Study to Investigate the Safety and Efficacy of Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir in Adolescents and Children With Chronic HCV Infection

A Phase 2, Open-Label, Multicenter, Multi-cohort Study to Investigate the Safety and Efficacy of Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir in Adolescents and Children With Chronic HCV Infection

This study will have 2 parts: Pharmacokinetics (PK) Lead-in Phase and the Treatment Phase.

The primary objective of the PK Lead-in Phase is to evaluate the steady state PK and confirm the dose of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir (SOF/VEL) fixed-dose combination (FDC) in pediatric participants with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

The primary objective of the Treatment Phase is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of SOF/VEL for 12 weeks in pediatric participants with chronic HCV.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Hepatitis C Virus Infection
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: SOF/VEL; Drug: SOF/VEL

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 216
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Brussels, Belgium, 1200
    • Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc
• Italy
  • Bologna, Italy, 40138
    • Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna - Policlinico S. Orsola - Malpighi
  • Firenze, Italy, 50139
    • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Meyer
  • San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, 71013
    • Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza
• United Kingdom
  • England
    • Leeds, England, United Kingdom, LS1 3EX
      • The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Nhs Trust
    • London, England, United Kingdom, SE5 9RS
      • King's College Hospital NHS Trust
• United States
  • California
    • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027
      • Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    • San Francisco, California, United States, 94158
      • University of California, San Francisco
  • Colorado
    • Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
      • Children's Hospital of Colorado
  • District of Columbia
    • Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20010
      • Children's National Medical Center
  • Florida
    • Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32610
      • University of Florida Shands Medical
    • Orlando, Florida, United States, 32803
      • Florida Gastroenterology Care for Children
  • Georgia
    • Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
      • Emory Children's Center
  • Indiana
    • Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
      • Riley Hospital for Children
  • Kentucky
    • Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40202
      • Kosair Charities Pediatric Clinical Research Unit
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
      • Johns Hopkins University (JHU) - The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH)
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
      • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Missouri
    • Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108
      • Children's Mercy Hospital
  • Nebraska
    • Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198-5331
      • Children's Hospital & Medical Center
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10029
      • Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Ohio
    • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
      • Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    • Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43205
      • Nationwide Children's Hospital- The Ohio State University (OSU)
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
      • The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Tennessee
    • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
      • Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
  • Texas
    • Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76104
      • Cook Children's Medical Center
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
      • Baylor College of Medicine
  • Washington
    • Seattle, Washington, United States, 98105
      • Seattle Children's Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 3 years to 17 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Key Inclusion Criteria:

• Chronic HCV-infected, treatment-naive and treatment-experienced adolescent and pediatric individuals aged 3 to < 18 as determined at Day 1.

Note: Other protocol defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: 12 to < 18 Years Old; PK Lead-in Phase: Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir (SOF/VEL) 400/100 mg once daily for 7 days. Participants who complete the PK lead-in phase, continue into the treatment phase with no interruption of study drug administration and additional participants will be enrolled into the treatment phase once the appropriateness of the dose is confirmed by PK results from the PK lead-in phase. Treatment Phase: SOF/VEL 400/100 mg once daily for 12 weeks.	Drug: SOF/VEL; SOF/VEL fixed-dose combination (FDC) 400/100 mg tablets or SOF/VEL FDC 200/50 mg tablets (based on swallowability assessment); Other Names: Epclusa®; GS-7977/GS-5816; Drug: SOF/VEL; SOF/VEL FDC 200/50 mg oral granules; Other Names: Epclusa®; GS-7977/GS-5816
Experimental: 6 to < 12 Years Old; PK Lead-in Phase: SOF/VEL 200/50 mg once daily for 7 days. Participants who complete the PK lead-in phase, continue into the treatment phase with no interruption of study drug administration and additional participants will be enrolled into the treatment phase once the appropriateness of the dose is confirmed by PK results from the PK lead-in phase. Treatment Phase: SOF/VEL 200/50 mg once daily for 12 weeks.	Drug: SOF/VEL; SOF/VEL fixed-dose combination (FDC) 400/100 mg tablets or SOF/VEL FDC 200/50 mg tablets (based on swallowability assessment); Other Names: Epclusa®; GS-7977/GS-5816; Drug: SOF/VEL; SOF/VEL FDC 200/50 mg oral granules; Other Names: Epclusa®; GS-7977/GS-5816
Experimental: 3 to < 6 Years Old; PK Lead-in Phase: SOF/VEL 200/50 mg once daily for 7 days for participants who weigh ≥ 17 kg. SOF/VEL 150/37.5 mg once daily for 7 days for participants who weigh < 17 kg. Participants who complete the PK lead-in phase, continue into the treatment phase with no interruption of study drug administration and additional participants will be enrolled into the treatment phase once the appropriateness of the dose is confirmed by PK results from the PK lead-in phase. Treatment Phase: SOF/VEL 200/50 mg once daily for 12 weeks for participants who weigh ≥ 17 kg. SOF/VEL 150/37.5 mg once daily for 12 weeks for participants who weigh < 17 kg.	Drug: SOF/VEL; SOF/VEL fixed-dose combination (FDC) 400/100 mg tablets or SOF/VEL FDC 200/50 mg tablets (based on swallowability assessment); Other Names: Epclusa®; GS-7977/GS-5816; Drug: SOF/VEL; SOF/VEL FDC 200/50 mg oral granules; Other Names: Epclusa®; GS-7977/GS-5816

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
PK Lead-in Phase: AUCtau: Area Under the Plasma Concentration Versus Time Curve Over the Dosing Interval of Velpatasvir (VEL)	AUCtau is defined as concentration of drug over time (the area under the concentration versus time curve over the dosing interval).	Day 7: 0 (predose), 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 (Cohorts 1 and 2 only), 8, and 12 hours postdose
PK Lead-in Phase: AUCtau: Area Under the Plasma Concentration Versus Time Curve Over the Dosing Interval of Sofosbuvir (SOF)	AUCtau is defined as concentration of drug over time (the area under the concentration versus time curve over the dosing interval).	Day 7: 0 (predose), 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 (Cohorts 1 and 2 only), 8, and 12 hours postdose
PK Lead-in Phase: AUCtau: Area Under the Plasma Concentration Versus Time Curve Over the Dosing Interval of GS-331007 (Metabolite of SOF)	AUCtau is defined as concentration of drug over time (the area under the concentration verses time curve over the dosing interval).	Day 7: 0 (predose), 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 (Cohorts 1 and 2 only), 8, and 12 hours postdose
Treatment Phase: Percentage of Participants Who Discontinued Study Drug Due to Any Treatment-Emergent Adverse Event (TEAE)	An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant administered a medicinal product, which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the treatment. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and/or unintended sign, symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product, whether or not considered related to the medicinal product. TEAEs were defined as 1 or both of the following: Any AEs with an onset date on or after the study drug start date and no later than 30 days after permanent discontinuation of study drug and/or Any AEs leading to premature discontinuation of study drug.	From first dose through last dose of the study drug (Up to 12 weeks) plus 30 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
PK Lead-in Phase: Change From Baseline in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) at Day 7		Baseline; Day 7
PK Lead-in Phase: Percentage of Participants Who Permanently Discontinued Study Drug Due to an Adverse Event (AE)	An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant administered a medicinal product, which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the treatment. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and/or unintended sign, symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product, whether or not considered related to the medicinal product.	First dose date up to Day 7
Treatment Phase: Percentage of Participants With Sustained Virologic Response (SVR) at 12 Weeks After Discontinuation of Therapy (SVR12)	SVR12 was defined as HCV RNA < the lower limit of quantitation (LLOQ; ie, 15 IU/mL) at 12 weeks after stopping study treatment.	Posttreatment Week 12
Treatment Phase: Percentage of Participants With SVR at 4 Weeks After Discontinuation of Therapy (SVR4)	SVR4 was defined as HCV RNA < LLOQ (ie, 15 IU/mL) at 4 weeks after stopping study treatment.	Posttreatment Week 4
Treatment Phase: Percentage of Participants With SVR at 24 Weeks After Discontinuation of Therapy (SVR24)	SVR 24 was defined as HCV RNA < LLOQ (ie, 15 IU/mL) at 24 weeks after stopping study treatment.	Posttreatment Week 24
Treatment Phase: Percentage of Participants With Virologic Failure	Virologic failure was defined as: On-treatment virologic failure - Breakthrough (confirmed HCV RNA ≥ LLOQ after having previously had HCV RNA < LLOQ while on treatment), or Rebound (confirmed > 1 log10 IU/mL increase in HCV RNA from nadir while on treatment), or Non-response (HCV RNA persistently ≥ LLOQ through 8 weeks of treatment); Virologic relapse: Confirmed HCV RNA ≥ LLOQ during the posttreatment period having achieved HCV RNA < LLOQ at last on-treatment visit.	Up to Posttreatment Week 24
Treatment Phase: Percentage of Participants With HCV RNA < LLOQ On Treatment	Percentage of participants with HCV RNA < LLOQ while on treatment by analysis visit.	Weeks 1, 4, 8, and 12
Treatment Phase: Percentage of Participants Who Develop Viral Resistance to SOF and/or VEL During Treatment and After Discontinuation of Treatment	Drug-resistant substitutions were analyzed as part of the Virology Study. Plasma samples were collected and stored for potential HCV sequencing. Impact on the treatment outcomes of SVR12 and SVR24 were observed during the study. Baseline deep sequencing of the HCV nonstructural protein (NS)5A and NS5B genes was performed for all participants at the first time point after virologic failure if the plasma or serum sample was available. Pretreatment full-length NS5A deep sequencing data were obtained at a 15% assay cutoff for the Resistance Analysis Population which covered all NS5A and NS5B nucleoside inhibitor (NI) resistance-associated variants (RAVs).	First dose date up to Posttreatment Week 24
Treatment Phase: Change From Baseline in HCV RNA at Weeks 1, 4, 8, and 12		Baseline; Weeks 1, 4, 8, and 12
Treatment Phase: Quality of Life (QoL) and Neuropsychiatric Assessments as Measured by PedsQL™ Pediatric QoL Survey	To evaluate the effect of treatment with SOF/VEL on general and disease-specific health-related QoL, the PedsQL™ Pediatric QoL Inventory V4.0 Short Form (SF15) was completed at Day 1, end of treatment, early termination (if applicable), and posttreatment Weeks 12 and 24. The SF15 questionnaire represented 4 domains: physical, emotional, social, and school functioning, with the emotional, social, and school functioning domains representing the psychosocial health summary. Neuropsychiatric assessment was conducted using the PedsQL™ Pediatric QoL Inventory V4.0 SF15 psychosocial domain-related scores. Items were calculated and transformed into an overall score with a range of 0 to 100 points, with more points indicating better QoL.	Baseline; Week 12, End of Treatment (EOT), Posttreatment/Follow-up (FU) Week-12 (FU-12), and FU Week-24 (FU-24)
Treatment Phase: Change From Baseline in Growth and Development as Measured by Height Percentiles	An age- and sex-specific percentile was derived for each weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) measurement according to the statistical analysis system (SAS) program available on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website using the year 2000 growth charts.	Baseline; Weeks 1, 4, 8, 12, Follow-up (FU) Week 4 (FU-4), FU-12, and FU-24
Treatment Phase: Change From Baseline in Growth and Development as Measured by Weight Percentiles	An age- and sex-specific percentile was derived for each weight, height, and BMI measurement according to the SAS program available on the CDC website using the year 2000 growth charts.	Baseline; Weeks 1, 4, 8, 12, FU-4, FU-12, and FU-24
Treatment Phase: Changes in Growth and Development as Measured by Tanner Stage Assessment From Baseline	Tanner Pubertal Staging was assessed for pubic hair growth and genitalia development (males) and for pubic hair growth and breast development (females) in stages 1 to 5. Tanner stages were used to evaluate the onset and progression of pubertal changes from stage 1 (pre-pubertal) to stage 5 (adult). If a participant had reached Tanner stage 5, no further Tanner pubertal stage assessments were to be completed. Pubic hair growth: Tanner stages (1: No hair, 2: Downy hair, 3: More coarse and curly hair, 4: Adult-like hair quality; 5: Hair extends to the medial surface of the thighs); Breast development: Tanner stages (1: No glandular tissue, 2: Breast bud forms,3: More elevated, outside areola, 4: Increased breast size,5: Final adult-size breasts); Genitalia development: Tanner stages (1: Testes, scrotum, and penis about same size, 2: Enlargement of scrotum, testes and penis, 3: Enlargement of penis, 4: Penis size enlargement, 5: Genitalia adult in size and shape).	Baseline; EOT, FU-12 and FU-24
Treatment Phase: Growth and Development as Measured by Parental Height	Mid-parental height was calculated as the average of the biological father's and mother's heights. For boys, the sex-adjusted mid-parental height was calculated by adding 2.5 inches or 6.5 cm to the mean of the parents' heights. For girls, 2.5 inches or 6.5 cm was subtracted from the mean of the parents' heights.	Day 1
Treatment Phase: Change From Baseline in Growth and Development as Measured by Bone Age	Bone age was determined based on x-ray of the left wrist, hand, and fingers. Baseline value is the last available value on or prior to first dose date of study drug.	Baseline; FU-24
Treatment Phase: Swallowability of SOF/VEL as Assessed by the Participant's Ability to Swallow SOF/VEL Placebo Tablets at Baseline	A SOF/VEL FDC swallowability assessment was performed using placebo tablets at baseline.	Baseline
Treatment Phase: Number of Participants With Acceptability of SOF/VEL as Measured by a Questionnaire to Assess Acceptability, Including Palatability at Day 1	Acceptability was assessed by numeric response marked on line between numbers 0 - 100. Higher scores indicate better acceptability and/or palatability.	Day 1
Treatment Phase: Number of Participants With Acceptability of SOF/VEL as Measured by a Questionnaire to Assess Acceptability, Including Palatability at Week 12	Acceptability was assessed by numeric response marked on line between numbers 0 - 100. Higher scores indicate better acceptability and/or palatability.	Week 12

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Gilead Sciences

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Jonas MM, Romero R, Sokal EM, Rosenthal P, Verucchi G, Lin CH, et al. The Safety and Efficacy of Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir in Pediatric Patients 6 to < 18 years old with Chronic Hepatitis C Infection [Abstract]. AASLD; 2019 08-12 November; Boston, Massachusetts.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 26, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 19, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): February 26, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 13, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 13, 2017
• First Posted (Estimate): January 18, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 8, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 5, 2020
• Last Verified: October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Digestive System Diseases; Pathologic Processes; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Blood-Borne Infections; Disease Attributes; Liver Diseases; Flaviviridae Infections; Hepatitis, Viral, Human; Hepatitis; Infections; Communicable Diseases; Hepatitis C; Anti-Infective Agents; Antiviral Agents; Sofosbuvir; Sofosbuvir-velpatasvir drug combination; Velpatasvir
• Other Study ID Numbers: GS-US-342-1143; 2016-002446-23 (EudraCT Number)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: Qualified external researchers may request IPD for this study after study completion. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.gilead.com/science-and-medicine/research/clinical-trials-transparency-and-data-sharing-policy
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: 18 months after study completion
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: A secured external environment with username, password, and RSA code.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; SAP

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No