A Phase 3 interventional study of Elafibranor and Placebo in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, sponsored by Ipsen. Recruiting at 231 sites in 25 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-23.
Sponsored by Ipsen · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
The purpose of this study is to find out how well and safely elafibranor works compared to placebo in adult participants with Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). PSC is a rare disease that causes inflammation and scarring of the bile ducts in the liver. Over time, this can lead to liver damage and serious health problems, including the need for a liver transplant and death.
In this study, about 350 participants with large duct PSC will take part. Participants will be randomized to receive either elafibranor 120 mg once daily or a placebo (a tablet with no active medicine). The study includes a screening period, an treatment period, and a post-treatment safety follow-up.
During the study, participants will undergo routine clinical assessments, laboratory testing, imaging evaluations, and complete patient-reassessments to evaluate liver disease progression, symptoms, quality of life and safety.
Following the end of treatment, participants will complete a safety follow-up period at approximately four weeks. Participants may withdraw from the study at any time. Each participant may be in the study for several years, as the treatment period will continue until the study reaches enough health events among participants, which is expected to take about 5 years.
149 studies on the registry are indexed under Cholangitis, Sclerosing; 39 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 350 is above the median of 34 across 94 interventional studies indexed under Cholangitis, Sclerosing.
Browse Cholangitis, Sclerosing studies →Ipsen is the lead sponsor of 289 studies on the registry; 17 are open to participants now.
Of its 26 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 22 (85%) have results posted.
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Exclusion Criteria:
- History or presence of other concomitant chronic liver disease
- History of hepatic decompensation, including: i) History of liver transplantation, current MELD 3.0 score ≥12 due to hepatic impairment.
ii) Evidence of complications of cirrhosis
Administration of the following medications are prohibited as specified below:
i) 3 months prior to baseline: norucholic acid, fibrates, seladelpar and glitazones.
ii) 3 months prior to baseline: cyclosporine, mycophenolate, pentoxifylline, and chronic systemic (except as part of management of IBD at an ongoing stable dose); potentially hepatotoxic drugs (including α-methyl-dopa, sodium valproic acid, isoniazid, or nitrofurantoin).
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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 score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.
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.
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.
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 recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
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.
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.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
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.
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.
Child-Pugh class
A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.
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.
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.
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.
ECG (electrocardiogram)
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
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.
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.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants will take 1 tablet of elafibranor 120 mg orally once daily
Drug: Elafibranor
Participants will take 1 placebo tablet orally once daily
Other: Placebo
Round and orange film coated tablet of 120 mg
Also known as: IPN60190
Round and orange film coated tablet of placebo
Event-Free Survival
Event-free survival is defined as the time from randomisation to either adjudicated disease progression or death, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: From baseline until the end of treatment (estimated up to 5 years)
Percentage of participants with ALP level within the pre-defined level
Difference between elafibranor and placebo in the percentage of participants with alkaline phosphatase (ALP) within the pre-defined level at Week 48.
Time frame: From baseline to Week 48
Change from baseline in severity of a patient-reported cholestatic symptom: Pruritus
Symptom will be assessed using a patient-reported outcome scale
Time frame: From baseline to Week 24
Change from baseline in severity of a patient-reported cholestatic symptom: Fatigue
Symptom will be assessed using a patient-reported outcome scale
Time frame: From baseline to Week 48
Percentage of participants experiencing treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs), Serious Adverse Events (SAEs), and Adverse Events of Special Interests (AESIs)
An Adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence, temporally associated with the use of study intervention, whether or not related to the study intervention. AESIs are AEs that may not be serious but are of special importance to a particular drug or class of drugs
Time frame: From baseline until the end of treatment (estimated up to 5 years)
Percentage of participants developing clinically significant changes in physical examination findings
The clinical significance will be graded by the investigator
Time frame: From baseline until the end of treatment (estimated up to 5 years)
Percentage of participants developing clinically significant changes in vital signs
The clinical significance will be graded by the investigator
Time frame: From baseline until the end of treatment (estimated up to 5 years)
Percentage of participants developing clinically significant changes in Electrocardiogram (ECG) readings.
The clinical significance will be graded by the investigator
Time frame: From baseline until the end of treatment (estimated up to 5 years)
Percentage of participants with clinically significant changes in laboratory parameters (blood chemistry, hematology, coagulation and urinalysis)
The clinical significance will be graded by the investigator
Time frame: From baseline until the end of treatment (estimated up to 5 years)
Percentage of participants developing cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or colorectal cancer (CRC)
Time frame: From baseline until the end of treatment (estimated up to 5 years)
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Plan to share: Yes — Qualified researchers may request access to patient level data and related study documents including the clinical study report, study protocol with any amendments, annotated case report form, statistical analysis plan, and dataset specifications. Patient level data will be anonymized and study documents will be redacted to protect the privacy of study participants.
Time frame: Where applicable, data from eligible studies are available 6 months after the studied medicine and indication have been approved in the US and/or EU.
Access criteria: Further details on Ipsen's sharing criteria and process for sharing are available here (https://www.ipsen.com/science/clinical-trials/clinical-data-transparency/).
Data sharing details ↗ · www.ipsen.com
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Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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