Safety Study in Subjects With Leber Congenital Amaurosis

NCT ID: NCT00516477

Last Updated: 2020-11-02

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1

Total Enrollment

12 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-09-30

Study Completion Date

2018-03-20

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether gene transfer will be safe and effective in the treatment of Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA).

Detailed Description

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Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA)is a severe early onset retinal degeneration. Diagnosis is usually made during the first few months of life in infants who present with severely impaired vision, abnormal eye movements (nystagmus) and abnormal electroretinograms (ERG) indicating decreased retinal function. There is an inevitable progression to total blindness in these individuals due to death of photoreceptor cells. There is presently no treatment for this disease. The primary objective of this study is to determine the safety and tolerability of subretinal administration of AAV2-hRPE65v2 to subjects with LCA due to confirmed biallelic RPE65 mutations. The secondary objective is to assess the objective clinical measures of efficacy in human subjects.

Conditions

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Leber Congenital Amaurosis

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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dose cohort 1

1.5E10 vector genomes voretigene neparvovec-rzyl in 150 microliters administered subretinally

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

voretigene neparvovec-rzyl

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Subjects will be dosed unilaterally (one eye) beginning with the lowest dose. Subjects will be injected with AAV2-hRPE65v2 by means of a subretinal injection. Dose escalation to the next cohort will be dependent on assessment of the safety data by the DSMB out to at least 4 weeks following the injection. Because there is a delay between time of delivery of AAV2 and the peak transgene expression there will be a delay of six weeks between all subjects.

dose cohort 2

4.8E10 vector genomes voretigene neparvovec-rzyl in 150 microliters administered subretinally

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

voretigene neparvovec-rzyl

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Subjects will be dosed unilaterally (one eye) beginning with the lowest dose. Subjects will be injected with AAV2-hRPE65v2 by means of a subretinal injection. Dose escalation to the next cohort will be dependent on assessment of the safety data by the DSMB out to at least 4 weeks following the injection. Because there is a delay between time of delivery of AAV2 and the peak transgene expression there will be a delay of six weeks between all subjects.

dose cohort 3

1.5E11 vector genomes voretigene neparvovec-rzyl in 300 microliters administered subretinally

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

voretigene neparvovec-rzyl

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Subjects will be dosed unilaterally (one eye) beginning with the lowest dose. Subjects will be injected with AAV2-hRPE65v2 by means of a subretinal injection. Dose escalation to the next cohort will be dependent on assessment of the safety data by the DSMB out to at least 4 weeks following the injection. Because there is a delay between time of delivery of AAV2 and the peak transgene expression there will be a delay of six weeks between all subjects.

Interventions

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voretigene neparvovec-rzyl

Subjects will be dosed unilaterally (one eye) beginning with the lowest dose. Subjects will be injected with AAV2-hRPE65v2 by means of a subretinal injection. Dose escalation to the next cohort will be dependent on assessment of the safety data by the DSMB out to at least 4 weeks following the injection. Because there is a delay between time of delivery of AAV2 and the peak transgene expression there will be a delay of six weeks between all subjects.

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Other Intervention Names

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AAV2-hRPE65v2

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Male and female subjects of any ethnic group are eligible for participation in this study, providing they meet the following criteria:

1. Must be willing to adhere to protocol and companion protocol for long-term follow-up as evidenced by written informed consent or parental permission and subject assent.
2. Adults and children diagnosed with LCA.
3. Molecular diagnosis of LCA due to RPE65 mutations (homozygotes or compound heterozygotes) by a CLIA-approved laboratory.
4. Age eight years old or older at the time of administration.
5. Visual acuity ≤ 20/160 or visual field less than 20 degrees in the eye to be injected.

Exclusion Criteria

SUBJECTS WILL NOT BE EXCLUDED BASED ON THEIR GENDER, RACE OR ETHNICITY.

Subjects who meet any of the following conditions are excluded from the clinical study:

1. Unable or unwilling to meet requirements of the study.
2. Participation in a clinical study with an investigational drug in the past six months.
3. Pre-existing eye conditions that would preclude the planned surgery or interfere with the interpretation of study endpoints (for example, glaucoma, corneal or lenticular opacities).
4. Lack of sufficient viable retinal cells as determined by non-invasive means, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) and/or ophthalmoscopy. Specifically, if indirect ophthalmoscopy reveals less than 1 disc area of retina which is not involved by complete retinal degeneration (indicated by geographic atrophy, thinning with tapetal sheen, or confluent intraretinal pigment migration), these eyes will be excluded. In addition, in eyes where optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans of sufficient quality can be obtained, areas of retina with thickness measurements less than 100 um, or absence of neural retina, will not be targeted for delivery of AAV2-hRPE65v2.
5. Complicating systemic diseases or clinically significant abnormal baseline laboratory values. Complicating systemic diseases would include those in which the disease itself, or the treatment for the disease, can alter ocular function. Examples are malignancies whose treatment could affect central nervous system function (for example, radiation treatment of the orbit; leukemia with CNS/optic nerve involvement). Also excluded would be subjects with immuno-compromising diseases, as there could be susceptibility to opportunistic infection (such as CMV retinitis). Subjects with diabetes or sickle cell disease would be excluded if they had any manifestation of advanced retinopathy (e.g. macular edema or proliferative changes). Subjects with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis could be excluded due to increased infection risk after surgery due to poor wound healing. Subjects who are positive for hepatitis B, C, and HIV will be excluded.
6. Prior ocular surgery within six months.
7. Known sensitivity to medications planned for use in the peri-operative period.
8. Individuals of childbearing potential who are pregnant or unwilling to use effective contraception for the duration of the study.
9. Any other condition that would not allow the potential subject to complete follow-up examinations during the course of the study and, in the opinion of the investigator, makes the potential subject unsuitable for the study.
10. Subjects will be excluded if immunological studies show presence of neutralizing antibodies to AAV2 above 1:1000.
Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Spark Therapeutics, Inc.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Clinical Director

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Spark Therapeutics, Inc.

Locations

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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Acland GM, Aguirre GD, Ray J, Zhang Q, Aleman TS, Cideciyan AV, Pearce-Kelling SE, Anand V, Zeng Y, Maguire AM, Jacobson SG, Hauswirth WW, Bennett J. Gene therapy restores vision in a canine model of childhood blindness. Nat Genet. 2001 May;28(1):92-5. doi: 10.1038/ng0501-92.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11326284 (View on PubMed)

Acland GM, Aguirre GD, Bennett J, Aleman TS, Cideciyan AV, Bennicelli J, Dejneka NS, Pearce-Kelling SE, Maguire AM, Palczewski K, Hauswirth WW, Jacobson SG. Long-term restoration of rod and cone vision by single dose rAAV-mediated gene transfer to the retina in a canine model of childhood blindness. Mol Ther. 2005 Dec;12(6):1072-82. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2005.08.008. Epub 2005 Oct 14.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16226919 (View on PubMed)

Bennett J, Maguire AM, Cideciyan AV, Schnell M, Glover E, Anand V, Aleman TS, Chirmule N, Gupta AR, Huang Y, Gao GP, Nyberg WC, Tazelaar J, Hughes J, Wilson JM, Jacobson SG. Stable transgene expression in rod photoreceptors after recombinant adeno-associated virus-mediated gene transfer to monkey retina. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Aug 17;96(17):9920-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.96.17.9920.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 10449795 (View on PubMed)

Maguire AM, Simonelli F, Pierce EA, Pugh EN Jr, Mingozzi F, Bennicelli J, Banfi S, Marshall KA, Testa F, Surace EM, Rossi S, Lyubarsky A, Arruda VR, Konkle B, Stone E, Sun J, Jacobs J, Dell'Osso L, Hertle R, Ma JX, Redmond TM, Zhu X, Hauck B, Zelenaia O, Shindler KS, Maguire MG, Wright JF, Volpe NJ, McDonnell JW, Auricchio A, High KA, Bennett J. Safety and efficacy of gene transfer for Leber's congenital amaurosis. N Engl J Med. 2008 May 22;358(21):2240-8. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0802315. Epub 2008 Apr 27.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 18441370 (View on PubMed)

Maguire AM, High KA, Auricchio A, Wright JF, Pierce EA, Testa F, Mingozzi F, Bennicelli JL, Ying GS, Rossi S, Fulton A, Marshall KA, Banfi S, Chung DC, Morgan JI, Hauck B, Zelenaia O, Zhu X, Raffini L, Coppieters F, De Baere E, Shindler KS, Volpe NJ, Surace EM, Acerra C, Lyubarsky A, Redmond TM, Stone E, Sun J, McDonnell JW, Leroy BP, Simonelli F, Bennett J. Age-dependent effects of RPE65 gene therapy for Leber's congenital amaurosis: a phase 1 dose-escalation trial. Lancet. 2009 Nov 7;374(9701):1597-605. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61836-5. Epub 2009 Oct 23.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 19854499 (View on PubMed)

Simonelli F, Maguire AM, Testa F, Pierce EA, Mingozzi F, Bennicelli JL, Rossi S, Marshall K, Banfi S, Surace EM, Sun J, Redmond TM, Zhu X, Shindler KS, Ying GS, Ziviello C, Acerra C, Wright JF, McDonnell JW, High KA, Bennett J, Auricchio A. Gene therapy for Leber's congenital amaurosis is safe and effective through 1.5 years after vector administration. Mol Ther. 2010 Mar;18(3):643-50. doi: 10.1038/mt.2009.277. Epub 2009 Dec 1.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 19953081 (View on PubMed)

Ashtari M, Cyckowski LL, Monroe JF, Marshall KA, Chung DC, Auricchio A, Simonelli F, Leroy BP, Maguire AM, Shindler KS, Bennett J. The human visual cortex responds to gene therapy-mediated recovery of retinal function. J Clin Invest. 2011 Jun;121(6):2160-8. doi: 10.1172/JCI57377. Epub 2011 May 23.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 21606598 (View on PubMed)

Fischer MD, Simonelli F, Sahni J, Holz FG, Maier R, Fasser C, Suhner A, Stiehl DP, Chen B, Audo I, Leroy BP; PERCEIVE Study Group. Real-World Safety and Effectiveness of Voretigene Neparvovec: Results up to 2 Years from the Prospective, Registry-Based PERCEIVE Study. Biomolecules. 2024 Jan 17;14(1):122. doi: 10.3390/biom14010122.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38254722 (View on PubMed)

Melillo P, Pecchia L, Testa F, Rossi S, Bennett J, Simonelli F. Pupillometric analysis for assessment of gene therapy in Leber Congenital Amaurosis patients. Biomed Eng Online. 2012 Jul 19;11:40. doi: 10.1186/1475-925X-11-40.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 22812667 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2006-6-4787

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

AAV2-hRPE65v2-101

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id