A Phase 3 interventional study of TFC-003 and TFC-003-R1 in Glaucoma Open-Angle Primary and Ocular Hypertension, sponsored by Kukje Pharma. Recruiting at 1 site in South Korea. Open to participants aged 19 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-23.
Sponsored by Kukje Pharma · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
[KJ-TFC-005] Phase 3 Study, Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of TFC-003 in Patients With Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma or Ocular Hypertension
924 studies on the registry are indexed under Glaucoma, Open-Angle; 117 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 188 is above the median of 80 across 692 interventional studies indexed under Glaucoma, Open-Angle.
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At the screening visit, subjects who meet any of the following:
Completion of an appropriate for prior glaucoma medications before the randomization visit (based on the longest washout period among the components of prior medications):
- Parasympathomimetics, oral or topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitors: 5 days
- α-agonists: 14 days (brimonidine: 28 days)
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Subjects with any of the following comorbidities or conditions:
2. History of the following conditions or procedures (including surgery):
3. Prior or concomitant medications:
4. Subjects requiring contact lens use during the study period. 5. Known , in the investigator's opinion, to any component of the investigational product or ophthalmic diagnostic eye drops.
6. Use of any investigational drug or device within 4 weeks prior to screening (subjects participating in non-interventional studies such as observational studies or PMS may be enrolled).
7. Pregnant or breastfeeding women. 8. Women and men of who are unwilling to use medically acceptable or who plan pregnancy during the study period.
Acceptable contraception methods:
Hormonal contraceptives (oral, injectable, implantable, etc.) Intrauterine device (IUD) or intrauterine system (IUS) Surgical sterilization (e.g., vasectomy, hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, bilateral salpingectomy) Sexual abstinence (only absolute abstinence is acceptable; periodic abstinence methods such as calendar, basal body temperature, ovulation methods, withdrawal, or barrier methods are not acceptable unless investigator-deemed strict abstinence is appropriate based on age, occupation, lifestyle, or sexual orientation)
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.
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 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.
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.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TFC-003 will be administered as one drop into the affected eye(s) twice daily at approximately 8:30 AM and 8:30 PM (±1 hour).
Drug: TFC-003
TFC-003-R1 will be administered as one drop into the affected eye(s) twice daily at approximately 8:30 AM and 8:30 PM (±1 hour).
Drug: TFC-003-R1
TFC-003-R2 and TFC-003-R3 will be administered as one drop each into the affected eye(s) twice daily at approximately 8:30 AM and 8:30 PM (±1 hour) every day. The two eye drops (TFC-003-R2 and TFC-003-R3) will be administered at least 10 minutes apart.
Drug: TFC-003-R2+TFC-003-R3
TFC-003 will be administered as one drop into the affected eye(s) twice daily at approximately 8:30 AM and 8:30 PM (±1 hour).
TFC-003-R1 will be administered as one drop into the affected eye(s) twice daily at approximately 8:30 AM and 8:30 PM (±1 hour).
TFC-003-R2 and TFC-003-R3 will be administered as one drop each into the affected eye(s) twice daily at approximately 8:30 AM and 8:30 PM (±1 hour) every day. The two eye drops (TFC-003-R2 and TFC-003-R3) will be administered at least 10 minutes apart.
Comparison between the two groups in the mean change in diurnal intraocular pressure from baseline to Week 12 after 12 weeks of treatment with TFC-003 and TFC-003-R1.
All IOP measurements will be performed using the same Goldmann applanation tonometer. The study eye will be selected at baseline, and only IOP measurements from the selected study eye will be used for the efficacy analysis.
Time frame: Baseline, 12 weeks
After 24 weeks of treatment with TFC-003 and TFC-003-R1, the two groups will be compared for each efficacy endpoint.
1. Mean change from baseline in diurnal intraocular pressure (IOP) at Weeks 4, 8, and 24. 2. Mean change from baseline in IOP measured at 8:30 AM (±1 hour) at Weeks 4, 8, 12, and 24. 3. Mean change from baseline in IOP measured at 10:30 AM (±1 hour) at Weeks 4, 8, 12, and 24. 4. Mean change from baseline in IOP measured at 4:30 PM (±1 hour) at Weeks 4, 8, 12, and 24.
Time frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks
Plan to share: No
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Started Dec 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2027, 15 months after the start.
Of 49 phase 3 interventional studies under Glaucoma, Open-Angle, half reached primary completion within 25 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 39. This study's planned 15 months is below that.
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