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NCT Number: NCT06757010

A Study of NE3107 in Early Parkinson's

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if bezisterim can treat movement symptoms of Parkinson's disease in patients that are 45 to 80 years old, in generally good physical and mental health, and are nearing the need for treatment to relieve their symptoms but have not yet been prescribed any form of levodopa or drug with similar activity. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Will bezisterim decrease movement symptoms of Parkinson's disease? * What medical problems do participants have when taking bezisterim?

Researchers will compare the effects of bezisterim treatment to placebo (a look-alike substance that contains no drug) to see if bezisterim works to treat movement symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Participants will

* have a physical examination that includes an electrocardiogram * take drug or placebo twice daily for four months * visit a clinical site or receive an at home visit seven times over the course of five months

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Key information

Age range

45 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Quest Research Institute, Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • 45 years to 80 years of age
  • diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson's Disease (PD) within 18 months
  • nearing the need for symptomatic therapy
  • agree to use birth control measures
  • provide voluntary consent
  • willing to allow blood collection for DNA methylation analysis
  • pass all screening tests and procedures

Exclusion criteria

  • has taken levodopa or another similar drug for the motor symptoms of PD
  • a known or strongly suspected familial cause for PD diagnosis
  • major mental health or physical illness
  • medical history of major mental or physical illness

Treatment and study plan

NE3107

Drug

NE3107 20 mg BID

Other names: bezisterim

Placebo

Drug

Placebo BID

Primary outcomes

  1. Monocyte Lymphocyte Ratio (MLR)

    Time frame: 12 Weeks

    A unitless inflammatory biomarker calculated by dividing the absolute peripheral blood monocyte count by the absolute peripheral blood lymphocyte count, using values derived from clinical hematology (complete blood count with differential)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in Systemic Inflammation Response Index (SIRI)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    A unitless measure of systemic inflammation calculated as the product of the absolute blood neutrophil count and absolute blood monocyte count divided by the absolute blood lymphocyte count in samples obtained for clinical hematology testing.

  2. Change in Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    A unitless measure of systemic inflammation calculated as the ratio of the absolute peripheral blood neutrophil count to the absolute peripheral blood lymphocyte count obtained from routine clinical hematology assessments.

  3. Change in Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    A unitless composite measure of systemic inflammation and immune status calculated as the product of the absolute peripheral blood platelet count and neutrophil count divided by the absolute peripheral blood lymphocyte count obtained from routine clinical hematology assessments.

  4. Change in Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (PLR)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    A unitless measure of systemic inflammation calculated as the ratio of the absolute peripheral blood platelet count to the absolute peripheral blood lymphocyte count obtained from routine clinical hematology assessments.

  5. Change in Aggregate Index of Systemic Inflammation (AISI)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    A unitless composite measure of systemic inflammation calculated as the product of the absolute peripheral blood neutrophil count, monocyte count, and platelet count divided by the absolute peripheral blood lymphocyte count obtained from routine clinical hematology assessments.

  6. Change in the Composite Benefit Score (CBS)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Early Parkinson's Neuro-Inflammatory Composite-15 (EPNIC-15), a composite endpoint consisting of 15 clinically relevant motor and non-motor measures derived from MDS-UPDRS Parts I, II, and III and PDSS-2 assessments. Lower scores indicate improvement in Parkinson's disease symptoms.

  7. Change in MDS-UPDRS modified Part III

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in MDS-UPDRS Modified Part III score, a clinician-rated measure of Parkinson's disease motor signs assessed using a modified Part III examination. The scale evaluates motor manifestations including speech, tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, gait, posture, and postural stability. Higher scores indicate worse motor impairment.

  8. Change in MDS-UPDRS Part II scores

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in MDS-UPDRS Part II score. MDS-UPDRS Part II assesses the impact of Parkinson's disease motor symptoms on activities of daily living, with higher scores indicating greater impairment and negative changes indicating improvement.

  9. Change in MDS-UPDRS Part I scores

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in MDS-UPDRS Part I score. MDS-UPDRS Part I assesses non-motor experiences of daily living in Parkinson's disease, with higher scores indicating greater symptom burden and negative changes indicating improvement.

  10. Change in MDS-UPDRS combined scores

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in the combined MDS-UPDRS score (Parts I + II + III). The combined score assesses overall Parkinson's disease burden across non-motor symptoms, activities of daily living, and motor signs, with higher scores indicating greater impairment and negative changes indicating improvement.

  11. Change in PDQ-39 score

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in PDQ-39 total score. The Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire-39 (PDQ-39) assesses health-related quality of life across eight domains affected by Parkinson's disease. Higher scores indicate worse quality of life and negative changes indicate improvement.

  12. Clinician's General Impression of Improvement (CGI-I)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Clinician's Global Impression of Improvement (CGI-I) score. The CGI-I is a clinician-rated measure of overall change in a participant's condition compared with baseline, scored on a 7-point scale from 1 (very much improved) to 7 (very much worse). Lower scores indicate greater improvement.

  13. Clinician's General Impression of Severity (CGI-S)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in Clinician's Global Impression of Severity (CGI-S) score. The CGI-S is a clinician-rated measure of overall illness severity scored on a 7-point scale from 1 (normal, not at all ill) to 7 (among the most extremely ill patients). Higher scores indicate greater severity and negative changes indicate improvement.

  14. Change in PARCOMS-Motor (modified to adjust for missing MDS-UPDRS Part III scores)

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in modified PARCOMS-Motor score. PARCOMS-Motor is a composite measure of Parkinson's disease motor symptoms derived from MDS-UPDRS motor assessments. The score was modified to adjust for missing MDS-UPDRS Part III data. Higher scores indicate greater motor impairment and negative changes indicate improvement

Other outcomes

  1. Change in PDSS-2

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in PDSS-2 total score. The Parkinson's Disease Sleep Scale-2 (PDSS-2) assesses sleep disturbances and nocturnal symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease. Higher scores indicate worse sleep impairment and negative changes indicate improvement.

  2. Change in DNA methylation

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Change from baseline in DNA methylation levels measured in peripheral blood samples. DNA methylation is an epigenetic biomarker associated with regulation of gene expression and cellular function.

  3. Percent change in hematologic inflammatory biomarker indices

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Percent change from baseline in hematologic inflammatory biomarker indices (MLR, NLR, PLR, SIRI, SII, and AISI) derived from routine hematology testing. These indices are calculated from peripheral blood cell counts and are used as measures of systemic inflammation.

  4. Change in plasma biomarkers of inflammation

    Time frame: 12 week

    Change from baseline in plasma biomarkers of inflammation measured in peripheral blood samples. Plasma inflammatory biomarkers are indicators of immune and inflammatory activity that may reflect biological responses to treatment.

  5. Interaction between baseline inflammation level and treatment effect on changes in circulating inflammatory indices

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Interaction between baseline inflammation level and treatment effect on changes in circulating inflammatory indices. Analysis of whether treatment effects on MLR, NLR, PLR, SIRI, SII, and AISI vary according to baseline systemic inflammation status.

  6. Interaction between baseline inflammation level and treatment effect on changes in clinical endpoints

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Interaction between baseline inflammation level and treatment effect on changes in clinical endpoints. Analysis of whether treatment effects on clinical measures vary according to baseline systemic inflammation status.

  7. Interaction between change in inflammation level and treatment effect on changes in circulating inflammatory indices

    Time frame: 12 week

    Relationship between change in inflammation level and change from baseline in circulating inflammatory indices (MLR, NLR, PLR, SIRI, SII, and AISI). Analysis of whether treatment-related changes in systemic inflammation are associated with changes in circulating inflammatory biomarkers.

  8. Interaction between change in inflammation level and treatment effect on changes in clinical endpoints

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Relationship between change in inflammation level and change from baseline in clinical endpoints. Analysis of whether treatment-related changes in systemic inflammation are associated with changes in clinical measures of Parkinson's disease.

  9. Percent of subjects with any improvement from baseline as measured by CGI-I

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Percent of participants with improvement on CGI-I. Improvement is defined as a CGI-I score of 1 (very much improved), 2 (much improved), or 3 (minimally improved). The CGI-I is a clinician-rated measure of overall change from baseline

  10. Percent of subjects with any improvement from baseline as measured by CGI-S

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Percent of participants with improvement in CGI-S score from baseline. Improvement is defined as any decrease from baseline in the Clinician's Global Impression of Severity (CGI-S) score. The CGI-S is a clinician-rated measure of overall illness severity scored from 1 (normal, not at all ill) to 7 (among the most extremely ill patients). Lower scores indicate less severe illness.

  11. Biological and disease phenotype subgroup analyses for changes in circulating inflammatory biomarker indices

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Biological and disease phenotype subgroup analyses of changes in circulating inflammatory biomarker indices (MLR, NLR, PLR, SIRI, SII, and AISI). Analyses will evaluate whether treatment-related changes in inflammatory biomarkers differ across predefined biological and disease phenotype subgroups.

  12. Biological and disease phenotype subgroup for changes in clinical endpoints

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Biological and disease phenotype subgroup analyses of changes in clinical endpoints. Analyses will evaluate whether treatment-related changes in clinical outcome measures differ across predefined biological and disease phenotype subgroups.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

BioVie Inc.

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Study of NE3107 in Subjects With Early Parkinson's Disease

Acronym: SUNRISE-PD

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Jan 3, 2025
Registry last updated
Aug 11, 2026

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