Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clazakizumab in Highly-HLA Sensitized Patients Awaiting Renal Transplant

Lead Sponsor:

Stanley Jordan, MD

Conditions:

Kidney Failure, Chronic

End-Stage Renal Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

15-75 years

Phase:

PHASE1

PHASE2

Brief Summary

Patients who have had a previous allograft failure represent a major problem for transplant centers as they are highly-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) sensitized and unlikely to receive another transpla...

Detailed Description

This is a single center, Phase I/II, open label single-arm exploratory study. The trial will primarily examine the safety and tolerability of clazakizumab given after consented and eligible patients b...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age 15-75 years at the time of screening.
  • HS patients (cPRA≥50%) awaiting DD or LD kidney transplant on the UNOS list.
  • Previous history of pregnancies, blood transfusion and/or renal transplant.
  • Subject/Parent/Guardian must be willing to participate fully with study requirements.
  • Subject/Parent/Guardian must be able to understand and provide informed consent.
  • Pneumococcal vaccinated
  • Negative Tuberculin (ppd) placement result or negative Quantiferon TB gold results

Exclusion

  • Multi-organ transplant (e.g. kidney and pancreas)
  • Intolerability to clazakizumab or other IL-6 inhibitor therapies
  • Lactating or pregnant females.
  • Women of child-bearing age and male partners of women of child-bearing age who are not willing or able to practice FDA-approved forms of contraception during study and for 5 months after last dose.
  • HIV-positive subjects.
  • Subjects who test positive for HBV by HBVeAg/DNA or HCV infection \[positive Anti-HCV (EIA) and confirmatory HCV RIBA\].
  • Subjects with latent or active TB. Subjects must have negative Quantiferon TB gold test result.
  • Recent recipients of any licensed or investigational live attenuated vaccine(s) within two months of the screening visit
  • A significantly abnormal general serum screening lab result defined as a ANC \<2000, platelet count \< 100 X 103/ml, an SGOT or SGPT \> 1.5X upper limit normal.
  • Individuals deemed unable to comply with the protocol.
  • Subjects with active CMV or EBV infection as defined by CMV-specific serology (IgG or IgM) and confirmed by quantitative PCR with or without a compatible illness.
  • Use of investigational agents within 4 weeks of participation.
  • History or active Inflammatory Bowel Disease or Diverticular Disease or gastrointestinal perforation
  • Recent infection (within past 6 weeks of screening) requiring any antibiotic use (oral, parenteral or topical).
  • Present or previous (within 5 years) malignancy except for basal cell carcinoma, fully excised squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or non-recurrent (within 5 years) cervical carcinoma-in-situ

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 27 2018

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

August 30 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

20 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03380962

Start Date

February 27 2018

End Date

August 30 2025

Last Update

March 24 2025

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Norko Ammerman

Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048

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