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Covid19Phase 4OPTIMISE-C19NCT04790786

UPMC OPTIMISE-C19 Trial, a COVID-19 Study

A Phase 4 study testing Lilly Bamlanivimab, Regeneron Casirivimab + Imdevimab and Lilly Bamlanivimab + Etesevimab in people with Covid19, run by Erin McCreary at 1 site in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

Multiple monoclonal antibodies (mABs) have been shown to reduce viral burden and improve clinical outcomes, have been granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for use in select populations, and are routinely used in the UPMC Health System, which has made expanded access a priority. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 12 to 120 years
Conditions the study is for
Covid19
What is being tested?
Lilly Bamlanivimab, Regeneron Casirivimab + Imdevimab and Lilly Bamlanivimab + Etesevimab
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
4,571 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
10 Mar 2021to 16 Jun 2022
Phase
Phase 4
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 12 to 120 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • COVID-19 positive patients
  • Eligible for mAB under FDA EUA

Who cannot join

  • Death is deemed to be imminent or inevitable
  • Previous participation in this REMAP within the last 90 days

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • UPMC

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213

Other trials in United States

About this study

Official title: The UPMC OPtimizing Treatment and Impact of Monocolonal antIbodieS Through Evaluation for COVID-19 Trial

Multiple monoclonal antibodies (mABs) have been shown to reduce viral burden and improve clinical outcomes, have been granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for use in select populations, and are routinely used in the UPMC Health System, which has made expanded access a priority. However, the comparative effectiveness of these mABS is unknown. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has called for expanded access and clinical use of mABs, noting it is "critical to collect data and evaluate whether they are working as predicted". This pragmatic evaluation will determine the relative effects of the EUA-governed mABs versus each other. When U.S. government mAB policies change (e.g., FDA grants or revokes EUAs), UPMC Health System policies and the evaluated mABs will accordingly change.

Read the detailed description

While COVID-19 vaccination will reduce COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality, the learned immune response may vary between individuals. This means interventions such as monoclonal antibodies (mAB) will still be needed to prevent progression of COVID-19 illness. Monoclonal antibodies seek to mimic or enhance the natural immune system response against a pathogen and are often used in the care of patients with cancer or infection.

For viral infections, mABs are created by exposing a white blood cell to a particular viral protein, which is then cloned to mass produce antibodies to target that virus. For SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, IgG1 mABs target the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and block viral attachment and entry into cells.

The SARS-CoV-2 mABs bamlanivimab and etesevimab, and the REGN-COV2 combination (casirivimab + imdevimab) reduce nasopharyngeal viral burden plus clinical outcomes including future emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Each received FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for use in selected populations.

As of February 2021, there are over 60,000 new cases of COVID-19 diagnosed daily in the US, with over 7000 daily COVID-19 related hospital admissions. Although case volumes are currently declining, COVID-19 remains a significant public health threat.

Despite the EUAs, the clinical use of mABs is low due in part to lack of patient access, complexities in drug allocation, and lack of knowledge among providers are contributing factors. Further, the comparative effectiveness of different mABs is unknown and not yet directly studied. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently called for expanded access and clinical use of mABs, noting it is "critical to collect data and evaluate whether they are working as predicted". This evaluation seeks to determine their relative effects versus each other, starting with those governed by EUAs.

OPTIMISE-C19 is a quality improvement (QI) study, governed by approvals from both the UPMC QI committee and the University of Pittsburgh IRB. Currently, mAB therapy is approved for use under EUA issued by the FDA. There are no data on the relative benefits of one mAB versus any other. mABs are ordered by UPMC physicians as a generic referral order and the order is filled by UPMC pharmacy via therapeutic interchange. The selection of mABs available within pharmacy is overseen by the UPMC pharmacy and therapeutics committee. OPTIMISE-C19 provides the therapeutic interchange via random allocation. The UPMC Quality Improvement Committee approved the OPTIMISE-C19 study, including the random therapeutic interchange. The University of Pittsburgh IRB considered the randomized therapeutic interchange to be quality improvement and approved the additional data collection and analyses.

Patients provide verbal consent to receive mAB therapy. UPMC requires physicians to provide and review with patients the EUA Fact Sheet for each mAB, and explain that the patient could receive any of the EUA-governed mABs. As per EUA requirements, physicians discuss the risks and benefits of mABs with patients, and patients consent to receive a mAB as part of routine care, should they desire mAB treatment. Patients are told which mAB they are receiving, and physicians and patients can agree to the assigned mAB or request a specific mAB. It is the treating physicians' and patients' choice to accept the assigned mAB or not. The QI committee considered these steps to represent adequate consent to participate. The IRB considered that the provision of mAB therapy therefore fell under quality improvement and only the additional data collection and analyses represented research. The IRB waived any additional consent requirements.

Conditions
Covid19
Being tested
Lilly Bamlanivimab, Regeneron Casirivimab + Imdevimab, Lilly Bamlanivimab + Etesevimab, Sotrovimab, Bebtelovimab
Keywords
COVID, monoclonal antibodies
Medical subject headings
COVID-19

What participants receive

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

  • Lilly BamlanivimabBiological

    Administration of Lilly Bamlanivimab to COVID positive patients

  • Regeneron Casirivimab + ImdevimabBiological

    Administration of Regeneron Casirivimab + Imdevimab to COVID positive patients

  • Lilly Bamlanivimab + EtesevimabBiological

    Administration of Lilly Bamlanivimab + Etesevimab to COVID positive patients

  • SotrovimabBiological

    Administration of Sotrovimab to COVID positive patients

  • BebtelovimabBiological

    Administration of Bebtelovimab to COVID positive patients

Study groups in NCT04790786
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Lilly BamlanivimabExperimentalThe Lilly monoclonal antibody bamlanivimab will be administered according to FDA EUA guidelines. Dosing is 700 mg intravenously times one within 10 days of COVID-19 symptom onset.
Receives: Biological: Lilly Bamlanivimab
Regeneron Casirivimab + ImdevimabExperimentalThe Regeneron monoclonal antibody cocktail Casirivimab + Imdevimab will be administered according to FDA EUA guidelines. Dosing is 1200 mg of each drug (2400 mg total) administered intravenously times one within 10 days of COVID-19 symptom onset.
Receives: Biological: Regeneron Casirivimab + Imdevimab
Lilly Bamlanivimab + EtesevimabExperimentalThe Lilly monoclonal antibody cocktail of bamlanivimab + etesevimab will be administered according to FDA EUA guidelines. Dosing is given intravenously times one within 10 days of COVID-19 symptom onset.
Receives: Biological: Lilly Bamlanivimab + Etesevimab
SotrovimabExperimentalThe monoclonal antibody of sotrovimab will be administered according to FDA EUA guidelines. Dosing is given intravenously times one within 7 days of COVID-19 symptom onset.
Receives: Biological: Sotrovimab
BebtelovimabExperimentalThe monoclonal antibody of bebtelovimab will be administered according to FDA EUA guidelines. Dosing is given intravenously times one within 7 days of COVID-19 symptom onset.
Receives: Biological: Bebtelovimab

What is being measured

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

  1. Hospital-free Days

    Days alive and free from hospitalization. Patients that are both living and not in the hospital will meet criteria to be counted in this outcome. Deaths were rare and therefore the upper and lower end of the IQR are both 28, in addition to the median. This outcome measure does reflect median hospital free days and interquartile ranges for all groups.

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

Secondary outcomes (12)
  1. All-cause Mortality at 28 Days

    All-cause mortality at 28 days.

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  2. SARS-CoV-2 Nasopharyngeal Viral Loads

    Where feasible SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal viral loads among participants from baseline and longitudinally through day 28

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  3. SARS-CoV-2 Plasma Viral Loads

    Where feasible SARS-CoV-2 plasma viral loads among participants from baseline and longitudinally through day 28

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  4. SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Titers

    Where feasible SARS-CoV-2 antibody titers at baseline and longitudinally through day 28

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  5. SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Neutralization

    Where feasible SARS-CoV-2 antibody neutralization at baseline and longitudinally through day 28

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  6. SARS-CoV-2 Immune Responses

    Where feasible SARS-CoV-2 immune responses at baseline and longitudinally through day 28

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  7. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Through Next-generation Sequencing

    Where feasible detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants through next-generation sequencing at baseline and longitudinally through day 28

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  8. Duration of SAR-CoV-2 Infectivity

    Where feasible determining the duration of SAR-CoV-2 infectivity among patients with persistent nasopharyngeal swab viral shedding

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  9. Non-culture Surrogates for SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity

    Where feasible determining non-culture surrogates for SARS-CoV-2 infectivity among patients with persistent nasopharyngeal swab viral shedding

    Measured: 28 days after initial participation

  10. Non-culture Surrogates for SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity

    Where feasible determining non-culture surrogates for SARS-CoV-2 infectivity among patients with persistent nasopharyngeal swab viral shedding

    Measured: 90 days after initial participation

  11. Duration of SAR-CoV-2 Infectivity

    Where feasible determining the duration of SAR-CoV-2 infectivity among patients with persistent nasopharyngeal swab viral shedding

    Measured: 90 days after initial participation

  12. ED Visit Within 28 Days

    Measured: Duration of study

Timeline

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

  1. First posted10 Mar 2021
  2. Study start10 Mar 2021
  3. Primary completion16 Jun 2022
  4. Study completion16 Jun 2022

Why it stopped: Emergency Use Authorizations for monoclonal antibodies withdrawn

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 4
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
The study is an adaptive platform and as such is intended to study multiple interventions simultaneously, does not have a defined sample size, and is intended to move forward in perpetual fashion with domains and interventions being added and subtracted over time. For example, interventions will be added and subtracted depending on federal decisions regarding monoclonal antibodies, such as granting or revoking authorization for use.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
4,571 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04790786
Sponsor's protocol ID
STUDY21020179
Acronym
OPTIMISE-C19
Status last verified
May 2023
First submitted
26 Feb 2021
Last updated
15 Jun 2023
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: De-identified participant-level data underlying the results reported in journal articles, subject to appropriate security controls, may be available for sharing with other researchers.

Publications

  • Huang DT, McCreary EK, Bariola JR, Minnier TE, Wadas RJ, Shovel JA, Albin D, Marroquin OC, Kip KE, Collins K, Schmidhofer M, Wisniewski MK, Nace DA, Sullivan C, Axe M, Meyers R, Weissman A, Garrard W, Peck-Palmer OM, Wells A, Bart RD, Yang A, Berry LR, Berry S, Crawford AM, McGlothlin A, Khadem T, Linstrum K, Montgomery SK, Ricketts D, Kennedy JN, Pidro CJ, Nakayama A, Zapf RL, Kip PL, Haidar G, Snyder GM, McVerry BJ, Yealy DM, Angus DC, Seymour CW. Effectiveness of Casirivimab-Imdevimab and Sotrovimab During a SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Surge: A Cohort Study and Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jul 1;5(7):e2220957. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.20957.

    PubMed 35834252
  • Hirsch C, Park YS, Piechotta V, Chai KL, Estcourt LJ, Monsef I, Salomon S, Wood EM, So-Osman C, McQuilten Z, Spinner CD, Malin JJ, Stegemann M, Skoetz N, Kreuzberger N. SARS-CoV-2-neutralising monoclonal antibodies to prevent COVID-19. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 Jun 17;6(6):CD014945. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD014945.pub2.

    PubMed 35713300
  • McCreary EK, Bariola JR, Minnier TE, Wadas RJ, Shovel JA, Albin D, Marroquin OC, Kip KE, Collins K, Schmidhofer M, Wisniewski MK, Nace DA, Sullivan C, Axe M, Meyers R, Weissman A, Garrard W, Peck-Palmer OM, Wells A, Bart RD, Yang A, Berry LR, Berry S, Crawford AM, McGlothlin A, Khadem T, Linstrum K, Montgomery SK, Ricketts D, Kennedy JN, Pidro CJ, Haidar G, Snyder GM, McVerry BJ, Yealy DM, Angus DC, Nakayama A, Zapf RL, Kip PL, Seymour CW, Huang DT. The comparative effectiveness of COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies: A learning health system randomized clinical trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2022 Aug;119:106822. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106822. Epub 2022 Jun 11.

    PubMed 35697146
  • Kreuzberger N, Hirsch C, Chai KL, Tomlinson E, Khosravi Z, Popp M, Neidhardt M, Piechotta V, Salomon S, Valk SJ, Monsef I, Schmaderer C, Wood EM, So-Osman C, Roberts DJ, McQuilten Z, Estcourt LJ, Skoetz N. SARS-CoV-2-neutralising monoclonal antibodies for treatment of COVID-19. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Sep 2;9(9):CD013825. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013825.pub2.

    PubMed 34473343
  • Huang DT, McCreary EK, Bariola JR, Wadas RJ, Kip KE, Marroquin OC, Koscumb S, Collins K, Shovel JA, Schmidhofer M, Wisniewski MK, Sullivan C, Yealy DM, Axe M, Nace DA, Haidar G, Khadem T, Linstrum K, Snyder GM, Seymour CW, Montgomery SK, McVerry BJ, Berry L, Berry S, Meyers R, Weissman A, Peck-Palmer OM, Wells A, Bart R, Albin DL, Minnier T, Angus DC. The UPMC OPTIMISE-C19 (OPtimizing Treatment and Impact of Monoclonal antIbodieS through Evaluation for COVID-19) trial: a structured summary of a study protocol for an open-label, pragmatic, comparative effectiveness platform trial with response-adaptive randomization. Trials. 2021 May 25;22(1):363. doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05316-3.

    PubMed 34034784

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 4 study testing Lilly Bamlanivimab, Regeneron Casirivimab + Imdevimab and Lilly Bamlanivimab + Etesevimab in people with Covid19, run by Erin McCreary at 1 site 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 2 inclusion and 2 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: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Jun 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site 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. 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 4 studies take place after a treatment is approved, to learn more about its long-term benefits and risks in everyday use.

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 15 Jun 2023). 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?

Hospital-free Days (time frame: 28 days after initial participation). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04790786, which also lists 5 linked publications.

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 15 Jun 2023.

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