Safety and Tolerability of PQ912 in Subjects With Early Alzheimer's Disease (SAPHIR)

A Phase 2A Multicentre, Randomised, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Safety and Tolerability Study of PQ912 in Subjects With Early Alzheimer's Disease

The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of PQ912 in subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimers Disease (AD) or mild dementia due to AD.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Alzheimer's Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Placebo; Drug: PQ912 oral

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 120
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Hoboken, Belgium, 2660
    • Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen / Geheugenkliniek
• Finland
  • Kuopio, Finland, 70211
    • Kliininen tutkimuskeskus
  • Oulu, Finland, 90220
    • Oulu University Hospital
  • Turku, Finland, 20520
    • CRST Oy
• France
  • Bordeaux, France, 33076
    • CHU Bordeaux Pellegrin (CMRR)
  • Dijon, France, 21079
    • CHU François Mitterand (Centre Mémoire Ressources Recherche (CMRR))
  • Lille Cedex, France, 59037
    • CHRU de Lille / Hôpital Roger Salengro
  • Toulouse Cedex 9, France, 31059
    • Hôpital La Grave / Centre de Recherche Clinique
• Germany
  • Berlin, Germany, 10450
    • Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • Göttingen, Germany, 37075
    • Universitätsmedizin Göttingen / Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
  • Halle (Saale), Germany, 06112
    • Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale) Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik
  • Leipzig, Germany, 04107
    • Arzneimittelforschung Leipzig GmbH
  • Magdeburg, Germany, 39120
    • Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg / Institut für Kognitive Neurologie und Demenzforschung
  • München, Germany, 81675
    • Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München / Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
  • Münster, Germany, 48149
    • Universitätsklinikum Münster / Klinik für Allgemeine Neurologie
  • Rostock, Germany, 18147
    • Universitätsmedizin Rostock / Zentrum für Nervenheilkunde/ Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapeutische Medizin
  • Ulm, Germany, 89081
    • Neurologische Universitätsklinik Ulm
• Netherlands
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1081 GM
    • Alzheimer Research Center
• Spain
  • Barcelona, Spain, 08025
    • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Neurology Department, Memory Unit
  • Barcelona, Spain, 08028
    • Fundació ACE. Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades
  • Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 15706
    • Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS)
  • Sevilla, Spain, 41009
    • Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena
• Sweden
  • Mölndal, Sweden, 43141
    • Verksamheten för neuropsykiatri Sahlgrenska universitetssjukhuset

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 50 years to 89 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Major Inclusion Criteria:

• Signed and dated written informed consent
• Male or surgically sterile or postmenopausal female aged ≥ 50 to ≤ 89 years. Male subjects with childbearing potential partners are willing to and should use condoms during treatment and until 28 days of the last dose of study medication.
• Diagnosis of MCI due to AD or mild dementia due to AD with amnestic presentation, according to AA-NIA (Alzheimer's Association (AA) and the National Institute on (Aging NIA) criteria [Albert et al 2011; McKhann et al 2011]
• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score of 21 to 30 inclusive at screening

• A positive AD signature showing one of the following (either a, b, c, OR d):

  1. Screening CSF sample with an A-beta 42 concentration of less than 638 ng/L AND total tau >375 ng/L, as assessed by central laboratory.
  2. Screening CSF sample with an A-beta 42 concentration of less than 638 ng/L AND p-tau > 52 ng/L, as assessed by central laboratory.
  3. Tau/A-beta ratio > 0.52, as assessed by central laboratory.
  4. A positive amyloid PET if available prior to screening.
• Treatment naïve, this means not having received any prior established specific treatment for MCI due to AD or mild dementia due to AD including no (prior) use of an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor or memantine. A maximum of two months of prior cumulative treatment with an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor or memantine is allowed if the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor or memantine was discontinued due to intolerance, and if this was done at least two months prior to baseline. Use of Souvenaid will be allowed if Souvenaid was discontinued at least twomonths prior to baseline, or if the subject is on stable dose for at least six months prior to baseline and is willing to continue during the study on the same dose and frequency.
• Outpatient with study partner capable of accompanying the subject on all clinic visits. In accordance to Swedish regulations availability of study partner is not applicable for Sweden.

Major Exclusion Criteria:

• Significant neurologic disease, other than AD, that may affect cognition.
• Atypical clinical presentations of MCI due to AD or mild dementia due to AD, such as the visual variant of AD (including posterior cortical atrophy) or the language variant (including logopenic aphasia).

• Concomitant disorders:

  • Severe hepatic (Child-Pugh C) and/or kidney failure (creatinine clearance (estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate - eGFR) ≤ 30 ml/min/1.73m2) and/or serum creatinine above 1.5 fold of Upper Limit Normal (ULN) and/or Alanine-Amino Transferase (AST) or Asparagine-Amino Transferase (ALT) above 3 fold ULN at baseline.
  • History of or screening visit brain MRI scan indicative of any other significant abnormality.
  • Current presence of a clinically important major psychiatric disorder (e.g. major depressive disorder) as defined by DSM-5 criteria, or symptom(s) (e.g. hallucinations) that could affect the subject's ability to complete the study.
  • . Current clinically important systemic illness that is likely to result in clinically relevant deterioration of the subject's condition or might affect the subject's safety during the study.
  • Other clinically important diseases or conditions or abnormalities of vital signs, physical examination, neurologic examination, laboratory results, or electrocardiogram (ECG) examination (e.g. atrial fibrillation) that could compromise the study or the safety of the subject.
  • Clinically important infection within 30 days prior to screening e.g. chronic persistent or acute infection, such as bronchitis or urinary tract infection.
  • Any known hypersensitivity to any of the excipients contained in the test article formulation.
  • Severe hepatic failure (Child-Pugh C) OR kidney failure (creatinine clearance (eGFR) ≤ 30 ml/min/1.73m2) OR serum creatinine above 1.5 fold of ULN OR AST or ALT above 3 fold of ULN at screening.´
• Concomitant Medication/Therapies:

The following therapies are not permitted for the given intervals prior to baseline and until End-of-treatment (EOT):

• Use of experimental medications for AD or any other investigational medications or devices for treatment of indications other than AD within 60 days prior to baseline.
• Treatment with Souvenaid, except if the use of Souvenaid was discontinued at least two months prior to baseline, or if the subject is on stable dose for at least six months prior to baseline and is willing to continue the use of Souvenaid during the study on the same dose and frequency.
• Concomitant treatment with St. John's Wort (a wash out phase of at least two weeks prior to baseline is required).
• Any concomitant treatment which impairs cognitive function and cannot be washed out at least four weeks prior to baseline.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Quadruple

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: PQ912 oral; PQ912 will be administered orally twice daily for 12 weeks.	Drug: PQ912 oral
Placebo Comparator: Placebo; Placebo will be administered orally twice daily for 12 weeks.	Other: Placebo

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Frequency of adverse events and serious adverse events (the study is a Phase II safety trial)	12 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Exploratory clinical measures (measured by a questionnaire)	Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) Letter Fluency Test (LFT) Category Fluency Test (CFT) Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Cogstate Neuropsychological Test Battery	12 weeks
Change from baseline of a panel of concept and AD-related biomarkers in Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) (measured by Analysis of several biochemical assays)	QC activity, total-tau, phospho-tau, Abeta pattern, pro-inflammatory panel	12 weeks
Change from baseline in brain functional connectivity (measured by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) analysis)		12 weeks
Change from baseline in functional connectivity and network Analysis in electroencephalography (EEG)		12 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V.
• Collaborators: Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc; Julius Clinical
• Investigators: Study Director: Frank Weber, Dr., Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V.; Study Chair: Philip Scheltens, Prof. Dr., VUmc Alzheimer Centre (p: +31 20 4440816)

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Scheltens P, Hallikainen M, Grimmer T, Duning T, Gouw AA, Teunissen CE, Wink AM, Maruff P, Harrison J, van Baal CM, Bruins S, Lues I, Prins ND. Safety, tolerability and efficacy of the glutaminyl cyclase inhibitor PQ912 in Alzheimer's disease: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2a study. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2018 Oct 12;10(1):107. doi: 10.1186/s13195-018-0431-6.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: March 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 1, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): April 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 5, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 16, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): March 17, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 1, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 31, 2017
• Last Verified: January 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: PQ912; Glutaminy Cyclase (QC); QC - Inhibitor
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Neurocognitive Disorders; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Dementia; Tauopathies; Alzheimer Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: PBD01071; 2014-001967-11 (EudraCT Number)