Clinical trial • Phase I/II • Musculoskeletal|Rare Disease
ALE1 for Hypophosphatasia
Phase I/II trial of ALE1 for Hypophosphatasia.
Overview
- Trial Therapeutic Area
- Musculoskeletal|Rare Disease
- Trial Disease
- Hypophosphatasia
- Trial Stage
- Phase I/II
- Drug Modality
- Small molecule
Key dates
- Initial CTIS Submission Date
- 16-09-2025
- First CTIS Authorization Date
- 19-11-2025
Trial design
Randomised, ale1 matched placebo (placebo arm); dose and schedule not specified in the available data.-controlled, adaptive Phase I/II trial in Germany.
- Randomised
- Yes
- Comparator
- ALE1 matched placebo (placebo arm); dose and schedule not specified in the available data.
- Adaptive
- True, single-ascending dose (SAD) and multiple-ascending dose (MAD) dose-escalation design; specific escalation rules, interim analyses or stopping rules not provided in available data.
- Single Multiple Or Escalation Dose Combined
- Yes
- Target Sample Size
- 96
Eligibility
Recruits 96 adults.
Inclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Aged ≥ 18 to ≤ 65 years (inclusive) at the time of signing the ICF."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 1: 1) Participants are overtly healthy as determined by a medical evaluation."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 1: 2) No concurrent medical conditions or significant medical history, in the opinion of the investigator."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 2: 1) Documented ALPL gene variant."}
Exclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 1: History of conditions affecting bone or mineral metabolism."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 2: 1) Previous treatment with an enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) or any advanced therapeutic agent (e.g., gene therapy) for the treatment of HPP or any treatment for osteoporotic diseases."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 2: 2) Previous exposure to any medication or investigational agent potentially affecting bone structure, muscle volume, muscle strength, or muscle or nerve function."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 2: 3) Diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 2: 4) Diagnosis of hypoparathyroidism, unless secondary to HPP."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Part 2: 5) New fracture within 12 weeks before first dosing."}
Endpoints
Primary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Number and severity of treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs) in healthy participants and patients with hypophosphatasia (HPP) with increasing oral doses of ALE1","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
Secondary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Pharmacokinetic parameters of single and multiple ascending doses of ALE1.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Pharmacodynamic biomarker levels in blood samples of single and multiple ascending doses of ALE1.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Dose proportionality in pharmacokinetic parameters in single and multiple ascending doses of ALE1.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Effect of food on ALE1 pharmacokinetic parameters.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
Recruitment
- Planned Sample Size
- 96
- Recruitment Window Months
- 14
- Consent Approach
- Adults (participants aged ≥18) provide informed consent. Subject information and informed consent forms are available (documents listed include German-language ICFs: L1_SIS and ICF Main 2A_DEU_German_ForPub, L1_SIS and ICF Main 2B_DEU_German_ForPub, and L1_SIS and ICF Pregnancy_DEU_German__ForPub). Specific assent procedures not applicable/not provided.
Geography
- Total Number Of Sites
- 2
- Total Number Of Participants
- 96
Germany
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 30-10-2025
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 06-05-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 188
- Number Of Sites
- 2
- Number Of Participants
- 24
Sites
- Site Name
- Orthopädische Klinik König-Ludwig-Haus
- Department Name
- Orthopaedics and trauma surgery
- Principal Investigator Name
- Lothar Seefried
- Principal Investigator Email
- lothar.seefried@uni-wuerzburg.de
- Contact Person Name
- Lothar Seefried
- Contact Person Email
- lothar.seefried@uni-wuerzburg.de
- Site Name
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Department Name
- Department of Osteology and Biomechanics
- Principal Investigator Name
- Florian Barvencik
- Principal Investigator Email
- fbarvencik@uke.de
- Contact Person Name
- Florian Barvencik
- Contact Person Email
- fbarvencik@uke.de
Sponsor
Primary sponsor
- Full Name
- Alesta Therapeutics B.V.
- Organisation Type
- Pharmaceutical company
- Country Of Registered Address
- Netherlands
Contract research organisations
- Name
- Novotech Clinical Research (Cyprus) Limited
- Responsibilities
- codes: 1,11,12,2,5,8
- Name
- QPS Netherlands B.V.
- Responsibilities
- PD analysis
- Name
- 4g Clinical LLC
- Responsibilities
- code 3
Third parties
- {"country":"United Kingdom","full_name":"Congenica Ltd","duties_or_roles":"ALPL genotyping","organisation_type":"Health care"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"ClinCapture","duties_or_roles":"code 7","organisation_type":"Industry"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"Clario","duties_or_roles":"ECG analysis","organisation_type":"Health care"}
- {"country":"Netherlands","full_name":"QPS Netherlands B.V.","duties_or_roles":"PD analysis","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"Cyprus","full_name":"Novotech Clinical Research (Cyprus) Limited","duties_or_roles":"codes: 1,11,12,2,5,8","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"4g Clinical LLC","duties_or_roles":"code 3","organisation_type":"Non-Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"Australia","full_name":"360 Biolabs Pty Limited","duties_or_roles":"PK analysis","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"Thomas Jefferson University","duties_or_roles":"code 13","organisation_type":"Educational Institution"}
- {"country":"United Kingdom","full_name":"Acm Global Central Laboratory Limited","duties_or_roles":"PD analysis; code 4","organisation_type":"Laboratory/Research/Testing facility"}
Investigational products
- Investigational Product Name
- ALE1 I
- Active Substance
- ALE1
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Oral
- Route
- Oral
- Authorisation Status
- Authorised
- First In Human
- Yes
- Dose Levels
- ALE1 I
- Investigational Product Name
- ALE1
- Active Substance
- ALE1
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Oral
- Route
- Oral
- Authorisation Status
- Authorised
- First In Human
- Yes
- Dose Levels
- ALE1
- Investigational Product Name
- ALE1 III
- Active Substance
- ALE1
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Oral
- Route
- Oral
- Authorisation Status
- Authorised
- First In Human
- Yes
- Dose Levels
- ALE1 III
- Investigational Product Name
- ALE1 matched placebo
- Modality
- Other
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