Clinical Trial to Compare the Efficacy of Celiprolol to Placebo in Patients With Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 3
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age15-64
SponsorAcer Therapeutics Inc.

About this trial

This is a prospective, Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled efficacy study to evaluate celiprolol in patients genetically confirmed as COL3A1-positive vEDS using a decentralized clinical trial design.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Willingness to obtain magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) image at local imaging facility.

A genetic test confirming the presence of a pathogenic COL3A1 variant (classified as likely pathogenic or pathogenic according to ACMG/AMP Guidelines.

Patients must be ≥ 15 years of age at the time of randomization.

Able and willing to discontinue use of β-blockers prior to randomization.

Disqualifiers

Lack of a COL3A1-positive test at screening (e.g., COL3A1 benign, likely benign, variant of unknown significance [VUS] or no variant) or presence of a COL3A1 variant but demonstration of a COL3A1 variant reported to be a haploinsufficiency variant.

Arterial rupture or dissection, uterine rupture, and/or intestinal rupture within 6 months prior to Screening.

Patients unable to discontinue β-blocker treatment prior to randomization.

Unable or unwilling to complete the study procedures.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • ACER-002 (celiprolol) 200 mg BID
  • Placebo BID

Treatment groups

150 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators