A Phase 2 interventional study of LITFULO and LITFULO and UVB in Vitiligo, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice. Recruiting at 5 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-20.
Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
Vitiligo affects approximately 1 to 2% of the global population and significantly impacts people's quality of life. areas of high stress. Ritlecitinib, an orally administered inhibitor of JAK3 (Janus kinase)/ TEC (tyrosine kinase expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma) has shown effectiveness and safety for the treatment of vitiligo. In a phase 2b trial, three doses of ritlecitinib, 200/50 mg, 100/50 mg, and 50 mg, were all statistically significant versus placebo on the Facial Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (F-VASI) at week 24 in patients with active NSV. Considering that the immune process primarily contributes to depigmentation while ultraviolet (UV) radiation stimulates the differentiation and proliferation of melanocyte stem cells for re-pigmentation, the investigators propose that a combination therapy using ritlecitinib and narrowband UVB (nbUVB) could offer an optimal approach for treating vitiligo patients.
The primary objective is thTo compare between the groups, the mean percentage change from baseline in F-VASI and T-VASI at week 52.
Following central randomization, patients will be assigned to receive either ritlecitinib 100mg daily (QD) or a combined therapy using ritlecitinib 100mg QD + twice weekly narrowband UVB treatment for a duration of 52 weeks. At the end of this period, all participants will continue for the open-label phase, receiving ritlecitinib 100mg QD. Eligible participants will be stratified by Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST, also known as phototype). More specifically, there will be 2 strata based on FST targets: (1) FST I to III (2) FST I IV, to VI. Each FST stratum will target to enroll at least 50% participants into the study population. Stratified randomization across FST sub-groups will support the evaluation of a consistent benefit-risk profile across all FST strata. Enrollment of participants with active or stable nonsegmental vitiligo will be proactively managed without formally capping or stratifying.
Throughout the study, there will be a total of 8 visits conducted: selection, inclusion, week 4, week 12, week 24, week 36, week 52 and week 72. In patients who volunteer, a skin biopsy will be performed on both the lesional and perilesional areas at baseline, week 4 and week 52. We aim to include between 12 and 20 volunteer patients. Serum and plasma samples will be collected at the screening visit, week 4, week 12, week 24, week 36, week 52 and week 72.
A pregnancy test will be performed every 4 weeks i.e. at weeks 8, 16, 20, 28, 32, 40, 44, 48, 56, 60, 64 and 68;
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Women of non-childbearing potential (WONCBP) do not require a urine pregnancy test and must meet at least one of the following criteria:
o Have undergone hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy;
Exclusion Criteria:
At any time prior to or during the study:
Within 6 months of the first dose of study drug or 5 half-lives (if known), or until lymphocyte count returns to normal, whichever is longer and during the study:
- Any B-cell-depleting agents including but not limited to rituximab or previously receiving leukocyte apheresis, including selective lymphocyte, monocyte, or granulocyte apheresis, or plasma exchange.
Within 12 weeks of first dose of study drug or 5 half-lives (if known), whichever is longer and during the study:
Within 8 weeks of Day 1 and during the study:
- Narrow-band UVB phototherapy, Psoralen Ultra-Violet A therapy, or other phototherapy.
TNF inhibitors (or biosimilars thereof) as described below:
Within 8 Weeks of Day 1 [Baseline] (or within 5 half-lives, whichever is longer) and during the study:
Within 6 Weeks of Day 1 (Baseline), during the study, and within 6 weeks of last dose:
- Vaccination with live attenuated, replication-competent vaccine; Current routine household contact with individuals who have been vaccinated with a live attenuated, replication-competent vaccine.
Within 4 weeks (28 Days) of first dose of study intervention or 5 half-lives (if known), whichever is longer and during the study:
Note: Any investigational or experimental therapy taken, or procedure performed for vitiligo and other or immunologic diseases including but not limited to rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis alopecia areata, thyroid disease, allergic rhinitis, or atopic dermatitis within the previous 1 year should be carefully evaluated. Participants cannot participate in studies of other investigational or experimental therapies or procedures at any time during their participation in this study.
Within 1 Week of Day 1 [Baseline] (or within 5 half-lives, whichever is longer) and during the study:
- Herbal medications with unknown properties or known beneficial effects for vitiligo.
And 6. Patients suffering from photodermatosis or taking photosensitive drugs, and 7. Patients with more than 33% of leucotrichia on the lesions (Leukotrichia in more than 33% of the face surface area affected with vitiligo lesions OR leukotrichia in more than 33% of the total body surface area affected with vitiligo lesions), and 8. Personal history of skin cancer, and 9. Personal history of any or a history of malignancies with the exception of adequately treated or excised nonmetastatic basal cell or squamous cell cancer of the skin or cervical carcinoma in situ will be excluded from the study, and 10. Patients with active infection or other systemic/ inflammatory disease, and 11. Tuberculosis or latent tuberculosis, and 12. Vulnerable people: pregnant or breast-feeding women, minors, adult under guardianship, deprived of freedom or with psychiatric condition, and 13. Participants in other clinical therapeutic studies involving a drug that could interfere with the present evaluation.
14. Participants are excluded from the study if any of the following criteria apply: i. Medical Conditions:
ii. Medical conditions pertaining to vitiligo and other diseases/conditions affecting the skin:
iii. General Infection History:
NOTE: Participants who have previously been adequately treated for latent or active TB (according to WHO/regional or local country recommendations by appropriately qualified personnel as defined by local practice) may be enrolled. Neither a QFT-G test, nor a TSPOT test nor a PPD test is needed provided the treatment, including details of the previous course of therapy (eg, medication(s) used, dose, and duration) is well documented in the participant's medical records and/or source documentation prior to enrollment in the study. A participant who is currently being treated for latent TB infection can only be enrolled with documentation of an adequate treatment regimen that does not include prohibited medications (such as rifamycins [eg, Rifabutin, Rifampin, Rifapentine]), and with prior approval by the sponsor (see Section 8.7).
iv. Specific Viral Infection History:
If HBsAg is negative and HBcAb is positive, hepatitis B surface antibody (HBsAb) reflex testing is required:
Have a known immunodeficiency disorder (including positive serology for at Screening) or a first-degree relative with a hereditary immunodeficiency.
v. Medical Conditions, Other:
Note: In case hypovitaminosis D (under LLN) is identified for the first time at Screening, treatment should be started at least 7 days prior to baseline.
Significant trauma or major surgery within 1 month of the first dose of study drug or considered in imminent need for surgery or with elective surgery scheduled to occur during the study.
15. Patients with severe hepatic impairment.
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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.
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.
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).
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.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Patients will be assigned to receive either ritlecitinib 100mg daily (QD)
Drug: LITFULO
patients will be assigned to receive a combined therapy using ritlecitinib 100mg QD + twice weekly narrowband UVB treatment for a duration of 52 weeks.
Procedure: LITFULO and UVB
Following central randomization, patients will be assigned to receive either ritlecitinib 100mg daily (QD) or a combined therapy using ritlecitinib 100mg QD + twice weekly narrowband UVB treatment for a duration of 52 weeks. At the end of this period, all participants will continue for the open-label phase, receiving ritlecitinib 100mg QD. Eligible participants will be stratified by Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST, also known as phototype).
Following central randomization, patients will be assigned to receive either ritlecitinib 100mg daily (QD) or a combined therapy using ritlecitinib 100mg QD + twice weekly narrowband UVB treatment for a duration of 52 weeks. At the end of this period, all participants will continue for the open-label phase, receiving ritlecitinib 100mg QD. Eligible participants will be stratified by Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST, also known as phototype).
The Facial Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (F-VASI)
To compare the proportion of patients treated with combined ritlecitinib + nbUVB versus ritlecitinib monotherapy achieving The Facial Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (F-VASI) -75 at week.
Time frame: at week 52
Total Body Vitiligo Scoring Index (T-VASI) 50
To compare the proportion of patients treated with combined ritlecitinib + nbUVB versus ritlecitinib monotherapy achieving T-VASI50 at week 52
Time frame: at week 52
Safety treatment
All the adverse events (clinical and biological) occurring over the study period will be collected with their type, grade and severity. At each visit, the investigator will record all the events since the last visit
Time frame: during 52 weeks
The quality of life
The quality of life will be assessed by using VIPs (Vitiligo Impact Patient scale) short form at baseline and week 36, week 52 and week 72. VIPs is a transcultural validated specific vitiligo burden tool according to skin phototype. The VIPs-22 which is the latest version of the scale will be used in this study. Evolution will be calculated between baseline and week 36, week 52 and week 72 considering the initial and second randomization to define different groups.
Time frame: during 52 weeks
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