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Not yet recruitingNCT07927140LEAP2KIDSUpdated Nov 10, 2026

The Efficacy and Safety of Venglustat Compared With Cerezyme in Pediatric Participants 2 to 11 Years of Age With Gaucher Disease Type 3 (GD3)

A Phase 3 interventional study of Venglustat and Imiglucerase in Gaucher's Disease Type III, sponsored by Sanofi. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 2 Years to 11 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-10.

Sponsored by Sanofi · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Updated Nov 10, 2026Newly registeredGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
18
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
2 Years to 11 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a Phase 3, multi-center, multi-national, randomized, open-label, active-comparator study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of venglustat in pediatric (age ≥2 years to ≤11 years) participants with GD3 who have been treated with ERT for at least 2 years, and have met therapeutic goals. Study details include: Study duration: a 52-week primary analysis period and a 52-week extended treatment period.

Treatment frequency:

  • Daily tablets for venglustat for participants randomized to venglustat arm during primary analysis period and for all patients during extended treatment period.
  • Cerezyme infusion every 2 weeks for participants randomized to Cerezyme arm during primary analysis period and, if needed, as rescue medication for participants in venglustat treated arm during primary analysis period or for any participant during extended treatment period.

Visit frequency: every 12 to 14 weeks during primary treatment period and 12-26 weeks during extended treatment period.

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Conditions studied

  • Gaucher's Disease Type III

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In context

Gaucher Disease

177 studies on the registry are indexed under Gaucher Disease; 41 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 18 is close to the median of 20 across 100 interventional studies indexed under Gaucher Disease.

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Lead sponsor

Sanofi is the lead sponsor of 1,557 studies on the registry; 91 are open to participants now.

Of its 205 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 123 (60%) have results posted.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
2 Years to 11 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Pediatric participants who are 2 to 11 years of age inclusive, at the time of signing the .
  • The participant has a clinical diagnosis of GD3 and a documented deficiency of acid β-glucosidase activity confirming the diagnosis of Gaucher disease.
  • The participant has received ERT (Cerezyme or other ERT; as deemed appropriate by local regulations) for at least 2 years prior to enrollment, on a stable dose for at least 6 months and is within the therapeutic goals defined in I04 and is deemed clinically stable for at least 1 year by the Investigator.
  • The participant has reached Gaucher disease therapeutic goals defined as all of the following: • level of ≥11.0 g/dL

    • count ≥100 000/mm3
    • Spleen volume \<10 MN
    • Liver volume \<1.5 MN
    • No bone crisis and free of symptomatic bone disease such as bone pain attributable to osteonecrosis and/or pathological fractures within 3 months prior to screening
  • If the participant has a history of seizures, they are well controlled under appropriate medication not identified as a strong or moderate inducer or inhibitor of .
  • The participant has been identified to present with gaze palsy, predominantly horizontal, with slow or absent saccades.
  • Participants ≥10 kg of weight.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • The participant is blood-transfusion dependent.
  • The participant has prior esophageal varices or liver infarction or current liver enzymes ( [ALT]/ aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) or total >2 times the , unless the participant has a diagnosis of Gilbert syndrome.
  • The participant has any disease, other than Gaucher disease, including cardiovascular (congenital cardiac defect, coronary artery disease, valve disease or left sided heart failure; clinically significant arrhythmias or conduction defect), hepatic, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, neurologic, endocrine, metabolic (eg, hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia) or psychiatric disease, other medical conditions, or serious intercurrent illnesses that may preclude participation in the opinion of the Investigator.
  • The participant has renal insufficiency, as defined by an estimated \<30 mL/min/1.73m2 at the screening visit (calculated by bedside Schwartz formula).
  • The participant has a history of cancer, except for basal cell carcinoma.
  • The participant has progressive myoclonic epilepsy.
  • The participant requires use of invasive ventilatory support.
  • The participant requires use of noninvasive ventilator support while awake for longer than 12 hours daily.
  • The participant is scheduled for in-patient hospitalization including elective surgery, during the study.
  • The participant has had a major organ transplant (eg, bone marrow or liver).
  • The participant has a positive result of any of the following tests: anti- virus (anti- HCV) antibodies, anti- 1 or 2 antibodies (anti-HIV1 or anti-HIV2 Ab).
  • With respect to testing, participants are excluded if they have either of the following:
  • Positive hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg).
  • Positive hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) and positive hepatitis B virus deoxyribonucleic acid (HBV DNA) test.
  • The participant has had a total splenectomy prior to enrollment, or the participant has had a partial splenectomy within 3 years prior to randomization.
  • The participant received chaperone therapy within 6 months, substrate reduction therapy other than venglustat within 6 months or venglustat substrate reduction therapy prior to enrollment. Chaperone therapy and substrate reduction therapy other than venglustat will need be discontinued at least 6 months prior to enrollment.
  • The participant receives strong or moderate inducers or inhibitors (including food products eg, grapefruit juice double strength) of for long term treatment that cannot be replaced.
  • The participant has had exposure to any drug within the last 30 days or 5 half-lives from screening, whichever is longer.
  • The participant is currently participating in another investigational interventional study.
  • The participant used venglustat within 3 months or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, before study enrollment.
  • The participant, in the opinion of the Investigator, is unable to adhere to the requirements of the study or unable to undergo study assessments (eg, for MRI).
  • Sensitivity to any of the study interventions, or components thereof, or drug or other allergy that, in the opinion of the Investigator, contraindicates participation in the study.

The above information is not intended to contain all considerations relevant to a participant's potential participation in a clinical trial.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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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.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

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.

CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers

CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.

Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
18 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Venglustat

    Oral venglustat QD for 52 weeks in an open-label design for Primary Treatment Period followed by oral venglustat QD for 52 weeks in the Extension Treatment Period

    Drug: Venglustat

  • Active comparator
    Cerezyme

    Primary Treatment Period: Cerezyme infusion every 2 weeks for 52 weeks

    Drug: Imiglucerase

Interventions

  • Pharmaceutical form:Tablet-Route of administration:Oral

    Also known as: GZ402671

  • Pharmaceutical form:Sterile lyophilized product vials administered by IV infusion following reconstitution and dilution-Route of administration:IV infusion

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Percent change from baseline in magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) spleen volume (in multiples of normal [MN]) at Week 52

    Time frame: at Week 52

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percent change from baseline in MRI liver volume (in MN) at Week 52

    Time frame: at Week 52

  2. Change from baseline in hemoglobin level at Week 52

    Time frame: at Week 52

  3. Percent change from baseline in platelet count at Week 52

    Time frame: at Week 52

  4. Changes from baseline in Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales III Adaptive Behavior Composite (ABC) score at Week 52

    Time frame: at Week 52

  5. Change from baseline in Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS) III motor skill score at Week 52

    Time frame: at Week 52

  6. Percent change from baseline in plasma glucosylceramide (GL-1), glucosylsphingosine (lyso-GL-1), and other potential biomarker levels to Week 52

    Time frame: at Week 52

  7. Number of participants with treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs), serious adverse events (SAEs) and adverse events of special interest (AESIs)

    Time frame: from baseline to week 104

  8. Plasma venglustat Ctrough at prespecified visits

    Time frame: at Week 12, Week 26, Week 40

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Qualified researchers may request access to patient level data and related study documents including the clinical study report, study protocol with any amendments, blank case report form, statistical analysis plan, and dataset specifications. Patient level data will be anonymized and study documents will be redacted to protect the privacy of trial participants. Further details on Sanofi's data sharing criteria, eligible studies, and process for requesting access can be found at: https://vivli.org

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

1 registry update 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 Dec 2026; primary completion for Jan 2030, 37 months later.

Of 11 phase 3 interventional studies under Gaucher Disease, half reached primary completion within 25 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 57. This study's planned 37 months is above that.

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

Registered
Jun 24, 2026
First posted
Nov 10, 2026
StartEst.
Dec 11, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Jan 14, 2030
CompletionEst.
Mar 3, 2031
Last update
Nov 10, 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.
Registered
First appeared on the registry. No changes since
Nov 10, 2026
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  1. Nov 10, 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
NCT07927140
Lead sponsor
Sanofi
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 10, 2026
Start date
Dec 11, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jan 14, 2030 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 3, 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 10, 2026

Study contacts

Trial Transparency email recommended (Toll free for US & Canada)
Contact
Contact-US@sanofi.com
800-633-1610 ext. option 6

Oversight

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