Safety and Pharmacokinetic Study of Escalating Multiple Doses of an Iron Chelator in Patients With Iron Overload
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01039636 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : December 25, 2009
Last Update Posted : February 10, 2012
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Transfusional Iron Overload Beta-thalassemia | Drug: FBS0701 | Phase 1 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 20 participants |
Allocation: | Non-Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A PHASE 1b OPEN LABEL, MULTI-CENTER, ESCALATING MULTIPLE DOSE STUDY TO ASSESS THE SAFETY, TOLERABILITY, PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS OF FBS0701 IN PATIENTS WITH TRANSFUSIONAL IRON OVERLOAD |
Study Start Date : | November 2009 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2010 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: FBS0701 - 5 escalating doses
5 escalating doses of FBS0701 in 5 cohorts of 4 patients each.
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Drug: FBS0701
Oral FBS0701 for 7 days at one of the following doses: 3 mg/kg/day or 8 mg/kg/day or 16 mg/kg/day or 32 mg/kg/day or 40 mg/kg/day |
- Safety and tolerability by AEs, Physical Exam, Clinical Laboratory assessments [ Time Frame: 35 days (7 days treatment and 28 days follow up) ]
- Steady state plasma level and half-life of FBS0701 [ Time Frame: 7 days of dosing ]
- Urinary excretion of iron [ Time Frame: 7 days of dosing ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- At least 18 years old
- Transfusion dependent (at least 8 transfusions per year) with transfusional iron overload needing treatment with deperoxamine, deferasirox or deperiprone.
- Willing to discontinue current iron chelation therapy for 2-5 days prior to enrollment and for a total of up to 3 weeks
- Willing to fast after midnight prior to each dose
- Serum ferritin greater than 400ng/ml
- Liver iron concentration greater than or equal to 1.5 mg iron. (determined by MRI or SQUID within 12 months prior to enrollment)
- Cardiac iron greater than or equal to 12 milliseconds (determined by MRI t2* within 18 months prior to enrollment)
- Mean of last 3 pre-transfusion hemoglobin values must be greater than or equal to 7.5 g/dl
- Agrees to use approved contraception from Screening and until 30 days after last administration of study drug. Abstinence OK.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Principal Investigator considers patient unfit for study after conducting a medical review, physical examination and other screening assessments.
- Non-elective hospitalization with past 30 days
- Evidence of clinically relevant oral, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, endocrine, pulmonary, neurologic, psychiatric or skin disorder.
- Evidence of significant renal insufficiency; serum creatine above upper limit of normal or proteinuria greater than 2 gm per day or calculated creatinine clearance of less than or equal to 60ml/min
- Platelet count below 150,000,000/ml and/or absolute neutrophil count less then 1500/mm3
- Alkaline phosphatase or AST greater than 5 times the upper limit of normal or ALT greater than 4 times the upper limit of normal
- Female patients who are pregnant or lactating
- Use of any investigational agent within the last 30 days

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01039636
United States, California | |
Children's Hospital of Oakland | |
Oakland, California, United States, 94609 | |
United States, Massachusetts | |
Children's Hospital of Boston | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115 | |
United States, Pennsylvania | |
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104 | |
Australia | |
Royal Adelaide Hospital | |
Adelaide, Australia | |
Thailand | |
Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University | |
Bangkok, Thailand, 10700 |
Principal Investigator: | Ellis Neufeld, MD | Boston Children's Hospital |
Responsible Party: | FerroKin BioSciences, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01039636 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
FBS0701-CTP-03 |
First Posted: | December 25, 2009 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | February 10, 2012 |
Last Verified: | January 2011 |
Beta-thalassemia Sickle cell anemia Transfusional iron overload Iron overload Iron chelation |
Thalassemia beta-Thalassemia Iron Overload Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital Anemia, Hemolytic Anemia |
Hematologic Diseases Hemoglobinopathies Genetic Diseases, Inborn Iron Metabolism Disorders Metabolic Diseases |