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A Clinical Trial of TQH3906 Capsules in the Treatment of Active Psoriatic Arthritis

A Phase 2 interventional study of TQH3906 Capsule and TQH3906 Placebo Capsule in Psoriatic Arthritis, sponsored by Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Nanjing Shunxin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. Recruiting at 44 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-02.

Sponsored by Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Nanjing Shunxin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (part of Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited) · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jul 2026; still recruiting 3 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
156
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a marketing-oriented clinical trial of TQH3906 Capsules. A total of 156 participants are planned to be enrolled, aiming to evaluate the dose-effect relationship of TQH3906 versus placebo in the treatment of active Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) at Week 12, with the proportion of participants achieving an American College of Rheumatology 20% (ACR20) Improvement Criteria (ACR20) response at Week 12 as the primary endpoint.

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Conditions studied

  • Psoriatic Arthritis

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In context

Arthritis, Psoriatic

600 studies on the registry are indexed under Arthritis, Psoriatic; 129 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 156 is close to the median of 145 across 336 interventional studies indexed under Arthritis, Psoriatic.

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Lead sponsor

Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Nanjing Shunxin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 53 studies on the registry; 29 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Sign a written Form, which must meet the following requirements

    • Be willing to participate in the study and able to sign the informed consent form;
    • Be willing and able to complete all study-specific procedures and visits;
  • PsA trial participant disease characteristics

    • Aged 18 to 70 years(inclusive);
    • ii.diagnosed with PsA for at least 3 months prior to screening, and meeting the Classification Criteria for Psoriatic Arthritis (CASPAR) at screening;
    • Active arthritis at screening and at baseline (Day 1);
    • Has failed or was intolerant to at least one prior therapy;
    • If receiving a conventional synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug (csDMARD), trial participants must be on only one DMARD, which must have been administered for at least 3 months prior to screening, with a stable dose for at least 28 days prior to the first dose;
    • If using NSAIDs, the dose must have been stable for at least 14 days before the first dose;
    • If using oral , the dose must have been stable for at least 14 days before the first dose;
    • Topical treatments for plaque psoriasis must have remained stable for at least 14 days before the first dose;
  • Female participants of shall agree to use effective during the study and for 30 days following the last dose, and pregnancy tests at the screening and baseline visits shall be negative; male participants shall agree to use effective contraception during the study and for 30 days following the last dose.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Presence of conditions other than PsA:

    • Presence of non-plaque psoriasis (i.e., guttate, inverse, pustular, erythrodermic, or drug-induced psoriasis) at screening or first dose;
    • Presence of any other disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc.;
    • Presence of active (i.e., currently symptomatic) fibromyalgia;
  • Other Medical Conditions and Medical History:

    • Trial participants who are pregnant or breastfeeding;
    • Evidence of a serious illness/condition or unstable clinical condition, or localized active infection/infectious disease;
    • Any major surgery performed within 30 days prior to the first dose of study treatment, or any planned surgery during the study;
    • Cancer or a history of cancer or lymphoproliferative disease within the past 5 years;
    • (NYHA) Class III or IV congestive heart failure, or any recent episode of heart failure resulting in NYHA Class III/IV symptoms; or a history of ventricular arrhythmia or arrhythmia requiring continuous antiarrhythmic drug therapy;
    • Uncontrolled hypertension at screening or randomization;
    • History of thrombotic disease within 24 weeks prior to screening; viii. History of acute coronary syndrome and/or any major cerebrovascular disease within 24 weeks prior to screening;
    • Current or recent (within 3 months prior to randomization) gastrointestinal disease that may affect absorption of study treatment, including gastrointestinal surgery;
    • Severe blood loss (> 500 mL) or blood transfusion within 4 weeks prior to randomization;
    • Inability to take oral medication;
    • Inability to undergo venipuncture and/or tolerate venous access;
    • History of substance abuse with inability to abstain or presence of a psychiatric disorder;
    • Any other medical, psychiatric, and/or social reason as determined by medical judgment;
  • Prior and concomitant medications: If the trial participant has a history of biologic use, the exclusion criteria specified in the protocol will apply;
  • Infection-related:

    • Active tuberculosis identified by chest radiography within 6 months prior to screening; trial participants with a negative chest radiography within 3 months prior to screening are eligible if they meet the protocol requirements;
    • , , or (HIV) infection; or syphilis infection requiring treatment;
  • Abnormal physical examination or laboratory findings;
  • Other:

    • History of any major drug allergy; known allergy to any of the product;
    • Inability to comply with the trial protocol;
    • History of substance abuse with inability to abstain or presence of a psychiatric disorder;
    • Participation in another clinical trial and use of another investigational drug (other than for psoriatic arthritis) within 4 weeks prior to the first dose, based on the date of discontinuation from the previous trial;
    • Planned or previous bone marrow transplantation or solid organ transplantation;
    • Any condition that, in the investigator's judgment, poses a serious risk to the safety of the trial participant or affects the participant's ability to complete the study.
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Informed consent

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    TQH3906 Capsule 24 mg

    Oral administration daily from Day 1 (D1) to Day 169 (D169) Morning Fasting: 3 Capsules of 8 mg TQH3906

    Drug: TQH3906 Capsule

  • Experimental
    TQH3906 Capsule 16 mg

    Oral administration daily from Day 1 (D1) to Day 169 (D169) Morning fasting: 2 capsules of 8 mg TQH3906

    Drug: TQH3906 Capsule

  • Placebo comparator
    TQH3906 Capsule 0 mg

    Oral administration daily from Day 1 (D1) to Day 85 (D85): Morning fasting: 3 placebo capsules of TQH3906; Oral administration daily from Day 86(D86) to Day 169 (D169): Morning fasting: 2 capsules of 8 mg TQH3906 or 3capsules of 8 mg TQH3906.

    Drug: TQH3906 Placebo Capsule

  • Active comparator
    Tofacitinib Citrate Tablet 5 mg

    Oral administration daily from Day 1 (D1) to Day 169 (D169): Morning fasting: 1 tablet of tofacitinib citrate; Administer 1 tablet of Tofacitinib Citrate at bedtime.

    Drug: Tofacitinib Citrate Tablet 5 mg

Interventions

  • TQH3906 is a small-molecule inhibitor of tyrosine kinase.

  • DrugTQH3906 Placebo Capsule

    Placebo without drug substance.

  • Tofacitinib Citrate Tablets are Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. American College of Rheumatology 20% Improvement Criteria

    The proportion of trial participants achieving an ACR20 response at Week 12.

    Time frame: Day 1, 15, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169

Secondary outcomes

  1. ACR20 in the subgroup of trial participants

    The proportion of biologic-naive trial participants in the subgroup who achieved ACR20 response.

    Time frame: Day 1, 15, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169

  2. American College of Rheumatology 50 (ACR50)

    ACR50 response rate

    Time frame: Day 1, 15, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169

  3. American College of Rheumatology 70 (ACR70)

    ACR70 response rate

    Time frame: Day 1, 15, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169

  4. Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) 75

    PASI 75 response rate

    Time frame: Day 1, 15, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169

  5. Psoriasis Area and Severity Index 90

    PASI 90 response rate

    Time frame: Day 1, 15, 29, 57, 85

  6. Numbers of subjects with incidence and Severity Level of adverse Event (AE), serious Adverse Event (SAE), adverse event leading to study discontinuation, adverse event of special interest (AESI)

    Numbers of subjects with incidence rates and Severity Level of Adverse Events (AEs), Serious Adverse Events (SAEs), Adverse Events Leading to Study Discontinuation, and Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESIs)

    Time frame: From the time trial participants sign the informed consent form to 28 days after the last dose

  7. Time to Peak Concentration (Tmax)

    Evaluation of the Time to Peak Concentration (Tmax) of TQH3906 in participants with Psoriatic Arthritis after oral administration.

    Time frame: Up to day 169

  8. Peak Concentration (Cmax)

    Evaluation of the Peak Concentration (Cmax) of TQH3906 in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis After Oral Administration

    Time frame: Up to day 169

  9. Plasma Clearance (CL/F)

    Evaluation of the Plasma Clearance (CL/F) of TQH3906 in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis After Oral Administration.

    Time frame: Up to day 169

  10. Plasma Elimination Half-Life (t₁/₂)

    Evaluation of the Plasma Elimination Half-Life (t₁/₂) of TQH3906 in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis After Oral Administration.

    Time frame: Up to day 169

  11. Trough Concentration at Steady State (Cmin, ss)

    Evaluation of the Trough Concentration at Steady State (Cmin, ss) of TQH3906 in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis After Oral Administration.

    Time frame: Up to day 169

  12. Degree of Fluctuation (DF)

    Evaluation of the Degree of Fluctuation (DF) of TQH3906 in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis After Oral Administration.

    Time frame: Up to day 169

  13. Evaluation of Interleukin (IL) Levels in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with TQH3906

    Evaluation of Interleukin (IL) Levels in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with TQH3906

    Time frame: Blood samples were collected within 1 hour before dosing at Baseline, Weeks 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24.

  14. Evaluation of Defensin Levels in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with TQH3906

    Evaluation of Defensin Levels in Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with TQH3906

    Time frame: Blood samples were collected within 1 hour before dosing at Baseline, Weeks 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24.

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Study locations

36 of 44 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 2, 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
NCT07406035
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 12, 2026
Start date
Jul 16, 2026
Primary completion
Aug 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Nov 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 2, 2026

Study contacts

Xiaofeng Zeng, Doctor
Contact
xiaofeng.zeng@cstar.org.cn
13501069845

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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