Safety and Efficacy of KER-065 in Participants With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phasePhase 2
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexMale
Age9+
SponsorKeros Therapeutics, Inc.

About this trial

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and efficacy of KER-065 administered to adult and pediatric ambulatory and nonambulatory male participants with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) on stable background therapy.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Diagnosis of DMD, defined as the presence of phenotypic features at screening consistent with DMD AND documented mutation in the dystrophin gene consistent with the diagnosis of DMD using a clinically validated genetic test.

Receiving a stable regimen of systemic CS (including, but not limited to, prednisone, prednisolone, deflazacort, or vamorolone) for at least 90 days before screening.

Body weight of ≥ 25.0 kg.

Ambulatory, defined as able to walk independently without assistive devices.

Disqualifiers

Clinical symptoms or signs of cardiomyopathy or heart failure.

Exposure to any approved or investigational dystrophin restoration gene therapy product.

Exposure to any approved or investigational dystrophin restoration product other than gene therapy (Except for exon-skipping therapy for Cohort A2).

Exposure to any approved or investigational histone deacetylase inhibitor, antimyostatin therapy, therapy targeting transforming growth factor-beta ligands, or cell-based therapy.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • KER-065

Treatment groups

36 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups

Locations

This trial has no locations

Sponsors and collaborators