AzTrials
AzTrials

Necrotizing EnterocolitisPhase 1NCT01954017

STP206 for the Prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)

A Phase 1 study testing STP206 in people with Necrotizing Enterocolitis, run by Leadiant Biosciences, Inc. at 13 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
Search all trials

Trial summary

This study is a sequential dose escalation study to assess the safety, tolerability, and preliminary NEC-preventative efficacy of two doses of STP206 versus control in very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight neonates. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 1 day to 4 days
Conditions the study is for
Necrotizing Enterocolitis
What is being tested?
STP206
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
103 participants
Where
13 sitesUnited States
Study dates
30 Jan 2014to 22 Oct 2018
Phase
Phase 1
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 1 day to 4 days
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child

Who may be able to join

  • Neonates with birth weights between 2000-500g for Part A and 1500-500g for Part B
  • Ability to start treatment within four days after birth.
  • Gestational age between 23 and 32 weeks at birth
  • Obtaining of informed consent from the subject's mother after full understanding of the study purpose and procedures.
  • Parents who agree to allow the Principal Investigator and his/her staff to follow the procedures and assessments required by the protocol

Who cannot join

  • Infants with, or at high probability for, early onset sepsis (positive blood cultures or with clinical/histological chorioamnionitis with the expectation of empirical antimicrobial therapy for ≥5 days)
  • Infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN)
  • Congenital or chromosomal anomalies
  • Congenital or acquired gastrointestinal pathology that preclude feeds soon after birth (e.g. cleft lip is not an exclusion criterion, but a duodenal atresia is)
  • Infants in extremis to whom no further intensive care is offered by attending neonatologist (e.g., infant being provided only hospice/comfort care)
  • Other conditions of the infant which, in the opinion of the attending neonatologist, preclude participation
Show all 10Show fewer
  • Positive maternal HIV status
  • Participation in another interventional clinical trial
  • For Part A of the study, the following additional exclusion criterion will apply:
  • Small for gestational age neonates, i.e. neonates that weigh less that the 10th percentile for their gestational age according to the Estimated Fetal Weight Percentile Chart

Trial locations and contacts

13 sites in 1 country.

13 sites in 1 country

United States13 sites
  • Augusta University

    Augusta, Georgia, 30912

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215

  • Medical University South Carolina

    Charleston, South Carolina, 29425

  • NorthShore University HealthSystem

    Evanston, Illinois, 60201

  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center

    Hartford, Connecticut, 06106

  • University of Tennessee

    Memphis, Tennessee, 38163

  • West Virginia University

    Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506

  • The Medical Center of Plano

    Plano, Texas, 75075

  • WakeMed Health and Hospitals

    Raleigh, North Carolina, 27610

  • Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

    Springfield, Illinois, 62769

  • Baystate Medical Center

    Springfield, Massachusetts, 01199

  • Sheridan Clinical Research / Plantation General Hospital

    Sunrise, Florida, 33323

  • Wesley Medical Center

    Wichita, Kansas, 67214

Other trials in United States

About this study

Official title: A Phase Ib Randomized, Placebo Controlled Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Once Daily Dosing of STP206 in Premature Very Low Birth Weight and Extremely Low Birth Weight Neonates

This study is a sequential dose escalation study to assess the safety, tolerability, and preliminary NEC-preventative efficacy of two doses of STP206 versus control in very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight neonates.

Read the detailed description

Protocol STP206-002 is designed as a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled dose escalation study of the safety and tolerability of two doses of STP206 versus control in four sequentially decreasing birth weight strata. The primary objective of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of once daily dosing of two dose levels of STP206 versus control in four different birth weight strata in premature neonates. Secondary objectives of this study include assessment of fecal shedding of STP206 throughout dosing and describing the incidence of NEC, incidence of relevant clinical events (sepsis/bacteremia, feeding intolerance, morbidity/complications of prematurity) and neonatal growth progression in the STP206 and control treatment groups.

Neonates for whom informed consent is obtained and who meet eligibility criteria will be eligible to enroll in this study. All neonates enrolled will receive daily doses of blinded study treatment for between 2 and 11 weeks with the duration of dosing based upon gestational age at birth. All neonates enrolled in the study will be placed under Universal Precautions and all study personnel with subject contact are trained in appropriate neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) infection control practices. While in the NICU, neonates will be evaluated daily for signs/symptoms of NEC, feeding volumes/feeding tolerance, adverse events, and concomitant medications. Physical examinations and vital signs will be performed daily during the dosing period and at the end of dosing/NICU discharge. Growth assessments will be performed every other week while in the NICU and at the end of dosing/NICU discharge. Assessments for complications of prematurity, including retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) will be performed at protocol defined timeframes. Neonates enrolled in the study will have fecal/meconium samples collected daily through 4 days following the start of dosing and weekly thereafter until NICU discharge to determine fecal shedding of STP6 and STP11. Following completion of blinded study treatment dosing, neonates will be evaluated at 1 week, 4 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months for safety and growth assessments.

Neonates will be stratified into the following four birth weights: 2000-1501g, 1500 to 1000 g, 999 to 750 g and 749 to 500 g. Each birth weight stratum will contain 2 dosing groups - a low dose STP206 group and a high dose STP206 group. Within each birth weight strata/dose level, subjects will be randomized in a 2:1 ratio to the STP206 or control group. Enrollment of neonates into study groups will occur sequentially. Enrollment into the high dose group within a birth weight stratum will not proceed until after the safety data from the low dose group is reviewed by the study independent Data Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC). Similarly, enrollment into the next lower birth weight stratum will not proceed until the safety data from the high dose group of the prior weight stratum is reviewed by the study independent Data Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC).

Being tested
STP206, Control
Medical subject headings
Enterocolitis, Necrotizing

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • STP206Biological

    Live Biotherapeutic

  • ControlOther

    Sterile Water

Study groups in NCT01954017
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
STP206ExperimentalBiological
Receives: Biological: STP206
ControlPlacebo comparatorSterile water
Receives: Other: Control

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number and Severity of Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in Low-dose Treatment Groups

    The number and severity of adverse events, adverse events leading to study drug discontinuation, and number of deaths experienced by subjects randomized to the low-dose treatment groups

    Measured: 30 days after the last dose of blinded study treatment

  2. Number and Severity of Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    The number and severity of adverse events, adverse events leading to study drug discontinuation, and number of deaths experienced by subjects randomized to the low-dose treatment groups

    Measured: 30 days after the last dose of blinded study treatment

  3. Treatment-emergent Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    Treatment-emergent adverse events experienced by subjects in low-dose treatment groups within 30 days of last exposure to study drug

    Measured: 30 days after last administration of study drug

  4. Treatment-emergent Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    Treatment-emergent adverse events experienced by subjects in high-dose treatment groups within 30 days of last exposure to study drug

    Measured: 30 days after last administration of study drug

  5. Grade 3 Treatment-emergent Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    Grade 3 treatment-emergent adverse events experienced by subjects in low-dose treatment groups within 30 days of last exposure to study drug

    Measured: 30 days after last administration of study drug

  6. Grade 3 Treatment-emergent Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    Grade 3 treatment-emergent adverse events experienced by subjects in high-dose treatment groups within 30 days of last exposure to study drug

    Measured: 30 days after last administration of study drug

  7. Serious Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    Serious adverse events experienced by subjects in low-dose treatment groups within 30 days of last exposure to study drug

    Measured: 30 days after last administration of study drug

  8. Serious Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    Serious adverse events experienced by subjects in high-dose treatment groups within 30 days of last exposure to study drug

    Measured: 30 days after last administration of study drug

  9. Growth Assessment Classification in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    Accelerated growth area (AGA) is defined as both body weight (g) and head circumference (cm) are between 10th percentile and 90th percentile according to the gender specific growth percentile charts in Appendix D of Protocol v3.0.

    Small for gestational age (SGA) SGA/Head-Spared is defined as body weight(g) is <10th percentile, and head circumference(cm) is between 10th percentile and 90th percentile according to the gender specific growth percentile charts in Appendix D of Protocol v3.0.

    SGA/Head-Symmetric is defined as both body weight(g) and head circumference(cm) are <10th percentile according to the gender specific growth percentile charts in Appendix D of Protocol v3.0.

    Large for gestational age (LGA) is defined as both body weight(g) and head circumference(cm) are >90th percentile according to the growth percentile charts in Appendix D of Protocol v3.0.

    Measured: End of dosing/hospital discharge, up to 781 days

  10. Growth Assessment Classification in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    AGA is defined as both body weight (g) and head circumference (cm) are between 10th percentile and 90th percentile according to the gender specific growth percentile charts in Appendix D of Protocol v3.0.

    SGA/Head-Spared is defined as body weight(g) is <10th percentile, and head circumference(cm) is between 10th percentile and 90th percentile according to the gender specific growth percentile charts in Appendix D of Protocol v3.0.

    SGA/Head-Symmetric is defined as both body weight(g) and head circumference(cm) are <10th percentile according to the gender specific growth percentile charts in Appendix D of Protocol v3.0.

    LGA is defined as both body weight(g) and head circumference(cm) are >90th percentile according to the growth percentile charts in Appendix D of Protocol v3.0.

    Measured: End of dosing/hospital discharge, up to 781 days

Secondary outcomes (16)
  1. Number of Patients With Suspected Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    NEC is staged from I to III, from suspected to definite to advanced. The 3 stages are further divided into A (less severe) and B (more severe).

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  2. Number of Patients With Suspected Necrotizing Enterocolitis in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    NEC is staged from I to III, from suspected to definite to advanced. The 3 stages are further divided into A (less severe) and B (more severe).

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  3. Number of Patients With Confirmed Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    NEC is staged from I to III, from suspected to definite to advanced. The 3 stages are further divided into A (less severe) and B (more severe).

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  4. Number of Patients With Confirmed Necrotizing Enterocolitis in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    NEC is staged from I to III, from suspected to definite to advanced. The 3 stages are further divided into A (less severe) and B (more severe).

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  5. Number of Patients With Sepsis in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    The presence of STP6 and STP11 was assessed in peripheral blood cultures.

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  6. Number of Patients With Sepsis in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    The presence of STP6 and STP11 was assessed in peripheral blood cultures.

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  7. Number of Patients With Feeding Intolerance in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    Feeding tolerance was evaluated by abdominal evaluation (any excessive distension beyond what is expected with a feed, redness of abdominal wall, firmness, presence of normal bowel sounds). Neonates placed on NPO status for at least 12 hours were considered to have feeding intolerance.

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  8. Number of Patients With Feeding Intolerance in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    Feeding tolerance was evaluated by abdominal evaluation (any excessive distension beyond what is expected with a feed, redness of abdominal wall, firmness, presence of normal bowel sounds). Neonates placed on NPO status for at least 12 hours were considered to have feeding intolerance.

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  9. Number of Patients With Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    ROP in each eye was assessed by indirect ophthalmoscope after pupillary dilation. ROP is categorized in zones 1 to 3, the lower number representing the smallest area affected, and stages 0 to 5, the lowest number indicating the mildest form and the highest number indicating retinal detachment.

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  10. Number of Patients With Retinopathy of Prematurity in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    ROP in each eye was assessed by indirect ophthalmoscope after pupillary dilation. ROP is categorized in zones 1 to 3, the lower number representing the smallest area affected, and stages 0 to 5, the lowest number indicating the mildest form and the highest number indicating retinal detachment.

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  11. Number of Patients With Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    IVH was assessed by cranial ultrasound between the ages of 5 and 7 days and, if clinically indicated and the neonate remained hospitalized, at 28 days. IVH is graded from I to IV, with increasing severity.

    Measured: From 5 days to 28 days

  12. Number of Patients With Intraventricular Hemorrhage in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    IVH was assessed by cranial ultrasound between the ages of 5 and 7 days and, if clinically indicated and the neonate remained hospitalized, at 28 days. IVH is graded from I to IV, with increasing severity.

    Measured: From 5 days to 28 days

  13. Number of Patients With Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    Mild to Moderate = Need for < 30% O2 at 36 wk postmenstrual age (PMA) or discharge, whichever comes first.

    Severe = Need for ≥ 30% O2, positive pressure or both at 36 wk PMA or discharge, whichever comes first.

    For each event type, patients are counted only once if they had one or more events as this table tabulates the percentage of patients with one or more events.

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  14. Number of Patients With Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    Mild to Moderate = Need for < 30% O2 at 36 wk postmenstrual age (PMA) or discharge, whichever comes first.

    Severe = Need for ≥ 30% O2, positive pressure or both at 36 wk PMA or discharge, whichever comes first.

    For each event type, patients are counted only once if they had one or more events as this table tabulates the percentage of patients with one or more events.

    Measured: Start of dosing to 6 months

  15. Number of Patients With Fecal Shedding of STP6 and STP11 in Low-Dose Treatment Groups

    The presence of STP6 and STP11 was assessed in fecal cultures.

    Measured: Prior to Week 1 Day 4 and at end of dosing/hospital discharge, up to 781 days

  16. Number of Patients With Fecal Shedding of STP6 and STP11 in High-Dose Treatment Groups

    The presence of STP6 and STP11 was assessed in fecal cultures.

    Measured: Prior to Week 1 Day 4 and at end of dosing/hospital discharge, up to 781 days

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted1 Oct 2013 (estimated)
  2. Study start30 Jan 2014
  3. Primary completion28 Feb 2018
  4. Study completion22 Oct 2018

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
103 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01954017
Sponsor's protocol ID
STP206-002
Status last verified
Mar 2020
First submitted
18 Sep 2013
Last updated
24 Mar 2020
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing STP206 in people with Necrotizing Enterocolitis, run by Leadiant Biosciences, Inc. at 13 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 10 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 24 Mar 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 13 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 24 Mar 2020). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number and Severity of Adverse Events Experienced by Subjects in Low-dose Treatment Groups (time frame: 30 days after the last dose of blinded study treatment). The study lists 10 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 24 Mar 2020.

Free account

Log in to keep searching

You’ve used your 3 free searches. AzTrials is free: log in or create a free account to keep searching clinical trials and save the ones you want to follow.

Create a free accountLog in