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A Double-blind Study Evaluating the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Zorevunersen in Patients with Dravet Syndrome

EMPEROR: a Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Sham-controlled, Parallel Group, Phase 3 Study Evaluating the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Zorevunersen (STK-001) in Patients with Dravet Syndrome

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Source
JPRN
Registry ID
JPRN-jRCT2071250035
Enrollment
14
Registered
2025-06-19
Start date
2025-07-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-06-29

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Conditions

Dravet Syndrome

Interventions

Zorevunersen group will receive study drug by intrathecal (IT) administration on Day 1 (after the 8-week Baseline Period), Day 57 (Week 8), Day 169 (Week 24), and Day 281 (Week 40) at a dose level of

Sponsors

Ann M Dandurand
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: -Patients must be >=2 and <18 years of age. -Patients must have a clinical diagnosis of DS confirmed by the Epilepsy Study Consortium, Inc. (ESCI) and as defined by: Onset, prior to 12 months of age, of recurrent focal with motor signs, hemiclonic, or generalized tonic-clonic seizures.No other known etiology causing clinical DS manifestations. -Patient must have a documented pathogenic, likely pathogenic variant, or variant of uncertain significance in the sodium voltage-gated channel type 1 alpha subunit (SCN1A) gene. -Patient must experience the required number of major motor seizures during the 6-week Observation Period. Major motor seizure types included are Seizure types included in counts are Hemiclonic, Focal with Motor Signs, Focal to Bilateral Tonic-Clonic, Generalized Tonic-Clonic, Tonic, Tonic/Atonic (Drop Attacks with fall or risk of fall), and Bilateral Clonic. -Patient must have used at least 2 prior interventions for seizures. These can include anti-seizure medications (ASMs), ketogenic diet and/or vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with either lack of adequate seizure control or discontinued due to an AE(s). These interventions can be ongoing therapies. -Patient must be taking at least one ASM. Benzodiazepines or ASMs used on a standing basis for any indication will be considered an ASM. -Patients' maintenance ASMs and interventions for seizures (i.e., ketogenic diet or VNS) must have been stable (unless adjusted for weight) during the Baseline Period.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: -Patient has documented variant in the SCN1A gene associated with gain-of-function -Patient is currently treated with a maintenance ASM acting primarily as a sodium channel blocker, including but not limited to phenytoin, carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine, lacosamide, rufinamide, or cenobamate, given the mechanism of action of zorevunersen. -Patient is currently treated with neuromodulation techniques (e.g., responsive neurostimulation, deep brain stimulation, or transcranial magnetic stimulation), with the exception of VNS. -Patient has emergence of a new seizure type or reemergence of a past seizure type (seizure types that last occurred more than 12 months before Screening Visit A) during the Baseline Period, or has more than 1 hospitalization for seizures during the Baseline Period.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Measurement of Seizure Reduction at Week 28

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Measurement of Seizure Reduction at Week 52 Multi-component Vineland-3 Outcome Score at Week 52 (Measurement of change from baseline) Vineland-3 Subdomain Score at Week 52 (Measurement of change from baseline)

Countries

Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America

Contacts

Public ContactjRCT Inquiry Receipt Center

IQVIA Services Japan G.K.

mariko.nomura@iqvia.com+81-3-6859-9500

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026