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Ides in Highly Sensitized (HS) Patients Awaiting Kidney Transplantation

A Phase I/II Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of Ides® (IgG Endopeptidase) to Eliminate Donor Specific HLA Antibodies (DSAs) and Prevent Antibody-Mediated Rejection Post-Transplant in Highly-HLA Sensitized Patients.

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 1Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02426684
Enrollment
17
Registered
2015-04-27
Start date
2015-06-16
Completion date
2017-11-10
Last updated
2022-05-16

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Renal Disease

Keywords

End Stage Renal Disease, Kidney Transplant, Desensitization, Highly Sensitized, Antibodies

Brief summary

This is a single center phase I/II open label, exploratory study assessing safety and efficacy of IdeS® (Hansa Medical, Lund, Sweden) given immediately prior to kidney transplantation. We hope that IdeS® will help eliminate DSAs in HS patients who are DSA+ and flow cytometry (FCMX) crossmatch + at time of transplant. We plan to enroll a total of 20 patients. Patients will be followed for 6 months post administration of IdeS®.

Detailed description

IdeS® is an IgG-degrading enzyme of S.pyogenes that cleaves all four human subclasses of IgG with strict specificity. Alloantibodies are a major deterrent to access to and success of life-saving organ transplants. We hypothesize that the use of IdeS® pre-transplant in HS patients will represent a more robust and complete technique to eliminate DSA from the sera of HS patients. A single dose administration of IdeS® in the pre-operative period to HS patients with positive DSAs and flow cytometry crossmatches will durably eliminate circulating DSAs, allow transplantation to occur without ABMR and, in conjunction with standard desensitization therapy, result in a durable suppression of DSA levels thus eliminating the risk for ABMR.

Interventions

DRUGIdeS® (Imlifidase)

0.24mg/kg IdeS

Sponsors

Hansa Biopharma AB
CollaboratorINDUSTRY
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* End-stage renal disease awaiting transplantation on the UNOS list. * No known contraindications for therapy with IVIG10%/Rituximab, plasmapheresis (PLEX) or IdeS®. * Age 18-70 years at the time of screening. * Calculated PRA (CPRA)\> 50% demonstrated on 3 consecutive samples, Patient highly-HLA sensitized and a candidate for DD transplantation after desensitization at CSMC. * At transplant, patient must have donor-specific antibody/ crossmatch positive (DSA/CMX+) non-HLA identical donor. * Pre-transplant vaccination with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Nisseria meningitides * Subject/Parent/Guardian must be able to understand and provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

* Positivity for anti-IdeS IgE * Use of IVIG 4 weeks prior to planned IdeS® administration * Recipients of Extended Criteria Donors (ECD) or Living Donors (LD) * Lactating or pregnant females. * Women of child-bearing age who are not willing or able to practice FDA-approved forms of contraception. * HIV-positive subjects. * Subjects who test positive for HBV infection \[positive HBVsAg, HBVcAb, or HBVeAg/DNA\] or HCV infection \[positive Anti-HCV (EIA) and confirmatory HCV RIBA\]. * Subjects with active TB. * Subjects with selective IgA deficiency, those who have known anti-IgA antibodies, and those with a history of anaphylaxis or severe systemic responses to any part of the clinical trial material. * Subjects who have received or for whom multiple organ transplants are planned. * Recent recipients of any licensed or investigational live attenuated vaccine(s) within two months of the screening visit (including but not limited to any of the following: 1. Adenovirus \[Adenovirus vaccine live oral type 7\] 2. Varicella \[Varivax\] 3. Hepatitis A \[VAQTA\] 4. Rotavirus \[Rotashield\] 5. Yellow fever \[Y-F-Vax\] 6. Measles and mumps \[Measles and mumps virus vaccine live\] 7. Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine \[M-M-R-II\] 8. Sabin oral polio vaccine 9. Rabies vaccines \[IMOVAX Rabies I.D., RabAvert\]) * A significantly abnormal general serum screening lab result defined as a WBC \< 3.0 X 103/ml, a Hgb \< 8.0 g/dL, a platelet count \< 100 X 103/ml, , an SGOT \> 3X upper limit . * Individuals deemed unable to comply with the protocol. * Subjects with active CMV or EBV infection as defined by CMV-specific serology (IgG or IgM) and confirmed by quantitative PCR with or without a compatible illness. * Subjects with a known history of previous myocardial infarction within one year of screening. * Subjects with a history of clinically significant thrombotic episodes, and subjects with active peripheral vascular disease. * Subjects with Protein C and Protein S deficiency * Use of investigational agents within 4 weeks of participation. * Known allergy/sensitivity to IdeS® infusions

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Number of Participants With Allograft Rejection6 monthsNumber of participants with allograft rejection will be assessed at 6 month post transplant renal biopsy.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
eGFR6 months post transplanteGFR based on serum creatinine will be collected 6 months post transplant.
Proteinuria6 months post transplantUrine total protein & urine creatinine will be drawn from day 0 to day 30, and urinalysis will be collected on day 180 from transplant.
Number of Participants With Donor Specific Antibodies (DSA) Post-transplant6 months post transplantDonor specific antibody levels will be checked at Day 180 post transplant to see if patients developed new antibodies or antibody intensity levels worsened post transplant. The DSA mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) was recorded, in comparison to the levels at transplant. This outcome measure was intended to record if any of the participants had a new DSA formation at Day 180, or if any participant had higher MFI levels of the DSA at Day 180, compared to baseline.

Countries

United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
IdeS® 0.24 mg/kg
patients who received 0.24mg/kg (n=17)
17
Total17

Withdrawals & dropouts

PeriodReasonFG000
Overall StudyPhysician Decision1

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicIdeS® 0.24 mg/kg
Age, Customized41.6 years
STANDARD_DEVIATION 13
Race and Ethnicity Not Collected— Participants
Region of Enrollment
United States
17 participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
9 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
8 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
0 / 17
other
Total, other adverse events
0 / 17
serious
Total, serious adverse events
5 / 17

Outcome results

Primary

Number of Participants With Allograft Rejection

Number of participants with allograft rejection will be assessed at 6 month post transplant renal biopsy.

Time frame: 6 months

ArmMeasureValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
IdeS® 0.24 mg/kgNumber of Participants With Allograft Rejection7 Participants
Secondary

eGFR

eGFR based on serum creatinine will be collected 6 months post transplant.

Time frame: 6 months post transplant

ArmMeasureValue (MEAN)Dispersion
IdeS® 0.24 mg/kgeGFR66 ml/min/m2Standard Deviation 48
Secondary

Number of Participants With Donor Specific Antibodies (DSA) Post-transplant

Donor specific antibody levels will be checked at Day 180 post transplant to see if patients developed new antibodies or antibody intensity levels worsened post transplant. The DSA mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) was recorded, in comparison to the levels at transplant. This outcome measure was intended to record if any of the participants had a new DSA formation at Day 180, or if any participant had higher MFI levels of the DSA at Day 180, compared to baseline.

Time frame: 6 months post transplant

ArmMeasureValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
IdeS® 0.24 mg/kgNumber of Participants With Donor Specific Antibodies (DSA) Post-transplant4 Participants
Secondary

Proteinuria

Urine total protein & urine creatinine will be drawn from day 0 to day 30, and urinalysis will be collected on day 180 from transplant.

Time frame: 6 months post transplant

Population: This outcome was not assessed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 26, 2026