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A Study to Assess Effectiveness and Safety of Deucravacitinib Compared With Placebo in Participants With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) (POETYK SLE-1)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of deucravacitinib compared with placebo in an active moderate to severe Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) population.
Inclusion Criteria
* Diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) at least 24 weeks before the screening visit.
* Meet the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2019 classification criteria for SLE.
* One of the following: positive antinuclear antibodies (ANA) ≥ 1:80 at screening OR positive anti dsDNA OR positive anti Smith (anti Sm) as determined by the central laboratory at screening.
* Total Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index-2K (SLEDAI-2K) score ≥ 6 points and clinical SLEDAI 2K score ≥ 4 points with joint involvement, and/or cutaneous vasculitis, and/or rash.
* Lupus headache, alopecia, organic brain syndrome, and mucosal ulcers must be recorded on SLEDAI 2K, if indicated, but do not count toward the points required for screening at entry.
* At least one SLE background therapy (immunosuppressant and/or antimalarial) is required for ≥ 12 weeks before the screening visit, must be at a stable dose for ≥ 8 weeks before the screening visit, and must remain stable until randomization and throughout study participation.
* Oral corticosteroid (OCS; prednisone or equivalent) background therapy is permitted but not required. For participants taking OCS, the dose must be stable for ≥ 2 weeks before the screening visit, cannot exceed 30 mg/day at screening, and must remain stable until the Week 4 visit. Participants can be on an OCS as well as an antimalarial and/or an immunosuppressant.
Exclusion Criteria
* Diagnosis of drug-induced SLE rather than idiopathic SLE.
* Other autoimmune diseases (eg, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.) are excluded. Participants with type I autoimmune diabetes mellitus, thyroid autoimmune disease, Celiac disease, or secondary Sjögren's syndrome are not excluded.
* SLE overlap syndromes including, but not limited to, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and mixed connective tissue disease are excluded.
* Active or unstable lupus neuropsychiatric manifestations, including, but not limited to, any condition defined by BILAG A criteria.
* Active, severe Class III, and IV, lupus nephritis that requires or may require treatment with cytotoxic agents or high-dose CS.
* History of congenital or acquired immunodeficiency.
* Known active infection, or any major episode of infection requiring hospitalization or treatment with parenteral (intramuscular or IV) antimicrobial agents (eg, antibiotics antiviral, antifungal, or antiparasitic agents) within 30 days of randomization, or treatment with oral antimicrobial agents within 2 weeks of randomization.
* Currently on any therapy for chronic infection (eg, pneumocystis, herpes zoster, cytomegalovirus, invasive bacterial or fungal infections, or atypical mycobacteria).
* Taking more than 1 immunosuppressant at screening.
* Other protocol-defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria apply.
Nivolumab in Treating Patients With Autoimmune Disorders and Advanced, Metastatic, or Unresectable Cancer
This phase Ib trial studies the side effects of nivolumab and to see how well it works in treating patients with autoimmune disorders and cancer that has spread to other places in the body or cannot removed by surgery. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.
* Patients can have either histologically confirmed malignancy that is radiologically evaluable and metastatic or unresectable, or have a malignancy for which a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor has been approved in the adjuvant setting. Eligible tumor types include solid tumors and malignancies in which there is known evidence of clinical activity for single agent PD-1 or PD-L1 antibodies. Nivolumab is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved for the treatment of melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Merkel cell cancer, bladder cancer, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), cervical cancer, head and neck cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC), and any solid tumor with microsatellite instability (MSI)-high status confirmed. Patients with HL are eligible but must follow standard response criteria. Additional tumor types may be eligible on a case by case basis upon discussion with principal investigator (PI). Patients enrolling on the trial for adjuvant use will be restricted to those with histology for which a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor has been approved in the adjuvant setting including but not limited to NSCLC, melanoma, RCC, cervical cancer, and bladder cancer
* Patients who have previously received other forms of immunotherapy (high-dose \[HD\] IL-2, IFN, CTLA-4) are allowed. Patients must not have received cytokine immunotherapy for at least 4 weeks before nivolumab administration. Patients who have received prior anti-CTLA4 will be allowed and the washout period is 6 weeks
* Age \>= 18 years; children are excluded from this study but may be eligible for future pediatric phase 1 combination trials
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2 (Karnofsky \>= 60)
* Life expectancy of greater than 12 weeks
* Leukocytes \>= 1,000/mcL
* Absolute neutrophil count \>= 500/mcL
* Platelets \>= 50,000/mcL
* Total bilirubin =\< 2 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
* Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase \[SGOT\])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase \[SGPT\]) =\< 5 x institutional ULN or =\< 8 x institutional ULN for patients with liver metastases or an autoimmune disease that is contributing to the elevation of these values
* Creatinine ULN OR glomerular filtration rate (GFR) \>= 30 mL/min (if using the Cockcroft-Gault formula)
* Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients on effective antiretroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible for this trial
* If evidence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, HBV viral load must be undetectable on suppressive therapy if indicated
* If history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, must be treated with undetectable HCV viral load
* Patients with new or progressive brain metastases (active brain metastases) or leptomeningeal disease are eligible if the treating physician determines that immediate central nervous system (CNS) specific treatment is not required and is unlikely to be required for at least 4 weeks (or scheduled assessment after the first cycle of treatment), and a risk-benefit analysis (discussion) by the patient and the investigator favors participation in the clinical trial
* The effects of nivolumab on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason, women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP) and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. WOCBP receiving nivolumab will be instructed to adhere to contraception for a period of 5 months after the last dose of investigational product. Men receiving nivolumab and who are sexually active with WOCBP will be instructed to adhere to contraception for a period of 7 months after the last dose of investigational product. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of human chorionic gonadotropin \[HCG\]) within 24 hours prior to the start of nivolumab. Women must not be breastfeeding. Women who are not of childbearing potential (i.e., who are postmenopausal or surgically sterile as well as azoospermic men) do not require contraception. WOCBP is defined as any female who has experienced menarche and who has not undergone surgical sterilization (hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy) or who is not postmenopausal. Menopause is defined clinically as 12 months of amenorrhea in a woman over 45 in the absence of other biological or physiological causes. In addition, women under the age of 55 must have a documented serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level less than 40 mIU/mL. These durations have been calculated using the upper limit of the half-life for nivolumab (25 days) and are based on the protocol requirement that WOCBP use contraception for 5 half-lives plus 30 days, and men who are sexually active with WOCBP use contraception for 5 half-lives plus 90 days. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she (or the participating partner) should inform the treating physician immediately
* Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
* Patients with more than one autoimmune disease are eligible. The treating physician would determine which autoimmune disease is dominant and the patient would be treated under that specific cohort
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 2 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events (AEs) due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier have not resolved or stabilized. Palliative (limited-field) radiation therapy (RT) is permitted (2 week washout from start of treatment), if all of the following criteria are met:
* Repeat imaging demonstrates no new sites of bone metastases
* The lesion being considered for palliative radiation is not a target lesion
* Patients with prior therapy with an anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1
* Patients with prior allogeneic hematologic transplant
* Patients who are receiving any other anticancer investigational agents
* Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
Morphea in Adults and Children (MAC) Cohort Study: A Morphea Registry and DNA Repository (MAC)
The Morphea in Adults and Children (MAC) cohort is the first registry for both children and
adults with morphea (also known as localized scleroderma) in the country. The purpose of the
registry is to learn more about morphea, specifically:
- How morphea behaves over time
- How frequently specific problems occur along with morphea (for example, arthritis)
- Whether morphea has an autoimmune background
• Patient must have a clinical diagnosis of morphea confirmed by the primary
investigator and by histopathological examination.
• Ages 0-90 years old
• Children must weigh more than 20 lbs. in order to satisfy Children's Medical Center
policy for the maximum amount of blood drawn in a 24 hour period.
• Patient or legal guardian must be able to speak and read at a 6th grade reading level.
• Both male and female patients will be eligible
• All races and ethnic backgrounds will be included
• Relationships to proband: All patients with morphea will be included. A patient's
family history will be reviewed and if there is a family history of morphea or
systemic sclerosis then we will give the study patient the investigator's contact
information and ask the family member to call the study team to answer any questions
and enroll them in the study if they choose to do so.
• Ability to give informed consent: Patients must be able to give informed consent or
they will give assent with parent or guardian consent as a minor to be a part of the
morphea registry.
Exclusion Criteria:
• Patients who have been coded as morphea (701.0), but do not have morphea/localized
scleroderma (examples: steroid atrophy, acquired keratoderma, keloids, nephrogenic
fibrosing dermopathy, systemic sclerosis, lichen sclerosis)
Other: Morphea
Scleroderma, Localized, Morphea, Frontal Linear Scleroderma en Coup de Sabre, Scleroderma, Circumscribed, Scleroderma, Linear, Other Skin
A Study To Evaluate The Efficacy And Safety Of Obinutuzumab In Patients With ISN/RPS 2003 Class III Or IV Lupus Nephritis (REGENCY)
This study will evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of obinutuzumab compared
with placebo in patients with International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society
(ISN/RPS) class III or IV lupus nephritis (LN) when added on to standard-of-care therapy
consisting of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and corticosteroids.
• Diagnosis of ISN/RPS 2003 Class III or IV LN as evidenced by renal biopsy performed
within 6 months. Participants may co-exhibit Class V disease in addition to either
Class III or Class IV disease
• Urine protein to creatinine ratio greater than or equal to (>/=) 1 on a 24-hour
collection
• Other inclusion criteria may apply
Key
Exclusion Criteria:
• Pregnancy or breastfeeding
• Severe renal impairment or the need for dialysis or renal transplantation
• Receipt of an excluded therapy, including any anti-CD20 therapy less than 9 months
prior to screening or during screening; or cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus, ciclosporin,
or voclosporin during the 2 months prior to screening or during screening
• Significant or uncontrolled medical disease which, in the investigator's opinion,
would preclude patient participation
• Known active infection of any kind or recent major episode of infection
• Intolerance or contraindication to study therapies
• Other exclusion criteria may apply
Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis (RESET-RA)
The RESET-RA study will assess the safety and efficacy of the SetPoint System (study device)
for the treatment of adult patients with active, moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis who
have had an inadequate response or intolerance to biologic or targeted synthetic
Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs). The study device contains a miniaturized
stimulator (implant) that is surgically placed under general anesthesia on the vagus nerve
through a small incision on the left side of the neck (implant procedure). The study will
enroll 250 subjects at 40 sites. All eligible subjects will undergo the implant procedure.
Half of the subjects will receive active stimulation (treatment) and the other half will
receive non-active stimulation (control). After completing primary endpoint assessments at
Week 12, there will be a one-way crossover of control subjects to active stimulation and a
180-week open-label follow-up with all subjects (treatment and control) receiving active
stimulation to evaluate long-term safety.
• 22-75 years of age at screening
• Active moderate or severe RA, defined as at least 4/28 tender and 4/28 swollen joints
• Demonstrated an inadequate response, loss of response, or intolerance to 1 or more
approved for rheumatoid arthritis biologic or targeted synthetic Disease-Modifying
Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs), including Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi)
• Receiving treatment with at least 1 conventional synthetic DMARD for at least 12 weeks
and on a continuous non-changing dose and route of administration for at least 4 weeks
prior to Screening and able to continue the same stable dose through Week 12
Exclusion Criteria:
• Untreated or poorly controlled psychiatric illness or history of substance abuse
• Significant immunodeficiency due to underlying illness
• History of stroke or transient ischemic attack, or diagnosis of cerebrovascular
fibromuscular dysplasia
• Clinically significant cardiovascular disease
• Neurological syndromes, including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, or
Parkinson's disease
• Uncontrolled fibromyalgia
• History of left or right carotid surgery
• History of unilateral or bilateral vagotomy, partial or complete splenectomy
• Recurrent vasovagal syncope episodes
• Current, regular use of tobacco products
• Hypersensitivity/allergy to MRI contrast agents and/or unable to perform MRI