A Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of ILB in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Summary

This is a Phase 2a single-centre, open single-arm study in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) of intermediate progression rate. Eligible subjects will be administered weekly doses of ILB. A total of 5 subcutaneous (s.c.) doses will be administered at the study clinic. The study consists of 10 visits; One 2-part screening visit, 5 ILB administration visits, and 3 follow-up visits. Each individual patient's study participation will be 4 months, including the screening and follow-up visits. Fifteen patients are planned to be included. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ILB in patients diagnosed with ALS. ILB is a solution for subcutaneous (s.c.) injection in saline solution. The dose administered will depend on the subject's body weight at the second study visit, prior to the first ILB administration. No formal sample size calculation has been performed for this study. The proposed sample size is considered sufficient in this early phase 2 development to provide adequate information on the patients. Categorical data will be presented as counts and percentages. Continuous data will be summarised using descriptive statistics.

Timeline

Start

2018-08-15

Primary completion

2019-08-20

Completion

2019-08-20

Outcome

Outcome not reported

Stopped (Enrollment): “Inclusion was stopped with 13 of 15 patients recruited according to protocol. Patients responded with no safety signals. Study stop was due to slow recruitment.”

Publications

• Results Logan A, Nagy Z, Barnes NM, Belli A, Di Pietro V, Tavazzi B, Lazzarino G, Lazzarino G, Bruce L, Persson LI. A phase II open label clinical study of the safety, tolerability and efficacy of ILB(R) for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. PLoS One. 2022 May 25;17(5):e0267183. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267183. eCollection 2022.
• Results Lazzarino G, Mangione R, Belli A, Di Pietro V, Nagy Z, Barnes NM, Bruce L, Ropero BM, Persson LI, Manca B, Saab MW, Amorini AM, Tavazzi B, Lazzarino G, Logan A. ILB(R) Attenuates Clinical Symptoms and Serum Biomarkers of Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. J Pers Med. 2021 Aug 14;11(8):794. doi: 10.3390/jpm11080794.

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