Aurinia Renal Assessments 2: Aurinia Renal Response in Lupus With Voclosporin (AURORA 2)

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Lupus Nephritis

Treatments: Drug: Placebo Oral Capsule; Drug: Voclosporin

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT03597464

AUR-VCS-2016-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is assess the long-term safety and tolerability of voclosporin compared with placebo for up to an additional 24 months following completion of treatment in the AURORA 1 study in subjects with lupus nephritis (LN).

Full description

The aim of the Phase 3 continuation study (AURORA 2) is to assess the long-term safety and tolerability of voclosporin, added to the standard of care treatment in LN, for an additional 24 months, following a treatment period of 52 weeks in the AURORA 1 study (AUR-VCS-2016-01). All subjects will continue to receive background therapy of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and/or oral corticosteroids starting at the same dose as at the end of the AURORA 1 study. Subjects with LN, who have completed 52 weeks of treatment with study drug in the AURORA 1 study, will be eligible to enter the study. The long-term safety and tolerability of the drug combination will be assessed from its safety profile while demonstrating the continued ability to achieve and maintain long-term renal response.

Enrollment: 216 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Subjects who have completed 52 weeks of treatment with study drug in the AURORA 1 study. Subjects who had a temporary interruption and successfully restarted study drug during the AURORA 1 study will be allowed with Medical Monitor approval.
2. Written informed consent before any study-specific procedures were performed.
3. In the opinion of the investigator, subject required continued immunosuppressive therapy.
4. Women of childbearing potential must continue to use effective contraception and have a negative urine pregnancy test at Month 12.
5. Subject is willing to continue taking oral mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for the duration of the study.

Exclusion criteria

1. Currently taking or known need for any of the medications or food items listed in Section 7.8, Prohibited Therapy and Concomitant Treatment during the study.
2. Subjects currently requiring renal dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis) or expected to require dialysis during the study period.
3. A planned kidney transplant within study treatment period.
4. Subjects with any medical condition which, in the Investigator's judgment, may be associated with increased risk to the subject or may interfere with study assessments or outcomes.
5. Subjects who are pregnant, breast feeding or, if of childbearing potential, not using adequate contraceptive precautions.
6. Vaccines using live organisms, virus or bacterial, while taking the study treatment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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216 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Voclosporin

Experimental group

Description:

Voclosporin

Treatment:

Drug: Voclosporin

Placebo Oral Capsule

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Placebo

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo Oral Capsule