A Phase 3 Trial of the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of TransCon hGH Weekly Versus Daily hGH in Children With Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD)

Summary

A 52 week trial of TransCon hGH, a long-acting growth hormone product, versus human growth hormone therapy. TransCon hGH will be given once-a-week, human growth hormone (hGH) will be given daily. Approximately 150 prepubertal, hGH-treatment naïve children (males and females) with GHD will be included. Randomization will occur in a 2:1 ratio (TransCon hGH : Genotropin). This is a global trial that will be conducted in Armenia, Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States.

Timeline

Start

2016-12-13

Primary completion

2019-01-17

Completion

2019-01-17

Publications

• Thornton PS, Maniatis AK, Aghajanova E, Chertok E, Vlachopapadopoulou E, Lin Z, Song W, Christoffersen ED, Breinholt VM, Kovalenko T, Giorgadze E, Korpal-Szczyrska M, Hofman PL, Karpf DB, Shu AD, Beckert M. Weekly Lonapegsomatropin in Treatment-Naive Children With Growth Hormone Deficiency: The Phase 3 heiGHt Trial. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Oct 21;106(11):3184-3195. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgab529.

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