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Not yet recruitingNCT07671157Updated Aug 26, 2026

Trial of Delgocitinib 20 mg/g Cream in Subjects With Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia (FFA)

A Phase 2 interventional study of Delgocitinib in Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia, sponsored by Maryanne Makredes Senna. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-26.

Sponsored by Maryanne Makredes Senna · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This research study is a Phase II clinical trial. Phase II clinical trials test the safety and effectiveness of an investigational study drug to learn whether the delgocitinib 20 mg/g cream works in treating a specific disease. "Investigational" means that the delgocitinib 20 mg/g cream is being studied.

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Conditions studied

  • Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia

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Keywords

  • alopecia
  • hairloss
  • FFA
  • frontal fibrosing alopecia
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In context

Alopecia

511 studies on the registry are indexed under Alopecia; 128 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 30 is below the median of 50 across 430 interventional studies indexed under Alopecia.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with Maryanne Makredes Senna as lead sponsor.

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  • Subject is willing to participate and is capable of giving . Note: Consent must be obtained prior to any trial-related procedures.
  • Subjects must be willing to comply with all trial procedures and must be available for the duration of the trial.
  • Male or female subject aged 18 years of age or older at the time of consent.
  • Female subject of has had a negative serum pregnancy test at screening and negative urine pregnancy test at Day 1.
  • Subject has clinically confirmed diagnosis of FFA based on investigator judgment.
  • Subject has a target area with moderate to severe perifollicular erythema and/or scale at Screening and Day 1.
  • For subject who uses make-up, moisturizers, creams, lotions, cleansers, and/or sunscreens on the face, subject has used the same product brands/types for a minimum period of 4 weeks prior to Day 1, agrees not to change brand/type or frequency of use throughout the trial, agrees not to apply those products on the treated area during the trial, and agrees not to use make-up, moisturizers, creams, lotions, cleansers, and/or sunscreens on the face on the clinic visit days before the visit.
  • Subject is willing to maintain a consistent hair style and hair style regimen, including shampoo and hair products (including hair dye, process, and timing to hair appointments), and to refrain from weaves or extensions throughout the course of the trial and for 4 weeks prior to Day 1. Note: Hair dying and shaving of scalp is allowed during the trial but not within 48 hours prior to a trial visit.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subject is a female who is breastfeeding, pregnant, or who is planning to become pregnant during the trial.
  • Subject has received any marketed or biological agent within 12 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer) prior to Day 1.
  • Subject is currently receiving a nonbiological investigational product or device or has received one within 4 weeks prior to Day 1.
  • Subject has had excessive sun exposure or has used tanning booths within 4 weeks prior to Day 1 or is not willing to minimize natural and artificial sunlight exposure during the trial. Use of sunscreen products (except on treated areas for subjects in Cohort 1) and protective apparel are recommended when sun exposure cannot be avoided.
  • History of other scalp/hair disease including discoid lupus erythematosus and central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia. Note: Subjects with lichen planopilaris/FFA overlap are not to be excluded.
  • Presence of active dermatologic condition that might interfere with FFA diagnosis and/or interfere with the trial assessments such as seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, or telogen effluvium.
  • Subject who has undergone scalp reduction surgery or hair transplantation.
  • Use of adhesive wigs during the trial.
  • Subject is known to have immune deficiency or is .
  • Subject has a history of cancer or lymphoproliferative disease within 5 years prior to Day 1. Subjects with successfully treated nonmetastatic cutaneous squamous cell or basal cell carcinoma and/or localized carcinoma in situ of the cervix are not to be excluded.
  • Subject had a major surgery within 8 weeks prior to Day 1 or has a major surgery planned during the trial.
  • Subject has any medical condition or physical/laboratory/vital signs abnormality that would, in the opinion of the investigator, put the subject at undue risk or interfere with interpretation of trial results.
  • Subject has positive results for surface antigens (HBsAg), antibodies to hepatitis B core antigens (anti-HBc), virus (HCV), or (HIV).
  • Subject has used treatment with agents (including natural products or nutritional supplement such as Viviscal, Nutrafol, and/or biotin) that may affect hair regrowth in the last 4 weeks prior to Day 1. Patients who have been on oral minoxidil or oral spironolactone for 6 or more months may continue these medications at the same doses.
  • Subject has used intralesional scalp or rich plasma injection in the last 4 weeks prior to Day 1.
  • Subject has used systemic treatment with immunosuppressive/modulating medication or medication that could affect FFA (eg, corticosteroids, methotrexate, hydroxychloroquine, retinoids, calcineurin inhibitor, tetracyclines, pioglitazone, oral JAK inhibitor, or 5-α-reductase-inhibitors) within 4 weeks prior to Day 1. Note: Intranasal corticosteroids and inhaled corticosteroids are allowed. Eye and ear drops containing corticosteroids are also allowed. Note: Standard doses of systemic antihistamines are allowed.
  • Subject has used any topical medicated treatment that could affect FFA within 2 weeks prior to Day 1, including, but not limited to, topical corticosteroids, calcineurin inhibitors, phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE-4) inhibitors, topical JAK inhibitors.
  • Subject has received any ultraviolet (UV)-B phototherapy (including tanning beds), excimer laser, or any other phototherapy within 4 weeks prior to Day 1.
  • Subject has had psoralen-UV-A (PUVA) treatment within 4 weeks prior to Day 1.
  • Subject has a known or suspected allergy to delgocitinib or any component of the IMP.
  • Subject has a history of an allergic reaction or significant sensitivity to hypoallergenic ink.
  • Subject has a known history of clinically significant drug or alcohol abuse in the last year prior to Day 1.
  • Subject has prior use of delgocitinib cream as treatment for frontal fibrosing alopecia.
  • Subject has prior failure of adequate response of frontal fibrosing alopecia to a topical JAK inhibitor or oral JAK inhibitor.
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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.

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.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
30 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    study drug

    Drug: Delgocitinib

Interventions

  • Everyone in this study receives the study drug (delgocitinib)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Hairline measurements

    Change in hairline measurements from baseline to Week 24. (ie, lateral canthus \[right and left\] to hairline, lower glabellar crease to hair line, top of frontalis muscle to hair line, and mid brow to hair line \[right and left\])

    Time frame: from 0 to 24 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Frontal scalp haircounts

    Change in frontal scalp hair counts in a tattooed target area by trichoscopy from baseline to Week 24 following topical application of delgocitinib cream 20 mg/g in subjects with FFA.

    Time frame: 0 to 24 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Publications

  • Martin A, Shokrian N, Kelley KJ, Correa da Rosa J, Del-Duca E, Bissonnette R, Sorensen OE, Nielsen AB, Guttman-Yassky E, Senna MM. Randomized Controlled Trial of the Topical Jak Inhibitor Delgocitinib Cream in Patients with Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia. J Invest Dermatol. 2026 May;146(5):1265-1270.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2025.09.375. Epub 2025 Oct 14. PubMed 41101628 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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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

Start is estimated for Sep 2026; primary completion for Oct 2027, 13 months later.

Of 41 phase 2 interventional studies under Alopecia, half reached primary completion within 13 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 9 and three quarters within 24. This study's planned 13 months is close to that.

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

Registered
Jun 22, 2026
First posted
Jun 26, 2026
StartEst.
Sep 10, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Oct 10, 2027
CompletionEst.
Oct 10, 2027
Last update
Aug 26, 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 Aug 26, 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
NCT07671157
Lead sponsor
Maryanne Makredes Senna
Responsible party
Maryanne Makredes Senna (Principal Investigator, Lahey Clinic) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Jun 26, 2026
Start date
Sep 10, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Oct 10, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 10, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 26, 2026

Study contacts

Maryanne Senna, MD
Contact
Maryanne.M.Senna@lahey.org
7817441375
Joseph Hunt
Contact
joseph.hunt@lahey.org

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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