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Not yet recruitingNCT07925242Updated Nov 9, 2026

FAPI PET in Systemic Sclerosis Interstitial Lung Disease

A Phase 2 interventional study of FAPI tracer in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Scleroderma and Interstitial Lung Disease With Systemic Sclerosis, sponsored by University of California, Los Angeles. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-09.

Sponsored by University of California, Los Angeles · Phase 2, Interventional, and Diagnostic

Updated Nov 9, 2026Newly registeredGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
120
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a phase II open-label efficacy and safety study to evaluate standard of care treatment response measured by PET imaging radiotracer 68Ga-FAPI-46 in 120 subjects with SSc-ILD.

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Conditions studied

  • Systemic Sclerosis (SSc)
  • Scleroderma
  • Interstitial Lung Disease With Systemic Sclerosis
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In context

Scleroderma, Systemic

610 studies on the registry are indexed under Scleroderma, Systemic; 218 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 120 is above the median of 37 across 446 interventional studies indexed under Scleroderma, Systemic.

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Lead sponsor

University of California, Los Angeles is the lead sponsor of 1,170 studies on the registry; 195 are open to participants now.

Of its 95 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 70 (74%) have results posted.

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

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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

  • Ability to provide written .
  • Male or female > 18 years of age at the screening visit.
  • Meets the 2013 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/EULAR Classification Criteria for SSc.
  • ILD confirmed by thoracic high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) at the baseline visit.
  • Initiated or will initiate a new ILD therapy within the last 3 months +/- 1 week prior to the screening visit.
  • If enrolled in the FAPI/PET group, women of must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnant test will be required.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant, breastfeeding, or unwilling to practice during participation in the study.
  • Unsuitable candidate for the study, based on the opinion of the Investigator (e.g., cognitive impairment), such that participation might create undue risk to the subject or interfere with the subject's ability to comply with the protocol requirements or complete the study.
  • Active infectious lung disease.
  • Current other than squamous or basal cell carcinoma.
  • Current lung disease other than ILD (e.g., emphysema).
  • Subjects must not have participated in another clinical trial with an product within 90 days prior to enrollment and agree to abstain from such trials during the study.
  • Prior allergic reaction to radiotracer 68Ga-FAPI-46.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(5)

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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.

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.

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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.

Investigational drug or device

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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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
120 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Receive PET Scan

    Drug: FAPI tracer

  • No intervention
    Blood Draw Only

Interventions

  • DrugFAPI tracer

    68Ga-FAPI-46 will be used for the PET/CT for SSc ILD patients

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Prediction progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) by evaluation of the change in uptake of radiotracer 68Ga-FAPI-46

    This endpoint will evaluate whether the change in uptake of radiotracer 68Ga-FAPI-46 from baseline to 6 months of treatment predicts progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) at 1 year according to American Thoracic Society guidelines.

    Time frame: 1 year

Secondary outcomes

  1. Prediction progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) by evaluation of the change in the levels of specific blood-based biomarkers

    This endpoint will evaluate whether the change in circulating biomarkers levels at 6 months predicts PPF at 1 year using the same definition above.

    Time frame: 1 year

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Study locations

1 site
  • UCLA Division of Rheumatology
    Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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Updates

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
Registered
First appeared on the registry. No changes since
Nov 9, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Nov 9, 2026
    First appeared on the registry

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07925242
Responsible party
Elizabeth Volkmann, MD, MS (HS Associate Clinical Professor, Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles) — Principal investigator
First posted
Nov 9, 2026
Start date
Nov 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jun 2030 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 9, 2026

Study contacts

Nahal E Ghanoongooi, CRC, MPH
Contact
nghanoongooi@mednet.ucla.edu
310-794-1638
Elizabeth Volkmann, MD, MS
principal investigator · University of California, Los Angeles

Oversight

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