Clinical trial • Phase II • Dermatology
Delgocitinib for Palmoplantar pustulosis
Phase II trial of Delgocitinib for Palmoplantar pustulosis.
Overview
- Trial Therapeutic Area
- Dermatology
- Trial Disease
- Palmoplantar pustulosis
- Trial Stage
- Phase II
- Drug Modality
- Small molecule
Key dates
- Initial CTIS Submission Date
- 25-04-2025
- First CTIS Authorization Date
- 01-08-2025
Trial design
Randomised, cream vehicle — vehicle cream (placebo/vehicle comparator); comparator arm: cream vehicle (placebo/vehicle) for 16 weeks (as per arm details: two-arm double-blind trial comparing delgocitinib cream 20 mg/g twice daily with cream vehicle).-controlled Phase II trial in Germany, Poland.
- Randomised
- Yes
- Comparator
- Cream Vehicle — vehicle cream (placebo/vehicle comparator); comparator arm: Cream Vehicle (placebo/vehicle) for 16 weeks (as per arm details: two-arm double-blind trial comparing delgocitinib cream 20 mg/g twice daily with cream vehicle).
- Target Sample Size
- 65
- Trial Duration For Participant
- 112
Eligibility
Recruits 65 Vulnerable population selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected: true). All participants must be adults (Age 18 years or above). Informed consent is required: "Signed and dated informed consent has been obtained prior to any protocol-related procedures." Subject information and informed consent forms are provided (German and Polish versions are listed among documents, including pregnancy-specific ICF). No assent process for minors is described..
- Pregnancy Exclusion
- 15. Women who are pregnant or lactating.
- Vulnerable Population
- Vulnerable population selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected: true). All participants must be adults (Age 18 years or above). Informed consent is required: "Signed and dated informed consent has been obtained prior to any protocol-related procedures." Subject information and informed consent forms are provided (German and Polish versions are listed among documents, including pregnancy-specific ICF). No assent process for minors is described.
Inclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- 1. Signed and dated informed consent has been obtained prior to any protocol-related procedures.\n- 2. Age 18 years or above at the time of informed consent signing.\n- 3. Subject is able to comply with clinic visits and trial requirements and procedures, as assessed by the investigator.\n- 4. Diagnosis of PPP in accordance with the consensus diagnostic criteria established by the European Rare and Severe Psoriasis Expert Network (ERASPEN): primary, persistent (>3 months duration), sterile, macroscopically visible pustules on the palms and/or soles, with or without plaque psoriasis elsewhere on the body.\n- 5. Confirmed PPP by central evaluation of photographs taken at screening.\n- 6. Mild to severe PPP current condition defined by: • Disease duration of PPP of >6 months before randomisation. • PPP-PGA of at least mild severity (PPP-PGA ≥2) at screening and baseline. • Palmoplantar Pustulosis Area and Severity Index (PPPASI) ≥8 at screening and baseline.\n- 7. Presence of ≥5 well-demarcated fresh pustules (white or yellow pustules) in total across all affected areas at screening and baseline.\n- 8. Subjects with prior experiences of inadequate response with topical corticosteroids (TCS) or for whom TCS are inadvisable, as judged by the investigators.\n- 9. A woman of childbearing potential must use an acceptable form of birth control throughout the trial up until the last administration of IMP."}
Exclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- 1. Presence or known history of drug-induced PPP\n- 10. Any disorder which is not stable and could: • Affect the safety of the subject throughout the trial. • Impede the subject’s ability to complete the trial.\n- 11. Any clinically significant abnormal findings occurring during the screening period and/or observed at the baseline visit that may put the subject at risk because of their participation in the trial, or can influence the subjects ability to complete the trial.\n- 12. Positive hepatitis B surface antigen and/or hepatitis B core antibody and positive hepatitis B virus DNA (subjects who have tested positive for hepatitis B core antibody are eligible if tests for hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B virus DNA are negative), or positive hepatitis C virus antibody serology confirmed by hepatitis C virus RNA at screening.\n- 13. Known or suspected hypersensitivity to any component(s) of the IMP.\n- 14. Current or recent chronic alcohol or drug abuse, or any other condition associated with poor compliance as judged by the investigator.\n- 15. Women who are pregnant or lactating.\n- 16. Systemic treatment within 4 weeks prior to baseline with immunosuppressive, immunomodulating drugs, retinoids tyrosine kinase inhibitors, phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitors, or corticosteroids.\n- 17. Use of tanning beds or phototherapy on the palms or soles within 4 weeks prior to baseline.\n- 18. Use of systemic or topical janus kinase inhibitors within 4 weeks prior to baseline.\n- 19. Cutaneously applied treatment with immunomodulators or TCS on the palms or soles within 2 weeks prior to baseline.\n- 2. Presence of acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau.\n- 20. Use of systemic antibiotics or cutaneously applied antibiotics on the palms or soles within 2 weeks prior to baseline.\n- 21. Other transdermal or cutaneously applied therapy on the palms or soles (except for the use of subject’s own non-medicated emollients) within 1 week prior to baseline\n- 22. Cutaneously applied treatments in regions other than the palms or soles, which could interfere with clinical trial evaluations or pose a safety concern (excluding treatments for psoriasis patches or other non-exclusionary skin conditions, if needed) within 1 week prior to baseline.\n- 23. Treatment with any marketed biological therapy or investigational biologic agents: • Any cell-depleting agents including, but not limited to, rituximab: within 6 months prior to baseline, or until lymphocyte count returns to normal, whichever is longer. • Other biologics, including but not limited to, secukinumab, ustekinumab, tildrakizumab, ixekizumab, risankizumab, guselkumab, and tumour necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors: within 3 months or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to baseline.\n- 24. Treatment with any nonmarketed drug substance (that is, an agent which has not yet been made available for clinical use following registration) within the last 4 weeks prior to baseline or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer.\n- 25. Current participation in any other interventional clinical trial.\n- 26. Previously randomised in this clinical trial.\n- 27. Previously randomised in a clinical trial with delgocitinib.\n- 28. Employees of the trial site, or any other individuals directly involved with the planning or conduct of the trial, or immediate family members of such individuals.\n- 3. Active dermatologic condition that could confound the diagnosis of PPP or interfere with assessment of the IMP, as assessed by the investigator\n- 4. Clinically significant infection on the palms or soles.\n- 5. Concurrent plaque psoriasis covering >5% of body surface area.\n- 6. Clinically significant infection within 4 weeks prior to baseline. Clinically significant infections are defined as: • A systemic infection. • A serious skin infection requiring parenteral (intravenous or intramuscular) antibiotics, parenteral antiviral, or parenteral antifungal medication.\n- 7. History of any known primary immunodeficiency disorder including a positive human immunodeficiency virus test at screening\n- 8. Major surgery within 8 weeks prior to screening or planned in-patient surgery or hospitalisation during the trial period\n- 9. Any documented active or suspected malignancy, or history of malignancy within 5 years prior to screening, except basal cell carcinoma of the skin, localised squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or in situ carcinoma of the cervix appropriately treated before the baseline visit."}
Endpoints
Primary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- PPPASI-75 at Week 16","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
Secondary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- PPP-PGA score of 0 or 1 (clear or almost clear) with at least a 2-step improvement from baseline at Week 16.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Change in overall number of fresh pustules from baseline to Week 16.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
Recruitment
- Planned Sample Size
- 65
- Recruitment Window Months
- 16
- Consent Approach
- Signed and dated informed consent required from each participant prior to any protocol procedures ("Signed and dated informed consent has been obtained prior to any protocol-related procedures."). Subject information and informed consent forms are provided in German and Polish (documents L1_DE_SIS-ICF_* and L1_PL_SIS-ICF_* are listed). A pregnancy-specific ICF is also listed. Participants are adults (≥18); no assent for minors described. Sponsor contact for queries: LEO Pharma Clinical Trials mailbox (disclosure@leo-pharma.com).
Methods
- K1_DE_Recruitment Procedure (document present) — Germany (recruitment arrangements document listed among trial documents).
- K2_DE_Recruitment Material_Advertisement_German (document present) — Germany (advertisement/recruitment material listed).
- K1_PL_Recruitment Procedure_Polish (document present) — Poland (recruitment arrangements document listed).
- K2_PL_Recruitment Material_Advertisement_Polish (document present) — Poland (advertisement/recruitment material listed).
Geography
- Total Number Of Sites
- 18
- Total Number Of Participants
- 70
Germany
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 11-07-2025
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 01-08-2025
- Processing Time Days
- 21
- Number Of Sites
- 10
- Number Of Participants
- 30
Sites
- Site Name
- Universitaetsmedizin Goettingen
- Department Name
- Department of Dermatology, Venerology, Allergology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Rotraut Mössner
- Principal Investigator Email
- Rotraut.moessner@med.uni-goettingen.de
- Contact Person Name
- Rotraut Mössner
- Contact Person Email
- Rotraut.moessner@med.uni-goettingen.de
- Site Name
- Klinische Forschung Osnabrueck
- Principal Investigator Name
- Sylvia Pauser
- Principal Investigator Email
- sylvia.pauser@klifos.de
- Contact Person Name
- Sylvia Pauser
- Contact Person Email
- sylvia.pauser@klifos.de
- Site Name
- Hautarztpraxis Dr. Med. Matthias Hoffmann
- Department Name
- Department of dermatology, allergology, oncology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Matthias Hoffmann
- Principal Investigator Email
- drhoff68@t-online.de
- Contact Person Name
- Matthias Hoffmann
- Contact Person Email
- drhoff68@t-online.de
- Site Name
- Universitaet Muenster
- Department Name
- Department of Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Nina Magnolo
- Principal Investigator Email
- nina.magnolo@ukmuenster.de
- Contact Person Name
- Nina Magnolo
- Contact Person Email
- nina.magnolo@ukmuenster.de
- Site Name
- Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein AöR (Kiel)
- Department Name
- Department of Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Sascha Gerdes
- Principal Investigator Email
- sgerdes@dermatology.uni-kiel.de
- Contact Person Name
- Sascha Gerdes
- Contact Person Email
- sgerdes@dermatology.uni-kiel.de
- Site Name
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Department Name
- Institute of Health Services Research in Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Matthias Augustin
- Principal Investigator Email
- hautstudien@uke.de
- Contact Person Name
- Matthias Augustin
- Contact Person Email
- hautstudien@uke.de
- Site Name
- Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein AöR (Luebeck)
- Department Name
- Institute for Inflammation Medicine
- Principal Investigator Name
- Diamant Thaci
- Principal Investigator Email
- Diamant.Thaci@uksh.de
- Contact Person Name
- Diamant Thaci
- Contact Person Email
- Diamant.Thaci@uksh.de
- Site Name
- Praxis Fuer Dermatologie Und Venerologie
- Principal Investigator Name
- Beatrice Gerlach
- Principal Investigator Email
- dr.b.gerlach@t-online.de
- Contact Person Name
- Beatrice Gerlach
- Contact Person Email
- dr.b.gerlach@t-online.de
- Site Name
- Thermalsole und Schwefelbad Bentheim GmbH
- Department Name
- Department of Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Athanasios Tsianakas
- Principal Investigator Email
- a.tsianakas@kf-bentheim.de
- Contact Person Name
- Athanasios Tsianakas
- Contact Person Email
- a.tsianakas@kf-bentheim.de
- Site Name
- Universitaetsklinikum Mannheim GmbH
- Department Name
- Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Marthe-Lisa Schaarschmidt
- Principal Investigator Email
- marthe-lisa.schaarschmidt@umm.de
- Contact Person Name
- Marthe-Lisa Schaarschmidt
- Contact Person Email
- marthe-lisa.schaarschmidt@umm.de
Poland
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 23-07-2025
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 18-08-2025
- Processing Time Days
- 26
- Number Of Sites
- 8
- Number Of Participants
- 40
Sites
- Site Name
- Clinicmed Daniluk Nowak Sp. k.
- Department Name
- Nie dotyczy
- Principal Investigator Name
- Marta Wilkowska-Trojniel
- Principal Investigator Email
- lipska@clinicmed.pl
- Contact Person Name
- Marta Wilkowska-Trojniel
- Contact Person Email
- lipska@clinicmed.pl
- Site Name
- Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny Im. Jana Mikulicza-Radeckiego We Wroclawiu
- Department Name
- Uniwersyteckie Centrum Dermatologii Ogólnej i Onkologicznej
- Principal Investigator Name
- Alina Jankowska-Konsur
- Principal Investigator Email
- alina.konsur@gmail.com
- Contact Person Name
- Alina Jankowska-Konsur
- Contact Person Email
- alina.konsur@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Cityclinic Przychodnia Lekarsko-Psychologiczna Matusiak sp.p.
- Department Name
- Nie dotyczy
- Principal Investigator Name
- Jacek Szepietowski
- Principal Investigator Email
- jacek.szepietowski.work@gmail.com
- Contact Person Name
- Jacek Szepietowski
- Contact Person Email
- jacek.szepietowski.work@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny Im.Fryderyka Chopina W Rzeszowie
- Department Name
- Klinika Dermatologii
- Principal Investigator Name
- Adam Reich
- Principal Investigator Email
- adamandrzejreich@gmail.com
- Contact Person Name
- Adam Reich
- Contact Person Email
- adamandrzejreich@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Trialmed Sp. z o.o.
- Department Name
- Trialmed CRS Warszawa
- Principal Investigator Name
- Ewa Ring
- Principal Investigator Email
- ering@trialmed.pl
- Contact Person Name
- Ewa Ring
- Contact Person Email
- ering@trialmed.pl
- Site Name
- Zespol Naukowo-Leczniczy Iwolang Dermatologiczne Centrum Uzdrowiskowe Sp. z o.o.
- Department Name
- Nie dotyczy
- Principal Investigator Name
- Anna Rajchel
- Principal Investigator Email
- klinika@iwolang.com.pl
- Contact Person Name
- Anna Rajchel
- Contact Person Email
- klinika@iwolang.com.pl
- Site Name
- Clinical Best Solutions Sp. z o.o. S.K.
- Department Name
- Nie dotyczy
- Principal Investigator Name
- Monika Dudra-Jastrzębska
- Principal Investigator Email
- monidudra@gmail.com
- Contact Person Name
- Monika Dudra-Jastrzębska
- Contact Person Email
- monidudra@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Dermoklinika-Centrum Medyczne s.c. M.Kierstan J.Narbutt A.Lesiak
- Department Name
- Nie dotyczy
- Principal Investigator Name
- Joanna Narbutt
- Principal Investigator Email
- joanna.narbutt@onet.pl
- Contact Person Name
- Joanna Narbutt
- Contact Person Email
- joanna.narbutt@onet.pl
Sponsor
Primary sponsor
- Full Name
- Leo Pharma A/S
- Organisation Type
- Pharmaceutical company
- Country Of Registered Address
- Denmark
Contract research organisations
- Name
- Icon Clinical Research Limited
- Responsibilities
- Sponsor duties codes: 1,10,11,12,13,2,4,5,6,8,9
- Name
- Eresearchtechnology Inc.
- Responsibilities
- ePROs and ClinROs
- Name
- 4G Clinical B.V.
- Responsibilities
- Sponsor duties code 3
Third parties
- {"country":"Ireland","full_name":"Icon Clinical Research Limited","duties_or_roles":"Sponsor duties codes: 1,10,11,12,13,2,4,5,6,8,9 (as listed in sponsorDuties)","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"Canfield Scientific Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Photography (sponsorDuties code 15; value 'Photography')","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"National Jewish Health","duties_or_roles":"Sponsor duties code 4","organisation_type":"Laboratory/Research/Testing facility"}
- {"country":"Netherlands","full_name":"4G Clinical B.V.","duties_or_roles":"Sponsor duties code 3","organisation_type":"Non-Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"Scout Clinical","duties_or_roles":"Patient reimbursement (sponsorDuties code 15; value 'Patient reimbursment')","organisation_type":"Hospital/Clinic/Other health care facility"}
- {"country":"United Kingdom","full_name":"Labcorp UK Limited","duties_or_roles":"Sponsor duties code 4","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"Eresearchtechnology Inc.","duties_or_roles":"ePROs and ClinROs (sponsorDuties value 'ePROs and ClinROs')","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
Investigational products
- Investigational Product Name
- Delgocitinib cream
- Active Substance
- Delgocitinib
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- Cutaneous use
- Route
- Cutaneous use
- Authorisation Status
- prodAuthStatus: 1; MIA number: 103889
- Starting Dose
- 20 mg/g cream, applied twice daily
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Maximum Dose
- 2.50 g (maxDailyDoseAmount)
- Investigational Product Name
- Cream Vehicle
- Modality
- Other
- Authorisation Status
- N/A / vehicle (placebo comparator)
- Frequency
- Twice daily
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