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HELIOS: Open-Label, Long-Term Extension Study to Investigate the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of DISC-1459 (Bitopertin) in Participants With EPP or XLP

HELIOS: An Open-Label, Long-Term Study to Investigate the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of DISC-1459 (Bitopertin) in Participants With Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP) or X-Linked Protoporphyria (XLP)

Status
Enrolling by invitation
Phases
Phase 2Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05883748
Enrollment
230
Registered
2023-06-01
Start date
2023-08-31
Completion date
2028-06-01
Last updated
2026-09-10

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

Conditions

Erythropoietic Protoporphyria

Keywords

EPP, DISC-1459, porphyria, RO4917838

Brief summary

This is an open-label, long-term extension study to investigate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of DISC-1459 in participants with EPP.

Interventions

DISC-1459 dose level 1

Sponsors

Disc Medicine, Inc
Lead SponsorINDUSTRY

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Participants with diagnosis of EPP who are participating (or who have participated) in a prior Disc Medicine bitopertin study and who have completed the randomized treatment phase and End-of-Study visit * Aged ≥12 years upon study consent * Body weight ≥32 kg for participants \<18 years of age and BMI ≥18.5 kg/m2 for adult participants * Willing to practice highly effective methods of birth control (both males who have partners of childbearing potential and females of childbearing potential during the study, while taking study drug, and for at least 30 days after the last dose of study drug. * Negative urine or serum pregnancy test (females of childbearing potential). * Able to understand the study aims, procedures, and requirements, and provide written informed consent (and assent if necessary). * Able to comply with all study procedures.

Exclusion criteria

* Participants who have an ongoing SAE from a clinical study that is assessed by the investigator as related to bitopertin * Other medical or psychiatric condition or laboratory finding not specifically noted above that, in the judgement of the Investigator or Sponsor, would put the participant at unacceptable risk or otherwise preclude participation in the study * Condition or concomitant medication that would confound the ability to interpret clinical, clinical laboratory, or participant diary data, including a major psychiatric condition that has had an exacerbation or required hospitalization in the last 6 months * Planned treatment with afamelanotide or dersimelagon during the study * Planned use of any drugs or herbal remedies known to be strong inhibitors or inducers of cytochrome p450 (CYP)3A4 enzymes throughout the study * If female, pregnant, or breastfeeding * Participation in any other clinical protocol or investigational trial, other than Disc Medicine bitopertin trials, that involves administration of experimental therapy and/or therapeutic devices within 30 days of Day 1 * Score of PHQ-8 ≥10 at screening or imminent suicidal risk identified by the C-SSRS as defined as suicidal ideation with intent (Grade 4 or 5) within the last year or any suicidal behavior within the last 5 years. * Consumption of grapefruit/Seville orange and products containing these for 14 days prior to first dose of study drug and throughout the study

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Incidence of treatment-emergent adverse eventsup to 5 Years
Incidence of clinically abnormal vital signsup to 5 Years
Incidence of clinically abnormal physical examup to 5 Years
Incidence of abnormal laboratory test resultsup to 5 Years
Assessment of Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8)up to 5 YearsThe Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8), an 8-item participant-report measure for screening for depression and for establishing depression severity. The total score ranges from 0-24, with a higher score indicating greater depression symptom severity.
Assessment of C-SSRSup to 5 YearsThe C-SSRS is a clinician-rated scale that assesses suicidality from ideation to behaviors and monitors the potential emergence of suicidality in clinical studies.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Change from baseline in daily daylight tolerance, as assessed by total hours spent in the sunlight without pain and average time to first prodromal syndrome in sunlightup to 5 Years
Change from baseline in whole blood metal-free PPIX levelsup to 5 Years
Plasma Bitopertin Concentrationsup to 5 Years

Countries

Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Contacts

STUDY_DIRECTORWill Savage, MD PhD

Disc Medicine

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Sep 11, 2026