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A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Different Doses of CB03-154 in Adult Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

A Phase 2/3 interventional study of Test drug CB03-154 5mg group and Test drug CB03-154 10mg group in ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), sponsored by Shanghai Zhimeng Biopharma, Inc.. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-22.

Sponsored by Shanghai Zhimeng Biopharma, Inc. · Phase 2/3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Oct 2025; still recruiting 1 year later.
Phase
Phase 2/3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
240
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if drug CB03-154 works to treat ALS in adults. It will also learn about the safety of drug CB03-154.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • Does drug CB03-154 have an effect on delaying disease progression, improving function, and prolonging survival in adult ALS patients?
  • What medical problems do patients have when taking drug CB03-154? Researchers will compare drug CB03-154 to a placebo (a look-alike substance that contains no drug) to see if drug CB03-154 works to treat ALS.

Participants (adult ALS patients) will:

  • Take drug CB03-154 or a placebo every day for 39 weeks (an additional 39 weeks would be required if entering the open-label extension phase).
  • Visit the clinic approximately every 2-3 months for checkups and tests, and there is also telephone follow-up in between.
  • Keep a diary of daily medication (CB03-154 or other concomitant medications), and if there are any unplanned medications, the reason (disease or symptoms) also need be recorded.
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Conditions studied

  • ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
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In context

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

978 studies on the registry are indexed under Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; 277 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 240 is above the median of 38 across 662 interventional studies indexed under Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai Zhimeng Biopharma, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 11 studies on the registry; 5 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 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Agree to follow the treatment plan and trial procedures of this study, and sign the written form.
  2. Male or female, aged 18 to 65 years, inclusive.
  3. The weight of subjects during the screening period must not be less than 45 kg, and the must not be less than 18 kg/m2.
  4. Diagnosed according to the Revised EI Escorial diagnostic criteria set by the World Federation of Neurology: definite ALS, probable ALS, lab supported probable ALS, or possible ALS.
  5. Less than or equal to 24 months since ALS symptom onset at Screening, and estimated survival time of ≥1 year as per the Investigator's judgement.
  6. Forced vital capacity (FVC) >80% of predicted value for gender, height, and age at Screening.
  7. Able to swallow oral medication (tablets) at Screening as judged by the investigator.
  8. For participants taking riluzole: Dose must be stable for at least 4 weeks prior to Screening and participant must be expected to remain on treatment for the duration of the trial. Participants receiving riluzole should maintain the same dose throughout the study.
  9. Currently not receiving edaravone treatment or is in the schedule of edaravone treatment cycle. Participants receiving edaravone treatment must complete at least one cycle of treatment before the screening visit and continue stable dose edaravone treatment throughout the study.
  10. Women of (WOCBP) must use an approved highly effective for at least one menstrual cycle before the first dose of the product and for at least 3 months after the last dose of the investigational product. Similarly, men must start using effective contraception before the first dose of the investigational product and continue for at least 3 months after the last dose of the investigational product, with no plans for procreation. Male participants cannot donate sperm for at least 3 months during the trial and after the last dose of the investigational product and female participants cannot donate or freeze eggs during the trial and for at least 3 months after the last dose of the investigational product.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Significant cognitive impairment, mental disorders (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder), other neurodegenerative diseases (such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, etc.), substance abuse or other causes leading to neuromuscular weakness (such as myasthenia gravis), or other conditions that may interfere with the participants' participation in clinical study or, in the investigator's judgment, may interfere with outcome assessment or affect the completion of the trial.
  2. Serum (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), or >2.0× at screening.
  3. Estimated \<59 mL/min/1.73m2 at Screening (using the formula to calculate eGFR: eGFR (mL/min/1.73m2) = Ccr × 0.84 × 1.73 / BSA; Ccr (mL/min) = [(140 - age) × weight (kg)] / [72 × Scr (mg/dL)], females multiply the result by 0.85, and Scr is the serum creatinine; BSA (m2) = 0.007184 × weight (kg)\^0.425 × height (cm)\^0.725).
  4. D-dimer>2.0× upper limit of normal or venous ultrasound of the lower limbs shows deep vein thrombosis at screening or a history of venous thrombosis.
  5. Assistance with ventilation support or tracheostomy or tube feeding status or having a central venous catheter is required at screening.
  6. A history of unexplained syncope, family history of syncope, or a history of convulsions or epilepsy (excluding the history of febrile seizures in childhood), or unstable medical condition, serious heart issues (e.g., corrected interval: males >450ms, females >470ms, torsades de pointes, class 3 or higher heart failure, myocardial infarction or unstable angina within 6 months prior to screening), lung, liver, kidney diseases, or tumors, or other diseases or medical history (excluding ALS), participation in this study could threaten the safety of the participants.
  7. Current clinically significant urinary retention, or current use of medications for urinary retention, or clinically significant abnormalities in residual urinary bladder ultrasound at screening.
  8. Clinically significant ophthalmological abnormalities found in visual acuity examination (best corrected visual acuity), fundus photography, OCT examination, etc. during screening period, or clinically significant fundus lesions or retinopathy known or recorded in medical history.
  9. surface antigen (HBsAg) positive, or antibody (HCVAb) positive and hepatitis C virus ribonucleic acid (HCV-RNA) test higher than the lower limit of detection, or antibody (HIVAb) positive, or Treponema pallidum (TP) antibody positive (also judged as active infection by the investigator) at screening.
  10. Severe infections (e.g., infectious pneumonia, sepsis) within 4 weeks prior to screening, or infections requiring hospitalization or intravenous administration of antibiotics, antiviral drugs, or antifungal medications, or chronic active bacterial infections (e.g., tuberculosis) deemed by the investigator to be unsuitable for participation in this trial.
  11. Received Tofersen treatment before screening.
  12. Significant risk of suicidality based on the Investigator's opinion or with an answer of "yes" on either item 4 or item 5 of the Suicidal Ideation Section of the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) or any answer of "yes" within the Suicidal Behavior Section of the C SSRS within the 6 months before Screening.
  13. Exposure to any other medicinal product or product within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives of the investigational product (whichever is longer) prior to Screening; or exposure to monoclonal antibody drug within 6 months prior to Screening (or if the at the time of screening has not reached more than 3 months), or had received cell therapy or gene therapy at any time in the past.
  14. Treatment with strong inducers or strong inhibitors prior to screening, and washout time of more than 5 half-lives of the drug was not reached before enrollment。
  15. Pregnant, currently breastfeeding women or women with a positive pregnancy test at screening.
  16. Known history of allergy to any component of the investigational medicinal product.
  17. History of drug abuse within 12 months of Screening.
  18. Anything else that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would place the participant at increased risk or preclude the participant's full compliance with or completion of the trial.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(18)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

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.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers

CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.

Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2 / Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
240 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    CB03-154 5mg

    Participants will receive CB03-154 5mg and Placebo 10mg orally once daily for 39 weeks.

    Drug: Test drug CB03-154 5mg group

  • Experimental
    CB03-154 10mg

    Participants will receive CB03-154 10mg and Placebo 5mg orally once daily for 39 weeks.

    Drug: Test drug CB03-154 10mg group

  • Experimental
    CB03-154 15mg

    Participants will receive CB03-154 15mg orally once daily for 39 weeks.

    Drug: Test drug CB03-154 15mg group

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo 15mg

    Participants will receive Placebo 15mg orally once daily for 39 weeks.

    Drug: Placebo Group

Interventions

  • DrugTest drug CB03-154 5mg group

    One CB03-154 tablet (5mg/tablet) once daily.

  • DrugTest drug CB03-154 10mg group

    Two CB03-154 tablets (5mg/tablet) once daily.

  • DrugTest drug CB03-154 15mg group

    Three CB03-154 tablets (5mg/tablet) once daily.

  • DrugPlacebo Group

    Three Placebo tablets once daily.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Changes from Baseline to Week 39 in ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R).(Part A) Changes from Baseline to Week 78 in ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R).(Part B)

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

Secondary outcomes

  1. A joint rank analysis of function (Functional Rating Scale-Revised , ALSFRS-R) and survival(ALS/SURV)score at Week 39.(Part A) A joint rank analysis of function (Functional Rating Scale-Revised , ALSFRS-R) and survival(ALS/SURV)score at Week 78.(Part B)

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

  2. Change from Baseline and Slope of decline from Baseline in the Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R) score at Weeks 8, 16, 28, 39, 51, 63 and 78.

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

  3. Change from Baseline and slope of decline in the Rasch Overall ALS Disability Scale (ROADS) score at Weeks 8, 16, 28, 39, 51, 63, and 78.

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

  4. Time from baseline to the earliest occurrence of 1 of the following events: first use of Permanent Assisted Ventilation (PAV) for >22 hours per day for >7 consecutive days OR death.

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

  5. Time from baseline to death.

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks.

  6. Change from Baseline in Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) at Weeks 8, 16, 28, 39, 51, 63 and 78.

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

  7. Change from Baseline in the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, 17 item (HAMD-17) score at Weeks 8, 16, 28, 39, 51, 63, and 78.

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

  8. Change from Baseline in the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assessment Questionnaire (ALSAQ-40) score at Weeks 8, 16, 28, 39, 51, 63 and 78.

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

  9. Change from Baseline on concentration of plasma Neurofilament Light Chain (NfL) at Weeks 8, 16, 28, 39, 51, 63 and 78.

    Time frame: From baseline to the entire period of double-blind period, assessed up to 39 weeks. (Part A) From baseline to the entire period of open-label extension, assessed up to 78 weeks. (Part B)

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 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
NCT07082192
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Zhimeng Biopharma, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 24, 2025
Start date
Oct 30, 2025
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 22, 2026

Study contacts

Dongsheng Fan, MD,PhD
Contact
dsfan@aliyun.com
+86 10 82265694

Oversight

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