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SchizophreniaPhase 2NCT07145918

A Study to Assess Adverse Events, Change in Disease Activity, and How Oral Emraclidine Moves Through the Body in Adult Participants With Schizophrenia

A Phase 2 study testing Emraclidine in people with Schizophrenia, run by AbbVie at 7 sites in United States.

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Trial summary

Schizophrenia is a common and severe psychiatric illness characterized by extreme disturbances of cognition and thought, affecting language, perception and sense of self. This study will assess adverse events, change in disease activity, and how oral emraclidine moves through the body in adult participants with… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 65 years
Conditions the study is for
Schizophrenia
What is being tested?
Emraclidine
Type of treatment
Pill or oral medicine
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
268 participants
Where
7 sitesUnited States
Study dates
4 Aug 2025to Feb 2028
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

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 18 to 65 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • BMI within 18 to 40 kg/m2 (inclusive of both values), and body weight > 50 kg (110 lbs).
  • (Part A only): Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) total score < 80 at Screening and at Baseline
  • (Part B only): Participant experiencing an acute exacerbation of psychotic symptoms with onset less than 2 months prior to Screening
  • (Part B only): Participant must have a PANSS total score from 80 to 120, inclusive, at Screening and at Baseline
  • (Part B only): Participant MUST have a score of ≥ 4 (moderate or greater) for ≥ 2 of the following PANSS Positive Scale items at Screening and at Baseline
  • (Part B only): Participant must have a Clinical Global Impression of Severity (CGIS) score ≥ 4 (at least moderately ill) at Screening and Baseline

Who cannot join

  • Any primary DSM-5 disorder other than schizophrenia (current nicotine use disorder and caffeine use disorder are allowed) within 12 months before Screening.
  • History of clozapine exposure.
  • History of treatment resistance to schizophrenia medications, defined as failure to respond to 2 or more adequate courses of pharmacotherapy (a minimum of 4 weeks at an adequate dose per the label) within the last 12 months

Trial locations and contacts

7 sites in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

7 sites in 1 country

United States7 sites, 7 recruiting
  • Community Clinical Research - Cross Park Drive /ID# 272977

    Austin, Texas, 78754

    Site Coordinator, 512-323-2622

    Recruiting
  • Cbh Health - Gaithersburg /ID# 272932

    Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20877

    Site Coordinator, 301-251-4702

    Recruiting
  • California Clinical Trials Medical Group - Parexel /ID# 275751

    Glendale, California, 91206

    Site Coordinator, 818-254-1600

    Recruiting
  • Woodland International Research Group /ID# 275747

    Little Rock, Arkansas, 72211

    Site Coordinator, 501-221-8681

    Recruiting
  • CenExel Collaborative Neuroscience Research /ID# 273005

    Los Alamitos, California, 90720

    Recruiting
  • Cenexel Hassman Research Institute (Hri) /ID# 276128

    Marlton, New Jersey, 08053

    Site Coordinator, 888-437-4104

    Recruiting
  • Pillar Clinical Research - Richardson /ID# 275715

    Richardson, Texas, 75080

    Site Coordinator, 214-396-4844

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: An Adaptive Two-part Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-controlled Phase 2 Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Efficacy of Emraclidine in Participants With Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a common and severe psychiatric illness characterized by extreme disturbances of cognition and thought, affecting language, perception and sense of self. This study will assess adverse events, change in disease activity, and how oral emraclidine moves through the body in adult participants with schizophrenia

Emraclidine is an investigational drug being developed for the treatment of schizophrenia. Participants are placed in one of two parts, Part A or Part B, where each group will receive a different treatment. Participants will receive either oral emraclidine or placebo. Approximately 268 participants will be enrolled across roughly 32 sites in the United States.

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Participants in Part A will be assigned to oral emraclidine or placebo administered for 14 days or up to 21 days depending on cohort. Cohorts without titration include a 14-day treatment period at target dose. Cohorts with titration are comprised of a titration period of up to 7 days and a 14-day treatment period at the cohort target dose. Participants in Part B will receive oral emraclidine or placebo. Participants will be followed for 30 days after the last dose of the study drug.

There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, checking for side effects and completing questionnaires.

Conditions
Schizophrenia
Being tested
Emraclidine, Placebo
Keywords
Schizophrenia, ABBV-1231
Medical subject headings
Schizophrenia

What participants receive

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

  • EmraclidineDrug

    Oral Tablets

  • PlaceboDrug

    Oral Tablets

Study groups in NCT07145918
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Emraclidine Part AExperimentalParticipants will be assigned to receive one of multiple ascending doses of oral emraclidine for 14 or up to 21 days, followed by a 30-day safety follow-up period.
Receives: Drug: Emraclidine
Placebo-Part AExperimentalParticipants will be assigned to receive one of multiple ascending doses of oral placebo for 14 or up to 21 days, followed by a 30-day safety follow-up period.
Receives: Drug: Placebo
Emraclidine-Part BExperimentalParticipants will receive oral emraclidine for 42 days followed by a 30-day safety follow-up period.
Receives: Drug: Emraclidine
Placebo-Part BExperimentalParticipants will receive placebo for 42 days followed by a 30-day safety follow-up period.
Receives: Drug: Placebo

What is being measured

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

  1. Number of Participants with Adverse Events (AEs)

    An adverse event (AE) is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation participant administered a pharmaceutical product which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. The investigator assesses the relationship of each event to the use of study.

    Measured: Up to approximately 74 days

  2. Part A Only-Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration (Cmax) of Emraclidine

    Cmax of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  3. Part A Only-Time to Cmax (Tmax) of Emraclidine

    Tmax of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  4. Part A Only-Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve from Time 0 to Time t (AUCt) of Emraclidine

    AUCt of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  5. Part A Only-Area under the plasma concentration-time curve over the dosing interval (AUCtau) of Emraclidine

    AUCtau of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  6. Part A Only- Minimum plasma concentration (Cmin) of Emraclidine

    Cmin of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  7. Part A Only-Average plasma concentration (Cavg) of Emraclidine

    Cavg of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  8. Part A Only- Terminal Phase Elimination Half-Life (t1/2) of Emraclidine

    Terminal phase elimination half-life of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  9. Part A Only-Terminal elimination rate constant (λz) of Emraclidine

    λz of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  10. Part A Only-Apparent Clearance of Drug from Plasma (CL/F) of Emraclidine

    CL/F of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  11. Part A Only-Apparent Volume of Distribution DuringTerminal Phase (Vz/F) of Emraclidine

    Vz/F of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  12. Part A Only-Peak-to-trough ratio (PTR) of Emraclidine

    PTR of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  13. Part A Only- Accumulation ratio for Cmax (RacCmax) of Emraclidine

    RacCmax of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  14. Part A Only-Accumulation ratio for AUCtau (RacAUCtau) of Emraclidine

    RacAUCtau of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  15. Part A Only-Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration (Cmax) of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Cmax of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  16. Part A Only-Area under the plasma concentration-time curve over the dosing interval (AUCtau) of Metabolite (CV-000036)

    AUCtau of Metabolite (CV-000036)

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  17. Part A Only-Time to Cmax (Tmax) of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Tmax of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  18. Part A Only-Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve from Time 0 to Time t (AUCt) Metabolite (CV-000036)

    AUCt of Metabolite (CV-000036)

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  19. Part A Only-Metabolite to Parent Ratio (MRCmax) of Metabolite (CV-0000364) calculated from Cmax

    MRCmax of Metabolite (CV-000036)

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  20. Part A Only- Metabolite to Parent Ratio (MRAUCtau) of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    MRAUCtau of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  21. Part A Only- Terminal Phase Elimination Half-Life (t1/2) of of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Terminal phase elimination half-life of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  22. Part A Only-Terminal elimination rate constant (λz) of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    λz of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  23. Part A Only-Peak-to-trough ratio (PTR) of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    PTR of Metabolite (CV-0000364)

    Measured: Up to approximately 21 days

  24. Part B Only-Change from Baseline in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) total score

    PANSS is a 30-item clinician-reported rating scale which assesses both the positive and negative symptom syndromes of patients with schizophrenia. The PANSS consists of 3 subscales containing a total of 30 symptom constructs. For each symptom construct, severity is rated on a 7-point scale, with a score of 1 indicating the absence of symptoms and a score of 7 indicating extremely severe symptoms.

    Measured: Up to approximately week 6

  25. Part B Only-Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration (Cmax) of Emraclidine

    Cmax of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  26. Part B Only-Time to Cmax (Tmax) of Emraclidine

    Tmax of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  27. Part B Only-Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve from Time 0 to Time t (AUCt) of Emraclidine

    AUCt of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

  28. Part B Only-Area under the plasma concentration-time curve over the dosing interval (AUCtau) of Emraclidine

    AUCtau of Emraclidine

    Measured: Up to approximately 24 days

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Part B Only-Change from Baseline in in Clinical Global Impression of Severity (CGIS) score

    CGIS is a single, clinician-reported item that measures the clinician's impression of a participant's current anxiety severity considering their total clinical experience with the patient population. The measure uses a 7-point Likert rating scale with responses ranging from "normal, to at all ill" (1) to "among the most extremely ill patients" (5), with higher scores indicating greater anxiety severity.

    Measured: Up to approximately Week 6

  2. Part B Only-Change from Baseline in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) total score

    PANSS is a 30-item clinician-reported rating scale which assesses both the positive and negative symptom syndromes of patients with schizophrenia. The PANSS consists of 3 subscales containing a total of 30 symptom constructs. For each symptom construct, severity is rated on a 7-point scale, with a score of 1 indicating the absence of symptoms and a score of 7 indicating extremely severe symptoms.

    Measured: Up to approximately 74 days

  3. Part B Only-Change from Baseline in in Clinical Global Impression of Severity (CGIS) score

    CGIS is a single, clinician-reported item that measures the clinician's impression of a participant's current anxiety severity considering their total clinical experience with the patient population. The measure uses a 7-point Likert rating scale with responses ranging from "normal, to at all ill" (1) to "among the most extremely ill patients" (5), with higher scores indicating greater anxiety severity.

    Measured: Up to approximately 53 days

  4. Part B Only-Number of Participants achieving ≥ 30% improvement in PANSS total score

    PANSS is a 30-item clinician-reported rating scale which assesses both the positive and negative symptom syndromes of patients with schizophrenia. The PANSS consists of 3 subscales containing a total of 30 symptom constructs. For each symptom construct, severity is rated on a 7-point scale, with a score of 1 indicating the absence of symptoms and a score of 7 indicating extremely severe symptoms.

    Measured: Up to approximately week 6

  5. Part B Only-Number of Participants achieving remission (PANSS total score ≤ 60)

    PANSS is a 30-item clinician-reported rating scale which assesses both the positive and negative symptom syndromes of patients with schizophrenia. The PANSS consists of 3 subscales containing a total of 30 symptom constructs. For each symptom construct, severity is rated on a 7-point scale, with a score of 1 indicating the absence of symptoms and a score of 7 indicating extremely severe symptoms.

    Measured: Up to approximately week 6

Timeline

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

  1. First posted28 Aug 2025
  2. Study start4 Aug 2025
  3. Primary completionFeb 2028 (estimated)
  4. Study completionFeb 2028 (estimated)

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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 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Sequential
Masking
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
268 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT07145918
Sponsor's protocol ID
M25-522
Status last verified
Sep 2026
First submitted
22 Aug 2025
Last updated
15 Sep 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: AbbVie is committed to responsible clinical trial data sharing. This includes access to anonymized, individual and trial-level data (analysis data sets), as well as other information.

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Emraclidine in people with Schizophrenia, run by AbbVie at 7 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 6 inclusion and 3 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: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Sep 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 7 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. 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 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

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

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

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

Contact ABBVIE CALL CENTER (844-663-3742, abbvieclinicaltrials@abbvie.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of Participants with Adverse Events (AEs) (time frame: Up to approximately 74 days). The study lists 28 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 15 Sep 2026.

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