Personalized Medicine for SMA: a Translational Project

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Personalized Medicine for Spinal Muscular Atrophy: a Translational Project to Achieve Patient Specific Therapeutic Guidance.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05779956
• Other study ID #: 3730
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: September 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: February 2023
• Source: Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
• Contact: eugenio Mercuri, MD
• Phone: 063015
• Email: eugeniomaria.mercuri[@]policlinicogemelli.it
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Major breakthroughs in the treatment for Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have been recently achieved with various therapeutic approaches that increase full-length SMN protein levels. The variability observed following the advent of commercial availability of Nusinersen for all types of SMA has highlighted the need to identify tools that may allow to predict possible therapeutic responses. The aim of this project is to establish whether an integrated approach using clinical, imaging (muscle MRI) and circulating biomarkers, can provide the possibility to develop a predictive model of therapeutic response to novel therapies for SMA patients. More specifically we wish to establish the correlation between clinical response, different biomarkers indicative of central nervous system efficacy (e.g. determination of neurofilaments levels), and markers that provide evidence of the skeletal muscle response (e.g. serum myostatin and muscle imaging) in different types of SMA

Description:

Hyphotesis and Significance:

The individual variability in clinical response to treatment reported in the first Nusinersen studies has been confirmed by post approval real-world data. While some children acquire unexpected motor abilities, others have an apparently more limited clinical response. Age at disease onset and severity are reported to play a role, but do not account for the entire spectrum of clinical responses observed. There is a strong need to identify clinical and laboratory biomarkers to better understand the variables that determine the response to treatment in individuals, especially under the prospect of having further therapeutic options approved in the near future.

Working hypothesis: The hypothesis is that circulating, including neurofilaments and myostatin pathway, and imaging biomarkers may provide additional information to clinical longitudinal data and that an integrated approach may provide a better possibility to develop a predictive model of therapeutic response to novel therapies for SMA patients.

The aim is to to set up a platform of biomarkers, including circulating NfL, myostatin pathway (GDF8, FOLLISTATIN, GDF11 and ACTIVIN A) and creatinine, to establish how they relate to clinical findings and to better understand if these variables may determine clinical response to the treatment in SMA.

In patients older than 5 years, muscle MRI at baseline will also be used to explore if the pattern and severity of muscle involvement can better define the phenotype and predict therapeutic response

Specific Aim 2:

to identify trajectories of clinical progression in patients treated with Nusinersen, using our prospective data in combination with available data in other patients recently treated with Nusinersen

Specific Aim 3:

The overarching aim of this project is to explore the possibility to develop an integrated predictive model of therapeutic response to novel therapies for SMA patients

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 90
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: August 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients with SMA undergoing one of the treatments provided as standards of care

Exclusion Criteria:

• untreated patients

• patients/crarers unwilling to sign consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Atrophy
• Muscular Atrophy
• Muscular Atrophy, Spinal
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Ospedale Bambino gesu	Rome
Italy	Policlinico gemelli	Rome

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS	Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu, University of Milan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	neurofilament levels	serum and CSF neurofilament levels to be determined n relation to age and severity	3 years
Primary	miostatin levels	Serum levels to be determined in relation to age and severity	3 years
Primary	Hammesrmith Functional motor Scale expanded	motor functional scale, minimum score 0, maximum score 74 indicating best performance	3 years