A Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Induction and Maintenance Therapy With Afimkibart (RO7790121) in Participants With Moderately to Severely Active Crohn's Disease

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 3
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age16-80
SponsorHoffmann-La Roche

About this trial

This Phase III, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled treat-through study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of induction and maintenance therapy with Afimkibart (also known as RO7790121) in participants with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease (CD).

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Confirmed diagnosis of CD

Moderately to severely active CD

Bodyweight >= 40 kilogram (kg)

Demonstrated inadequate response, loss of response and/or intolerance to at least one protocol-specified conventional or advanced CD therapy

Disqualifiers

Current diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (UC) or indeterminate colitis, ischemic colitis, infectious colitis, radiation colitis, microscopic colitis

Participant with a history of >= 3 bowel resections (> 2 missing segments of the 5 following segments: terminal ilelium, right colon, transverse colon, sigmoid and left colon, and rectum)

Diagnosis of short gut or short bowel syndrome

Presence of an ileostomy, colostomy or ileoanal pouch

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Afimkibart

    Drug

    Afimkibart will be administered as IV infusion. Afimkibart will be administered as SC injection.

  • Placebo

    Drug

    Placebo matching IV afimkibart. Placebo matching SC afimkibart.

Treatment groups

600 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups
Group A: Arm 1: AfimkibartExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Arm 2: AfimkibartExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group C: Arm 3: PlaceboPlacebo comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Percentage of Participants with Clinical Remission per Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) Score

Percentage of participants achieving a CDAI score of \<150. The index is a weighted sum of scores on eight components: number of liquid or soft stools (stool frequency), abdominal pain, general well-being, number of complications, use of anti-diarrheal medication, presence of an abdominal mass, hematocrit, and percentage deviation from standard body weight. CDAI generally ranges from 0 to roughly 600, with higher values indicating greater activity.

Time frame
At Week 52
2

Percentage of Participants with Endoscopic Response

Percentage of participants achieving a decrease in Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD) of \>50% from baseline. The SES-CD is a composite of four features of endoscopic activity (presence and size of ulcers, extent of ulcerated surface, extent of affected and presence and type of narrowings or stenosis) in up to five ileocolonic segments (terminal ileum, right colon, transverse colon, sigmoid and left colon, and rectum). Each feature is scored on a scale from 0 to 3, giving segment subscores of 0 to 12 points and a total SES-CD range of 0-60, with a higher value indicating greater severity.

Time frame
At Week 52

Secondary outcomes

1

Percentage of Participants with Clinical Remission

Percentage of participants achieving a CDAI score of \<150. The index is a weighted sum of scores on eight components: number of liquid or soft stools (stool frequency), abdominal pain, general well-being, number of complications, use of anti-diarrheal medication, presence of an abdominal mass, hematocrit, and percentage deviation from standard body weight. CDAI generally ranges from 0 to roughly 600, with higher values indicating greater activity.

Time frame
At Week 12
2

Percentage of Participants with Endoscopic Response

Percentage of participants achieving a decrease in SES-CD of \>50% from baseline. The SES-CD is a composite of four features of endoscopic activity (presence and size of ulcers, extent of ulcerated surface, extent of affected and presence and type of narrowings or stenosis) in up to five ileocolonic segments (terminal ileum, right colon, transverse colon, sigmoid and left colon, and rectum). Each feature is scored on a scale from 0 to 3, giving segment subscores of 0 to 12 points and a total SES-CD range of 0-60, with a higher value indicating greater severity.

Time frame
At Week 12
3

Percentage of Participants with Symptomatic Remission

Percentage of participants with the daily number of liquid or very soft stools \<=2.8 and the average of daily abdominal pain scores in the past week \<=1, with neither being greater than baseline.

Time frame
At Week 12
4

Percentage of Participants with Endoscopic Remission

Percentage of participants with an SES-CD of 0 to 4 with a decrease from baseline \>=2 and no subscore \>1.

Time frame
At Week 12

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Hoffmann-La Roche

Lead sponsor

Chugai Pharmaceutical

Collaborator