Fasudil Trial for Treatment of Early Alzheimer's Disease (FEAD)

Alzheimer Disease Clinical Trial

— FEAD  

Official title:

A Placebo Controlled Randomized Double-blind Parallel Group 12-month Trial of Fasudil for the Treatment of Early Alzheimer's Disease (FEAD)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06362707
• Other study ID #: 2023161001
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: May 1, 2024
• Est. completion date: October 1, 2026

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Helse Stavanger HF
• Contact: Dag Aarsland, PhD
• Phone: +4797575804
• Email: daarsland[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this placebo-controlled double-blind Phase 2 clinical trial is to test in people with early Alzheimer's Disease. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Does treatment with fasudil, a ROCK-inhibitor, lead to significant improvement in working memory (based on computer-based working memory composite scores) compared to placebo in individuals with early Alzheimer's disease (AD) over 12 months? - What is the effect of fasudil treatment for 12 months on other cognitive functions, brain metabolism measured by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET), and other relevant clinical functions and biomarkers in individuals with early Alzheimer's disease (AD)? - Treatment will be escalated to a maintenance dose of 120 mg total daily dose for up to 50 weeks, with regular clinic visits for efficacy and safety evaluations. - Assessments will include cognitive tests, FDG-PET scans, and biomarker analyses, with follow-up by the Data and Safety Monitoring Board for ongoing safety review. The study will compare participants receiving fasudil with those receiving placebo to see if fasudil treatment leads to improvements in cognitive functions, brain metabolism measured by FDG-PET.

Description:

This is a 2-arm, parallel-group, 12-month, randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind Phase 2 trial of fasudil in up to 200 people with early AD. Fasudil is a ROCK-inhibitor (rho-associated protein kinase inhibitor), a vasodilator that is approved for treating vasospasms following subarachnoidal bleeding in Japan and China. The drug has acceptable safety and tolerability and has been shown to protect neurons and synapses in animal models of AD. Eligible participants must have Stage 3-4 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild dementia due to AD, as recently defined by FDA Guidance, and have shown a significant change on a validated AD biomarker (e.g. amyloid PET scans or CSF Aβ 1-42 or blood p-tau 217 levels). In addition, they must have a CDR Global rating of 0.5 or 1.0 and an MRI scan within the past two years that has no findings inconsistent with AD. People who meet all inclusion criteria will be enrolled in three successive cohorts of 20, 50, and 130 people, respectively. Participants will be randomized 1:1 to receive fasudil or a matching placebo. All participants will undergo a 2-week titration period at a total daily dose of 60 mg (20 mg tds) before being escalated to the maintenance dose of 120 mg total daily dose (40 mg tds) for up to 50 additional weeks of treatment. The selected dose of 120 mg per day is optimized for potential efficacy over the planned 12-month treatment while providing a reasonable margin of safety based on available clinical and nonclinical data. Participants will visit the clinic for efficacy and/or safety evaluations at 2-week intervals for the first month and then monthly thereafter (see Table 1. Schedule of Assessments). The Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) will perform an unblinded review of the safety and pharmacokinetic (PK) data once all ongoing patients in Cohort 1 have completed at least 3 months of treatment and make recommendations to the study team that may include stopping or continuing the study (with or without changes to the study procedures). The DSMB will continue to review all data available from Cohorts 1-3 for the remainder of the study at 3-monthly intervals, or more frequently if warranted by emergent data, and recommend any changes to the study procedures to ensure appropriate safety oversight and management of study participants through completion of the study. The primary efficacy outcome is the FLAME (Factors of Longitudinal Attention, Memory and Executive Function) computer-based working memory composite. The key secondary outcomes are based on the expression of the AD-like hypometabolic pattern on FDG-PET and additional cognitive tests from the FLAME battery, including memory, working memory, attention, and executive functions. Additional secondary outcomes include CSF and blood-based AD biomarkers, and clinical measures including Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGIC), and Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR), neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPI), instrumental activities of daily living (Amsterdam IADL scale) and quality of life (DEMQOL). Standard safety measures include monthly assessments of adverse events (AEs), vital signs, and laboratory tests (including blood and urine analyses) as well as ECGs and the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: October 1, 2026
• Est. primary completion date: October 1, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 50 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Early AD, eg Stage 3 MCI or Stage 4 (mild AD dementia), as recently defined by the FDA (2018; Figure 2)
• A significant change on a validated AD amyloid or tau biomarker (as determined either by visual reading of amyloid PET scans using any of the approved ligands, or CSF Aß 1-42 levels or blood p-tau 217 cut-offs as determined by the clinical research laboratory)
• A CDR Global rating of 0.5 or 1.0 (Morris 1993) and have an MRI scan within the past two years that has no findings inconsistent with AD
• Capacity to give informed consent based on the clinical judgement of an experienced clinician
• The participant needs to have a reliable study partner with regular contact (a combination of face-to-face visits and telephone contact is acceptable) who has sufficient interaction with the participant to provide meaningful input into rating scales
• Age from 50 years
• Fluency in Norwegian and evidence of adequate premorbid intellectual functioning
• Capable of participating in all scheduled evaluations and complete all required tests
• Female participants must be of non-childbearing potential or have a negative serum pregnancy test within 14 days of baseline assessments and agree to the use of effective birth control throughout their participation in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Significant cerebrovascular disease, as indicated by clinical history, neurological examination, or on MRI (including cortical infarction or deep white matter or periventricular white matter hyperintensities with a Fazekas scale score of 3 (Fazekas et al 1987).
• A history of cerebrovascular bleeding or severe bleeding of the digestive tract, lungs, nose or skin
• Severe renal impairment (GFR <30) or serum creatinine or urea nitrogen values =3 times Upper normal limit (ULN) at screening or baseline
• Moderate to severe hepatic impairment. Serum alanine transaminase (ALT) or aspartate transaminase levels =3 times ULN at screening or baseline
• Currently poorly controlled diabetes as indicated by HbA1c values >9
• White blood cell (WBC) values <3.5 K/µl
• History of paralytic ileus or current severe chronic constipation
• Known allergy to fasudil or established systemic inflammatory disease or autoimmune disease.
• Clinically significant hypotension defined by blood pressure values <90/60 mmHg, regardless of the individual's sitting or standing position and associated with relevant clinical symptoms (e.g., tachycardia, dizziness, syncope)
• Current clinically significant depression or other mental disorder likely to affect cognition or interfere with study participation
• Recent (within 3 months) relevant medication changes. Participants must have been on stable anti-dementia (cholinesterase inhibitors or memantine) or anti-depressive medications for at least three months before the study
• Participants using sedating drugs, if unavoidable, will be excluded from the study. However, short-acting sleep medications can be used if taken as recommended and if the participant has maintained stability on them for a minimum of 3 months prior to the start of the study
• Participation in other drug trials
• Currently ongoing life-threatening disease, such as metastatic cancer, advanced cardiovascular disease, advanced respiratory disease, terminal kidney disease, or advanced stages of infectious diseases
• Any current or past neurological disease unrelated to Alzheimer's disease with cognitive sequelae
• A Corrected QT (QTc) interval = 460 milliseconds for males or = 470 milliseconds for females will be considered abnormal during the ECG assessments

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alzheimer Disease
• Cognitive Dysfunction

Intervention

Drug:
• Fasudil
A ROCK inhibitor approved for treating vasospasms following subarachnoidal bleeding in Japan and China. Dosage: Participants will undergo a 2-week titration period at 60 mg daily before escalating to a maintenance dose of 120 mg daily.
• Placebo
Placebo tablets that look identical to the fasudil tablets and will follow the same dosing schedule as participants receiving fasudil.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
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Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Helse Stavanger HF	University of Exeter

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Cognition	The primary outcome will be the FLAME computer-based working memory composite comprised of tests of working memory and episodic memory	The cognitive battery will be performed at baseline and every three months until last visit, supported by trial staff (up to 1 year).
Primary	Brain metabolism	FDG-PET is a highly sensitive means of determining brain metabolism and has been accepted as a good proxy measure of synaptic function. Importantly, FDG-PET based measures of brain metabolism correlate well with cognitive decline in AD, better than amyloid plaques. Data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study suggest that FDG PET has good power to detect a 25% treatment effect over 12 months	The outcome will be change in FDG-PET between baseline and at 12 months.
Secondary	Plasma levels of ptau217	This study involves the collection of blood samples, following standardized procedures. Blood markers associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) will be analyzed for typical AD features to fulfill inclusion criteria. The primary focus will be on examining changes in levels of plasma ptau217 and nfl, measured in pg/mL.	Collection of blood samples will occur at baseline and the 12-month visit.
Secondary	Plasma levels of nfl	This study involves the collection of blood samples, following standardized procedures. Blood markers associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) will be analyzed for typical AD features to fulfill inclusion criteria. The primary focus will be on examining changes in levels of plasma ptau217 and nfl, measured in pg/mL.	Collection of blood samples will occur at baseline and the 12-month visit.
Secondary	Levels of cerebrospinal Aß1-40 and Aß1-42	This study involves the collection of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples, following standardized procedures. CSF markers associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) will be analyzed for typical AD features, measured in pg/mL.	Collection of CSF samples will occur at baseline and the 12-month visit.
Secondary	Levels of cerebrospinal tau and p-tau	This study involves the collection of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples, following standardized procedures. CSF markers associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) will be analyzed for typical AD features, measured in pg/mL.	Collection of CSF samples will occur at baseline and the 12-month visit.
Secondary	Blood pressure (Safety assessments)	Safety measurements, blood pressure measured in millimetres of mercury (mmHg).	Conducted at all visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study. Additionally, the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) will be administered at screening, month 6, and month 12
Secondary	Pulse (Safety assessments)	Safety measurements, including pulse frequency in beats per minute (bpm).	Conducted at all visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Urine testing (Safety assessments)	Urine will be tested with a dipstick test to explore proteinuria or hematuria.	Conducted at baseline and all visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in mmol/L	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Potassium (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in mmol/L	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Sodium (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in mmol/L	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Calcium (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in mmol/L	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Glucose (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in mmol/L	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Hemoglobin (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in g/dL	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Creatinine (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in µmol/L	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Total and direct bilirubin (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in µmol/L	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	CRP (C-reactive protein) (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in mg/L	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in U/L (units per liter)	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in U/L (units per liter)	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in U/L (units per liter)	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in U/L (units per liter)	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Alkaline phosphatase (Safety assessments)	Measured in blood in U/L (units per liter)	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study.
Secondary	Electrocardiogram (ECG) (Safety assessments)	Measurement of ECG QT Interval in ms (milliseconds)	Conducted at baseline and all monthly visits throughout the 12-month duration of the study. Additionally, the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) will be administered at screening, month 6, and month 12
Secondary	Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) (Safety assessments)	Participants will be monitored appropriately and observed for suicidal ideation and unusual behavior.	Screening visit, month 6 and 12 months visits