A 4-week trial evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of GRT6005, a new centrally acting analgesic, in subjects with moderate to severe pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee.

• Register: EUCTR
• Last refreshed on: 19 March 2012
• Main ID: EUCTR2010-022556-23-AT
• Date of registration: 29/06/2011
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: Grünenthal GmbH
• Public title: A 4-week trial evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of GRT6005, a new centrally acting analgesic, in subjects with moderate to severe pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee.
• Scientific title: A randomized 4 week Phase IIa trial evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of GRT6005, a new centrally acting analgesic in subjects with moderate to severe pain due to osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee.
• Date of first enrolment: 28/07/2011
• Target sample size: 170
• Recruitment status: Not Recruiting
• URL: https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/search?query=eudract_number:2010-022556-23
• Study type: Interventional clinical trial of medicinal product
• Study design: Controlled: yes Randomised: yes Open: no Single blind: no Double blind: yes Parallel group: yes Cross over: no Other: no If controlled, specify comparator, Other Medicinial Product: no Placebo: yes Other: no Number of treatment arms in the trial: 4

Countries of recruitment

Austria, Spain

Contacts

• Name: Clinical Development Operations
• Affiliation: Grünenthal GmbH

• Name: Clinical Development Operations
• Affiliation: Grünenthal GmbH

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:
1. Subjects must have signed an informed consent form.
2. Male or female subjects aged 40 years to 75 years inclusive at the Enrollment Visit.
3. Diagnosis of OA of the knee based on American College of Rheumatology criteria and functional capacity class of I-III. Pain must be present for at least 3 months.
4. Subjects must be using medically acceptable and highly effective methods of birth control:
For women of childbearing potential:
A medically acceptable and highly effective method of birth control is defined as any form of contraception with a low failure rate defined as <1% per year. For example:
- Hormonal contraceptives for at least 2 months prior to the Enrollment Visit and at least until 4 weeks after the Final Visit.
- An intra-uterine device.
Additional barrier contraception must be used by the partner for the duration of the trial, defined as from the time of the Enrollment Visit until 4 weeks after the Final Visit. Women of non-childbearing potential may be included if surgically sterile (i.e., after hysterectomy) or post-menopausal for at least 2 years.
For men: Males have to use barrier contraception (condom) during sexual intercourse and not have sex with women who are pregnant or lactating from the first administration of IMP until 4 weeks after the Final Visit. The male subject has to take care that the female sexual partner uses at least 1 additional method of contraception with a low failure rate defined as <1% per year (e.g., oral contraceptives for at least 2 months prior to the Enrollment Visit) during this time frame. A double-barrier method should be supplemented by the use of spermicidal agents.
5. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative urine ß human chorionic gonadotropin (ß-hCG) pregnancy test at the Enrollment Visit and at the Baseline Visit.
6. Subjects must be on stable analgesic medications for their condition with regular intake for at least 3 months prior to the Enrollment Visit according to their medical history and must be dissatisfied with their current analgesic treatment in terms of efficacy and/or tolerability.
7. A daily average pain intensity score =4 on the 11 point numeric rating scale (NRS) during the last 3 days prior to the Baseline Visit without intake of rescue medication, during which a subject completed at least 5 of 6 possible pain intensity assessments of these 3 days.

Are the trial subjects under 18? no
Number of subjects for this age range:
F.1.2 Adults (18-64 years) yes
F.1.2.1 Number of subjects for this age range 170
F.1.3 Elderly (>=65 years) yes
F.1.3.1 Number of subjects for this age range 170

Exclusion criteria:
1. Concurrent participation in another trial, or within 30 days before the Enrollment Visit of this trial.
2. Previous participation in this or other trials with GRT6005 (unless enrollment failure due to technical reason).
3. Previous or current alcohol or drug abuse according to the investigator’s judgment, based on subject’s history, physical examination, or the result of the drug test at the Enrollment Visit or at the Baseline Visit.
4. Previous or current opioid dependency, based on subject’s history, physical examination, or the result of the drug test at the Enrollment Visit or at the Baseline Visit.
5. Female subjects who are breastfeeding.
6. Known or suspected of not being able to comply with the protocol and with the use of the IMP.
7. Any clinically significant disease that in the investigator's opinion may affect efficacy or safety assessments or may compromise the subject’s safety during trial participation, e.g., significant pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrine, metabolic, neurological, or psychiatric disorders.
8. Employees of the investigator, trial site, or sponsor, with direct involvement in the proposed trial or other trials under the direction of that investigator, trial site, or sponsor, as well as family members of employees or the investigator.
9. Subjects with impaired hepatic functionality/cellular integrity determined by bilirubin greater than 2.0 mg/dL and albumin lower than 2.8 g/dL or increased transaminases with alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase greater than 3 times the upper limit of normal at the Enrollment Visit or at the Pre baseline Visit.
10. History of chronic hepatitis B or C, or human immunodeficiency virus infection, or presence of acute hepatitis A, B, or C within the past 3 months.
11. Subjects with impaired renal function. Creatinine clearance less than 60 mL/min at the Enrollment Visit or the Pre-baseline Visit (calculated from the Cockcroft-Gault formula).
12. Any chronic gastrointestinal disease (e.g., celiac disease or colitis ulcerosa) or previous major abdominal surgery (e.g., Billroth procedure or enteroanastomosis) that might affect drug absorption or excretion.
13. Significant cardiac disease (e.g., unstable angina pectoris, angina pectoris Canadian Cardiovascular Society Class III-IV, acute myocardial infarction within the last 3 months, cardiac insufficiency New York Heart Association Class III-IV).
14. Presence of risk factors for Torsade de Pointes (e.g., heart failure, hypokalemia, bradycardia).
15. Marked prolongation of QTc >450 ms at the Enrollment Visit or at the Pre baseline Visit.
16. History of seizure disorder and/or epilepsy or any condition associated with a significant risk for seizure disorder or epilepsy at the Enrollment Visit at the discretion of the investigator.
17. History or presence of malignancy, with the exception of curative treated subjects or subjects being in remission of cancer for at least 2 years and not requiring treatment.
Trial specific:
18. Surgery of any joint within 3 months of the Enrollment Visit or any scheduled surgery or painful procedure during the course of the trial.
19. Clinically relevant history of hypersensitivity, allergy, or contraindications to any of the IMP’s excipients as well as to opioids or paracetamol.
20. Presence of conditions other than pain due to OA that could contribute to pain or confound the assessment of self-evaluation of pain,

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:
Female: yes
Male: yes

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Therapeutic area: Diseases [C] - Musculoskeletal Diseases [C05]

Pain due to Osteoarthritis of the knee
MedDRA version: 14.0 Level: LLT Classification code 10023476 Term: Knee osteoarthritis System Organ Class: 10028395 - Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders
MedDRA version: 14.0 Level: PT Classification code 10031161 Term: Osteoarthritis System Organ Class: 10028395 - Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders

Intervention(s)

Product Name: GRT6005 hard capsules (liquid filled with SEDDS_0708)
Product Code: GRT6005
Pharmaceutical Form: Capsule, hard
CAS Number: 863513-91-1
Current Sponsor code: GRT6005, M010239FP, Indolyl-Spiroether pure
Other descriptive name: 6’-Fluoro-4’,9’-dihydro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1’(3’H)-pyrano[3,4-b]indol]-4-amin
Concentration unit: µg microgram(s)
Concentration type: equal
Concentration number: 25-
Pharmaceutical form of the placebo: Capsule, hard
Route of administration of the placebo: Oral use

Product Name: GRT6005 hard capsules (liquid filled with SEDDS_0708)
Product Code: GRT6005
Pharmaceutical Form: Capsule, hard
CAS Number: 863513-91-1
Current Sponsor code: GRT6005, M010239FP, Indolyl-Spiroether pure
Other descriptive name: 6’-Fluoro-4’,9’-dihydro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1’(3’H)-pyrano[3,4-b]indol]-4-amin
Concentration unit: µg microgram(s)
Concentration type: equal
Concentration number: 50-
Pharmaceutical form of the placebo: Capsule, hard
Route of administration of the placebo: Oral use

Product Name: GRT6005 hard capsules (liquid filled with SEDDS_0708)
Product Code: GRT6005
Pharmaceutical Form: Capsule, hard
CAS Number: 863513-91-1
Current Sponsor code: GRT6005, M010239FP, Indolyl-Spiroether pure
Other descriptive name: 6’-Fluoro-4’,9’-dihydro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1’(3’H)-pyrano[3,4-b]indol]-4-amin
Concentration unit: µg microgram(s)
Concentration type: equal
Concentration number: 200-
Pharmaceutical form of the placebo: Capsule, hard
Route of administration of the placebo: Oral use

Primary Outcome(s)

Primary end point(s): Change from baseline in the pain intensity scores (on an 11 point NRS) during the last week of the 4 week Treatment Period. The pain intensity scores will be evaluated as the mean of the 2 average pain intensity assessments over the last 12 hours.

Secondary Objective: To evaluate the safety and tolerability of fixed doses of 75 µg, 200 µg, and 400 µg GRT6005 once daily compared to placebo in subjects with moderate to severe pain due to OA of the knee.
To investigate the relationship between exposure to GRT6005 and analgesic efficacy and tolerability.
To describe multiple dose kinetics of GRT6005 over 4 weeks in subjects with pain due to OA of the knee.

Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point: Complete last week of treatment

Main Objective: To explore the analgesic efficacy of fixed doses of 75 µg, 200 µg, and 400 µg GRT6005 once daily compared to placebo in subjects with moderate to severe pain due to OA of the knee.

Secondary Outcome(s)

Secondary end point(s): a) Assessment of different responder definitions.
b) Change from baseline in the pain intensity scores.
c) Change from baseline in the pain intensity scores per week.
d) Weekly mean of current pain intensity in the morning and in the evening.
e) Western Ontario MacMaster Questionnaire
f) Quality of Life Index
g) Patient’s Global Impression of Change and Clinician’s Global Impression of Change.
h) Leeds Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire.
i) Assessment of rescue medication usage.
j) Frequency of AEs and percentage of subjects discontinuing the trial due to AEs and drug-related AEs.
k) Time to overall withdrawal and time to withdrawal for specific reasons.
l) Evaluation of the plasma concentration of GRT6005
m) Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Scale

Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point: a) Visit 4, 5, 6, and at the Final Visit.
b) during entire 4-week Treatment Period.
c) Per treatment week and in the last 24 hours before Follow-up Visit.
d) Per treatment week.
e) Baseline Visit, Visit 5 and Visit 7.
f) Visit 5 and Visit 7.
g) Visit 5 and Visit 7.
h) At Visit 5 and Visit 7.
i) During the Treatment Period.
j) Entire time.
k) Entire time.
l) Throughout the Treatment and Follow-up Periods.
m) At Visit 8.

Secondary ID(s)

KF6005/03

2010-022556-23-ES

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Grünenthal GmbH