A Study of RO6885247 in Adult and Pediatric Patients With Spinal Muscular Atrophy (MOONFISH)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02240355 |
Recruitment Status :
Terminated
(There was an unexpected toxicology finding observed in the 39 week monkey study. Dosing was suspended, the study was put on hold and eventually terminated.)
First Posted : September 15, 2014
Last Update Posted : December 22, 2016
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Muscular Atrophy, Spinal | Drug: RO6885247 Drug: placebo | Phase 1 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 9 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | Double (Participant, Investigator) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Multicenter, Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled, Multiple Dose Study to Investigate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of RO6885247 Following 12 Weeks of Treatment in Adult and Pediatric Patients With Spinal Muscular Atrophy (MOONFISH). |
Study Start Date : | November 2014 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | July 2015 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | July 2015 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Part 1
Up to 2 cohorts of patients, within each cohort patients will receive either RO6885247 or placebo once daily for 12 weeks
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Drug: RO6885247
oral solution Drug: placebo oral solution |
Experimental: Part 2
1 cohort of patients, within each cohort patients will receive either RO6885247 or placebo once daily for 12 weeks
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Drug: RO6885247
oral solution Drug: placebo oral solution |
Experimental: Part 3
1 cohort of patients, within each cohort patients will receive RO6885247 once daily for 12 weeks or 20 weeks
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Drug: RO6885247
oral solution |
- Safety: Incidence of adverse events (AEs) [ Time Frame: Up to 20 weeks ]
- Pharmacokinetics: RO6885247 plasma concentrations [ Time Frame: Up to 16 weeks ]
- Pharmacokinetics: RO6885247 exposure, area under the concentration-time curve (AUC-tau, over the 24-hour dosing interval) [ Time Frame: Up to 12 weeks ]
- Pharmacodynamics: SMN protein levels in blood [ Time Frame: Up to 20 weeks ]
- Effect of RO6885247 on muscle electrophysiology, as assessed by Compound Muscle Action Potential (CMAP) [ Time Frame: Up to 20 weeks ]
- Effect of RO6885247 on Electrical Impedance Myography [ Time Frame: Up to 20 weeks ]
- Pharmacodynamics: In vivo splicing modification of SMN2 mRNA in blood [ Time Frame: Up to 20 weeks ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | up to 55 Years (Child, Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males and females, aged 2 to 55 years inclusive or below 7 months inclusive
- Confirmed diagnosis of 5q-autosomal recessive SMA (Types 1 to 3), for patients aged 7 months or below clinical symptoms attributable to type 1 SMA and 2 SMN2 copies
- Able and willing to provide informed consent and to comply with the study protocol. Alternatively, a legally authorized representative must be able to consent for the patient and assent must be given by the subject wherever possible.
- Female patients of childbearing potential and male patients with a female partner of childbearing potential must agree with the required contraceptive methods as defined per protocol.
- For patients aged 7 months or below, Gestational age of 37 to 42 weeks and not considered small for gestational age at birth
Exclusion Criteria:
- Concomitant or previous participation in any investigational drug or device study within 90 days prior to screening
- Concomitant or previous participation in a SMN2-targeting antisense oligonucleotide study within 12 months prior to screening
- Concomitant or previous participation at any time in a gene therapy study
- For patients aged 2-55 years, hospitalization for pulmonary event within the last 2 months or planned at the time of screening
- Surgery for scoliosis in the last 6 months from screening or planned within 6 months from screening
- Unstable gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, endocrine or cardiovascular system disease
- Clinically relevant ECG abnormalities at screening or baseline; personal or family history (first degree relatives) of congenital long QT syndrome
- Clinically significant abnormalities in laboratory test results at screening
- Any concomitant disease or condition that could interfere with the conduct of the study, or pose an unacceptable risk to the subject in this study
- Use of prohibited medications as per protocol within 90 days prior to randomization. Patients who are on inhaled corticosteroids, administered either through a nebulizer or an inhaler, are allowed.
- Recently initiated treatment (within <6 months prior to randomization) with oral salbutamol or another beta2-adrenergic agonist taken orally is not allowed. Patients who have been on oral salbutamol (or another beta2-adrenergic agonist) for at least 6 months before randomization are allowed. Use of inhaled beta2-adrenergic agonists is allowed.
- For patients aged 7 months or below, patients requiring invasive ventilation or tracheostomy, presence of non-SMA related morbidities

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02240355

Study Director: | Clinical Trials | Hoffmann-La Roche |
Responsible Party: | Hoffmann-La Roche |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02240355 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
BP29420 2014-002246-41 ( EudraCT Number ) |
First Posted: | September 15, 2014 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | December 22, 2016 |
Last Verified: | December 2016 |
Muscular Atrophy Muscular Atrophy, Spinal Atrophy Pathological Conditions, Anatomical Neuromuscular Manifestations Neurologic Manifestations |
Nervous System Diseases Spinal Cord Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Motor Neuron Disease Neurodegenerative Diseases Neuromuscular Diseases |