A Phase 2 interventional study of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO-1) inhibitor and placebo in EBV Infections and Kidney Transplant, sponsored by University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland. Recruiting at 4 sites in Switzerland. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-25.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Phase 2, Interventional, and Prevention
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This clinical study will evaluate the safety and tolerability of an IDO-1 inhibitor in patients receiving a kidney transplant. The study includes individuals who have not previously been infected with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and who receive a kidney from a donor with prior EBV infection.
Participants will receive the IDO-1 inhibitor or placebo in addition to standard medical care and will be monitored for side effects and other safety-related outcomes throughout the study.
This clinical study is being conducted to evaluate the safety and tolerability of an IDO-1 inhibitor in patients receiving a kidney transplant. The study population includes individuals who are Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) seronegative and receive a kidney from an EBV-seropositive donor, a group at increased risk for EBV-related complications following transplantation.
Kidney transplantation requires substantial immunosuppression to maintain graft function. While necessary, this immunosuppression increases susceptibility to infections, including EBV, which may lead to serious clinical consequences in immunocompromised individuals.
In this study, participants will receive the IDO-1 inhibitor or placebo in addition to standard-of-care immunosuppressive therapy. Study treatment will be initiated prior to kidney transplantation or on the day of transplantation, depending on donor availability, and will be administered for a defined treatment period, followed by a safety follow-up phase.
The primary objective of the study is to assess the safety and tolerability of the IDO-1 inhibitor in kidney transplant recipients, including the incidence of adverse events and clinically relevant laboratory abnormalities.
175 studies on the registry are indexed under Epstein-Barr Virus Infections; 60 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 9 is below the median of 28 across 114 interventional studies indexed under Epstein-Barr Virus Infections.
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If women of (WOCBP), participants must have a negative serum pregnancy test at screening and inclusion, and must be willing to use a highly effective method of for the duration of the study. Acceptable methods of contraception:
Exclusion Criteria:
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Drug: indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO-1) inhibitor
Drug: placebo
Study treatment will be initiated one day prior to kidney transplantation or, for recipients of cadaveric donor organs, on the day of transplantation, and will be administered at a dose of 200 mg once daily for a total duration of 28 days, followed by a safety follow-up phase.
A matching placebo will be administered once daily, initiated one day prior to kidney transplantation or, for recipients of cadaveric donor organs, on the day of transplantation, for a total duration of 28 days, followed by a safety follow-up phase.
Incidence of adverse events
Time frame: up to 12 weeks post-treatment
Incidence of serious adverse events
Time frame: up to 12 weeks post-treatment
Number of participants experiencing adverse events
Time frame: up to 12 weeks post-treatment
Number of participants experiencing clinically significant changes in safety assessments
Safety assessments include vital signs (pulse rate, blood pressure, and body temperature), 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), and laboratory evaluations (haematology and serum/plasma biochemistry), assessed up to and including 12 weeks post-treatment.
Time frame: up to 12 weeks post-treatment
Changes in EBV viral load
Assessment EBV viral load in the event of a primary EBV infection
Time frame: up to 12 weeks post-treatment
Changes in EBV viral dynamics
Assessment of EBV viral dynamics in the event of a primary EBV infection
Time frame: up to 12 weeks post-treatment
Exploratory metabolomic analysis
including parameters related to the kynurenine pathway
Time frame: up to 12 weeks post-treatment
Exploratory analysis peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)
Time frame: up to 12 weeks post-treatment
Plan to share: No
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Started Aug 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Feb 2027, 6 months after the start.
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