Overview

DUR-928 in Patients With Alcoholic Hepatitis

Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-09-24
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
The proposed study is An Open-Label, Dose Escalation Study to Assess the Safety, and Pharmacodynamics (PD) signals of DUR 928 in Patients with AH. DUR-928 will be administered in 100 mL 5% dextrose or 0.9% sodium chloride by slow intravenous infusion over 2 hrs (50mL/h) until entire dose is given at Day 1 and Day 4. If a patient meets the hospital discharge criteria prior to the 2nd dose, the patient will receive only one dose of DUR-928 instead of 2 doses.
Phase:
Phase 2
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Craig James McClain
Collaborator:
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

1. Able to provide written informed consent (either from patient or patient's legally
acceptable representative)

2. Male or female patients 21 years of age or older with BMI ≥ 20 to ≤ 40 kg/m2

3. Patients with alcoholic hepatitis defined as:

1. History of heavy alcohol abuse: > 40 g/day in females or > 60 g/day in males for
a minimum period of 6 months, AND

2. Consumed alcohol within 12 weeks of entry into the study, AND

3. Serum bilirubin > 3 mg/dL AND AST > ALT, but less than 300 U/L AND

4. MELD score between 11-30, inclusive

4. No evidence of active infection as determined by the investigator. If infection is
initially suspected clinically,

1. blood cultures, urine cultures, and peritoneal cultures should be without growth
for 48 hrs, AND

2. peritoneal cell count should be less than 250 Polymorphonuclear cell (PMN)/ml. If
infection is diagnosed, then the infection must be

1. treated with antibiotics, AND

2. documented negative blood cultures for 48 hrs, or for spontaneous bacterial
peritonitis (SBP) 25% reduction in PMN count prior to enrollment.

5. Women of child-bearing potential (defined as females who are not surgically sterile or
who are not over the age of 52 and amenorrheic for at least 12 months) must utilize
appropriate birth control throughout the study duration. Acceptable methods that may
be used are abstinence, birth control pills ("The Pill") or patch, diaphragm,
intrauterine device (IUD/ coil), vaginal ring, condom, surgical sterilization or
progestin implant or injection, or sexual activity limited to a sterile (e.g.,
vasectomized) male partner.

6. Male patients must agree to use a medically acceptable method of contraception/birth
control throughout the study duration.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Other or concomitant cause(s) of liver disease as a result of:

1. Autoimmune liver disease (positive anti-mitochondrial antibody and smooth muscle
antibody, positive reading on anti-nuclear antibody titer > 1:160)

2. Wilson disease (ceruloplasmin levels < 10 mcg/L)

3. Vascular liver disease

4. Drug induced liver disease

5. Surface antigen positive hepatitis B (HBsAg+). Note: patients with isolated core
antibody (HBcAb) are not excluded.

6. Acute hepatitis A

7. Acute HCV or chronic hepatitis C with a history of decompensated cirrhosis. Note:
patients with stable chronic Hep C Virus (HCV) or successfully treated HCV are
not excluded.

2. Co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

3. Positive Urine Drug Screen (amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine and
opiates) except THC and legal prescription medications.

4. Any active malignancies other than curatively treated skin cancer (basal cell or
squamous cell carcinomas) or any other malignancy diagnosed within the last five years

5. Active tuberculosis on chest x-ray at study entry

6. Significant systemic or major illness other than liver disease, including coronary
artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, pulmonary disease, renal failure, serious
psychiatric disease, that, in the opinion of the Investigator would preclude the
patient from participating in and completing the study

7. Patients requiring the use of vasopressors or inotropic support. Prior use of
inotropic support will be allowed if the condition has stabilized within the first 7
days of admission to the hospital

8. Liver biopsy, if carried out, showing findings not compatible with AH

9. Any patient that has received any investigational drug or device within 30 days of
dosing or who is scheduled to receive another investigational drug or device at any
time during the study

10. Patients who are taking drug products that are primarily the substrates of CYP2C8,
such as chloroquine, paclitaxel, rosiglitazone, repaglinide

11. If female, known pregnancy, or has a positive serum pregnancy test, or is
lactating/breastfeeding

12. Serum creatinine > 2.5 mg/dL

13. Patients who have had organ transplantation (such as liver, kidney, lung, heart, bone
marrow, or stem cell etc.), other than cornea transplant

14. Stage 3 or greater encephalopathy by West Haven criteria