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An Extension Study to Evaluate the Long-term Safety and Efficacy of Pegcetacoplan (APL-2) in Subjects With Geographic Atrophy Secondary to AMD

Phase 3
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Geographic Atrophy Secondary to Age-related Macular Degeneration
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT04770545
Lead Sponsor
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Brief Summary

This is a phase 3, open-label, multicenter, extension study to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of pegcetacoplan (APL-2) in subjects with geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) who participated in Study APL2-103 (NCT03777332) or completed the treatment at Month 24 of either Study APL2-303 (Derby, NCT03525613) or Study APL2-304 (Oaks, NCT03525600).

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1200
Inclusion Criteria

Participants are eligible to be included in the study only if all of the following criteria apply:

Ocular-specific inclusion criteria apply to the study eye only.

  • Subjects must have participated in APL2-103 (NCT03777332) or completed the treatment at Month 24 of either APL2-303 (Derby, NCT03525613) or APL2-304 (Oaks, NCT03525600).

  • For subjects who participated in either the 303 or 304 studies, the condition listed below must also be met for participating in this study.

    • Subjects who did not fully stop study drug treatment, but missed the visit at Month 24, can also participate in the study. However, to participate, subjects must be seen within 60 days from the last day of the period allowed for the 24 months visit in the previous study.
  • The eyes of subjects must have transparency to permit visualization of parts inside the eye such as the retina and subjects must be able to look steadily at a provided target allowing the doctor to get good quality pictures from the eye.

  • Female subjects must be:

    • Women that cannot have children, or
    • Women who can have children must have a negative result of a blood pregnancy test on the first day of the study visit and agree to use ways to avoid pregnancy during the study and 90 days after the last dose of the study medication.
  • Males with female partners who can get pregnant must also agree to use ways to avoid pregnancy and agree not to donate sperm while in the study or until 90 days after administering the last dose of the study medication.

  • Agree to participate in the study by signing the consent document providing information about the study; and take part in all tests and assessments as required.

Exclusion Criteria

Subjects cannot take part in the study if the eye that will be treated during the study currently meets any of the following conditions:

  • Participants in APL2 303/304 studies who fully stopped study drug treatment before the visit in month 24 but remain in the study to observe the study medication's safety. Those subjects who temporarily paused study drug treatment are still eligible to participate.
  • If, according to your doctor you currently have any disease affecting your eyes that could interfere with your vision, including diseases that affect your retina or macula (the center of the back of your eyes). And, if according to your doctor, the disease in your eyes is benign and does not interfere with the study (e.g. diseases that affects the periphery of the retina), you are also eligible to take part in the study.
  • If, according to your doctor you currently have any inflammation/infection in or around your eyes that could prohibit you from receiving an injection inside your eyes.
  • If, according to your doctor, any current disease that could directly interfere in your participation in the study or that could make it difficult for you to come to the scheduled visits during the next three yearsover the next 36 months.
  • If you have known allergies to fluorescein sodium, a solution that is injected into your body for eye testing; or to pegcetacoplan (the study drug) or any inactive substances in pegcetacoplan solution.
  • If you currently are pregnant, breastfeed or have a positive pregnancy test.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Pegcetacoplan, 15 mg/100 μL, monthly for up to 36 monthsPEGCETACOPLAN (APL-2)Participants from Study APL2-103 (NCT03777332) or those who completed the treatment at Month 24 from either Study APL2-303 (Derby, NCT03525613) or Study APL2-304 (Oaks, NCT03525600) and were administered monthly intravitreal (IVT) pegcetacoplan (15 mg/100 μL) or monthly sham will receive IVT pegcetacoplan (15 mg/100 μL) monthly for up to approximately 36 months.
Pegcetacoplan, 15 mg/100 μL, every other month (EOM) for up to 36 monthsPEGCETACOPLAN (APL-2)Participants from Study APL2-103 (NCT03777332) or those who completed the treatment at Month 24 from either Study APL2-303 (Derby, NCT03525613) or Study APL2-304 (Oaks, NCT03525600) and were administered every other month (EOM) intravitreal (IVT) pegcetacoplan (15 mg/100 μL) or EOM sham will receive IVT pegcetacoplan (15 mg/100 μL) EOM for up to approximately 36 months.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Incidence and severity of ocular and systemic adverse eventsUp to 36 Months
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change from baseline in LL-BCVA score (study eye)Up to 36 Months

LL-BCVA score as assessed by ETDRS chart at Month 12, Month 24, and Month 36

Change from baseline in the total area of GA lesion(s) in the study eye (in mm2)Up to 36 Months

The total area of GA lesion(s) in the study eye (in mm2) as assessed by FAF at Month 12, Month 24, and Month 36

Change from baseline in NL-BCVA score (study eye)Up to 36 Months

NL-BCVA score as assessed by Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) chart at Month 12, Month 24, and Month 36

Trial Locations

Locations (167)

Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

🇺🇸

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The Ohio State University

🇺🇸

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston

🇺🇸

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Retinal Diagnostic Center

🇺🇸

Campbell, California, United States

California Retina Consultants

🇺🇸

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Retina Consultants of Orange County

🇺🇸

Fullerton, California, United States

National Opthalmic Research Institute

🇺🇸

Fort Myers, Florida, United States

Rush University Medical Center

🇺🇸

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Elman Retina Group

🇺🇸

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

New England Retina Consultants, PC

🇺🇸

Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Associated Retinal Consultants, PC

🇺🇸

Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Sierra Eye Associates

🇺🇸

Reno, Nevada, United States

Vision Research Center Eye Associates of NM

🇺🇸

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Graystone Eye

🇺🇸

Hickory, North Carolina, United States

Retina Vitreous Center, PLLC

🇺🇸

Edmond, Oklahoma, United States

Oregon Retina LLP

🇺🇸

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Brown Retina Institute

🇺🇸

Bellaire, Texas, United States

IPEPO Instituto Da Visao

🇧🇷

São Paulo, Brazil

Centre ophtalmologique Saint-Exupery

🇫🇷

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Lyon, France

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

🇮🇱

Tel Aviv, Israel

Oxford Eye Hospital

🇬🇧

Oxford, United Kingdom

Retina Consultants of Houston, PA

🇺🇸

Houston, Texas, United States

Retina Associates of South Texas

🇺🇸

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Retina and Vitreous Associates of Kentucky, PSC dba Retina Associates of Kentucky

🇺🇸

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Georgia Retina, PC

🇺🇸

Marietta, Georgia, United States

Charlotte Eye Ear Nose and Throat Associates, PS

🇺🇸

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Western Carolina Retinal Associates

🇺🇸

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute

🇺🇸

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Texas Retina Associates

🇺🇸

Dallas, Texas, United States

Valley Retina Institute

🇺🇸

McAllen, Texas, United States

Duke University, Duke Eye Center

🇺🇸

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Tennessee Retina, PC

🇺🇸

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

University of Utah - John A. Moran Center

🇺🇸

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Vitreoretinal Surgery

🇺🇸

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Retinal Research Institue, LLC

🇺🇸

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Associated Retina Consultants, Ltd.

🇺🇸

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Retina Northwest, PC

🇺🇸

Portland, Oregon, United States

Eye Health Northwest

🇺🇸

Portland, Oregon, United States

Retina Associates of Florida

🇺🇸

Tampa, Florida, United States

University of South Florida

🇺🇸

Tampa, Florida, United States

The Retina Partners

🇺🇸

Encino, California, United States

Doheny Eye Center UCLA

🇺🇸

Los Angeles, California, United States

Jacobs Retina Center, UCSD

🇺🇸

La Jolla, California, United States

Atlantis Eyecare

🇺🇸

Huntington Beach, California, United States

Orange County Retina Medical Group

🇺🇸

Santa Ana, California, United States

Retina Consultants San Diego

🇺🇸

Poway, California, United States

Northern California Retina Vitreous Associates

🇺🇸

Mountain View, California, United States

Retina Institute of California Medical Group

🇺🇸

Palm Desert, California, United States

Bay Area Retina Associates

🇺🇸

Walnut Creek, California, United States

Southwest Retina Research Center, LLC

🇺🇸

Durango, Colorado, United States

Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University

🇺🇸

Palo Alto, California, United States

Florida Eye Microsurgical Institute, Inc.

🇺🇸

Boynton Beach, Florida, United States

Danbury Eye Physicians & Surgeons, PC

🇺🇸

Danbury, Connecticut, United States

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

🇺🇸

Miami, Florida, United States

Palm Beach Gardens

🇺🇸

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States

Eye Associates of Pinellas

🇺🇸

Pinellas Park, Florida, United States

Center for Retina and Macular Disease

🇺🇸

Winter Haven, Florida, United States

Southeast Retina Center, PC

🇺🇸

Augusta, Georgia, United States

Gailey Eye Clinic Retina Center

🇺🇸

Bloomington, Illinois, United States

Midwest Eye Institute

🇺🇸

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

The Retina Care Center

🇺🇸

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

The Retina Group of Washington

🇺🇸

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Cumberland Valley Retina Center

🇺🇸

Hagerstown, Maryland, United States

Mid Atlantic Retina Specialist

🇺🇸

Hagerstown, Maryland, United States

NJ Retina

🇺🇸

Toms River, New Jersey, United States

Long Island Vitreoretinal Consultants

🇺🇸

Great Neck, New York, United States

Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York

🇺🇸

New York, New York, United States

Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island

🇺🇸

Oceanside, New York, United States

Retina Associates of Cleveland, Inc.

🇺🇸

Youngstown, Ohio, United States

Retina Associates of Cleveland

🇺🇸

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Mid Atlantic Retina

🇺🇸

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Retina Vitreous Consultants

🇺🇸

Monroeville, Pennsylvania, United States

AIO Visionary Eye Care

🇺🇸

West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States

Black Hills Regional Eye Institute

🇺🇸

Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Charles Retina Institute

🇺🇸

Germantown, Tennessee, United States

Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates

🇺🇸

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Retina Research Center PLLC

🇺🇸

Austin, Texas, United States

Houston Eye Associates

🇺🇸

Houston, Texas, United States

Retina Consultants of Houston

🇺🇸

The Woodlands, Texas, United States

University of Virginia

🇺🇸

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Vitreoretinal Associates of Washington

🇺🇸

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Emerson Clinical Research Institute

🇺🇸

Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Centro Oftalmologico Dr. Charles S.A.

🇦🇷

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Spokane Eye Clinical Research

🇺🇸

Spokane, Washington, United States

OFTAR

🇦🇷

Mendoza, Argentina

Fundacion Zambrano

🇦🇷

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Microcirujia Ocular Rosario

🇦🇷

Rosario, Argentina

Marsden Eye Specialist

🇦🇺

Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

Oftalmologos Especialistas

🇦🇷

Santa Fe, Argentina

The Ashley Centre

🇦🇺

Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

Lions Eye Institute

🇦🇺

Nedlands, Australia

Centre for Eye Research Australia

🇦🇺

East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sydney Retina

🇦🇺

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Strathfield Retina Clinic

🇦🇺

Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia

Retina and Eye Consultantss

🇦🇺

Hurstville, Australia

Save Sight Institute

🇦🇺

Westmead, Australia

Ivey Eye Institute

🇨🇦

London, Ontario, Canada

University of Ottawa Eye Institute

🇨🇦

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Fakultni Nemocnice Ostrava

🇨🇿

Ostrava-Poruba, Czechia

Retina Centre of Ottawa

🇨🇦

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

University hospital Kralovske Vinohrady

🇨🇿

Prague, Czechia

Vseobecna fakultni nemocnice v Praze

🇨🇿

Praha, Czechia

Gemini Eye Clinic

🇨🇿

Zlín, Czechia

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Creteil

🇫🇷

Créteil cedex, France

CHU de Bordeaux

🇫🇷

Bordeaux, France

CHU Dijon

🇫🇷

Dijon, France

CHU de Nantes - Hotel Dieu

🇫🇷

Nantes Cedex, France

Hopital Lariboisiere

🇫🇷

Paris, France

CHNO des Quinze-Vingts

🇫🇷

Paris, France

Maison Rouge Ophthalmologic Center

🇫🇷

Strasbourg, France

CHU de Strasbourg Hopital Civil

🇫🇷

Strasbourg, France

Clinique du Val d'Ouest

🇫🇷

Écully, France

University Opthalmology Clinic

🇩🇪

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Universitats-Augenklinik Bonn

🇩🇪

Bonn, Germany

Uniklinik Koln

🇩🇪

Cologne, Germany

Uni-medizin Gottingen Augenklinik 3.B1.261

🇩🇪

Göttingen, Germany

Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen gGmbH

🇩🇪

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Universitatsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein

🇩🇪

Lübeck, Germany

Klinikum rechts der Isar

🇩🇪

München, Germany

Augenklinik der LMU Munchen

🇩🇪

München, Germany

Augenzentrum am St. Franziskus-Hospital

🇩🇪

Münster, Germany

Universitatsklinikum Regensburg

🇩🇪

Münster, Germany

Universitatsklinikum Munster

🇩🇪

Münster, Germany

Assaf ha Rofeh MC

🇮🇱

Be'er Ya'akov, Israel

STZ Eyetrial

🇩🇪

Tübingen, Germany

Rambam Health Care Campus

🇮🇱

Haifa, Israel

Hadassah Medical Center

🇮🇱

Jerusalem, Israel

ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Ospedale Luigi Sacco

🇮🇹

Milano, Italy

IRCCS San Raffaele

🇮🇹

Milano, Italy

Academisch Medisch Centrum

🇳🇱

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Southern Eye Specialists

🇳🇿

Christchurch, New Zealand

Eye Surgery Center Professor Zagorski

🇵🇱

Bydgoszcz, Poland

UNO-MED Centrum Medyne

🇵🇱

Tarnów, Poland

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

🇬🇧

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Instituto Oftalmologico Gomez-Ulla

🇪🇸

Santiago De Compostela, Spain

Grupo Laser Vision

🇵🇱

Rzeszów, Poland

Oftalmika Eye Hospital

🇵🇱

Bydgoszcz, Poland

Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro

🇪🇸

Madrid, Spain

St James's University Hospital

🇬🇧

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Bristol Eye Hospital

🇬🇧

Bristol, United Kingdom

Kings College Hospital NHS Trust

🇬🇧

London, United Kingdom

Sunderland Eye Infirmary

🇬🇧

Sunderland, United Kingdom

London Vision Clinic

🇬🇧

London, United Kingdom

AXON Clinical, s.r.o.

🇨🇿

Prague, Czechia

Retina Center of NJ, LLC

🇺🇸

Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States

Michigan Medicine Kellogg Eye Center

🇺🇸

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Pinnacle Research Insitute

🇺🇸

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Retina Group of New England - New London

🇺🇸

Waterford, Connecticut, United States

East Florida Eye Institute

🇺🇸

Stuart, Florida, United States

Tufts Medical Center

🇺🇸

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Centre monticelli Paradis

🇫🇷

Marseille, France

Retina-Vitreous Associates Medical Group

🇺🇸

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Retina Specialty Institute

🇺🇸

Pensacola, Florida, United States

Retina Associates of Utah, PC

🇺🇸

Murray, Utah, United States

Hopital de la Croix-Rousse

🇫🇷

Lyon, France

Oculomedica Eye Centre

🇵🇱

Tarnów, Poland

Centre Ophtalmol de l Odeon

🇫🇷

Paris, France

Blue Ocean Clinical Research

🇺🇸

Clearwater, Florida, United States

Radboud university medical center Oogheelkunde

🇳🇱

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Diagnostico Ocular

🇦🇷

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Retina Health Center

🇺🇸

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Organizacion Medica de Investigacion (OMI)

🇦🇷

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Instituto Oftalmologico de Cordoba

🇦🇷

Córdoba, Argentina

Hamilton Eye Clinic

🇳🇿

Hamilton, New Zealand

Centre Ophtalmo. Image/Laser

🇫🇷

Paris, France

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at Naples

🇺🇸

Naples, Florida, United States

Royal Liverpool University Hospital

🇬🇧

Liverpool, United Kingdom

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