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NCT Number: NCT05233774

Lomecel-B Effects on Alzheimer's Disease

Dementia resulting from AD is associated with vascular function decline and involves a pro-inflammatory state. In our Phase 1 trial, Lomecel-B treatment met the primary safety endpoint, with no safety concerns, and showed potential to improve clinical assessments. Mechanistically, Lomecel-B treated subjects had higher serum concentrations of pro-vascular and anti-inflammatory biomarkers relative to placebo. This trial builds upon those preliminary Phase 1 results, and is designed to evaluate the safety profile of multiple infusions of Lomecel-B, and to investigate provisional efficacy of single dosing versus multiple dosing of Lomecel-B on cognitive function and biomarkers in AD subjects.

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Key information

Age range

60 year–85 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Visionary Investigators Network, Aventura, Florida, 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

  • Provide written informed consent.
  • Be 60 - 85 years of age at signing of the Informed Consent Form.
  • Clinical diagnosis of mild Alzheimer's disease in accordance with the NIA-AA criteria at the time of enrollment.
  • MMSE score of 19 - 23.
  • Body weight of 40 - 150 kg.
  • Has an adult caregiver who meets all of the following criteria.
  • Provides written informed consent to participate on the trial (reporting on patient observations).
  • Either lives with the patient, or sees the patient for at least 2 hours/day for at least 3 days/week.
  • Is willing and able to participate in the study, and agrees to accompany the patient to each study visit.
  • Is able to read, understand, and speak the designated language at the study site.
  • Brain MRI consistent with AD.
  • A PET scan using an FDA-approved tracer (e.g., AMYViD, Vizamyl, or Neuraceq) consistent with the diagnosis of AD. A prior positive PET scan will be allowed with Sponsor approval.
  • Living in the community, includes assisted living facilities (but excluding long-term care nursing facilities).

Exclusion criteria

  • Diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), dementia due to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Lewy Bodies dementia (LBD), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), multiple cerebral infarctions, or normal pressure hydrocephalus.
  • Any other neurodegenerative disease.
  • History of a seizure disorder.
  • Evidence of: a prior macrohemorrhage; at least 4 cerebral microhemorrhages (regardless of anatomical location or diagnostic characterization as "possible" or "definite"); or at least 1 area of superficial siderosis.
  • Unwillingness or inability to have MRIs scans (no contrasting agent will be used), or condition that contraindicates MRI, such as the presence metallic objects in the eyes, skin, or heart.
  • Any conditions that contraindicates PET with a beta-amyloid tracer.
  • Significant intestinal malabsorption surgery, e.g., gastric bypass.
  • Serum B12 and/or folate levels below normal range.
  • Clinically abnormal free T4 or thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH).
  • Resting blood oxygen saturation <93%.
  • Resting systolic blood pressure >180 mm Hg, or diastolic blood pressure >110 mm Hg.
  • Regularly (> 4 weeks) using high-doses of corticosteroids or other steroidal anti-inflammatory medication (e.g., Prednisone) on a regular basis, with the exception of steroidal nasal sprays, asthma inhalers, topical steroids, and hormonal-replacement therapy.
  • Regularly (> 4 weeks) using anti-cytokine antibody or targeting therapy, e.g., anti-TNF-α.
  • Be an organ transplant recipient, or have active or expected future listing for any organ/tissue transplant while scheduled to be on trial, except for corneal, bone, skin, ligament, or tendon.
  • Diagnosed with malignancy within the past 2 years, with the exception of curatively treated basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma in situ, or cervical carcinoma.
  • Known hypersensitivity to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO).
  • Test positive for hepatitis B virus surface antigen, viremic hepatitis C virus, HIV, or syphilis.
  • Any condition that is projected to limited life expectancy to < 12 months.
  • Be pregnant, nursing, or of childbearing potential while not practicing effective contraception.
  • Be currently participating in any other investigational therapeutic or device trial, or have participated within one within the previous 30 days to screening, or in the opinion of the investigator, the patient should be excluded for such participation within the past 5 years.
  • In the opinion of the investigator, the patient has any other illness or condition that: may compromise the participant's safety, compliance, or ability to successfully complete the study; may compromise the validity of the study; or otherwise should exclude the participant from enrollment.

Treatment and study plan

Allogeneic MSC

Drug

An allogeneic bone marrow-derived medicinal signaling cell (MSC) formulation

Placebo

Other

Placebo

Primary outcomes

  1. Primary Endpoint 1: Safety - SAEs and AEs

    Time frame: 41 weeks

    To demonstrate that Lomecel-B infusions do not trigger the pre-specified stopping rules.

    Additional safety will be acquired throughout the study as follows: Incidence of all AEs and SAEs over the course of the trial.

  2. Primary Endpoint 2: Safety - Imaging

    Time frame: 41 weeks

    To demonstrate that Lomecel-B infusions do not trigger the pre-specified stopping rules.

    Additional safety will be acquired throughout the study as follows: Alzheimer's disease-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) or clinically asymptomatic microhemorrhages as revealed by MRI.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Secondary Endpoint 2: Efficacy- Change in the ADAS-cog-13

    Time frame: 41 weeks

    Change from baseline in the ADAS-cog-13 in Lomecel-B-treated arms versus change in placebo.

  2. Secondary Endpoint 3: Efficacy- Change in the MMSE

    Time frame: 41 weeks

    Change from baseline in the MMSE in Lomecel-B-treated arms versus change in placebo.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Longeveron Inc.

Industry

Collaborators

  • bioRASI, LLC

Registry information

Official study title

Lomecel-B Effects on Alzheimer's Disease: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2a Trial

Acronym: CLEARMIND

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Feb 10, 2022
Registry last updated
Feb 20, 2024

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