Study to Assess the Safety and Tolerability of Multiple Ascending Doses of REGN1033 (SAR391786)

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers

Treatments: Drug: Placebo; Drug: REGN1033 (SAR391786)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01720576

R1033-HV-1204

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a study to assess the safety and tolerability of subcutaneously administered REGN1033 (SAR391786) in healthy volunteers.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Eligible subjects are males and females aged 60 years and older with no significant health issues or clinically significant abnormal laboratory values.

A subject must meet the following criteria to be eligible for inclusion in the study:

1. Sexually active males willing to use contraceptives during the study and through 4 months after the study.
2. Female subjects not of child bearing potential (surgically sterile or postmenopausal for longer than 1 year)
3. Body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 32 kg/m2 inclusive
4. Willing to maintain current diet and exercise routine for the duration of the study
5. Willing and able to return for all clinic visits and complete all study-related procedures
6. Able to read and understand, and willing to sign the ICF

Exclusion criteria

1. Significant concomitant illness such as, but not limited to cardiac, renal, rheumatologic, gastrointestinal, hematological, skeletal/muscular, neurologic, psychiatric, endocrine, metabolic or immunological disease.
2. Evidence of malnutrition
3. Cachexia of any cause
4. Evidence or history of muscle diseases or weakness with the exception of age related muscle loss
5. Limb amputation
6. Immobilization, surgical procedure, fracture, or trauma to the upper or lower limb within 6 months
7. History or evidence of heart diseases including but not limited to coronary heart disease with/without history of myocardial infarction, chronic or acute heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] stage 2-4), cardiac arrhythmia with clinical symptoms, valvular heart disease, and cardiac hypertrophy of clinical significance
8. Women of childbearing potential (not surgically sterile or amenorrheic for at least 12 months if postmenopausal)
9. Uncontrolled diabetes defined as HbA1C > 7.5 at screening; if taking oral hypoglycemic drugs, have to be on stable doses of medication for more than 3 months. Diabetics using insulin are excluded
10. Asthmatic subjects with current or recurring symptoms within 1 year.
11. History of, COPD, chronic kidney disease, cancer except primary basal-cell skin cancer that has been adequately treated
12. Neurological injury (eg, stroke) within 1 year
13. Abnormal or uncontrolled blood pressure at screening visit defined as diastolic BP >95 and/or systolic BP >160 mm Hg; if taking hypertensive medication, have to be on stable doses of medication for more than 3 months
14. Hepatic transaminases (ALT and or AST) > 2X ULN
15. Reduced renal function as defined by eGFR<60 mL/min
16. Current smokers or previous smokers who stopped smoking within 6 months
17. Current or recent history (within 1 year of screen) of alcohol or drug abuse
18. History of hypersensitivity response to any biologics
19. History of hypersensitivity to doxycycline or other tetracycline antibiotics
20. Current or recent participation in any clinical trial (within 30 days of small molecular drugs or within 3 months of biologics)
21. Exposure within 3 months to approved biological drugs. (The name of the drug and duration of previous exposure will be recorded). Vaccines are allowed.
22. Sexually active men* who are unwilling to practice adequate contraception during the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

Cohort 1

Experimental group

Description:

Dose 1 of REGN1033 (SAR391786) or Placebo

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo

Drug: REGN1033 (SAR391786)

Cohort 2

Experimental group

Description:

Dose 2 of REGN1033 (SAR391786) or Placebo

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo

Drug: REGN1033 (SAR391786)

Cohort 3

Experimental group

Description:

Dose 3 of REGN1033 (SAR391786) or Placebo

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo

Drug: REGN1033 (SAR391786)