Clinical trial • Phase II • Immunology | Rare Disease

ILE-ALA-LEU-ILE-LEU-GLU-PRO-ILE-CYS-CYS-GLN-GLU-ARG-ALA-ALA-(DISCRETE-POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL)24 for Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGvHD)

Phase II trial of ILE-ALA-LEU-ILE-LEU-GLU-PRO-ILE-CYS-CYS-GLN-GLU-ARG-ALA-ALA-(DISCRETE-POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL)24 for Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGvHD).

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Immunology | Rare Disease
Trial Disease
Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGvHD)
Trial Stage
Phase II
Drug Modality
Peptide/protein/enzyme
Paediatric Trial
Yes
Orphan Drug
Yes

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
21-03-2024
First CTIS Authorization Date
08-07-2024

Trial design

open-label, adaptive Phase II trial across 8 sites in Germany, Spain.

Open Label
Yes
Adaptive
True, Dose-escalation and expansion cohorts (prospective dose-ranging design with escalation and expansion cohorts to evaluate dosing and dose response).
Single Multiple Or Escalation Dose Combined
Yes
Target Sample Size
44
Trial Duration For Participant
180

Eligibility

Recruits 44 paediatric patients.

Pregnancy Exclusion
Known pregnancy, a positive pregnancy test at screening, or lactation for WOCBP.
Vulnerable Population
Includes adolescents (>12 years). Consent: Participant or legally authorized representative for minors provides written informed consent; additionally, informed assent for minors.

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Male or female adults or adolescents (>12 years old).\n- Neutrophil recovery following the stem-cell transplantation, defined as blood neutrophil count >500/mL for at least 3 consecutive measurements (use of growth factor supplementation, e.g., filgrastim, at that time is permitted).\n- Neutrophil count at study screening >500/mL and not supported by growth factor supplementation, e.g., filgrastim at the time of study screening and RLS-0071 initiation.\n- Weight >40 kg and ≤ 140 kg at screening.\n- Participant (or legally authorized representative for minors) provides written informed consent; additionally, informed assent for minors.\n- Able to communicate well with the Investigator and/or study site personnel and to comply with the requirements of the entire study.\n- Woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP) (not surgically sterile) or male participant with partners of childbearing potential must agree to use highly effective contraception until the completion of participation in the study. Follow manufacture recommendation for other medications.\n- Neutrophil recovery following the stem-cell transplantation, defined as blood neutrophil count >500/mL for at least 3 consecutive measurements (use of growth factor supplementation, e.g., filgrastim, at that time is permitted)\n- Steroid-refractory aGvHD defined by one or more of the following criteria: progressed after 3 days of treatment with methylprednisolone equivalents (MPE) >2 mg/kg/day; did not improve after 7 days of treatment with MPE >2 mg/kg/day; progressed to a new organ after treatment with MPE >1 mg/kg/day for isolated skin and/or upper GI GvHD; or recurred during or after a steroid taper.\n- Grade II-IV aGvHD as per MAGIC guidelines, defined as: o Grade II: Stage 3 rash and/or Stage 1 liver and/or Stage 1 upper GI and/or Stage 1 lower GI, or Clinical Study Protocol ReAlta Life Sciences, Inc. RLS-0071-203 09 February 2024 Page 12 of 92 o Grade III: Stage 2–3 liver and/or Stage 2–3 lower GI, with Stage 0–3 skin and/or Stage 0-1 upper GI, or o Grade IV: Stage 4 skin, liver, or lower GI involvement, with Stage 0–1 upper GI\n- Hospitalized or being admitted to hospital with aGvHD.\n- Anticipated hospital length-of-stay of at least 1 week from the time of RLS-0071 initiation.\n- Initiating or recently initiated ruxolitinib for secondary treatment of aGvHD; if ruxolitinib is contraindicated or the investigator considers it inadvisable for a specific participant then that participant can be enrolled in Cohort 1b or Cohort 2b and not treated with ruxolitini\n- Feasibility to initiate RLS-0071 dosing simultaneously to ruxolitinib or within 48 hours before or after initiation of ruxolitinib (note that from a timing perspective the goal is simultaneous initiation of RLS-0071 and ruxolitinib whenever possible).\n- No plans to add additional GvHD treatment medications or to add, dose-adjust, or discontinue GvHD prophylactic medications during the 7-days of RLS-0071 treatment. Note that participants who require treatments for conditions other than aGvHD should receive those treatments, including standard-of-care antifungal prophylaxis, antibiotics for fever, antivirals for CMV, pain medications, dysmotility agents, and TPN, etc."}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Has received more than 1 allo-HSCT.\n- Severe organ dysfunction unrelated to underlying aGvHD, including: Cholestatic disorders or unresolved veno-occlusive disease of the liver (defined as persistent bilirubin abnormalities not attributable to GvHD and ongoing organ dysfunction); Clinically significant or uncontrolled cardiac disease including unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction within 6 months from Day 1 of study drug administration, New York Heart Association Class III or IV congestive heart failure, circulatory collapse requiring vasopressor or inotropic support, or arrhythmia that requires therapy; Clinically significant respiratory disease that requires mechanical ventilation support or 50% oxygen.\n- Known hypersensitivity, allergy, or anaphylactic reaction to polyethylene glycol (PEG) or PEG containing material.\n- Significant liver disease that is unrelated to GvHD.\n- Moderate to severe kidney disease, with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 60 mL/min (chronic kidney disease [CKD] Stages 3-5).\n- Participation in any clinical research study evaluating an investigational product (IP) or therapy for GvHD prophylaxis or treatment within 1 month and less than 5 half-lives of IP prior to the Screening visit.\n- Currently breast feeding.\n- Any medical or psychiatric condition deemed clinically significant by the Investigator or Sponsor such that: Participation of the study would be unsafe; OR the condition would make study results uninterpretable.\n- Unable or unwilling to cooperate with the site staff for any reason.\n- Known pregnancy, a positive pregnancy test at screening, or lactation for WOCBP.\n- Active hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus infection that requires treatment or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 or HIV-2.\n- Current, previous, or planned (in the initial 7 days) use of any systemic treatment in addition to or other than corticosteroids or ruxolitinib (unless initiated within 48 hours of enrollment per Section 6.1) for aGvHD (previously initiated aGvHD prophylaxis is permitted to continue).\n- Active sepsis\n- Previous failure of ruxolitinib treatment.\n- Uncontrolled GI infection (e.g., CMV, Cdiff); note that participants with controlled GI infections can be enrolled as long as appropriate anti-infective treatment is initiated and administered.\n- Endoscopic and biopsy testing (if performed) that definitively rules out lower GI aGvHD in those who are clinically suspected of having lower GI aGvHD; those participants should not be enrolled or should be discontinued from the study (and will be replaced) unless they otherwise meet the study entry criteria for skin, liver, and/or upper GI aGvHD.\n- Chronic GvHD (including presence of GVHD overlap syndrome as per National Institutes of Health [NIH] guidelines).\n- RLS-0071Participants with evidence of relapsed primary disease, or participants who have been treated for relapse after the allo-HSCT was performed.\n- Unresolved toxicity or complications (other than aGvHD) due to the allo-HSCT, which in the opinion of the Investigator would pose a safety risk for participation in this trial.\n- Any corticosteroid therapy for indications other than aGvHD at doses of methylprednisolone or equivalent >1 mg/kg per day within 7 days of enrollment."}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Safety and tolerability of RLS-0071 in the treatment of aGvHD.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- ORR of RLS-0071 at 28 days (note that addition of any acute GvHD therapy, including an increase in steroid dose >2 mg/kg MPE, will be considered a treatment failure).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Overall Response Rate (ORR) at 28 days; addition of any acute GvHD therapy, including an increase in steroid dose >2 mg/kg methylprednisolone equivalent (MPE), will be considered a treatment failure."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- CR at 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180 days.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- VGPR Rate at 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180 days.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- PR Rate at 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180 days.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- ORR at 7, 14, 56, and 180 days.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- ORR focused on lower GI response criteria only at 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180 days (for the overall study population and for the subset with lower GI aGvHD).","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- CR, VGPR, and PR Rates focused on lower GI response criteria only at 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180 days (for the overall study population and for the subset with lower GI aGvHD).","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Incidence of refractoriness (to RLS-0071 +/- ruxolitinib) at Days 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180; refractoriness is defined as at least one of the following: aGvHD increasing in Stage in any organ or developing in a new organ after 3 days of RLS-0071; aGvHD that has not improved in Stage in >1 organ after 7 days of RLS-0071; initiation of additional aGvHD treatment (other than RLS-0071 +/- ruxolitinib); or for after Day 7, participants who progress during corticosteroid tapering before a 50% decrease in","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Refractoriness defined as at least one of: increase in Stage in any organ or new organ involvement after 3 days of RLS-0071; no improvement in Stage in >1 organ after 7 days of RLS-0071; initiation of additional aGvHD treatment (other than RLS-0071 +/- ruxolitinib); or progression during corticosteroid tapering before a 50% decrease (as applicable)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Overall corticosteroid use on Days 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Initiation of additional or alternative treatment(s) for aGvHD (including an increase in steroid dose to >2 mg/kg methylprednisolone equivalent) to treat refractory aGvHD.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Change or shift in Stage for lower GI aGvHD, liver aGvHD, skin aGvHD, or upper GI aGvHD from baseline to Days 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Attainment of Stage 0 or 1 lower GI aGvHD, liver aGvHD, skin aGvHD, or upper GI aGvHD at Days 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Change or shift in overall Grade of aGvHD (Table 10) from baseline to Days 7, 14, 28, 56, and 180.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Loss of response, reduction in response, or incidence of flare in participants who had an initial response to RLS-0071 (with systemic corticosteroids and +/- ruxolitinib).","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Dose response (dose and duration) for the primary and secondary efficacy endpoints (across the dose regimens in the study).","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Overall survival, failure-free survival, and non-relapse mortality.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Pharmacokinetics (based on sparse sampling for all participants and intensive sampling for a subset of participants) of RLS-0071.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"PK characterization based on sparse sampling for all participants and intensive sampling for subset."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- aGvHD patient outcomes: FACT-BMT, abdominal pain, volume/frequency of diarrhea, food tolerance and use of TPN, and duration of hospital stay.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Change in MAGIC biomarkers (ST2 and REG3a) at Days 7, 14, and 28.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Change in MAGIC biomarkers ST2 and REG3a measured at Days 7, 14, and 28."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
44
Recruitment Window Months
18
Consent Approach
Participant or legally authorized representative for minors provides written informed consent; additionally, informed assent for minors.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
8
Total Number Of Participants
16

Germany

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
14-06-2024
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
08-07-2024
Processing Time Days
24
Number Of Sites
4
Number Of Participants
8

Sites

Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Muenster AöR
Department Name
Haematology and Oncology
Contact Person Name
Matthias Stelljes
Site Name
University Hospital Cologne AöR
Department Name
Internal Medicine
Contact Person Name
Udo Holtick
Contact Person Email
udo.holtick@uk-koeln.de
Site Name
Medical Center - University Of Freiburg
Department Name
Tumor Immunology and Immunoregulation
Contact Person Name
Robert Zeiser
Site Name
Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR
Department Name
Hematologie und Onkologie
Contact Person Name
Olaf Penack
Contact Person Email
olaf.penack@xn--charit-gva.de

Spain

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
01-07-2024
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
08-07-2024
Processing Time Days
7
Number Of Sites
4
Number Of Participants
8

Sites

Site Name
Hospital Universitario De Salamanca
Department Name
Hematology
Contact Person Name
Lucía López Corral
Contact Person Email
lucialopezcorral@usal.es
Site Name
Hospital Universitario Y Politecnico La Fe
Department Name
Hematology
Contact Person Name
Jaime Sanz Caballer
Contact Person Email
Jaime.sanz@uv.es
Site Name
Hospital Universitario Marques De Valdecilla
Department Name
Hematology
Contact Person Name
Aranzazu Bermudez
Contact Person Email
maranzazu.bermudez@scsalud.es
Site Name
University Hospital Virgen Del Rocio S.L.
Department Name
Hematology
Contact Person Name
José Antonio Pérez Simón

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Realta Life Sciences Inc.
Organisation Type
Pharmaceutical company
Country Of Registered Address
United States

Contract research organisations

Name
Bioagilytix Labs LLC
Responsibilities
codes: 4
Name
CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services Europe GmbH
Responsibilities
codes: 1,10,12,4,5,6,8
Name
Medidata Solutions Inc.
Responsibilities
codes: 6

Third parties

  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Bioagilytix Labs LLC","duties_or_roles":"codes: 4","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"Germany","full_name":"CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services Europe GmbH","duties_or_roles":"codes: 1,10,12,4,5,6,8","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Bioagilytix Labs LLC","duties_or_roles":"codes: 4","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Medidata Solutions Inc.","duties_or_roles":"codes: 6","organisation_type":"Non-Pharmaceutical company"}

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
IALILEPICCQERAA peptide sequence with a monodisperse polyethylene glycol tail
Active Substance
ILE-ALA-LEU-ILE-LEU-GLU-PRO-ILE-CYS-CYS-GLN-GLU-ARG-ALA-ALA-(DISCRETE-POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL)24
Modality
Peptide/protein/enzyme
Routes Of Administration
Concentrate for solution for infusion (intravenous infusion)
Route
Intravenous (infusion)
Orphan Designation
Yes
Maximum Dose
Max daily dose amount: 120 mg/kg (doseUom); max total dose amount: 840 (doseUomTotal mg/kg)
Combination Treatment
Yes

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