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Active, not recruitingNCT06989918Updated Oct 9, 2026

MHB018A Treatment in Patients With Active Thyroid Eye Disease

A Phase 3 interventional study of MHB018A and MHB018A placebo in Thyroid Associated Ophthalmopathies, sponsored by Minghui Pharmaceutical (Hangzhou) Ltd. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-09.

Sponsored by Minghui Pharmaceutical (Hangzhou) Ltd (part of Minghui Pharmaceutical) · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Updated Oct 9, 2026Now Active, not recruitingPrimary completion movedGo to Updates ↓

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Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
108
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 55 studies in Graves Ophthalmopathy with a site in China — 25 open to participants now, 28 under way, 7 of them phase 3. Graves Ophthalmopathy · China.

Planned enrollment
12th of 45
108 · median 64
Started
2025
with 10 others
Phase 3
13 of 55
4 open now
Primary completion
2026-12
later than 6 of 27 live
Registered
33rd of 55
by date
Lead sponsor
3 of 55
Minghui Pharmaceutical (Hangzhou) Ltd

Among the 55 studies in Graves Ophthalmopathy with a site in China, this one is the 12th largest by planned enrollment of the 45 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 11 that started in 2025, is one of 13 in phase 3, reaches primary completion later than 6 of the 27 other live ones, and was the 33rd registered.

Graves Ophthalmopathy

199 studies on the registry are indexed under Graves Ophthalmopathy; 58 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

25 of the 55 studies in Graves Ophthalmopathy with a site in China are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:

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Who these studies take

Of the 38 Graves Ophthalmopathy studies recruiting now, 8 (21%) set no upper age limit and 16 (42%) stop at 75 or younger; 1 takes children under 18; 9 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 75 Years · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of MHB018A, a humanized anti-IGF1R antibody, administered q4W for 6 months, in comparison to placebo, in the treatment of participants suffering from active TED.

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The percentage of subjects with a reduction in proptosis of ≥2 mm in the study eye/target eye compared to baseline, without deterioration (≥2 mm) in the fellow eye.

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Conditions studied

  • Thyroid Associated Ophthalmopathies

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Subjects voluntarily participating in the study and signing the form;
  2. Aged 18-75 years (inclusive), of any gender;
  3. Clinical diagnosis of active Thyriod Eye Disease (TED). The Clinical Activity Score (CAS) of the study eye/target eye at screening and baseline must be ≥3 points (7-point scale).
  4. Subjects with a clinical diagnosis of moderate to severe TED at screening and baseline.
  5. Does not require immediate surgical ophthalmological intervention, and no corrective surgery/orbital radiotherapy is planned during the study.
  6. Diabetic subjects must have well-controlled stable disease.
  7. Sufficient bone marrow and organ function.
  8. Eligible subjects of (male and female) must agree to use reliable methods; female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative blood pregnancy test within 7 days before the first use of the study drug and must not be breastfeeding.
  9. Subject is willing and able to comply with the prescribed treatment protocol and evaluations for the duration of the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Decreased best corrected visual acuity due to optic neuropathy as defined by a decrease in vision within the last 6 months of two lines of Snellen chart, new visual field defect or color defect secondary to optic nerve involvement.
  2. Corneal decompensation unresponsive to medical management.
  3. Decrease in CAS of ≥ 2 points or decrease in proptosis of ≥ 2 mm between screening and baseline.
  4. Free thyroxine (FT4) and free triiodothyronine (FT3) levels \<50% above or below the normal reference range at screening.
  5. Subjects who have previously received orbital radiotherapy or ophthalmic surgery for TED.
  6. Subjects who received oral or intravenous or corticosteroid eye drops/ointments for TED within 4 weeks before the first dose; subjects who received periorbital/orbital steroid injections within 3 months before the first dose.
  7. Subjects who used oral or intravenous corticosteroids for reasons other than TED within 4 weeks prior to Screening, excluding local use (topical, nasal, inhalation).
  8. Any previous treatment with rituximab, tocilizumab, other agent use within 3 months prior to Screening.
  9. Previous treatment targeting IGF-1R.
  10. Selenium and biotin must be discontinued 3 weeks prior to Screening and must not be restarted during the trial; however, taking a multivitamin that includes selenium and/or biotin is allowed.
  11. Use of an agent for any condition within 30 days prior to Screening or anticipated use during the course of the trial.
  12. Identified pre-existing ophthalmic disease that, in the judgment of the Investigator, would preclude study participation or complicate interpretation of study results.
  13. Malignant condition in the past 5 years before signing the ICF (except successfully treated basal/squamous cell carcinoma of the skin).
  14. Acute cardiovascular disease history or treatment within 6 months before the first dose.
  15. Presence of poorly controlled hypertension with systolic blood pressure ≥ 160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 100 mmHg; Renal artery stenosis.
  16. Pregnant or lactating women.
  17. Drug or alcohol abuse during the screening period.
  18. Hearing impairment history in either ear during the screening period; or abnormal pure tone audiometry results.
  19. -proven or clinically suspected inflammatory bowel disease.
  20. Positive results for serum virology tests (defined as pos
  21. Subjects who received or planned to receive live or attenuated within 4 weeks before the first dose or during the study period.
  22. Subjects who underwent major surgery within 4 weeks before the first dose or are expected to undergo surgery during the study period or within 4 weeks after the study.
  23. Known to any of the components of MNB018A or prior hypersensitivity reactions to mAbs.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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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.

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.

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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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.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
108 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    MHB018A

    6 subcutaneous injections of MHB018A, 450mg once every 4 weeks (q4w)

    Drug: MHB018A

  • Placebo comparator
    MHB018A Placebo

    6 subcutaneous injections of MHB018A placebo once every 4 weeks (q4w)

    Drug: MHB018A placebo

Interventions

  • MHB018A 450mg for subcutaneous injection once every 4 weeks (Q4W)

  • DrugMHB018A placebo

    6 subcutaneous injections of MHB018A placebo once every 4 weeks (q4w)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proptosis Responder Rate at Week 24

    The percentage of subjects with a reduction in proptosis of ≥2 mm in the study eye/target eye compared to baseline, without deterioration (≥2 mm) in the fellow eye.

    Time frame: Week 24

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall response rate

    The percentage of subjects with ≥2-points in Clinical Activity Score (CAS) reduction and ≥2 mm reduction in proptosis from baseline, provided there is no corresponding deterioration (≥2-points/mm increase) in CAS or proptosis in the fellow eye.

    Time frame: Week 24

  2. Change in proptosis

    Change from baseline in proptosis in the study eye as measured by exophthalmometer at Week 24

    Time frame: Baseline, up to Week 24

  3. Percentage of subjects with CAS of 0 or 1

    The percentage of subjects with a CAS of 0 or 1 in the study eye/target eye.

    Time frame: Week 24

  4. Change in CAS

    The mean change from baseline to Week 24 in the CAS in the study eye/target eye.

    Time frame: Week 24

  5. Diplopia response rate

    The percentage of subjects with a reduction in diplopia severity by ≥1 grade.

    Time frame: Week 24

  6. Change in Quality of Life (GO-QOL) Scores

    The mean change in scores from the Graves' Ophthalmopathy Quality of Life questionnaire compared to baseline.

    Time frame: Week 24

  7. Pharmacokinetic Parameter Trough Concentration for MHB018A

    Trough concentration (Ctrough) will be assessed using non-compartmental methods in participants randomized to the MHB018A group.

    Time frame: Up to Week 24

  8. Anti-MHB018A antibody (ADA) incidence

    The percentage of subjects developing anti-MHB018A antibodies.

    Time frame: Up to Week 24 and at end-of-trial (EOT) visit

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Study locations

1 site
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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedDate before it movedWhere the date was before it movedSimilar 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 Jul 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2026, 17 months after the start.

Of 29 phase 3 interventional studies under Graves Ophthalmopathy, half reached primary completion within 18 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 14 and three quarters within 25. This study's planned 17 months is close to that.

Primary completion moved once since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026: Jul 2026 → Dec 2026, on Oct 9, 2026.

Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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

Registered
May 9, 2025
First posted
May 25, 2025
StartActual
Jul 22, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Dec 2026was Jul 2026
CompletionEst.
Jul 31, 2027
Last update
Oct 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.
Status
Recruiting→Active, not recruiting
changed Oct 9, 2026
Primary completion
Jul 31, 2026→Dec 2026
Oct 9, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Oct 9, 2026
    Recruiting→Active, not recruiting
    Primary completion Jul 31, 2026→Dec 2026
    + 3 other changes: verification date, contact details and site details

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
NCT06989918
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 25, 2025
Start date
Jul 22, 2025
Primary completion
Dec 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 31, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 9, 2026

Oversight

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