IRB Study Number 26-805
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 3
Location Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Institute Neurological Institute
Description
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if pridopidine can slow the clinical decline of Huntington's Disease (HD). It will also inform about the safety of pridopidine. The main questions the study aims to answer are:
1) Does pridopidine slow the overall worsening of HD over 1 year?
2) Does pridopidine slow the worsening of specific aspects of HD over 1 year, namely the clinical progression, the ability to perform daily life activities (functional capacity), the mind's ability to process information (cognition), working of the muscles (motor function), and quality of life?
Researchers will compare the drug pridopidine to placebo (a look-alike substance that contains no drug) to see if pridopidine works better than placebo to treat HD. During the first year of the study, participants will have the same change to receive either pridopidine or placebo. Participants will take 1 pridopidine or placebo capsule twice daily for 12 months, and visit the clinic 6 times within 1 year for checkups and tests.
All participants who complete this 1-year placebo-controlled study period will roll over into an additional 2-year study period during which all participants will receive pridopidine treatment, including participants who had received placebo during the first year. During this additional 2-year treatment period, participants will visit the clinic a total of 6 times for checkups and tests.
Inclusion Criteria
- Adult-onset HD (onset of signs and symptoms and clinical diagnosis at ≥21 years of age)
- Diagnosis based on clinical features and presence of ≥40 CAG repeats in huntingtin (HTT) gene
- Diagnostic confidence level (DCL) of 4 on standardized motor exam Total Motor Score (TMS)
- Total Functional Capacity (TFC) score ≥7 at Screening and Baseline
- Cytosine-Adenine Guanine (CAG)-Age Product (CAP)100 score ≥95 at Screening
- Independence Scale (IS) score ≤90% at Screening
- Total Motor Score (TMS) of ≥20 at Screening and Baseline
- Not using ADMs (VMAT2i and neuroleptics/antipsychotics) ≥ 6 months prior to Screening. It is not encouraged to discontinue use solely for enrollment in trial
Exclusion Criteria
- Clinically significant cardiovascular disease (e.g., QTcF >450 msec [males] or >470 msec [females], arrhythmias, uncontrolled atrial fibrillation, or congenital long QT syndrome), seizure history ≤5 years, significant neurological disorders (e.g., intracranial pathology or cerebrovascular events), active/recent malignancy (unless localized and resolved), or any serious or uncontrolled systemic disease (e.g., hepatic, renal, respiratory, endocrine, infectious [HBV, HCV, HIV], or psychiatric) that may pose safety risk or interfere with participation
- Severe hepatic or renal impairment
- Any mutant huntingtin (mHTT) lowering therapy in past year
- Medications that prolong QT interval, taken within 4 weeks of baseline visit
- Use of pridopidine within 6 weeks of 5 half-lives before screening visit
- Previous participation in intracranial gene therapy study
- Laboratory values that fall outside of central laboratory's reference range at Screening and are considered clinically significantly abnormal by Investigator and affect participant's suitability to participate in study or put participant at risk
- Female participants who are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding
