Study of Vedolizumab (MLN0002) in Patients With Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis

Summary

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effect of vedolizumab induction treatment on clinical response at 6 weeks and to determine the effect of vedolizumab maintenance treatment on clinical remission at 52 weeks.

Timeline

Start

2009-01

Primary completion

2011-12

Completion

2012-03

Publications

• Results Feagan BG, Rutgeerts P, Sands BE, Hanauer S, Colombel JF, Sandborn WJ, Van Assche G, Axler J, Kim HJ, Danese S, Fox I, Milch C, Sankoh S, Wyant T, Xu J, Parikh A; GEMINI 1 Study Group. Vedolizumab as induction and maintenance therapy for ulcerative colitis. N Engl J Med. 2013 Aug 22;369(8):699-710. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1215734.
• Dulai PS, Feagan BG, Sands BE, Chen J, Lasch K, Lirio RA. Prognostic Value of Fecal Calprotectin to Inform Treat-to-Target Monitoring in Ulcerative Colitis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2023 Feb;21(2):456-466.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2022.07.027. Epub 2022 Aug 4.
• Wyant T, Yang L, Rosario M. Comparison of the ELISA and ECL Assay for Vedolizumab Anti-drug Antibodies: Assessing the Impact on Pharmacokinetics and Safety Outcomes of the Phase 3 GEMINI Trials. AAPS J. 2020 Nov 16;23(1):3. doi: 10.1208/s12248-020-00518-0.
• Okamoto H, Dirks NL, Rosario M, Hori T, Hibi T. Population pharmacokinetics of vedolizumab in Asian and non-Asian patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Intest Res. 2021 Jan;19(1):95-105. doi: 10.5217/ir.2019.09167. Epub 2020 Jul 10.
• Loftus EV Jr, Sands BE, Colombel JF, Dotan I, Khalid JM, Tudor D, Geransar P. Sustained Corticosteroid-Free Clinical Remission During Vedolizumab Maintenance Therapy in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis on Stable Concomitant Corticosteroids During Induction Therapy: A Post Hoc Analysis of GEMINI 1. Clin Exp Gastroenterol. 2020 Jun 11;13:211-220. doi: 10.2147/CEG.S248597. eCollection 2020.
• Dulai PS, Singh S, Vande Casteele N, Meserve J, Winters A, Chablaney S, Aniwan S, Shashi P, Kochhar G, Weiss A, Koliani-Pace JL, Gao Y, Boland BS, Chang JT, Faleck D, Hirten R, Ungaro R, Lukin D, Sultan K, Hudesman D, Chang S, Bohm M, Varma S, Fischer M, Shmidt E, Swaminath A, Gupta N, Rosario M, Jairath V, Guizzetti L, Feagan BG, Siegel CA, Shen B, Kane S, Loftus EV Jr, Sandborn WJ, Sands BE, Colombel JF, Lasch K, Cao C. Development and Validation of Clinical Scoring Tool to Predict Outcomes of Treatment With Vedolizumab in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Dec;18(13):2952-2961.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2020.02.010. Epub 2020 Feb 13.
• Feagan BG, Schreiber S, Wolf DC, Axler JL, Kaviya A, James A, Curtis RI, Geransar P, Stallmach A, Ehehalt R, Bokemeyer B, Khalid JM, O'Byrne S. Sustained Clinical Remission With Vedolizumab in Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Ulcerative Colitis. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2019 May 4;25(6):1028-1035. doi: 10.1093/ibd/izy323.
• Sandborn WJ, Colombel JF, Panaccione R, Dulai PS, Rosario M, Cao C, Barocas M, Lasch K. Deep Remission With Vedolizumab in Patients With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis: A GEMINI 1 post hoc Analysis. J Crohns Colitis. 2019 Feb 1;13(2):172-181. doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjy149.
• Feagan BG, Sandborn WJ, Colombel JF, Byrne SO, Khalid JM, Kempf C, Geransar P, Bhayat F, Rubin DT. Incidence of Arthritis/Arthralgia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Long-term Vedolizumab Treatment: Post Hoc Analyses of the GEMINI Trials. J Crohns Colitis. 2019 Jan 1;13(1):50-57. doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjy125.
• Feagan BG, Lasch K, Lissoos T, Cao C, Wojtowicz AM, Khalid JM, Colombel JF. Rapid Response to Vedolizumab Therapy in Biologic-Naive Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 Jan;17(1):130-138.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2018.05.026. Epub 2018 May 29.
• Arijs I, De Hertogh G, Lemmens B, Van Lommel L, de Bruyn M, Vanhove W, Cleynen I, Machiels K, Ferrante M, Schuit F, Van Assche G, Rutgeerts P, Vermeire S. Effect of vedolizumab (anti-alpha4beta7-integrin) therapy on histological healing and mucosal gene expression in patients with UC. Gut. 2018 Jan;67(1):43-52. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2016-312293. Epub 2016 Oct 7.
• Feagan BG, Rubin DT, Danese S, Vermeire S, Abhyankar B, Sankoh S, James A, Smyth M. Efficacy of Vedolizumab Induction and Maintenance Therapy in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis, Regardless of Prior Exposure to Tumor Necrosis Factor Antagonists. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017 Feb;15(2):229-239.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2016.08.044. Epub 2016 Sep 14.
• Colombel JF, Sands BE, Rutgeerts P, Sandborn W, Danese S, D'Haens G, Panaccione R, Loftus EV Jr, Sankoh S, Fox I, Parikh A, Milch C, Abhyankar B, Feagan BG. The safety of vedolizumab for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Gut. 2017 May;66(5):839-851. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2015-311079. Epub 2016 Feb 18.
• Rosario M, Dirks NL, Gastonguay MR, Fasanmade AA, Wyant T, Parikh A, Sandborn WJ, Feagan BG, Reinisch W, Fox I. Population pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics of vedolizumab in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Jul;42(2):188-202. doi: 10.1111/apt.13243. Epub 2015 May 20.

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