Impact of Bosutinib on Safety, Tolerability, Biomarkers and Clinical Outcomes in Dementia With Lewy Bodies

Phase 2

Completed

• Conditions: Dementia With Lewy Bodies
• Interventions: Drug: Bosutinib Oral Tablet; Drug: Placebo Oral Tablet

• Registration Number: NCT03888222
• Lead Sponsor: Georgetown University

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effect of Bosutinib (Bosulif,Pfizer®) in the treatment of patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Half participants will receive 100 mg of Bosutinib , while the other half will receive placebo.

Detailed Description

This proposal will evaluate the effects of Bosutinib (Bosulif, Pfizer®) treatment - an FDA-approved tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets c-Abelson (Abl) and Src tyrosine kinases- in patients with DLB. Investigators have demonstrated safety and efficacy of this compound in pre-clinical animal models and others have shown similar benefits of Bosutinib on inflammation and neurotoxic protein clearance in neurodegeneration. Investigators have demonstrated that Bosutinib enters the brain (5% CSF:plasma ratio) and inhibits Abl at lower doses (5mg/kg) than the cancer dose (80mg/kg) in animals. Bosutinib also reduces the levels of neurotoxic proteins including alpha-synuclein, tau and beta-amyloid and improves motor and cognitive behavior in models of neurodegeneration. The use of Bosutinib is a novel strategy that promotes autophagy to clear neurotoxic protein aggregates in neurons. Bosutinib is FDA-approved for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) at an oral dose of 400-600 mg daily. Based on our preclinical evidence, investigators used allometric conversion to extrapolate animal to human dose and estimated a human equivalent dose daily dose of 100mg Bosutinib in this clinical study to determine the safety and tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in patients with mild to moderate DLB.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-03-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-03-21
• Study First Posted: 2019-03-25
• Study Start: 2019-04-23
• Primary Completion: 2021-08-27
• Study Completion: 2021-08-27
• Status Verified: 2022-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-04-04
• Last Update Posted: 2022-04-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 26

Inclusion Criteria

1. Written informed consent
2. Capable of providing informed consent and complying with study procedures. Subjects who are unable to provide consent may use a Legally Authorized Representative (LAR)
3. Age of 25-90 years, medically stable
4. Clinical diagnosis of DLB according to McKeith et al (7) with both dementia MoCA≥18 and Parkinsonian defined as bradykinesia in combination with rest tremor, rigidity or both UPDRS I-III ≤ 50 and UPDRS-III between 20-40.
5. Dementia and Parkinsonism must be present with at least one other symptom such as fluctuation, visual hallucinations or REM sleep behavioral disorder (RBD)
6. Abnormal DaTScan
7. Stable on Levodopa no more than 800mg daily, acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, dopamine agonists for at least 6 weeks
8. Stable on monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MOA-B) for at least 4 weeks before enrollment
9. Stable concomitant medical and/or psychiatric illnesses in the judgement of the PI
10. QTc interval 350-480 ms, inclusive
11. Participants must be willing to undergo LP at baseline and 3 months after treatment.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Medical history of liver or pancreatic disease, GI ulcers and Chron's disease, kidney, GI, or blood problems
2. Abnormal liver function defined as AST and/or ALT > 100% the upper limit of the normal
3. Renal insufficiency as defined by a serum creatinine > 1.5 times the upper limit of normal or proteinuria
4. History of HIV, clinically significant chronic hepatitis, or other active infection
5. hypokalemia, hypomagnesaemia, or long QT syndrome- QTc≥480 ms or concomitant drugs known to prolong the QTc interval and history of any cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction or cardiac failure, angina, arrhythmia
6. History or presence of significant cardiac conditions including: cardiovascular or cerebrovascular event (e.g. myocardial infarction, unstable angina, or stroke), congestive heart failure, first, second- or third-degree atrioventricular block, sick sinus syndrome, or other serious cardiac rhythm disturbances, any history of Torsade de Pointes.
7. Treatment with any of the following drugs at the time of screening or the preceding 30 days, and/or planned use over the course of the trial: Treatment with Class IA or III antiarrhythmic drugs (e.g. quinidine), treatment with QT prolonging drugs (www.crediblemeds.org)- excluding SSRIs (e.g. Citalopram, Escitalopram, Paroxetine, Sertraline, Duloxetine, Trazodone, etc.), Strong CYP3A4 inhibitors (including grapefruit juice). The concomitant use of strong CYP3A4 inhibitors (e.g., ketoconazole, itraconazole, clarithromycin, atazanavir, indinavir, nefazodone, nelfinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir, telithromycin, voriconazole) must be avoided. Should treatment with any of these agents be required, therapy with Bosutinib should be interrupted. Anticoagulants, including Coumadin (warfarin), heparin, enoxaparin, daltiparin, xeralto, etc. St. John's Wort and the concomitant use of strong other CYP3A4 inducers (e.g., dexamethasone, phenytoin, carbamazepine, rifampin, rifabutin, rifapentine, phenobarbital) must be avoided since these agents may reduce the concentration of Bosutinib
8. Females must not be lactating, pregnant or with possible pregnancy
9. Clinical signs indicating syndromes other than DLB including, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) idiopathic PD, corticobasal degeneration, supranuclear gaze palsy, multiple system atrophy, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, signs of frontal dementia, history of stroke, head injury or encephalitis, cerebellar signs, early severe autonomic involvement, Babinski sign
10. Current evidence or history in past two years of epilepsy, focal brain lesion, head injury with loss of consciousness or DSM-IV criteria for any active major psychiatric disorder including psychosis, major depression, bipolar disorder, alcohol or substance abuse
11. Evidence of any significant clinical disorder or laboratory finding that renders the participant unsuitable for receiving an investigational drug including clinically significant or unstable hematologic, hepatic, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrine, metabolic, renal or other systemic disease or laboratory abnormality.
12. Active neoplastic disease, history of cancer five years prior to screening, including breast cancer (history of skin melanoma or stable prostate cancer are not exclusionary)
13. Contraindications to LP: prior lumbosacral spine surgery, severe degenerative joint disease or deformity of the spine, platelets < 100,000, use of Coumadin/warfarin, or history of a bleeding disorder.
14. Must not be on any immunosuppressant medications
15. Must not be enrolled as an active participant in another clinical study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
100 mg of Bosutinib	Bosutinib Oral Tablet	Thirty (30) participants will be recruited and randomized into 2 groups (arms) (1:1) .Fifteen (15) patients in group 2 will receive the 100 mg of Bosutinib one (1) capsule orally once daily for 3 months (90 days).
Placebo	Placebo Oral Tablet	Thirty (30) participants will be recruited and randomized into 2 groups (arms) (1:1) .Fifteen (15) patients in group 1 will receive the matching placebo("sugar pill") one (1) capsule orally once daily for 3 months (90 days).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Safety and tolerability Go/NoGo (25% discontinuations) will be determined based on any emergent adverse events.	3 Months	We will determine safety and tolerability using the occurrence of adverse events (AEs) of interest, including myelosuppression, urinary, pancreatic and hepatic disorders, QTc prolongation as per Bosutinib IB.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
We will determine Bosutinib levels in CSF and plasma.	3 Months	We have demonstrated that Bosutinib enters the brain (5% CSF: plasma ratio) and inhibits Abl at lower doses (5mg/kg) than the cancer dose (80mg/kg) in animals. We predict that Bosutinib will be detected in the CSF. We will measure Bosutinib in both the CSF and Plasma and perform population pharmacokinetics.
We will determine changes in DLB related CSF and plasma biomarkers	3 Months	Plasma biomarkers include HVA, DOPAC, Abeta40/42, total tau, ptau231/181 and total and oligomeric alpha-synuclein. We expect Bosutinib to lower the levels of CSF markers of cell death, including neuron specific enolase (NSE), S100B and phosphorylated neurofilaments. We will also examine the effects of Bosutinib on other exploratory CSF and plasma inflammatory biomarkers, including triggering receptors on myeloid cells (TREM)-2, which is a potential risk factor for neurodegeneration.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital; 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States