A Study to Assess the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Subcutaneously Administered Golimumab, a Human Anti-TNFα Antibody, in Pediatric Patients With Moderate to Severe Active Ulcerative Colitis



Status:Active, not recruiting
Conditions:Colitis, Colitis, Gastrointestinal
Therapuetic Areas:Gastroenterology
Healthy:No
Age Range:2 - 17
Updated:5/19/2018
Start Date:August 9, 2013
End Date:January 8, 2024

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A Phase 1b Open-Label Study to Assess the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Subcutaneously Administered Golimumab, a Human Anti-TNFα Antibody, in Pediatric Subjects With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the pharmacokinetics (what the body does to the
study medication) and safety of subcutaneously (under the skin) administered golimumab in
pediatric participants (aged 2 to 17 years) with moderately to severely active Ulcerative
Colitis (UC).

This is an open-label (both [participants and investigator] know what treatment participants
will receive) and multicenter study. The study is divided into 2 parts: Part 1:
pharmacokinetics portion (Week 0 to Week 14); Part 2: study extension (Week 14 to Week 114).
The focus of this study is to evaluate the pharmacokinetics and safety of golimumab.
Additionally the efficacy of short-term therapy with golimumab will be evaluated.
Participants in clinical response at Week 6 will continue to receive open label golimumab
maintenance therapy and will enter the study extension at Week 14. Participants who are not
in clinical response at Week 6 will be withdrawn from further treatment with golimumab. At
Week 114, participants who, in the opinion of the investigator, may benefit from continued
treatment will be eligible to continue to receive golimumab every 4 weeks until marketing
authorization is obtained in the treatment of pediatric UC in that country, or until a
decision has been made not to pursue an indication in pediatric UC. Approximately 30
participants will be enrolled in this study. The total duration of study participation for a
participant will be approximately 126 weeks or longer.

Inclusion criteria:

- Moderate to severe Ulcerative Colitis (UC) defined by a Mayo score (a score used to
assess the treatment for UC) of 6 to 12 inclusive, including an endoscopic subscore of
2 or more.

- Must either be currently receiving treatment with, or have a history of having failed
to respond to, or have a medical contraindication to at least 1 of the following
therapies: oral or intravenous corticosteroids, 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine OR
must either have or have had a history of corticosteroid dependency (ie, an inability
to successfully taper corticosteroids without a return of the symptoms of UC) OR
required more than 3 courses of corticosteroids in the past year

- No history of latent or active tuberculosis prior to screening

- Positive protective antibody titers to varicella and measles prior to the first
administration of study agent

Exclusion criteria:

- Have severe extensive UC that is likely to require a colectomy (surgical removal of
the colon) within 12 weeks of study entry

- Have UC limited to the rectum only or to less than 20 cm of the colon

- Presence of a stoma

- Presence or history of a fistula

- Have evidence of Crohn's disease (an inflammatory large intestine disease)

- Previous exposure to anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy
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