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Registration number
NCT04882098
Ethics application status
Date submitted
10/05/2021
Date registered
11/05/2021
Date last updated
22/05/2024

Titles & IDs
Public title
A Study of Guselkumab in Participants With Active Psoriatic Arthritis
Scientific title
A Phase 3b, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneously Administered Guselkumab in Improving the Signs and Symptoms and Inhibiting Radiographic Progression in Participants With Active Psoriatic Arthritis
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
2020-004981-20
Secondary ID [2] 0 0
CR108957
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
APEX
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Arthritis, Psoriatic 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Musculoskeletal 0 0 0 0
Osteoarthritis
Inflammatory and Immune System 0 0 0 0
Rheumatoid arthritis
Inflammatory and Immune System 0 0 0 0
Other inflammatory or immune system disorders
Musculoskeletal 0 0 0 0
Other muscular and skeletal disorders

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - Guselkumab
Treatment: Drugs - Placebo

Experimental: Group 1: Guselkumab and Placebo - Participants will receive guselkumab and placebo subcutaneously (SC) to maintain the blind. Participants who have not discontinued will be eligible to enter a long-term extension (LTE) and will receive guselkumab and placebo SC. After the study is unblinded to the investigative sites, participants will receive guselkumab and no longer be required to dose with placebo to maintain the blind.

Experimental: Group 2: Guselkumab - Participants will receive guselkumab SC. Participants who have not discontinued will be eligible to enter an LTE and will receive guselkumab SC.

Experimental: Group 3: Placebo Followed by Guselkumab - Participants will receive placebo SC and will cross over to receive SC guselkumab. Participants who have not discontinued will be eligible to enter an LTE and will receive guselkumab SC.


Treatment: Drugs: Guselkumab
Participants will receive guselkumab as SC injection.

Treatment: Drugs: Placebo
Participants will receive matching placebo as SC injection.
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Drugs
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
Percentage of Participants Who Achieved an American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 20 Response at Week 24
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Week 24
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
Change From Baseline in Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) Modified Van Der Heijde-Sharp (vdH-S) Total Score at Week 24
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Baseline and Week 24
Secondary outcome [2] 0 0
Number of Participants with Adverse Events (AEs), Serious Adverse Events (SAEs), Reasonably Related AEs, as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability
Timepoint [2] 0 0
Up to 168 weeks
Secondary outcome [3] 0 0
Number of Participants with AEs leading to Discontinuation of Study Intervention
Timepoint [3] 0 0
Up to 168 weeks
Secondary outcome [4] 0 0
Number of Participants with Infections
Timepoint [4] 0 0
Up to 168 weeks
Secondary outcome [5] 0 0
Number of Participants with AEs Temporally Associated With an Injection-site Reactions
Timepoint [5] 0 0
Up to 168 weeks
Secondary outcome [6] 0 0
Number of Participants With Change from Baseline in Clinical Laboratory Abnormalities
Timepoint [6] 0 0
Baseline, up to 168 weeks
Secondary outcome [7] 0 0
Number of Participants with Maximum Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) toxicity grade Laboratory Values
Timepoint [7] 0 0
Up to 168 weeks
Secondary outcome [8] 0 0
Serum Guselkumab Concentration
Timepoint [8] 0 0
Up to 168 weeks
Secondary outcome [9] 0 0
Number of Participants with Anti-guselkumab Antibodies
Timepoint [9] 0 0
Up to 168 weeks

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
- Have active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) despite previous non-biologic disease-modifying
antirheumatic drug (DMARD), apremilast, and/or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
(NSAID) therapy

- Have a diagnosis of PsA for at least 6 months before the first administration of study
agent and meet Classification criteria for Psoriatic Arthritis (CASPAR) at screening

- Have active PsA as defined by: at least 3 swollen joints and 3 tender joints at
screening and at baseline; and C-reactive protein (CRP) greater than or equal to (>=)
0.3 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) at screening from the central laboratory

- Have >= 2 joints with erosions on baseline radiographs of the hands and feet as
determined by central read

- Have at least one of the following PsA subsets: distal interphalangeal joint
involvement, polyarticular arthritis with absence of rheumatoid nodules, arthritis
mutilans, asymmetric peripheral arthritis, or spondylitis with peripheral arthritis

- Have active plaque psoriasis, with at least one psoriatic plaque of >= 2 centimeter
(cm) diameter or nail changes consistent with psoriasis
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
- Has known allergies, hypersensitivity, or intolerance to study intervention or its
excipients

- Has other inflammatory diseases that might confound the evaluations of benefit of
guselkumab therapy, including but not limited to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), axial
spondyloarthritis (AS)/non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA), systemic
lupus erythematosus, or Lyme disease

- Has previously received any biologic treatment

- Has ever received tofacitinib, baricitinib, filgotinib, peficitinib, decernotinib,
upadacitinib or any other Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor

- Has received any systemic immunosuppressants (example, azathioprine, cyclosporine, 6
thioguanine, mercaptopurine, mycophenolate mofetil, hydroxyurea, tacrolimus) within 4
weeks of the first administration of study intervention

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Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?
The people receiving the treatment/s


The people analysing the results/data
Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Recruiting
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
17/06/2021
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
8/12/2027
Actual
Sample size
Target
950
Accrual to date
Final
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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Adelaide
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Southern Clinical Research - Hobart
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Emeritus Research - Melbourne
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Eastern Health - Box Hill Hospital - Melbourne
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Rheumatology Research Unit - Sunshine Coast
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5011 - Adelaide
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7000 - Hobart
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3124 - Melbourne
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3128 - Melbourne
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4558 - Sunshine Coast
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Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/Industry
Name
Janssen Research & Development, LLC
Address
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Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of guselkumab treatment in participants
with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) by assessing the reduction in signs and symptoms of
PsA.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04882098
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
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Janssen Research & Development, LLC Clinical Trial
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Janssen Research & Development, LLC
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Contact person for public queries
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Study Contact
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844-434-4210
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Participate-In-This-Study@its.jnj.com
Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04882098