Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Type 2 Clinical Trial
Official title:
A First-in-Human, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of Gene Therapy With RGX 381 for the Ocular Manifestations Associated With Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Type 2 (CLN2) Disease
This is a first-in-human, open-label, single ascending dose study of RGX-381 for the treatment of ocular manifestations of CLN2 (Batten disease).
This is a first-in-human, open-label, single ascending dose study of RGX-381, a gene therapy for the potential treatment of ocular manifestations of CLN2 (Batten disease). RGX-381 is being studied as a potential treatment of ocular manifestations of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (CLN2) disease. Children with CLN2 disease have a non-working gene (set of instructions) that causes an enzyme called tripeptidyl-peptidase 1 (TPP1) to be missing or not working in their bodies. Without enough TPP1, cells cannot break down certain molecules in the body, so these storage materials build up and start to hurt the body, particularly the central nervous system (the brain and spine) and retinal cells (eyes); cause seizures; and change how children with CLN2 disease grow, act, think, and see. After eligibility has been confirmed, the participant's eyes will be assigned as the treated eye and the control fellow eye. Due to the symmetry in the clinical course of CLN2 ocular disease, untreated fellow eyes will serve as controls for the contralateral, treated eyes. ;