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NCT Number: NCT07554495

Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Efficacy of Filgotinib for the Treatment of Polyarticular-course Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in Children and Adolescents

This is a multicenter Phase 3, open-label, single-arm study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, PK, and efficacy of orally administered filgotinib for up to 18 weeks.

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Key information

Age range

8 year–18 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Subject and/or parent/legal guardian must be able and willing to comply with the clinical study protocol requirements and must sign and date the ICF and assent (if required per local regulation) as approved by the Independent Ethics Committee / Institutional Review Board, prior to any screening evaluations.
  • Female or male subject 8 to <18 years of age, on the date of signing the informed consent and assent (per local regulation) form.
  • Subject must meet the ILAR classification and have moderately to severely active disease for one of the following categories that is not adequately controlled with his/her current therapy (see Protocol Appendix 1 for disease activity assessment criteria):
  • Extended oligoarthritis (i.e. affecting a total of more than 4 joints after the first 6 months of disease)
  • RF-positive polyarthritis
  • RF-negative polyarthritis
  • PsA
  • ERA
  • Subject with intolerance or a history of inadequate response to at least one of the following medications for the treatment of pJIA, administered for at least 3 months, based on current treatment guidelines: conventional synthetic disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs; including methotrexate) and/or biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) administered per local label, and/or non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for ERA and PsA subtypes.
  • Female subject of childbearing potential who is sexually active and at risk for pregnancy must agree to use contraception/preventive exposure measures as described in the protocol.

Exclusion criteria

  • Subject with a body weight <15 kg.
  • Subject with persistent oligoarthritis (i.e. affecting not more than 4 joints throughout the disease course).
  • Subject with undifferentiated arthritis.
  • Subject with anterior uveitis (active or uncontrolled) ≤12 weeks prior to baseline.
  • Subject with systemic JIA.
  • Subject with any other rheumatic disease, inflammatory, or immunologic disease (e.g. inflammatory bowel disease, hypogammaglobulinemia, or systemic lupus erythematosus).
  • Subject has any condition or circumstances (including abnormalities in laboratory parameters) that, in the opinion of the investigator, may make a subject unlikely or unable to complete the study or comply with study procedures and requirements.
  • Subject has an active infection. • Subject with a history of complicated herpes zoster infection (with multi dermatomal, disseminated, ophthalmic, or central nervous system involvement).

Treatment and study plan

Filgotinib

Drug

IP will be provided as commercially developed film-coated tablets or age-appropriate film- coated tablets for use in paediatric subjects aged at least 8 years and needs to be taken orally q.d. at approximately the same time every morning (with or without food)

Primary outcomes

  1. Frequency and severity of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs), treatment-emergent serious adverse events (SAEs), and TEAEs leading to treatment discontinuation

    Time frame: From baseline (Day 1) the study up to Week 22

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percentage of subjects with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 30 response

    Time frame: Week 12 and Week 18

  2. Percentage of subjects with JIA ACR inactive disease

    Time frame: Week 12 and Week 18

  3. Change from baseline in Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (JADAS)-27 erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)

    Time frame: Week 12 and Week 18

  4. Change from baseline in Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score JADAS-27 C-reactive protein (CRP)

    Time frame: Week 12 and Week 18

  5. Incidence of uveitis at various timepoints (including occurrence, type, and severity)

    Time frame: Week 1, Week 4, Week 8, Week 12, Week 18

  6. PK parameters of filgotinib and its primary metabolite GS-829845 including maximum observed plasma concentration at steady-state [Cmax,ss]

    Time frame: Week 4, Week 12 and Week 18

  7. PK parameters of filgotinib and its primary metabolite GS-829845 including area under the plasma concentration-time curve over the dosing interval at steady-state [AUC0-24,ss]

    Time frame: Week 4, Week 12 and Week 18

  8. PK parameters of filgotinib and its primary metabolite GS-829845 including area under the plasma concentration-time curve over the dosing interval at steady-state for the effective exposure [AUCeff,ss]

    Time frame: Week 4, Week 12 and Week 18

  9. Acceptability of the age-appropriate pediatric formulation and the adult commercially developed film-coated tablet formulation assessed by Pediatric Oral Medicine Acceptability Questionnaire for Patients (POMAQ-P)

    Time frame: Week 4 and Week 18

Study contacts

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

Medical Information

CONTACT

[email protected]

00800 7878 1345

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Alfasigma S.p.A.

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

Multicenter, Open-label Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Efficacy of Filgotinib in Children and Adolescents From 8 Years to Less Than 18 Years of Age With Polyarticular-course Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Acronym: GALAHOPPER

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Apr 28, 2026
Registry last updated
Jun 12, 2026

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