Clinical trial • Phase III|Phase IV • Immunology|Dermatology
UPADACITINIB for Atopic dermatitis
Phase III|Phase IV trial of UPADACITINIB for Atopic dermatitis.
Overview
- Trial Therapeutic Area
- Immunology|Dermatology
- Trial Disease
- Atopic dermatitis
- Trial Stage
- Phase III|Phase IV
- Drug Modality
- Small molecule|Monoclonal antibody
Key dates
- Initial CTIS Submission Date
- 09-10-2025
- First CTIS Authorization Date
- 02-02-2026
Trial design
Randomised, open-label, dupilumab (comparator). route: subcutaneous injection. dose/schedule not specified in available ctis data.-controlled Phase III|Phase IV trial in Spain, Italy, Romania.
- Randomised
- Yes
- Open Label
- Yes
- Comparator
- Dupilumab (comparator). Route: subcutaneous injection. Dose/schedule not specified in available CTIS data.
- Single Multiple Or Escalation Dose Combined
- Yes
- Target Sample Size
- 150
- Trial Duration For Participant
- 224
Eligibility
Recruits 150 Vulnerable population not selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected=false). Informed consent is via subject information and informed consent form documents (country-specific ICFs listed for Romania, Spain, Italy). No paediatric consent/assent procedures described..
- Vulnerable Population
- Vulnerable population not selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected=false). Informed consent is via subject information and informed consent form documents (country-specific ICFs listed for Romania, Spain, Italy). No paediatric consent/assent procedures described.
Inclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- - Participant meets all the following disease activity criteria at Baseline Visit:\n- • Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI) score >= 12;\n- • Validated Investigator´s Global Assessment for AD (vIGA-AD) score >= 3;\n- • Body surface area (BSA) involvement of >= 10% in a majority of subjects (>= 50% of the overall study population)\n- • Baseline weekly average of daily Worst Pruritus-Numerical Rating Scale (WP-NRS) >= 4. Note: The Baseline weekly average of daily WP-NRS will be calculated from the 7 consecutive days immediately preceding the Baseline Visit. A minimum of 4 daily scores out of the 7 days is needed.\n- • Inadequate response to dupilumab treatment after at least 4 months of current use.\n- • Particpant has applied a topical emollient (an additive-free, bland emollient moisturizer) twice daily for at least 7 days before the Baseline Visit and for the duration of the study. Note: Subject may use prescription moisturizers or moisturizers containing ceramide, urea, filaggrin degradation products or hyaluronic acid if such moisturizers were initiated before the Screening visit.\n- • Chronic AD with onset of symptoms at least 3 years prior to Baseline and subject meets Hanifin and Rajka criteria."}
Exclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Meeting any of the following conditions at Baseline:\n- • Participants with current or past history of infection including, Evidence of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) or Hepatitis C virus (HCV)\n- • At Baseline any of the following medical diseases or disorders:\n- • Recent (within past 6 months) cerebrovascular accident, myocardial infarction, coronary stenting, and aorto-coronary bypass surgery or venous thromboembolism;\n- • Any unstable clinical condition which, in the opinion of the investigator would put the subject at risk by participating in the protocol;\n- • Diagnosed active parasitic infection, suspected or high risk of parasitic infection unless clinical (and if necessary) laboratory assessment have ruled out active infection before randomization;\n- • History of an organ transplant which requires continued immunosuppression;\n- • History of an allergic reaction or significant sensitivity to constituents of the study drug (and its excipients) and/or other products in the same class;\n- • History of GI perforation (other than due to appendicitis or mechanical injury), diverticulitis, or significantly increased risk for GI perforation per investigator judgment;\n- • Conditions that could interfere with drug absorption including but not limited to short bowel syndrome or gastric bypass surgery including sleeve gastrectomy; subjects with a history of gastric banding/ segmentation are not excluded;\n- • History of malignancy except for successfully treated or localized carcinoma in situ of the cervix\n- • Other active skin diseases or skin infections (bacterial, fungal, or viral) requiring systemic treatment within 4 weeks of the Baseline Visit or would interfere with assessment of AD lesions;\n- • Two or more past episodes of herpes zoster, or one or more episodes of disseminated herpes zoster;\n- • One or more past episodes of disseminated herpes simplex (including eczema herpeticum);\n- • HIV infection defined as confirmed positive anti- HIV Ab test;\n- • Active TB or meet TB exclusionary parameters (specific requirements for TB testing are provided in the operations manual);\n- • Active infection(s) requiring treatment with intravenous anti-infectives within 30 days, or oral/intramuscular anti-infectives within 14 days prior to the Baseline Visit;\n- • Chronic recurring infection and/or active viral infection that, based on the investigator's clinical assessment, makes the subject an unsuitable candidate for the study;\n- • COVID-19 infection: In subjects who tested positive for COVID-19, at least 5 days must have passed between a COVID-19 positive test result and the Baseline visit of asymptomatic subjects. Subjects with mild/moderate COVID-19 infection can be enrolled if fever is resolved without use of antipyretics for 24 hours and other symptoms improved, or if 5 days have passed since the COVID-19 positive test result (whichever comes last). Subjects may be rescreened if deemed appropriate by the investigator based upon the subject's health status."}
Endpoints
Primary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Participants who achieve at least a 90% reduction in Eczema Area and Severity Index from Baseline (EASI 90) at Week 8","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as at least a 90% reduction in Eczema Area and Severity Index from baseline (EASI 90) assessed at Week 8."}
Secondary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Percentage of participants who achieve a Worst Pruritus Numerical Rating Scale of 0 or 1 (WP-NRS 0/1) at Week 8","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as proportion of participants with WP-NRS score of 0 or 1 at Week 8."}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Participants who simultaneous achieve at least a 90% reduction in Eczema Area and Severity Index from Baseline (EASI 90) and Worst Pruritus Numerical Rating Scale of 0 or 1 (WP-NRS 0/1) at Week 8","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Composite responder defined as achieving both EASI 90 and WP-NRS 0/1 at Week 8."}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Percentage of participants achieving worst pruritus numerical rating scale (WP-NRS) 0/1 at Week 4","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as proportion of participants with WP-NRS score of 0 or 1 at Week 4."}
Recruitment
- Planned Sample Size
- 150
- Recruitment Window Months
- 15
- Consent Approach
- Informed consent obtained using subject information and informed consent forms (ICFs). Country-specific ICF documents are listed for Romania, Spain and Italy. Participants are adults; no paediatric assent described.
Methods
- Recruitment materials: adverts, recruitment brochures and recruitment flyers (documents titled 'Ad and Recruitment_Recruitment Brochure' and 'Recruitment Flyer' are listed for multiple countries).
- Third-party agencies contracted for patient recruitment and retention (Clinical Trial Media Inc. listed with duty 'Patient Recruitment and Retention'; WCG Clinical Inc. listed with duties including 'Patient Recruitment').
- Country-specific recruitment arrangements and ICF procedures documents available for Romania, Spain and Italy (K1/K2/I CF documents listed).
Geography
- Total Number Of Sites
- 13
- Total Number Of Participants
- 50
Spain
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 02-12-2025
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 02-02-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 62
- Number Of Sites
- 5
- Number Of Participants
- 24
Sites
- Site Name
- Consorcio Hospital General Universitario De Valencia
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Violeta Zaragoza
- Contact Person Email
- viozaragozaninet@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Hospital Universitario 12 De Octubre
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- FATIMA TOUS ROMERO
- Contact Person Email
- fatimatousro@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Hospital Universitario Y Politecnico La Fe
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Mercedes Rodriguez Serna
- Contact Person Email
- merroser@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Hospital Universitario Virgen De Las Nieves
- Department Name
- Servicio de Dermatología
- Contact Person Name
- Trinidad Montero Vilchez
- Contact Person Email
- tmonterov@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Hospital Universitario De La Princesa
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Pablo Chicharro Manso
- Contact Person Email
- somniem@gmail.com
Italy
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 14-01-2026
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 18-02-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 35
- Number Of Sites
- 4
- Number Of Participants
- 14
Sites
- Site Name
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
- Department Name
- U.O.C. Dermatologia
- Contact Person Name
- Ketty Peris
- Contact Person Email
- ketty.peris@unicatt.it
- Site Name
- Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Silvia Ferrucci
- Contact Person Email
- silvia.ferrucci@policlinico.mi.it
- Site Name
- Azienda Sanitaria Locale Avezzano Sulmona L'Aquila
- Department Name
- Department of Biotechnological and Clinical Sciences, University of L’Aquila
- Contact Person Name
- Maria Esposito
- Contact Person Email
- maria.esposito3@univaq.it
- Site Name
- Humanitas Mirasole S.p.A.
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Antonio Costanzo
- Contact Person Email
- acostanzo2000@gmail.com
Romania
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 03-02-2026
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 23-02-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 20
- Number Of Sites
- 4
- Number Of Participants
- 12
Sites
- Site Name
- Futuremeds S.R.L.
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Diana Sabina Radaschin
- Contact Person Email
- dianaradaschin@yahoo.com
- Site Name
- Dr Tirziu Dermato-Chirurgie S.R.L.
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Claudia Tirziu
- Contact Person Email
- claudiatirziu@gmail.com
- Site Name
- Futuremeds S.R.L.
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Mihaela Anca Jian
- Contact Person Email
- ancajian@yahoo.com
- Site Name
- CABINET MEDICAL DE DERMATO VENEROLOGIE Prof.Dr. ORASAN R. REMUS IOAN
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Contact Person Name
- Remus Orasan
- Contact Person Email
- rorasan@yahoo.com
Sponsor
Primary sponsor
- Full Name
- AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
- Organisation Type
- Pharmaceutical company
- Country Of Registered Address
- Germany
Contract research organisations
- Name
- IQVIA Limited
- Responsibilities
- code:3
- Name
- WCG Clinical Inc.
- Responsibilities
- Patient Recruitment; Web Based Training; Adjudication Committee
Third parties
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"Veeva Systems Inc.","duties_or_roles":"code:7","organisation_type":"Non-Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"Switzerland","full_name":"Labcorp Central Laboratory Services SARL","duties_or_roles":"code:4","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"Clinical Trial Media Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Patient Recruitment and Retention; code:2","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"WCG Clinical Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Patient Recruitment; Web Based Training; Cardiovascular and Gastrointestinal Perforation Adjudication Committee","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United Kingdom","full_name":"IQVIA Limited","duties_or_roles":"code:3","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
- {"country":"United States","full_name":"Medidata Solutions Inc.","duties_or_roles":"eCOA/ ePRO","organisation_type":"Non-Pharmaceutical company"}
Investigational products
- Investigational Product Name
- Upadacitinib (15 mg product entry)
- Active Substance
- UPADACITINIB
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- ORAL USE
- Route
- ORAL USE
- Authorisation Status
- prodAuthStatus:1
- Dose Levels
- 15 mg
- Maximum Dose
- 15
- Dose Escalation Increase
- 15 mg
- Investigational Product Name
- Upadacitinib (30 mg product entry)
- Active Substance
- UPADACITINIB
- Modality
- Small molecule
- Routes Of Administration
- ORAL USE
- Route
- ORAL USE
- Authorisation Status
- prodAuthStatus:1
- Dose Levels
- 30 mg
- Maximum Dose
- 30
- Dose Escalation Increase
- 30 mg
- Investigational Product Name
- DUPILUMAB
- Active Substance
- DUPILUMAB
- Modality
- Monoclonal antibody
- Routes Of Administration
- SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION
- Route
- SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION
- Authorisation Status
- prodAuthStatus:2
- Maximum Dose
- 300
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