participants have a history of hypoparathyroidism for 12 months at least, with PTH levels below the LLN with concomitant serum calcium \< 9 mg/dL.
  5. Participants are treated with a daily dose > 750 mg elemental calcium if using > 0.25 µg/day calcitriol, or a daily dose > 1000 mg elemental calcium if not using calcitriol.
  6. Participants have normal blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (i.e. > 20 ng/dL or > 75 nmol/L) and not above 1.5 times the .
  7. Participants have normal thyroid test results for 3 months at least while taking a stable dose of thyroid medication or no medication.
  8. Participants have a \< 35 kg/m2.
  9. Albumin-adjusted serum calcium level should be between the lower half and the middle of the normal range upon randomization into the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Participants with hypoparathyroidism due to an activating mutation of the calcium sensing receptor, pseudohypoparathyroidism, any non-hypoparathyroidism disease that may affect calcium metabolism or phosphor-calcium homeostasis, or requiring parenteral calcium infusions.
  2. Unwillingness to use a diary deployed on a smartphone daily for recording vitamin D, active vitamin D, calcium, magnesium and study drug doses as well as periodic symptom reporting.
  3. Participants with a history of neoplasia (except thyroid cancer) with no sign of recurrence 5 years after diagnosis.
  4. Participants with a history of or active GI tract disease that may impact the absorption of calcium (e.g. malabsorption).
  5. Participants with a history of severe hypocalcemia leading to seizures or cardiac arrhythmias within 6 months prior to screening.
  6. Participants with chronic kidney disease ( \< 30 ml/min) or active nephrolithiasis (needing pain medication in the last 6 months).
  7. Participants taking the following medications within the respective exclusion period:

    • Proton pump inhibitors (4 weeks)
    • Bisphosphonates (3 months)
    • Parathyroid hormone, PTH analogs (6 months)
    • Thiazide diuretics (14 days)
    • Calcitonin or calcinet hydrochloride (3 months)
  8. Participant has increased CV proarrhythmic potential:

    1. Participant has a with Fridericia's correction method (QTcF) >450 ms or PR outside the range of 120 to 220 ms, confirmed with one repeat testing, at the Screening Visit or Inpatient Check-in (Day -1) Visit.
    2. A history of additional risk factors for TdP (e.g., heart failure, hypokalemia, family history of Long QT Syndrome).
    3. The use of concomitant medications that prolong the QT/QTc interval.
  9. Chronic/severe cardiac disease including, but not limited to, cardiac insufficiency, unstable angina, arrhythmias, bradycardia (resting heart rate \<60 beats/minute), or hypotension (systolic and diastolic blood pressures \<100 and 60 mmHg, respectively).
  10. Any condition or disease that, in the opinion of the investigator, may interfere with a participant's participation or may confound the interpretation of safety or efficacy in the study.
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.

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).

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.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

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.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator)
Enrollment
35 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Active

    EXT608 solution for injection, administered subcutaneously once-weekly, with multiple ascending doses (MAD) with a starting dose of 50 ug for 4 weeks, continuing to individualized dosing for 8 weeks

    Drug: EXT608

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Placebo solution, administered subcutaneously once-weekly, with multiple ascending doses (MAD) with a fixed dose for 4 weeks, continuing to variable dosing for 8 weeks

    Other: Placebo

Interventions

  • DrugEXT608

    Modified version of parathyroid hormone attached to vitamin D to extend half-life

  • OtherPlacebo

    Placebo for injection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Assess the safety and tolerability of multiple subcutaneous (SC) escalating dose levels of EXT608 in participants with hypoparathyroidism by determining frequency and severity of treatment emergent adverse events and post-dose change in lab results

    Frequency and severity of treatment emergent adverse events; frequency and severity of post-dose change from baseline in laboratory analyses; percentage of participants with injection site reactions

    Time frame: From enrollment until the end of treatment at 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Assess the pharmacokinetics (PK) of multiple SC doses of EXT608 given over 4 weeks in participants with hypoparathyroidism by determining Area Under the Curve (AUC)

    Determine Area Under the Curve (AUC)

    Time frame: From enrollment until 4 weeks

  2. Assess the pharmacokinetics (PK) of multiple SC doses of EXT608 given over 4 weeks in participants with hypoparathyroidism by determining drug half-life

    Determine drug half-life

    Time frame: From enrollment until 4 weeks

  3. Assess the clinical efficacy of multiple fixed SC doses of EXT608 given over 4 weeks (at week 4), and individualized dosing after an additional 8 weeks (at week 12) in participants with hypoparathyroidism by assessing serum calcium

    Proportion of participants with normal serum calcium

    Time frame: From enrollment until the end of treatment at 12 weeks

  4. Assess the clinical efficacy of multiple fixed SC doses of EXT608 given over 4 weeks (at week 4), and individualized dosing after an additional 8 weeks (at week 12) in participants with hypoparathyroidism by assessing supplementation

    Assess change from baseline of daily ingested amount of oral calcium, vitamin D supplements

    Time frame: From enrollment until the end of treatment at 12 weeks

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Trial Site
    Buenos Aires, Caba 1180AAX, Argentina
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — Will be determined upon completion of the study.

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started May 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for May 2027, 24 months after the start.

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

Registered
Apr 30, 2025
First posted
May 25, 2025
StartActual
May 5, 2025
Primary completionEst.
May 2027
CompletionEst.
May 2027
Last update
May 25, 2025
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 May 25, 2025, 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
NCT06988670
Lead sponsor
Extend Biosciences Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 25, 2025
Start date
May 5, 2025
Primary completion
May 2027 (estimated)
Completion
May 2027 (estimated)
Last update
May 25, 2025

Oversight

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