A Phase 3, Multi-center, Randomized, Quadruple-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Batoclimab as Induction and Maintenance Therapy in Adult Participants with Generalized Myasthenia Gravis (gMG)

Date Added
May 23rd, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00128352
Researcher
Katherine Ruzhansky

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Keywords
Autoimmune disease
Summary

The FLEX study is a randomized, blinded, and placebo-controlled study assessing the efficacy and safety of an investigational drug for adults diagnosed with Generalized Myasthenia Gravis (gGM). The injectable investigational drug is being evaluated over a 12-week induction period and a 12-week maintenance period. Based on completion of these periods and a participant's response to the investigational injection, participants may qualify to continue in a 52-week extension study of the investigational drug. If you choose to enter this study, you will participate in the study for up to approximately 84 weeks (1 ½ years) and you will be asked to attend up to 34 study visits; visits can last from 1 to 4 hours.

It is unknown at this time whether the study treatment will improve participant's health. The potential risks of this study include the possibility of infections, low albumin levels, and increases in blood cholesterol.

Institution
MUSC
Recruitment Contact
Della MacNicholas
843-792-8385
macnichd@musc.edu

MUSC Specialized Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences: Stress-Reactivity and Cannabis Use in Cannabis-Using Older Adults

Date Added
May 31st, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00128725
Researcher
Andreana Benitez

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Keywords
Substance Use
Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn more about how cannabis use affects memory, thinking, and stress response in older adults, and how ovarian hormones affect them in older women. Participants will undergo a screening process over telehealth to confirm eligibility. There is a second telehealth visit to complete questionnaires, a cognitive testing battery, and a medical history. There is one visit in the clinic where participants will provide urine and saliva samples for drug and alcohol testing and a blood sample for a lipid testing, and complete additional cognitive tasks. They will then complete CREMA sessions (Cue Reactivity Ecologic Momentary Assessment) at home, two times a day for ten days. CREMA sessions include answering questions about marijuana use and sleep, and rating stress and craving.

Institution
MUSC
Recruitment Contact
Lisa Nunn
843-792-0476
jenkinli@musc.edu

MUSC Specialized Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences: Stress-Reactivity and Cannabis Use in Cannabis-Using Older Adults

Date Added
May 31st, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00128725
Researcher
Andreana Benitez

List of Studies


Keywords
Substance Use
Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn more about how cannabis use affects memory, thinking, and stress response in older adults, and how ovarian hormones affect them in older women. Participants will undergo a screening process over telehealth to confirm eligibility. There is a second telehealth visit to complete questionnaires, a cognitive testing battery, and a medical history. There is one visit in the clinic where participants will provide urine and saliva samples for drug and alcohol testing and a blood sample for a lipid testing, and complete additional cognitive tasks. They will then complete CREMA sessions (Cue Reactivity Ecologic Momentary Assessment) at home, two times a day for ten days. CREMA sessions include answering questions about marijuana use and sleep, and rating stress and craving.

Institution
MUSC Health Florence Medical Center
Recruitment Contact
Lisa Nunn
843-792-0476
jenkinli@musc.edu

MUSC Specialized Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences: Stress-Reactivity and Cannabis Use in Cannabis-Using Older Adults

Date Added
May 31st, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00128725
Researcher
Andreana Benitez

List of Studies


Keywords
Substance Use
Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn more about how cannabis use affects memory, thinking, and stress response in older adults, and how ovarian hormones affect them in older women. Participants will undergo a screening process over telehealth to confirm eligibility. There is a second telehealth visit to complete questionnaires, a cognitive testing battery, and a medical history. There is one visit in the clinic where participants will provide urine and saliva samples for drug and alcohol testing and a blood sample for a lipid testing, and complete additional cognitive tasks. They will then complete CREMA sessions (Cue Reactivity Ecologic Momentary Assessment) at home, two times a day for ten days. CREMA sessions include answering questions about marijuana use and sleep, and rating stress and craving.

Institution
MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center
Recruitment Contact
Lisa Nunn
843-792-0476
jenkinli@musc.edu

Multi-Center Research Evaluation of New Brain Imaging Techniques

Date Added
May 31st, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00128013
Researcher
Akos Varga-Szemes

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Keywords
Brain Tumor
Summary

This study will apply a novel imaging technique in patients with brain tumors to systematically evaluate the impact of various imaging parameters on image appearance, contrast, signal, and tumor sharpness, and to optimize the technique to maximize tumor visibility while minimizing scan time and image artifacts.

Institution
MUSC
Recruitment Contact
Mark Ghent
843-876-7148
ghent@musc.edu

A Phase 2, Multi-Center, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety, Phage Kinetics, and Efficacy of Inhaled AP-PA02 Multi-Phage Therapeutic in Subjects with Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis and Chronic Pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection

Date Added
June 14th, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00128304
Researcher
Patrick Flume

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Keywords
Bronchiectasis
Summary

This is a Phase 2, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of AP-PA02 administered by inhalation. This study will evaluate AP-PA02 administration in stable NCFB (non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis) patients. Subjects will either be included in Cohort A or Cohort B. For Cohort A, subjects will be randomized to receive either inhaled AP-PA02 or placebo. Cohort A will include individuals with NCFB and confirmed chronic P. aeruginosa infection but not on chronic inhaled antibiotics. These individuals will receive wither AP-PA02 or placebo for 10 days twice a day.
Cohort B will include individuals who with NCFB and confirmed P. aeruginosa infection but who are on chronic antibiotics. These individuals will receive either AP-PA02 or placebo for 10 days plus their current inhaled antibiotics for 28 days.

Institution
MUSC
Recruitment Contact
Zerlinna Teague
8437920965
recruitment@musc.edu

Impact of capturing ictal events with ultra-long-term ambulatory EEG monitoring with REMI.

Date Added
June 27th, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00129426
Researcher
Jonathan Halford

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Keywords
Epilepsy
Summary

This study is being done to understand whether a different type of electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring that permits longer monitoring is able to capture more seizures than regular EEG monitoring, and whether this new type of monitoring will improve clinical care. This type of EEG monitoring (REMI) is currently cleared by the United States Government Food and Drug Administration (or FDA) for use in hospitals but not yet cleared to be used at home.
Eligible subjects who have EEG monitoring scheduled with either a 3-day EEG monitoring performed at home or with a 3-day EEG monitoring schedule at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Subjects are in the study for approximately 4 weeks and will need to come to the study center for one or two visits. They will be asked to wear 4 of Epitel's REMI Sensors on their head, in addition to the regular EEG electrodes, for two 2-week REMI EEG monitoring periods. A 2nd visit (clinic visit) at MUSC may be needed if the recording is at MUSC, in order to start the second REMI EEG monitoring session.
At the end of the study, three independent epileptologists will review the REMI EEG recordings and compile a report of any findings. They will then provide this report to the subject's neurologist who will assess the value of the additional EEG information, and save the report within the MUSC medical record.

Institution
MUSC
Recruitment Contact
Robin Bulgarino
18437921115
bulgarino@musc.edu

Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase IIb/Phase III study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of spesolimab in patients with moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa. Lunsayil 1.

Date Added
August 17th, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00129550
Researcher
Lara Wine Lee

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Keywords
Skin
Summary

This is an international, Phase IIb/III multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised trial assessing the efficacy and safety of spesolimab versus placebo in patients with moderate to severe HS. Approximately 200 trial participants in Part 1 (Phase IIb) and 260 trial participants in Part 2 (Phase III) will be randomised. For Part 1, after signing the informed consent, trial participants will enter the screening period for up to 28 days, and if all eligibility criteria are met, trial participants will be randomised in a 1:1:1:1 ratio to either active group, including high dose, medium dose, and low dose group, or placebo group. Once randomised, trial participants will start a treatment period of 50 weeks. Administration of treatment will be up to Week 48.

Institution
MUSC
Recruitment Contact
Tiffany Vereen
843-792-6882
vereent@musc.edu

A placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of spesolimab in the treatment of patients with Netherton syndrome

Date Added
August 28th, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00128405
Researcher
Lara Wine Lee

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Keywords
Skin
Summary

This is a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II/III study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of spesolimab compared to placebo in the treatment of Netherton syndrome. This study will last up to 72 weeks with 16 clinic visits. Eligible patients will be randomized 2:1 to receive either spesolimab i.v. loading doses at Week 0 plus spesolimab subcutaneous doses every 4 weeks, or to receive placebo i.v. loading dose at Week 0 plus placebo subcutaneous doses every 4 weeks. At Week 20, all patients will enter the open label period to receive spesolimab subcutaneous dose every 4 weeks up to Week 52. There will be a safety follow up visit 16 weeks after the last dose.

Institution
MUSC
Recruitment Contact
Mikayla DiDonato
843-876-2281
didonato@musc.edu

A Phase 3, Multi-center, Randomized, Double-blind Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Aficamten Compared to Metoprolol in Adults with Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Date Added
September 12th, 2023
PRO Number
Pro00131432
Researcher
Jessica Atkins

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Keywords
Cardiovascular, Heart
Summary

This study is for patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM). oHCM is a condition where the heart muscle becomes abnormally thickened, which can sometimes block the blood flow out of the heart and results in the heart muscle working harder to pump blood to the body.

The study is done to compare the side effects and effectiveness of an investigational (not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)) medication with the beta-blocker metoprolol succinate in participants with oHCM. The study medication is known as Aficamten and is a tablet taken by mouth. This is a randomized study (participants will be assigned by chance to the study medication Aficamten and placebo or metoprolol succinate and placebo). A placebo looks just like the study medication but has no active ingredient in it. The medications will be administered in the form of a pill. This study will take about 9 months and include about 11 visits to the study site. Study related procedures include blood work, echocardiograms (ultrasound test of the heart), electrocardiogram (recording of heart's electrical activity), exercise testing, physical exams, questionnaires and optional genetic testing. Risks associated with this study include shortness of breath, nausea, diarrhea, headaches and dizziness.

Institution
MUSC
Recruitment Contact
Kavin Panneerselvam
843-792-0464
panneeer@musc.edu



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