June 2015
Volume 56, Issue 7
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2015
Early findings in a Phase I/IIa clinical program for Stargardt disease (STGD1, MIM #248200)
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Isabelle S Audo
    INSERM U968, CNRS UMR 7210, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMRS 968, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
    Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, INSERM-DHOS CIC 1423, Paris, France
  • Richard G Weleber
    Oregon Health & Sciences University, Casey Eye Institute, Portland, OR
  • Tim Stout
    Baylor College of Medicine, Cullen Eye Institute, Houston, TX
  • Andreas K Lauer
    Oregon Health & Sciences University, Casey Eye Institute, Portland, OR
  • Mark E Pennesi
    Oregon Health & Sciences University, Casey Eye Institute, Portland, OR
  • Saddek Mohand-Said
    INSERM U968, CNRS UMR 7210, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMRS 968, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
    Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, INSERM-DHOS CIC 1423, Paris, France
  • Pierre-Olivier Barale
    Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, INSERM-DHOS CIC 1423, Paris, France
  • Ronald Buggage
    Sanofi R&D Ophthalmology Unit, Paris, France
  • David J Wilson
    Oregon Health & Sciences University, Casey Eye Institute, Portland, OR
  • Jose Alain Sahel
    INSERM U968, CNRS UMR 7210, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMRS 968, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
    Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, INSERM-DHOS CIC 1423, Paris, France
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Isabelle Audo, None; Richard Weleber, Oregon Health & Science University for VFMA technology (P); Tim Stout, None; Andreas Lauer, None; Mark Pennesi, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals (C); Saddek Mohand-Said, None; Pierre-Olivier Barale, None; Ronald Buggage, Sanofi (E); David Wilson, Sanofi (F); Jose Sahel, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2015, Vol.56, 3819. doi:
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      Isabelle S Audo, Richard G Weleber, Tim Stout, Andreas K Lauer, Mark E Pennesi, Saddek Mohand-Said, Pierre-Olivier Barale, Ronald Buggage, David J Wilson, Jose Alain Sahel; Early findings in a Phase I/IIa clinical program for Stargardt disease (STGD1, MIM #248200). Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2015;56(7 ):3819.

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Abstract

Purpose: To present the early findings of a Phase I/IIa clinical program for Stargardt disease (STGD1, MIM #248200) designed to evaluate the safety of ABCA4 replacement therapy with a lentiviral-based vector (StarGen™) administered by subretinal injection.

Methods: StarGen™ is ocular gene replacement therapy of ABCA4 using lentiviral-based vector (recombinant Equine Infectious Anemia Virus [EIAV]). StarGen™, a treatment for Stargardt disease, is currently under clinical evaluations in a Phase I/IIa program. The clinical program consists of a 48-week open-label study (NCT01367444) designed as a 4-cohort dose escalation phase followed by an expanded cohort at the highest safe and tolerated dose and a long-term follow-up study (NCT01736592). Treatment evaluation includes best-corrected visual acuity, dilated slit-lamp examination, indirect ophthalmoscopy, VFQ-25, full-field semi-automated kinetic perimetry, full-field GATE static perimetry, microperimetry, electroretinography, fundus photography, fundus autofluorescence, optical coherence tomography, and adaptive optics imaging.

Results: To date, 16 patients with Stargardt disease have been enrolled with follow-up ranging from 9 to 42 months. The dose-escalation phase of the trial has been completed and the expanded cohort is in progress. Subretinal administration of StarGen™ has been well tolerated, causing no ocular inflammation in any patients to date. Immune response to a capsid protein has been observed in two out of 14 patients treated with StarGen™. No significant changes in functional or structural tests were observed after treatment.

Conclusions: StarGen™ has been safe and well tolerated. Neither harmful effect nor biological activity has been observed in the treated patients with advanced Stargardt disease (poor visual acuity and no effective retinal function on ERG). For this reason, a sixth cohort including patients of 6-year old or older will be added to continue to assess safety and better document biological activity.

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