Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trial: An Opportunity to Prevent Dementia. A Study of Potential Disease Modifying Treatments in Individuals at Risk for or With a Type of Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease Caused by a Genetic Mutation. Master Protocol DIAN-TU-001

Dementia Clinical Trial

— DIAN-TU  

Official title:

A Phase II/III Multicenter Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Platform Trial of Potential Disease Modifying Therapies Utilizing Biomarker, Cognitive, and Clinical Endpoints in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Disease

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01760005
• Other study ID #: DIAN-TU-001 (Master)
• Secondary ID: The Alzheimer's
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Start date: December 2012
• Est. completion date: October 2027

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Washington University School of Medicine
• Contact: Ellen Ziegemeier, MA
• Phone: 844-DIANEXR (342-6397)
• Email: dianexr[@]wustl.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, tolerability, biomarker, cognitive and clinical efficacy of investigational products in participants with an Alzheimer's disease-causing mutation by determining if treatment with the study drug slows the rate of progression of cognitive/clinical impairment or improves disease-related biomarkers.

Description:

This study will recruit participants from the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) observational study, a multicenter international study supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant Number U01-AG032438; RJ Bateman), Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trial Units (DIAN-TU) sites, DIAN-TU partner sites, DIAN Expanded Registry (DIAN-EXR), and families identified by the sites. As part of the DIAN-TU-001 protocol, participants undergo longitudinal assessments that include clinical assessment, cognitive testing, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and amyloid and tau positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, and analysis of blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

Participants in DIAN are recruited from families that have at least one member who has been identified as having a mutation linked to dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (DIAD). The mutations in presenilin 1 (PSEN1), presenilin 2 (PSEN2) and amyloid precursor protein (APP) that are associated with dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease have very high penetrance (near 100%). This study enrolls individuals who are either known to have a disease-causing mutation or who are at risk for such a mutation (the descendant or sibling of a proband with a known mutation) and unaware of their genetic status. Because the age at onset of cognitive changes is relatively consistent within each family and with each mutation, an age at onset is determined for each affected parent or mutation as part of the DIAN Observational (DIAN-OBS) study protocol. This study will enroll participants who are either asymptomatic and are within a specific window of time of expected age at onset for their family and/or mutation or who have symptoms of mild Alzheimer's disease.

The ability to identify individuals destined to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD) and predict the age of onset with a high degree of confidence provides a unique opportunity to assess the efficacy of therapies at asymptomatic and very early stages of dementia. Families with known disease-causing mutations are extremely rare and are geographically dispersed throughout the world. These constraints necessitate a specialized study design. Many of the participants in this study will not yet have any cognitive symptoms of AD; they will be "asymptomatic" carriers of mutations that cause dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease and would be expected to perform normally on standard cognitive and functional testing. Imaging and fluid biomarkers will be used to demonstrate that the treatment compounds have engaged their therapeutic targets. A set of cognitive measures designed to assess the very earliest and most subtle cognitive changes will be collected. Additionally, because many at-risk individuals decide not to know whether they have the disease-associated mutation or not, when allowable in individual drug arms, some of the at-risk individuals enrolled in this study will not have the disease-causing mutations; they will be "mutation negative". It is important to enroll these participants to avoid coercion (e.g., potential participants may be pressured into genetic testing to learn their genetic status in order to be eligible for the trial) unless the drug-specific design includes open-label treatment. These mutation negative individuals will be assigned to the placebo group and data will be used to determine normal ranges of outcome measures. Participants and site study staff will remain blinded as to these individuals' active or placebo group assignment and mutation status. Thus, the study will be double-blinded for placebo and for mutation status, except for mutation positive participants who are aware of their genetic status. There may be exceptional circumstances when required by local regulation or health authorities where enrollment may be restricted to mutation carriers only, but such mandates will be thoroughly documented and agreed upon by the governing regulatory agency and sponsor.

This is an adaptive platform-based study. Several different therapies (each referred to as a study drug arm) will be tested in order to increase the likelihood that an effective treatment will be discovered. The compounds are selected for this trial based on mechanism of action and available data on efficacy and safety profile. The study design includes a pooled placebo group (referred to as the mutation positive placebos) which may be shared by study drug arms. Mutation positive participants will be assigned to a study drug arm and subsequently randomized within that arm to the active drug to placebo ratio specified in each drug-specific appendix. When included in individual drug arms, mutation negative participants will all receive placebo treatment. Participants and study staff will not be blinded as to which study drug arm each participant has been assigned; they will be blinded as to whether participants have been randomized to active drug or placebo.

Biomarker, cognitive, and/or clinical endpoints will be specified for each study drug arm. Biomarker data will be analyzed for pre-specified endpoints consistent with the drug's mechanism of action and other AD biomarker outcomes.

Interim analyses of the imaging or fluid biomarker endpoint will assess safety and whether each study drug engages its biological targets. The clinical and cognitive assessments are designed to assess subtle cognitive changes that may be detectable before the onset of dementia as well as cognitive and clinical decline in symptomatic groups.

After the last participant in a study drug arm completes the 4-year treatment period, participants in that study drug arm may be eligible to receive active study drug in an open-label extension period.

A cognitive run-in (CRI) period was implemented to allow for enrollment during periods when study drug arms are not randomizing. This enables the DIAN-TU platform to have continuous enrollment during periods before or in-between drug arm randomization.

The CRI period of cognitive, clinical, and imaging data collection was designed as part of the platform study to utilize the time in between enrollment of study drug arms. The CRI period will enhance study enrollment by identifying eligible participants and engaging them with the cognitive assessments and can reduce practice effects by allowing participants to habituate to the testing process. The CRI further provides important baseline and run-in data that adds control data to the platform and informs about the effects of tested drugs. The data collected in the CRI period will be used for analysis in the respective drug arm under which participants are randomized and treated.

Solanezumab and gantenerumab double blind treatment arms: Primary Completion Date= Nov 2019 and Study Completion= March 2020 (NCT04623242)

Gantenerumab open-label extension was discontinued based on findings from an interim efficacy analysis and the status of the drug program. Primary Completion Date= August 12, 2023; Study final completed visit= November 13, 2023

E2814 treatment arm is enrolling: Primary Completion Date= July 2027 and Study Completion= Oct 2027 (NCT05269394)

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 490
• Est. completion date: October 2027
• Est. primary completion date: October 2027
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Between 18-80 years of age

• Individuals who know they have an Alzheimer's disease-causing mutation or are unaware of their genetic status and have dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (DIAD) mutation in their family.

• Are within -15 to + 10 years of the predicted or actual age of cognitive symptom onset. For Cognitive Run-In (CRI): includes participants who are younger than 15 years prior to the expected age of cognitive symptom onset, in addition to those 15 years younger and no more than 10 years older than expected or actual age of cognitive symptom onset.

• Cognitively normal or with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia, Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) of 0-1 (inclusive)

• Fluency in DIAN-TU trial approved language and evidence of adequate premorbid intellectual functioning

• Able to undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Lumbar Puncture (LP), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and complete all study related testing and evaluations.

• For women of childbearing potential, if partner is not sterilized, subject must agree to use effective contraceptive measures (hormonal contraception, intra-uterine device, sexual abstinence, barrier method with spermicide).

• Adequate visual and auditory abilities to perform all aspects of the cognitive and functional assessments.

• Has a Study Partner who in the investigator's judgment is able to provide accurate information as to the subject's cognitive and functional abilities, who agrees to provide information at the study visits which require informant input for scale completion.

Exclusion Criteria:

• History or presence of brain MRI scans indicative of any other significant abnormality

• Alcohol or drug dependence currently or within the past 1 year

• Presence of pacemakers, aneurysm clips, artificial heart valves, ear implants, or foreign metal objects in the eyes, skin or body which would preclude MRI scan.

• History or presence of clinically significant cardiovascular disease, hepatic/renal disorders, infectious disease or immune disorder, or metabolic/endocrine disorders

• Anticoagulants except low dose (= 325 mg) aspirin.

• Have been exposed to a monoclonal antibody targeting beta amyloid peptide within the past six months.

• History of cancer within the last 5 years, except basal cell carcinoma, non-squamous skin carcinoma, prostate cancer or carcinoma in situ with no significant progression over the past 2 years.

• Positive urine or serum pregnancy test or plans or desires to become pregnant during the course of the trial.

• Subjects unable to complete all study related testing, including implanted metal that cannot be removed for MRI scanning, required anticoagulation and pregnancy.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alzheimer Disease
• Alzheimers Disease
• Alzheimers Disease, Familial
• Dementia

Intervention

Drug:
• Gantenerumab
Subcutaneously every 4 weeks at escalating doses
• Solanezumab
Intravenous infusion every 4 weeks at escalating doses
• Matching Placebo (Gantenerumab)
Subcutaneous injection of placebo every 4 weeks
• Matching Placebo (Solanezumab)
Intravenous infusion of placebo every 4 weeks
• Gantenerumab
Open-label administered Subcutaneously every 4 weeks at escalating doses
• E2814
Administered intravenously in a blinded fashion
• Lecanemab
Administered intravenously
• Matching Placebo (E2814)
Placebo administered intravenously in a blinded fashion.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Argentina	Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrea, FLENI	Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aire
Australia	Mental Health Research Institute	Melbourne	Victoria
Australia	The McCuster Foundation of Alzheimer's Disease Research	Nedlands	Western Australia
Australia	Neuroscience Research Australia	Randwick	New South Wales
Brazil	Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP	São Paulo
Canada	CHU de Quebec - Hôpital de l' Enfant Jésus	Québec
Canada	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Toronto	Ontario
Canada	UBC Hospital	Vancouver	British Columbia
Canada	McGill Center for Studies in Aging	Verdun	Quebec
Colombia	Grupo de Neurociencias Sede de la Universidad de Antioquia	Medellín
France	Hopital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer	Bron cedex	Rhone
France	Hopital Roger Salengro - CHU Lille	Lille	Nord
France	Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere	Paris cedex 13	Paris
France	CHU de Rouen - Hôpital Charles Nicolle	Rouen	Seine Maritime
France	CHU de Toulouse - Hôpital Purpan	Toulouse	Haute Garonne
Germany	LMU-Campus Grosshadern	Muenchen	Bayern
Germany	Universitaetsklinikum Tubingen	Tübingen	Baden Wuerttemberg
Ireland	St Vincent's University Hospital	Dublin
Italy	IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli	Brescia
Italy	Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi	Firenze
Japan	University of Tokyo Hospital	Bunkyo-Ku	Tokyo-To
Japan	Niigata University Medical & Dental Hospital	Niigata-shi	Niigata-Ken
Mexico	Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia Manuel Velasco Suarez	Mexico	Distrito Federal
Netherlands	Brain Research Center	Amsterdam
Puerto Rico	University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine	San Juan
Spain	Hospital Clínic I Provincial de Barcelona	Barcelona
United Kingdom	The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery	London	Greater London
United States	Emory University	Atlanta	Georgia
United States	University of Alabama in Birmingham	Birmingham	Alabama
United States	Kerwin Medical Center	Dallas	Texas
United States	Indiana University School of Medicine	Indianapolis	Indiana
United States	University of California San Diego Medical Center	La Jolla	California
United States	USC Keck School of Medicine	Los Angeles	California
United States	Yale University School of Medicine	New Haven	Connecticut
United States	Advocate Lutheran General Hospital	Park Ridge	Illinois
United States	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
United States	Butler Hospital	Providence	Rhode Island
United States	Washington University in St. Louis	Saint Louis	Missouri
United States	University of Washington	Seattle	Washington

Sponsors (9)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Washington University School of Medicine	Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP), Alzheimer's Association, Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Eisai Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Hoffmann-La Roche, Janssen, LP, National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Argentina,  Australia,  Brazil,  Canada,  Colombia,  France,  Germany,  Ireland,  Italy,  Japan,  Mexico,  Netherlands,  Puerto Rico,  Spain,  United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (11)

Bateman RJ, Benzinger TL, Berry S, Clifford DB, Duggan C, Fagan AM, Fanning K, Farlow MR, Hassenstab J, McDade EM, Mills S, Paumier K, Quintana M, Salloway SP, Santacruz A, Schneider LS, Wang G, Xiong C; DIAN-TU Pharma Consortium for the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. The DIAN-TU Next Generation Alzheimer's prevention trial: Adaptive design and disease progression model. Alzheimers Dement. 2017 Jan;13(1):8-19. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.07.005. Epub 2016 Aug 29. — View Citation

Bateman RJ, Xiong C, Benzinger TL, Fagan AM, Goate A, Fox NC, Marcus DS, Cairns NJ, Xie X, Blazey TM, Holtzman DM, Santacruz A, Buckles V, Oliver A, Moulder K, Aisen PS, Ghetti B, Klunk WE, McDade E, Martins RN, Masters CL, Mayeux R, Ringman JM, Rossor MN, Schofield PR, Sperling RA, Salloway S, Morris JC; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. Clinical and biomarker changes in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease. N Engl J Med. 2012 Aug 30;367(9):795-804. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1202753. Epub 2012 Jul 11. Erratum In: N Engl J Med. 2012 Aug 23;367(8):780. — View Citation

Farlow M, Arnold SE, van Dyck CH, Aisen PS, Snider BJ, Porsteinsson AP, Friedrich S, Dean RA, Gonzales C, Sethuraman G, DeMattos RB, Mohs R, Paul SM, Siemers ER. Safety and biomarker effects of solanezumab in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement. 2012 Jul;8(4):261-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2011.09.224. Epub 2012 Jun 5. — View Citation

Grill JD, Bateman RJ, Buckles V, Oliver A, Morris JC, Masters CL, Klunk WE, Ringman JM; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network. A survey of attitudes toward clinical trials and genetic disclosure in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2015 Jul 22;7(1):50. doi: 10.1186/s13195-015-0135-0. eCollection 2015. — View Citation

McDade E, Bateman RJ. Stop Alzheimer's before it starts. Nature. 2017 Jul 12;547(7662):153-155. doi: 10.1038/547153a. No abstract available. — View Citation

McDade E, Wang G, Gordon BA, Hassenstab J, Benzinger TLS, Buckles V, Fagan AM, Holtzman DM, Cairns NJ, Goate AM, Marcus DS, Morris JC, Paumier K, Xiong C, Allegri R, Berman SB, Klunk W, Noble J, Ringman J, Ghetti B, Farlow M, Sperling RA, Chhatwal J, Salloway S, Graff-Radford NR, Schofield PR, Masters C, Rossor MN, Fox NC, Levin J, Jucker M, Bateman RJ; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. Longitudinal cognitive and biomarker changes in dominantly inherited Alzheimer disease. Neurology. 2018 Oct 2;91(14):e1295-e1306. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000006277. Epub 2018 Sep 14. — View Citation

Mills SM, Mallmann J, Santacruz AM, Fuqua A, Carril M, Aisen PS, Althage MC, Belyew S, Benzinger TL, Brooks WS, Buckles VD, Cairns NJ, Clifford D, Danek A, Fagan AM, Farlow M, Fox N, Ghetti B, Goate AM, Heinrichs D, Hornbeck R, Jack C, Jucker M, Klunk WE, Marcus DS, Martins RN, Masters CM, Mayeux R, McDade E, Morris JC, Oliver A, Ringman JM, Rossor MN, Salloway S, Schofield PR, Snider J, Snyder P, Sperling RA, Stewart C, Thomas RG, Xiong C, Bateman RJ. Preclinical trials in autosomal dominant AD: implementation of the DIAN-TU trial. Rev Neurol (Paris). 2013 Oct;169(10):737-43. doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2013.07.017. Epub 2013 Sep 6. — View Citation

Ryman DC, Acosta-Baena N, Aisen PS, Bird T, Danek A, Fox NC, Goate A, Frommelt P, Ghetti B, Langbaum JB, Lopera F, Martins R, Masters CL, Mayeux RP, McDade E, Moreno S, Reiman EM, Ringman JM, Salloway S, Schofield PR, Sperling R, Tariot PN, Xiong C, Morris JC, Bateman RJ; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. Symptom onset in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurology. 2014 Jul 15;83(3):253-60. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000596. Epub 2014 Jun 13. — View Citation

Wang G, Berry S, Xiong C, Hassenstab J, Quintana M, McDade EM, Delmar P, Vestrucci M, Sethuraman G, Bateman RJ; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit. A novel cognitive disease progression model for clinical trials in autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease. Stat Med. 2018 Sep 20;37(21):3047-3055. doi: 10.1002/sim.7811. Epub 2018 May 14. — View Citation

Weng H, Bateman R, Morris JC, Xiong C. Validity and power of minimization algorithm in longitudinal analysis of clinical trials. Biostat Epidemiol. 2017;1(1):59-77. doi: 10.1080/24709360.2017.1331822. Epub 2017 Jun 13. — View Citation

Weninger S, Carrillo MC, Dunn B, Aisen PS, Bateman RJ, Kotz JD, Langbaum JB, Mills SL, Reiman EM, Sperling R, Santacruz AM, Tariot PN, Welsh-Bohmer KA. Collaboration for Alzheimer's Prevention: Principles to guide data and sample sharing in preclinical Alzheimer's disease trials. Alzheimers Dement. 2016 May;12(5):631-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.04.001. No abstract available. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Assess cognitive efficacy in individuals with mutations causing dominantly inherited AD as measured by the change from baseline in the DIAN-Multivariate Cognitive Endpoint (DIAN-MCE)	The DIAN-Multivariate Cognitive Endpoint (DIAN-MCE) consists of 4 cognitive measures: Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised Logical Memory Delayed Recall Test, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Sale Digit Symbol Substitution Test (WAIS), International Shopping List Task (ISLT), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)	Baseline and Weeks 52, 104, 156, and 208

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