A Double-blind Study Evaluating the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Zorevunersen in Patients With Dravet Syndrome
Study Details
EMPEROR: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Sham-controlled, Parallel Group, Phase 3 Study Evaluating the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Zorevunersen (STK-001) in Patients With Dravet Syndrome
Conditions: Dravet Syndrome
Study ID:
NEU24048 (STK-001-DS-301)
Study Description
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of zorevunersen in Patients with Dravet syndrome.
Eligibility Requirements
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients must be ≥2 and <18 years of age.
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Patients must have a clinical diagnosis of DS confirmed by the Epilepsy Study Consortium, Inc. (ESCI) and as defined by:
Onset, prior to 12 months of age, of recurrent focal with motor signs, hemiclonic, or generalized tonic-clonic seizures.No other known etiology causing clinical DS manifestations..
- Patient must have a documented pathogenic, likely pathogenic variant, or variant of uncertain significance in the sodium voltage-gated channel type 1 alpha subunit (SCN1A) gene. Patients who have SCN1A testing results of Negative (no variants identified) cannot be randomized.
- Patient must experience the required number of major motor seizures during the 6-week Observation Period. Major motor seizure types included are Seizure types included in counts are Hemiclonic, Focal with Motor Signs, Focal to Bilateral Tonic-Clonic, Generalized Tonic-Clonic, Tonic, Tonic/Atonic (Drop Attacks with fall or risk of fall), and Bilateral Clonic.
- Patient must have used at least 2 prior interventions for seizures. These can include anti-seizure medications (ASMs), ketogenic diet and/or vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with either lack of adequate seizure control or discontinued due to an AE(s). These interventions can be ongoing therapies.
- Patient must be taking at least one ASM. Benzodiazepines or ASMs used on a standing basis (i.e., not as needed [PRN]) for any indication will be considered an ASM.
- Patients' maintenance ASMs and interventions for seizures (i.e., ketogenic diet or VNS), as well as any marijuana- or cannabinoid-based products, must have been stable (unless adjusted for weight) during the Baseline Period.
Exclusion Criteria
- Patient has documented variant in the SCN1A gene associated with gain-of-function
- Patient is currently treated with a maintenance ASM acting primarily as a sodium channel blocker, including but not limited to phenytoin, carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine, lacosamide, rufinamide, or cenobamate, given the mechanism of action of zorevunersen.
- Patient is currently treated with neuromodulation techniques (e.g., responsive neurostimulation, deep brain stimulation, or transcranial magnetic stimulation), with the exception of VNS.
- Patient has emergence of a new seizure type or reemergence of a past seizure type (seizure types that last occurred more than 12 months before Screening Visit A) during the Baseline Period, or has more than 1 hospitalization for seizures during the Baseline Period.
Principal Investigator
Matt Lallas
More Information
To learn more visit: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06872125.
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