A Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of Single-Ascending and Multiple Doses of Eplontersen (Formerly Known as ION-682884, IONIS-TTR-LRx and AKCEA-TTR-LRx) in Healthy Japanese Participants

Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Healthy Participants

Treatments: Drug: Eplontersen; Drug: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT04302064

ION-682884-CS20

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the safety and tolerability of single and potentially multiple doses of Eplontersen administered subcutaneously (SC) to healthy Japanese participants.

Full description

This is a single-center, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study in up to 44 participants. Participants will be randomized to receive three subcutaneous single-ascending doses and potentially multiple doses of Eplontersen or placebo.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Must have given written informed consent (signed and dated) and any authorizations required by local law and be able to comply with all study requirements

2. Healthy Japanese males or females of non-childbearing potential, aged 20 to 65 inclusive at the time of informed consent defined as being of first- or second-generation ethnic origin with each set of parents qualifying as Japanese under the prior generation. Generations will be defined as follows:

   • First generation Japanese participants must be born in Japan, cannot have lived outside of Japan for more than 10 years, must maintain Japanese diet, culture and lifestyle and parents and both sets of grandparents are of Japanese origin
   • Second-generation Japanese are participants who are born outside of Japan to the first-generation Japanese parents

3. Females must be non-pregnant and non-lactating, and either surgically sterile (e.g., tubal occlusion, hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy, bilateral oophorectomy) or post-menopausal (defined as 12 months of spontaneous amenorrhea without an alternative medical cause and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels in the postmenopausal range for the laboratory involved Males must be surgically sterile or abstinent*, if engaged in sexual relations with a female of child-bearing potential, the participant must be using an acceptable contraceptive method from the time of signing the informed consent form until at least 91 days (single-dose cohorts) or 13 weeks (multiple-dose cohorts) after the last dose of Study Drug (Eplontersen or placebo)

   * Abstinence is only acceptable as true abstinence, i.e., when this is in line with the preferred and usual lifestyle of the participant. Periodic abstinence (e.g., calendar, ovulation, symptothermal, post-ovulation methods), declaration of abstinence for the duration of a trial and withdrawal are not acceptable methods of contraception.

4. Willingness to take vitamin A supplements

Exclusion Criteria

1. Clinically significant abnormalities in medical history (e.g., previous acute coronary syndrome within 6 months of Screening, major surgery within 3 months of Screening) or physical examination

2. Screening laboratory results as follows, or any other clinically significant abnormalities in Screening laboratory values that would render a participant unsuitable for inclusion

   • Random spot urine protein/creatinine (P/C) ratio (UPCR) ≥ 200 milligrams per gram (mg/g).
   • Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) > upper limit of normal (ULN)
   • Fasting blood glucose > ULN
   • Platelet count < lower limit of normal (LLN)

3. Uncontrolled hypertension (blood pressure [BP] > 160/100 millimeters of mercury [mm Hg])

4. Malignancy within 5 years, except for basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ of the cervix that has been successfully treated

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Eplontersen

Experimental group

Description:

Single dose on Day 1 or multiple doses (every 4 weeks for 12 weeks) of Eplontersen administered SC.

Treatment:

Drug: Eplontersen

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Single dose on Day 1 or multiple doses (every 4 weeks for 12 weeks) of Eplontersen-matching placebo administered SC.

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo