Platform Trial to Delay Stage 3 Diabetes: Comparing Teplizumab With ATG

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phasePhase 2
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age4-34
SponsorNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

About this trial

This is a 2-arm, multi-center, open label study to learn if ATG works the same or better than teplizumab in delaying or preventing Stage 3 Type 1 diabetes. Participants will be administered either 2 infusions of ATG or 14 infusions of teplizumab and will then be followed for at least 12-48 months after administration, depending on timepoint enrolled into the study. If the primary endpoint demonstrates a positive signal and as decided by TrialNet, there is potential for a study extention. This would extend follow-up visits for a possible study duration of about 9 years among the earliest enrollees of the initial study.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Willing to provide informed consent or have a parent or legal guardians provide informed consent when the participant is <18 years of age.

Aged ≥4 to <35 years

A history of at least two or more diabetes-related biochemical autoantibodies (mIAA, GADA, ICA, IA-2A, ZnT8A) present on the same sample. In the absence of other antibodies, ICA and GADA positivity alone will not suffice for eligibility in this trial.

Participants must meet ADA stage 2 T1D glycemic criteria* by TrialNet testing within 100 days of the baseline visit.

Disqualifiers

Immunodeficiency or clinically significant chronic lymphopenia: (Leukopenia (<3,000 leukocytes/μL), neutropenia (<1,500 neutrophils/μL), lymphopenia (<800 lymphocytes/μL), thrombocytopenia (<100,000 platelets/μL).

Hemoglobin less than 13 g/dL for adult men and less than 11.5g/dL for adult females and less than 11 g/dL for participants under age 18.

Active signs or symptoms of acute or chronic infection at the time of the baseline visit including SARS-Cov-2.

Uncontrolled autoimmune thyroid disease and/or celiac disease (participants must be well controlled for the previous 6 months).

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Antithymocyte Globulin (ATG)

    Drug

    Thymoglobulin

  • Teplizumab

    Drug

    Intravenous infusions of teplizumab given for 14 consecutive days. Each infusion takes about 30 minutes and is followed by an observation period of at least 30 minutes.

Treatment groups

60 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: ATGExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: TeplizumabActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Change in DPTRS at six months

DPTRS is calculated as DPTRS = (1.569 x log-BMI) - (0.056 x age) + (0.813 x glucose sum from 30 to 120 min /100) - (0.848 x C-peptide sum from 30 to 120 min/10) + (0.476 x log-fasting C-peptide), where the units are years for age, kg/m2 for BMI, mg/dl for glucose, ng/ml for C-peptide

Time frame
6 months after completion of study drug administration

Secondary outcomes

1

Progression to Stage 3 T1D

Elapsed time from study drug administration to the development of diabetes or time of last contact among those randomized

Time frame
6 months after study drug administration
2

OGTT glucose AUC

Mean area under the stimulated glucose curve (AUC) over the 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test.

Time frame
6 months after study drug administration
3

M120 score

This is an aggregated score from multiple measurements calculated as follows: M120 = 0.448×(sex) + 0.631×(IA-2A) - 0.0302×(age) + 0.0605×(BMI) \+ 1.380×(HbA1c) + 0.0265×(120 min glucose) - 0.191×(120 min C-peptide), where the units for BMI, age, glucose, C-peptide and HbA1c are, respectively, kg/m2, years, mg/dl, ng/ml and percentage units. Sex was assigned a score of 1 for male and 2 for female, and IA-2A status assigned 0 for absent and 1 for present. Glucose is converted from mmol/l to mg/dl by multiplying by 18; C-peptide is converted from nmol/l to ng/ml by dividing by 3.00; and HbA1c is converted from mmol/mol to percentage units by adding 23.5 and then dividing by 10.93.

Time frame
6 months after study drug administration
4

Index 60

This is an aggregated score from multiple measurements calculated as follows: Index60 = 0.3695×loge(fasting C-peptide) + 0.0165×(60 min glucose) - 0.3644×(60 min C-peptide), where the units for glucose and C-peptide are, respectively, mg/dl and ng/ml. Glucose is converted from mmol/l to mg/dl by multiplying by 18; C-peptide is converted from nmol/l to ng/ml by dividing by 3.00.

Time frame
6 months after study drug administration

Other outcomes

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