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[KJ-TFC-005] Phase 3 Study, Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of TFC-003 in Patients With Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma or Ocular Hypertension

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

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 6 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Dec 2025, registered Jun 2026).
  • Started Dec 2025; still recruiting 11 months later.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
188
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
19 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

[KJ-TFC-005] Phase 3 Study, Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of TFC-003 in Patients With Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma or Ocular Hypertension

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Conditions studied

  • Glaucoma Open-Angle Primary
  • Ocular Hypertension
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In context

Glaucoma, Open-Angle

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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Lead sponsor

Kukje Pharma is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
19 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Male or female adults aged ≥19 years at the time of .
  2. Diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
  3. At the screening visit, subjects who meet any of the following:

    • history of or current use of triple therapy, or
    • history of or current use of dual therapy (dorzolamide and a topical beta-blocker), or
    • inadequate IOP control despite current treatment, and who, in the investigator's judgment, have not achieved target IOP based on the degree of optic nerve damage and may benefit from additional IOP reduction with triple therapy.
  4. 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)

    • β-antagonists, prostaglandin analogues: 28 days
    • Rho-kinase inhibitors: 28 days
  5. Mean intraocular pressure (IOP) ≥21 mmHg in either eye at 8:30 AM (±1 hour) at the randomization visit (same eye as the study eye).
  6. Ability to understand and voluntarily sign the informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Subjects with any of the following comorbidities or conditions:

  1. Central visual field defect with mean deviation (MD) ≤ -25 dB on visual field testing.
  2. Chronic, recurrent, or severe inflammatory ocular disease (e.g., scleritis, uveitis, or herpetic keratitis).
  3. Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) \< 0.25 (Han Chun Suk visual acuity chart) at both screening and randomization visits.
  4. Any condition that prevents reliable intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement.
  5. Other ocular pathology that, in the investigator's opinion, precludes use of the product (e.g., severe dry eye).
  6. Conditions requiring additional topical or systemic IOP-lowering medications during the study.
  7. Reactive airway disease, including bronchial asthma or history thereof, bronchospasm, or severe .
  8. Sinus bradycardia, second- or third-degree atrioventricular block, overt heart failure, cardiogenic shock, sick sinus syndrome, or sinoatrial block.
  9. Severe renal impairment ( \<30 mL/min) or hyperchloremic acidosis.
  10. Untreated pheochromocytoma.
  11. Any severe disease that, in the investigator's judgment, renders the subject unsuitable for the study.

2. History of the following conditions or procedures (including surgery):

  1. Ocular trauma or ocular surgery within 24 weeks prior to screening (cataract surgery performed >8 weeks prior is not excluded).
  2. Ocular infection or ocular inflammation within 12 weeks prior to screening (within 8 weeks for simple conjunctivitis).
  3. Ocular laser surgery within 12 weeks prior to screening.

3. Prior or concomitant medications:

  1. Oral beta-blockers within 4 weeks prior to randomization.
  2. Addition of antihypertensive agents that may affect IOP within 4 weeks prior to randomization (excluding beta-blockers; e.g., calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors), unless the regimen has been stable for at least 7 days prior to screening.
  3. α-adrenergic agonists, MAO inhibitors, or antidepressants affecting norepinephrine transmission within 2 weeks prior to randomization.
  4. Topical ocular or periocular within 2 weeks prior to randomization.
  5. Systemic corticosteroids within 4 weeks prior to randomization.
  6. Intravitreal or sub-Tenon corticosteroid injection within 24 weeks prior to randomization.

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)

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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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.

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.

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.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Investigator)
Enrollment
188 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    TFC-003

    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

  • Active comparator
    TFC-003-R1

    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

  • Active comparator
    TFC-003-R2+TFC-003-R3

    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

Interventions

  • DrugTFC-003

    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).

  • DrugTFC-003-R1

    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).

  • DrugTFC-003-R2+TFC-003-R3

    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.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 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

Secondary outcomes

  1. 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

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Kukje Pharma
    Seongnam, South Korea
    Recruiting
    • Kukje Pharma · Contact
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

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.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jun 17, 2026
First posted
Jun 23, 2026
StartActual
Dec 9, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Mar 2027
CompletionEst.
Jun 2027
Last update
Jun 23, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 23, 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
NCT07662759
Lead sponsor
Kukje Pharma
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 23, 2026
Start date
Dec 9, 2025
Primary completion
Mar 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 23, 2026

Study contacts

Kukje Pharma Kukje Pharma
Contact
kj341010@kukjepharm.co.kr

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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