A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Dose-Escalation Study to Determine the Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Infusion of Human Placenta-Derived Cells (PDA001) for the Treatment of Crohn's Disease

Completed · Phase 1 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Crohns Disease

In brief

To assess the safety and efficacy of intravenous (IV) PDA001 infused every two weeks for up to 5 total infusions in subjects with Crohn's disease who are refractory to one or more standard Crohn's disease therapies.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01769755

Run by

Celularity Incorporated

People needed

14

Starts

2013-03-01

Expected to finish

2014-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-03-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• • Males and females 18 - 75 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent document.
• Minimum weight of subject is 40 kg at screening.
• Subject must have inflammatory Crohn's Disease (CD) diagnosed at least 6 months but no greater than 15 years prior to treatment with Investigational Product (IP).
• Subject must have confirmation of ongoing CD by ileocolonoscopy at screening.
• Subject must have a Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) score ≥ 220 and ≤ 450 as assessed between Visit 1 and Visit 2.

You may not qualify if…

• Subject has any significant medical condition, laboratory abnormality, or psychiatric illness that would prevent the subject from participating in the study including but not limited to
• Liver Function Tests Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) > 2.5 x the upper limit of normal at screening.
• Serum creatinine concentration > 2.0 mg/dl at screening. Alkaline phosphatase > 2.5 x the upper limit of normal at screening.
• Bilirubin level > 2 mg/dL (unless subject has known Gilbert's disease).
• Pregnant or lactating females.
• Morbidly obese subjects Body Mass Index (BMI) > 35 at screening).
• Subject has untreated chronic infection including Clostridium difficile toxin positive at screening or treatment of any infection with antibiotics within 4 weeks prior to dosing with IP (other than a treated urinary tract infection or drained perianal abscess). Note: Stable doses of antibiotics used to treat Crohn's Disease are allowed.
• Subject has organic heart disease (eg, congestive heart failure), clinically significant arrhythmia or clinically significant abnormal findings on Electrocardiograms (ECG).
• Subject has a history of other malignancies within 5 years (except basal cell carcinoma of the skin that is surgically cured, remote history of cancer now considered cured or positive Pap smear with subsequent negative follow up).
• Subject has had a stricture of the bowel requiring hospitalization within 182 days prior to treatment with IP.
• Subject has had bowel surgery other than perianal (for example, fistulotomy, seton placement, or abscess drainage) or previous abscess drainage within 182 days prior to treatment with IP.
• Subject has had any surgery within 28 days prior to treatment with IP.
• Subject has a colostomy, ileostomy or ileal pouch anal anastomosis.
• Subject has received an investigational agent -an agent or device not approved by FDA for marketed use in any indication-within 90 days (or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer) prior to treatment with investigational product.
• Subject has received previous cell therapy.
• Subject is expecting to have elective surgery at any time between Visit 1 (screening) and Visit 7 (end of induction phase).
• Subject has concurrent diagnosis of ulcerative colitis.
• Subjects with protein C or S deficiency.
• Subjects with prior history of thrombophlebitis or other pathological arterial or venous thrombosis.

Where it is running

• Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
• University of Colorado Health Science Center — Denver, Colorado, United States
• University of Florida — Gainesville, Florida, United States
• University of Miami School of Medicine — Miami, Florida, United States
• Rochester General Hospital — Rochester, New York, United States
• University of Cincinnati Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Case Western Reserve University Hospitals of Cleveland — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Erlanger Baroness Hospital — Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
• Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Baylor College of Medicine — Houston, Texas, United States
• University of Utah — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
• McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center — Richmond, Virginia, United States

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