Trial of Cannabidiol (CBD; GWP42003-P) for Infantile Spasms (GWPCARE7)

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Infantile Spasms

Treatments: Drug: GWP42003-P

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02953548

GWEP15100 Pilot Phase

2015-004904-50 (EudraCT Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial consists of 3 parts: a pilot safety phase, a pivotal randomized controlled phase, and an open-label extension phase. The pilot phase only will be described in this record. 2 cohorts of 5 participants will be enrolled sequentially. All participants will receive GWP42003-P.

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 24 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Key Inclusion Criteria:

• Participant is aged 6- 24 months (inclusive) in the first cohort or aged 1-24 months (inclusive) in the second cohort, at the time of consent.
• Participant is diagnosed with IS and has failed to respond adequately following treatment with 1 or more approved IS therapies.
• To be considered hypsarrhythmia, as defined for use in the study, the electroencephalography (EEG) background must be slowed and have multifocal spikes. In addition, it must be either high voltage (above 300 µV) or have electrodecrement/discontinuity.

Key Exclusion Criteria:

• Participant is currently taking or has taken clobazam or any mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor within the 2 weeks prior to the screening visit.
• Participant has a QT interval, corrected for heart rate with Bazett's formula (QTcB), of 460 msec or greater on ECG.
• Participant's caregiver is currently giving or has given recreational or medicinal cannabis, or synthetic cannabinoid-based medications, within the 1 month prior to the screening visit.
• Participant's caregiver is unwilling to abstain from giving the participant (including the participant's mother abstaining themselves, if breastfeeding)recreational or medicinal cannabis, or synthetic cannabinoid-based medications (other than the study drug) during the trial.
• Participant has any known or suspected hypersensitivity to cannabinoids or any of the excipients of the study drug, such as sesame oil.
• Participant has significantly impaired hepatic function at the screening visit.
• Participant has received an investigational medicinal product as part of a clinical trial within a minimum of 5 half-lives prior to the screening visit.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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9 participants in 1 patient group

GWP42003-P

Experimental group

Description:

Administered orally, titrating to a target dose of 40 mg/kg/day. Participants continue at the target dose, or the highest tolerated dose up to the target dose, for the remainder of the 2-week treatment period.

Treatment:

Drug: GWP42003-P