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NCT Number: NCT07640451

A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of HRS-9821 Inhalation Suspension in Patients With Moderate to Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

The study is being conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of HRS-9821 for patients with COPD, and to explore the reasonable dosage of HRS-9821 for patients with COPD.

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Key information

Age range

40 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Shanghai Tongji Hospital

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200065, China

Location contact

Jinfu Xu

CONTACT

[email protected]

+86-13321922898

Jinfu Xu

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 40 years old and < 80 years old, male or female.
  • Meet the weight standard.
  • Smoking history ≥ 10 pack-years.
  • COPD has been diagnosed ≥ 1 year.
  • 4 weeks before screening, the background treatment for COPD was stable.
  • FEV1/FVC < 0.7, 30% ≤ FEV1 ≤ 80%.
  • mMRC score ≥ 2.
  • The inspection and medication can be completed as required.
  • Non-pregnant and breastfeeding state.
  • Able and willing to provide a written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

  • History of life-threatening COPD.
  • Other pulmonary diseases that may affect the efficacy evaluation of this study.
  • Concurrent diseases other than COPD that may affect lung function.
  • History of asthma.
  • Pulmonary heart disease requiring clinical intervention, or moderate to severe pulmonary hypertension.
  • Malignant tumors within 5 years.
  • Uncontrolled severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases within 1 year.
  • Unstable diseases.
  • Acute exacerbation of COPD within 12 weeks, hospitalization for COPD or pneumonia within 6 months.
  • Infection in the lungs or other parts occurs within 16 weeks and requires treatment.
  • Immunosuppression.
  • Uncontrolled hypertension.
  • Lung resection, surgical lung volume reduction or endoscopic treatment for COPD.
  • Undergone major surgery or planned surgery within 14 months.
  • Abnormal chest images have clinical significance.
  • Tuberculosis infection requiring treatment within 16 to 12 months.
  • Virological test result was positive.
  • Laboratory blood tests and electrocardiograms were significantly abnormal.
  • Requires oxygen inhalation or intermittent oxygen inhalation therapy.
  • Hypercapnia, using or requiring long-term use of any non-invasive positive pressure ventilation device.
  • Biological agents that may have therapeutic effects on the studied disease have been used within 12 weeks or within 5 half-lives of the drug.
  • Vaccination, theophylline or drugs within 4 weeks.
  • Having participated in other clinical studies within 4 weeks and used research drugs or medical devices containing active ingredients, or still within 5 half-lives of the research drug.
  • Systemic glucocorticoids, immunosuppressants, and oral Roflumilast within 12 weeks.
  • Undergoing or planning rehabilitation treatment for pulmonary rehabilitation.
  • Non-selective β blockers within 1 week.
  • Overly potent/moderately potent drugs that inhibit or induce the liver drug-metabolizing enzyme CYP3A4 within 14 days.
  • Allergic to the research drug or salbutamol or excipients.
  • Has been used HRS-9821.
  • Drug abuse and alcohol abuse within 1 year.
  • Pregnant or lactating period or planning to be pregnant or lactating.
  • The researchers judged that there were other unsuitable circumstances.

Treatment and study plan

HRS-9821 Inhalation Suspension

Drug

HRS-9821 Inhalation Suspension.

HRS-9821 Placebo Inhalation Suspension

Drug

HRS-9821 Placebo Inhalation Suspension.

Primary outcomes

  1. Changes in peak FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in one second) after 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: From baseline to 28 days after treatment.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes in FEV1 area under the curve versus time from 0 to 12 hours (AUC0-12h) and 0 to 4 hours (AUC0-4h) after 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: During 28 days of treatment.

  2. Changes in peak FEV1 after 1 and 14 days of treatment.

    Time frame: After 1 and 14 days of treatment.

  3. Changes in trough FEV1 after 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: After 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

  4. Changes in FVC (forced vital capacity) during 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: During 28 days of treatment.

  5. Changes of in SGRQ (St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire), CAT (COPD Assessment Test), mMRC (modified Medical Research Council) score during 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: During 28 days of treatment.

  6. The use of SABA (Short-Acting Beta₂ Agonist) during 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: During 28 days of treatment.

Other outcomes

  1. Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs) during the 7-week study period.

    Time frame: During the 7-week study period.

    Safety outcome.

  2. Plasma concentration of HRS-9821 after 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: After 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Pharmacokinetic outcome.

  3. Peak concentration after 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: After 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Pharmacokinetic outcome.

  4. Trough concentration after 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: After 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Pharmacokinetic outcome.

  5. Population Typical Clearance (CL/F) after 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: After 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Pharmacokinetic outcome, population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) parameters.

  6. Population Typical Apparent Volume of Distribution (Vd/F) after 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: After 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Pharmacokinetic outcome, population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) parameters.

  7. Changes in maximum mid-expiratory flow (MMEF) after 1, 14 and 28 days of treatment.

    Time frame: During 28 days of treatment.

    Exploratory outcome.

  8. Incidence of moderate/severe acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) during 4 weeks of treatment.

    Time frame: During 4 weeks of treatment.

    Exploratory outcome.

  9. Changes in peripheral blood biomarkers (EOS, Neut, IL-6, IL-8, CRP, etc.) during 4 weeks of treatment.

    Time frame: During 4 weeks of treatment.

    Exploratory outcome.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Si Chen, M.M

CONTACT

[email protected]

+86-0518-82342973

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Guangdong Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Phase II Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of HRS-9821 Inhalation Suspension in Patients With Moderate to Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Jun 10, 2026
Registry last updated
Jun 10, 2026

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