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221AD302 Phase 3 Study of Aducanumab (BIIB037) in Early Alzheimer's Disease

Phase 3
Terminated
Conditions
Alzheimer's Disease
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT02484547
Lead Sponsor
Biogen
Brief Summary

The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of monthly doses of aducanumab in slowing cognitive and functional impairment as measured by changes in the Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) score as compared with placebo in participants with early AD. Secondary objectives are to assess the effect of monthly doses of aducanumab as compared with placebo on clinical progression as measured by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), AD Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (13 items) \[ADAS-Cog 13\], and AD Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory (Mild Cognitive Impairment version) \[ADCS-ADL-MCI\].

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
TERMINATED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1643
Inclusion Criteria
  • Must meet all of the following clinical criteria for MCI due to AD or mild AD and must have:
  • A Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR)-Global Score of 0.5.
  • Objective evidence of cognitive impairment at screening
  • An MMSE score between 24 and 30 (inclusive)
  • Must have a positive amyloid Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan
  • Must consent to apolipoprotein E (ApoE) genotyping
  • If using drugs to treat symptoms related to AD, doses must be stable for at least 8 weeks prior to screening visit 1
  • Must have a reliable informant or caregiver

Key

Exclusion Criteria
  • Any medical or neurological condition (other than Alzheimer's Disease) that might be a contributing cause of the subject's cognitive impairment
  • Have had a stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) or unexplained loss of consciousness in the past 1 year
  • Clinically significant unstable psychiatric illness in past 6 months
  • History of unstable angina, myocardial infarction, advanced chronic heart failure, or clinically significant conduction abnormalities within 1 year prior to Screening
  • Indication of impaired renal or liver function
  • Have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
  • Have a significant systematic illness or infection in past 30 days
  • Relevant brain hemorrhage, bleeding disorder and cerebrovascular abnormalities
  • Any contraindications to brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or PET scans
  • Alcohol or substance abuse in past 1 year
  • Taking blood thinners (except for aspirin at a prophylactic dose or less)

NOTE: Other protocol defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Low DoseAducanumab (BIIB037)Monthly intravenous (IV) infusions
Low DosePlaceboMonthly intravenous (IV) infusions
High DoseAducanumab (BIIB037)Monthly intravenous (IV) infusions
High DosePlaceboMonthly intravenous (IV) infusions
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change From Baseline in Clinical Dementia Rating Scale - Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) Score at Week 78Baseline, Week 78

CDR-SB integrates assessments from 3 domains of cognition (memory, orientation, judgment/problem-solving) and 3 domains of function (community affairs, home/hobbies, personal care). Following caregiver interview and systematic patient examination, the rater assigns a score describing the participant's current performance level in each of these domains of life functioning. Prespecified severity anchors range from none = 0, questionable = 0.5, mild = 1, moderate = 2 to severe = 3 (the personal care domain omits the 0.5 score). "Sum of boxes" scoring methodology sums the score for each of the 6 domains and provides a value ranging from 0 to 18 that can change in increments of 0.5 or greater. Higher scores indicate greater disease severity. Mixed model for repeated measures (MMRM) analysis was used to analyze change from baseline in CDR-SB. A positive change from baseline indicates clinical decline.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change From Baseline in Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) Score at Week 78Baseline, Week 78

The MMSE is a widely used performance-based test of global cognitive status. It consists of 11 tasks that assess orientation, word recall, attention and calculation, language abilities, and visuospatial functions. The scores from the 11 tests are combined to obtain the total score, which ranges from 0 to 30, with lower scores over time indicating increasing cognitive impairment. MMRM analysis was used to analyze change from baseline in MMSE. A negative change from baseline indicates clinical decline.

Change From Baseline in Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory (Mild Cognitive Impairment Version) (ADCS-ADL-MCI) Score at Week 78Baseline, Week 78

The ADCS-ADL-MCI consists of 17 instrumental items (e.g., shopping, preparing meals, using household appliances) and 1 basic item (getting dressed). Ratings reflect caregiver observations about the patient's actual functioning over the previous month and provide an assessment of change in the functional state of the participant over time. The total score ranges from 0 to 53, with lower values over time reflecting functional deterioration. MMRM analysis was used to analyze change from baseline in ADAS-ADL-MCI. A negative change from baseline indicates clinical decline.

Change From Baseline in Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (13 Items) (ADAS-Cog 13) at Week 78Baseline, Week 78

ADAS-Cog13 comprises both cognitive tasks and clinical ratings of cognitive performance. The scale items capture word recall, ability to follow commands, the ability to correctly copy or draw an image, naming, the ability to interact with everyday objects, orientation, word recognition, memory, comprehension of spoken language, word-finding, and language ability, with a measure for delayed word recall and concentration/distractibility. The total score ranges from 0 to 85. An increase in score over time indicates increasing cognitive impairment. MMRM analysis was used to analyze change from baseline in ADAS-Cog 13. A positive change from baseline indicates clinical decline.

Trial Locations

Locations (155)

Lehigh Center for Clinical Research, LLC

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Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

Syrentis Clinical Research

🇺🇸

Santa Ana, California, United States

Hattiesburg Clinic, PA

🇺🇸

Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States

Roper St. Francis Healthcare

🇺🇸

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Toronto Western Hospital

🇨🇦

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

University of Washington Medical Center

🇺🇸

Seattle, Washington, United States

Hôpital de la Timone

🇫🇷

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

University of California San Diego Medical Center

🇺🇸

San Diego, California, United States

California Pacific Medical Center

🇺🇸

San Francisco, California, United States

Josephson, Wallack, Munshower Neurology, PC

🇺🇸

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Clinical Trial Network

🇺🇸

Houston, Texas, United States

USC Keck School of Medicine

🇺🇸

Los Angeles, California, United States

Banner Alzheimer's Institute

🇺🇸

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

University of Alabama at Birmingham

🇺🇸

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Zentrum f. Neurologisch- Psychiatrische Studien und Begutachtung

🇩🇪

Siegen, Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany

St Joseph Heritage Healthcare

🇺🇸

Santa Rosa, California, United States

AdvanceMed Research

🇺🇸

Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States

Emory University Cognitive Neurology Clinic & ADRC

🇺🇸

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Xenoscience Inc.

🇺🇸

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Banner Sun Health Research Institute

🇺🇸

Sun City, Arizona, United States

Renewal Behavioral Health

🇺🇸

Long Beach, California, United States

Excell Research, Inc.

🇺🇸

Oceanside, California, United States

Anderson Clinical Research

🇺🇸

Redlands, California, United States

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

🇺🇸

Newport Beach, California, United States

Pacific Research Network

🇺🇸

San Diego, California, United States

IMMUNOe International Research Centers

🇺🇸

Thornton, Colorado, United States

Stanford University Medical Center

🇺🇸

Stanford, California, United States

Research Center for Clinical Studies, Inc.

🇺🇸

Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

JEM Research Institute

🇺🇸

Atlantis, Florida, United States

Bradenton Research Center, Inc.

🇺🇸

Bradenton, Florida, United States

Renstar Medical Research

🇺🇸

Ocala, Florida, United States

Mayo Clinic in Florida

🇺🇸

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Medical Research Health and Education Foundation, Inc

🇺🇸

Columbus, Georgia, United States

McLean Hospital

🇺🇸

Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

Boston Center for Memory

🇺🇸

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

NeuroStudies.net, LLC

🇺🇸

Decatur, Georgia, United States

Empire Neurology, PC

🇺🇸

Latham, New York, United States

ActivMed Practices & Research

🇺🇸

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

🇺🇸

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

🇺🇸

New York, New York, United States

Ohio State University Medical Center

🇺🇸

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Penn Memory Center

🇺🇸

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

🇺🇸

Houston, Texas, United States

University of Utah Health Sciences Center

🇺🇸

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Clinical Neuroscience Research Association, Inc

🇺🇸

Bennington, Vermont, United States

A.Z. Klina

🇧🇪

Brasschaat, Belgium

AZ Sint-Jan Brugge

🇧🇪

Brugge, Belgium

Centre Neurologique & de Réadaptation Fonctionnelle

🇧🇪

Fraiture, Belgium

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

🇧🇪

Bruxelles, Belgium

AZ Groeninge - Campus Kennedylaan

🇧🇪

Kortrijk, Belgium

UZ Leuven

🇧🇪

Leuven, Belgium

Health Research.

🇨🇦

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Health Research

🇨🇦

West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

True North Clinical Research - Halifax Inc.

🇨🇦

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

St. Joseph's HC- Parkwood Institute

🇨🇦

London, Ontario, Canada

JBN Medical Diagnostic Services Inc.

🇨🇦

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

True North Clinical Research Kentville, Inc

🇨🇦

Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bruyere Continuing Care

🇨🇦

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

DIEX Recherche Sherbrooke Inc.

🇨🇦

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Terveystalo Kamppi

🇫🇮

Helsinki, Finland

Douglas Hospital Research Centre

🇨🇦

Verdun, Quebec, Canada

Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Aivotutkimusyksikkö

🇫🇮

Kuopio, Finland

CRST, Clinical Research Services Turku

🇫🇮

Turku, Finland

CHU de Toulouse - Hôpital Purpan

🇫🇷

Toulouse cedex 9, Haute Garonne, France

Hopital Roger Salengro - CHU Lille

🇫🇷

Lille Cedex, Nord, France

Hôpital Gui de Chauliac

🇫🇷

Montpellier, Herault, France

CHU Nantes - Hopital Nord Laënnec

🇫🇷

Nantes cedex 1, Loire Atlantique, France

Hôpital des Charpennes

🇫🇷

Villeurbanne, Rhone, France

Hôpital Fernand Widal

🇫🇷

Paris, France

Klinik Hohe Warte Bayreuth

🇩🇪

Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany

Institut fuer Schlaganfall- und Demenzforschung (ISD)

🇩🇪

Muenchen, Bayern, Germany

Universitaetsklinikum Ulm

🇩🇪

Ulm, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany

Neuro Centrum Odenwald

🇩🇪

Erbach, Hessen, Germany

Universitaetsklinikum Duesseldorf AoeR

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Duesseldorf, Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany

Universitaetsklinikum Muenster

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Muenster, Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany

Universitaetsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz

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Mainz, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany

Kopfzentrum Leipzig

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Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

Klinikum Altenburger Land GmbH

🇩🇪

Altenburg, Thueringen, Germany

emovis GmbH

🇩🇪

Berlin, Germany

Ospedale degli Infermi

🇮🇹

Ponderano, Biella, Italy

Neurologie im Tempelhofer Hafen

🇩🇪

Berlin, Germany

ASST di Monza

🇮🇹

Monza, Milano, Italy

Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico Paolo Giaccone

🇮🇹

Palermo, Italy

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta

🇮🇹

Milano, Italy

Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS

🇮🇹

Roma, Italy

Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne

🇵🇱

Gdansk, Poland

Alzheimer Research Center

🇳🇱

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Erasmus Medisch Centrum

🇳🇱

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Research site

🇯🇵

Himeji-shi, Hyogo-Ken, Japan

Umberto I Pol. di Roma-Università di Roma La Sapienza

🇮🇹

Roma, Italy

PALLMED Sp. z o.o.

🇵🇱

Bydgoszcz, Poland

SPZOZ Centralny Szpital Kliniczny UM w Lodzi

🇵🇱

Lodz, Poland

Centrum Diagnostyczno - Terapeutyczne "MEDICUS" Sp.z o.o.

🇵🇱

Lubin, Poland

NZOZ "NEURO-KARD", "Ilkowski i Partnerzy" Sp. Partn. Lek.

🇵🇱

Poznan, Poland

Samodzielny Publiczny Szpital Kliniczny Nr 4 w Lublinie

🇵🇱

Lublin, Poland

Osrodek Badan Klinicznych EUROMEDIS

🇵🇱

Szczecin, Poland

mMED Maciej Czarnecki

🇵🇱

Warszawa, Poland

ALTHAIA Hospital Sant Joan de Deu

🇪🇸

Manresa, Barcelona, Spain

Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía

🇪🇸

Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain

Hospital Universitari Quiron Dexeus

🇪🇸

Barcelona, Spain

Skånes Universitetssjukhus, Malmö

🇸🇪

Malmö, Sweden

Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

🇪🇸

Barcelona, Spain

Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset, Mölndal Sjukhus

🇸🇪

Mölndal, Sweden

Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova

🇪🇸

Lleida, Spain

Akademiska Sjukhuset

🇸🇪

Uppsala, Sweden

Medizinisches Zentrum MZB Biel

🇨🇭

Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

Universitären Psychiatrischen Kliniken Basel (UPK)

🇨🇭

Basel, Switzerland

Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Huddinge

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Stockholm, Sweden

Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève - HUG

🇨🇭

Geneve 14, Switzerland

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

🇨🇭

Lausanne, Switzerland

Institut fuer Regenerative Medizin (IREM) der Universitaet Zuerich, Zentrum fuer Praevention und Demenztherapie

🇨🇭

Schlieren, Switzerland

Ospedale Civico

🇨🇭

Lugano, Switzerland

Infinity Clinical Research, LLC

🇺🇸

Hollywood, Florida, United States

Hospital del Mar

🇪🇸

Barcelona, Spain

Recherches Neuro-Hippocampe Inc.

🇨🇦

Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

Institute for Memory Impairments

🇺🇸

Irvine, California, United States

Pacific Neuroscience Medical Group

🇺🇸

Oxnard, California, United States

Associated Neurologists of Southern Connecticut, PC

🇺🇸

Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Quantum Laboratories Inc.

🇺🇸

Deerfield Beach, Florida, United States

Meridien Research

🇺🇸

Brooksville, Florida, United States

Weill Cornell Medical College-New York Presbyterian Hospital

🇺🇸

New York, New York, United States

Northwest Neurological, PLLC

🇺🇸

Spokane, Washington, United States

Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent

🇧🇪

Gent, Belgium

AZ Delta

🇧🇪

Roeselare, Belgium

Kawartha Regional Memory Clinic

🇨🇦

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Recherche Sepmus, Inc.

🇨🇦

Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada

Centre de Recherche Clinique du Gérontopôle - Cité de la Santé

🇫🇷

Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France

CHU Rennes - Hopital Pontchaillou

🇫🇷

Rennes cedex 09, Ille Et Vilaine, France

Bezirkskrankenhaus Guenzburg

🇩🇪

Gunzburg, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany

ISPG - Institut fuer Studien zur Psychischen Gesundheit

🇩🇪

Mannheim, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany

Nervenfachaerztlichen Gemeinschaftspraxis Ulm

🇩🇪

Ulm, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany

Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU Muenchen

🇩🇪

Muenchen, Bayern, Germany

Neuropraxis Muenchen Sued

🇩🇪

Unterhaching, Bayern, Germany

Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH

🇩🇪

Chemnitz, Sachsen, Germany

Azienda Ospedaliera Card. G. Panico

🇮🇹

Tricase, Lecce, Italy

Azienda Ospedaliera di Perugia Ospedale S. Maria della Misericordia

🇮🇹

Perugia, Italy

Research Site

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Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-Ken, Japan

Neuro-Care Gabriela Klodowska

🇵🇱

Slaskie, Poland

NZOZ "SENIOR" Poradnia Psychogeriatryczna

🇵🇱

Sopot, Poland

Clinica Universidad de Navarra

🇪🇸

Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

Hospital General Universitario de Elche

🇪🇸

Elche, Alicante, Spain

Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena

🇪🇸

Sevilla, Spain

Senior Adult Specialty Research

🇺🇸

Austin, Texas, United States

Wake Forest Baptist Health

🇺🇸

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

University Of Colorado Denver

🇺🇸

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Yale University School Of Medicine

🇺🇸

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

PMG Research of Winston-Salem, LLC

🇺🇸

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Clinical Neuroscience Solutions, Inc.

🇺🇸

Orlando, Florida, United States

Axiom Clinical Research of Florida

🇺🇸

Tampa, Florida, United States

Novo-Med Zielinski i wspolnicy Sp. j.

🇵🇱

Katowice, Poland

Centrum Medyczne Medyk

🇵🇱

Rzeszow, Poland

Neurologiczny NZOZ Centrum Leczenia SM

🇵🇱

Plewiska, Poland

Podlaskie Centrum Psychogeriatrii

🇵🇱

Bialystok, Poland

Schwerpunktpraxis fuer Neurologie, Psychiatrie und Klinische Studien

🇩🇪

Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Rhode Island Hospital

🇺🇸

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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