Single Dose Crossover Comparative Bioavailability and Food Effect Study of Two EMB-001 Formulations

This is a study of EMB-001 (a combination of two FDA-approved drugs, metyrapone and oxazepam) in healthy adults.This is a Phase 1, single dose, 3-period, 3-sequence, crossover study in 9 healthy male and female (not of childbearing potential) volunteers. The study will evaluate the bioavailability and food effect of a new formulation of EMB-001 relative to the original formulation of EMB 001.

During the study, a total of 9 eligible subjects will be randomized in a 1:1:1 ratio to each of 3 treatment sequences

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Cocaine Use Disorder
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Original formulation EMB-001; Drug: New formulation EMB-001

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 9
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Long Beach, California, United States, 90806
      • Collaborative Neuroscience Network, LLC

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 60 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Provide written informed consent prior to any study procedures.
2. Age 18 to 60 and able to read and write English
3. Females must be of non-childbearing potential. Evidence of non-childbearing potential includes documented surgical sterilization (hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy) or being postmenopausal. Menopause is defined clinically as 12 months of amenorrhea in a woman over age 45 in the absence of other biological or physiological cause. In addition, women must have a documented serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level >40 mIU/mL.
4. Light smokers (<10 cigarettes per day), non-smokers, or ex-smokers
5. Body mass index ≥18.5 and <30 kg/m2
6. Able to take oral medications and willing to adhere to medication regimen during the study
7. No clinically relevant abnormal physical findings at the Screening examination
8. Electrocardiogram without clinically significant abnormality at Screening
9. Normal blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (systolic BP 90 to 140 mmHg; diastolic BP 50 to 90 mmHg; heart rate 50 to 100 beats per minute)
10. No clinically relevant abnormal laboratory findings (general biochemistry, hematology, urinalysis, endocrinology [cortisol]) at Screening

11. Adequate organ function at screening as defined by:

    1. Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN; unless the increased AST is assessed by the Investigator as due to hemolysis and/or hepatic iron deposition); and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 × ULN (unless the increased ALT is assessed by the Investigator as due to hepatic iron deposition).
    2. Normal or elevated levels of serum bilirubin. Serum bilirubin >2× ULN is acceptable if the elevation is attributed to hemolysis with or without Gilbert's syndrome.
    3. Serum creatinine ≤ 1.25 × ULN. If serum creatinine > 1.25 × ULN, then 24-hour measured or calculated (Cockcroft-Gault) glomerular filtration rate ≥ 60 mL/min.
    4. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.2 × 109/L.
    5. Platelet count ≥ 100 × 109/L.
    6. Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and international normalized ratio ≤ 1.25 × ULN, unless the patient is receiving therapeutic anticoagulants.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Any significant current medical conditions (neurological, cardiovascular [including hypertension], endocrine, thyroid, renal, liver), seizures, delirium or hallucinations, or other unstable medical conditions
2. Known hypersensitivity to or intolerance of oxazepam or metyrapone, or any benzodiazepine
3. Subjects that have confounders of the levels of cortisol and/or cortisol binding globulin, including but not limited to: consuming estrogens, selective estrogen receptor modulators, or herbal/natural estrogen-like compounds; low serum albumin or total protein at screening; history of cirrhosis; hyperthyroidism; other thyroid disease that is untreated and not well-controlled; nephrotic syndrome or other protein-losing enteropathies.
4. Current DSM-5 substance use disorder. Mild tobacco, marijuana, or alcohol use are allowed.
5. Participants who have a positive test result at intake appointment on urine drug screens conducted for illicit drugs, including cannabis.
6. Treatment with an investigational drug or biologic within the 30 days preceding the first dose of study medication or plans to take another investigational drug or biologic within 30 days of study completion (including the follow-up visit)
7. Women of childbearing potential.
8. Have positive serology test results at Screening for human immunodeficiency (HIV) 1/HIV 2 antibodies, Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or Hepatitis C Antibody (HCVAb) before Day -2 of this study.
9. Suicidal, homicidal thoughts and behaviors, or evidence of current severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or others that may interfere with subject safety or data integrity
10. Use of serotonin reuptake inhibitor/serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor antidepressants in the 30 days prior to Period 1 or during the study.
11. Use of any prescription, over-the-counter, or herbal medications, vitamins, or mineral supplements within 14 days prior to administration of their first study medication dose

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Sequence 1; Subjects will receive investigational product (IP) once each Period as a single dose under fasted or fed conditions as follows: Period 1: EMB-001 new formulation under fed condition Period 2: EMB-001 new formulation under fasted conditions Period 3: EMB-001 original formulation under fed conditions	Drug: Original formulation EMB-001; Single oral dose (720 mg metyrapone/24 mg oxazepam); Drug: New formulation EMB-001; Single oral dose (720 mg metyrapone/24 mg oxazepam)
Active Comparator: Sequence 2; Subjects will receive investigational product (IP) once each Period as a single dose under fasted or fed conditions as follows: Period 1: EMB-001 original formulation under fed conditions Period 2: EMB-001 new formulation under fed conditions Period 3: EMB-001 new formulation under fasted conditions	Drug: Original formulation EMB-001; Single oral dose (720 mg metyrapone/24 mg oxazepam); Drug: New formulation EMB-001; Single oral dose (720 mg metyrapone/24 mg oxazepam)
Active Comparator: Sequence 3; Subjects will receive investigational product (IP) once each Period as a single dose under fasted or fed conditions as follows: Period 1: EMB-001 new formulation under fasted conditions Period 2: EMB-001 original formulation under fed conditions Period 3: EMB-001 new formulation under fed conditions	Drug: Original formulation EMB-001; Single oral dose (720 mg metyrapone/24 mg oxazepam); Drug: New formulation EMB-001; Single oral dose (720 mg metyrapone/24 mg oxazepam)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Area Under the Plasma Concentration-Time Curve Extrapolated to Infinity (AUC0-inf) of EMB-001	The AUC0-inf is calculated in a plot of concentration of drug in blood plasma against time and extrapolated to infinity.	0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 24, 36, and 48 hours post drug administration in each Period.
Maximum Observed Concentration (Cmax) of EMB-001	Cmax is the maximum observed concentration of drug in blood plasma.	Periods 1-3, pre-dose, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 24, 36, and 48 hours post drug administration in each Period.
Time to Maximum Concentration (Tmax) of EMB-001	Tmax is the time elapsed from the time of drug administration to maximum plasma concentration.	Periods 1-3, pre-dose, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 24, 36, and 48 hours post drug administration in each Period.
Apparent Half-Life (t1/2) of EMB-001	Half-life is defined as the time required for the drug plasma concentration to be reduced to half.	Periods 1-3, pre-dose, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 24, 36, and 48 hours post drug administration in each Period.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events (Safety and Tolerability)	Adverse event data (including clinically significant changes in laboratory values) will be compiled for EMB-001.	21 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc.
• Collaborators: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Investigators: Study Director: Mike Detke, MD, Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 7, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): June 7, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 12, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 12, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): January 19, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 11, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 7, 2018
• Last Verified: June 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: ERL-PK001; U01DA038879 (NIH)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

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