Efficacy and Safety of Ivarmacitinib Monotherapy in the Treatment of csDMARDs-IR Rheumatoid Arthr… (NCT07452445) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Efficacy and Safety of Ivarmacitinib Monotherapy in the Treatment of csDMARDs-IR Rheumatoid Arthritis
100 participantsStarted 2026-03-01
Plain-language summary
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting small joints, with a global prevalence of 0.5%-1.0% and 0.42% in China (around 5 million patients, mostly female and over 55). By 2050, RA patients worldwide are estimated to reach 31.7 million, an 80.2% increase from 2020. RA causes high disability rates, economic burdens, and can affect internal organs, leading to complications. Current treatments include csDMARDs (e.g., methotrexate, first-line but ineffective in half to two-thirds of patients), bDMARDs, tsDMARDs, NSAIDs, glucocorticoids, and traditional Chinese medicine.
Studies have explored bDMARDs' efficacy in csDMARDs-IR patients. Switching to or adding upadacitinib improves ACR20 response rates, with monotherapy showing higher safety. Filgotinib also showed superior efficacy over placebo in methotrexate-IR patients.
Ivarmacitinib, a novel JAK1 inhibitor, blocks cytokine signaling to reduce inflammation. A Phase II study (SHR0302-201) in moderate-to-severe RA patients showed ivarmacitinib 8 mg group had the highest ACR20 response rate (77.8%) after 12 weeks, with a dose-response relationship observed for ACR50/70 and DAS28-CRP improvements. TEAEs occurred in 73.9% of ivarmacitinib-treated patients, mostly infections, with upper respiratory tract infection being the most common.
A Phase III study (SHR0302-301) also in moderate-to-severe RA patients showed similar results after 24 weeks, with the ivarmacitinib 8 mg group again having the highest ACR20 response rate (75.1%). AEs were comparable between placebo and ivarmacitinib 4 mg groups but higher in the 8 mg group, with upper respiratory tract infection, anemia, and hyperlipidemia being common.
This project aims to investigate ivarmacitinib's therapeutic efficacy and safety in csDMARDs-IR RA patients, providing evidence for its use as a second-line treatment and exploring its effects at the single-cell sequencing and RNA-seq levels, offering new treatment options.
Who can participate
Age range18 Years – 75 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion criteria
✓. Aged between 18 and 75 years (inclusive) at the time of signing the informed consent form, regardless of gender;
✓. Meeting the diagnostic criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as defined in the 2010 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) criteria for RA;
✓. Having moderate to severe active RA, defined as having a tender joint count (TJC) ≥ 6 or a swollen joint count (SJC) ≥ 6 based on a 68/66-joint count at screening, or a Disease Activity Score in 28 joints with erythrocyte sedimentation rate (DAS28 ESR)/C-reactive protein (CRP) ≥ 3.2, and having an ESR \> 28 mm/h or CRP/high-sensitivity CRP (hsCRP) \> 5 mg/L at screening;
✓. Having an inadequate response to or intolerance of at least one or more conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs). Subjects must have received regular csDMARD therapy for at least 3 months and have been on a stable dose for at least 4 weeks prior to initiating study drug treatment. Allowable csDMARDs include methotrexate (MTX), sulfasalazine, hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and leflunomide, among others.
Exclusion criteria
✕. Requiring continued combination therapy with methotrexate (MTX), hydroxychloroquine, and sulfasalazine, or any combination of three csDMARDs;
What they're measuring
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Proportion of patients achieving a 20% improvement in the American College of Rheumatology criteria (ACR 20) at Week 12.
. Subjects who have previously received a standard course of JAK inhibitors (e.g., tofacitinib, upadacitinib, baricitinib, filgotinib, deucravacitinib, etc., including topical formulations) and have primary failure to biologic DMARDs (bDMARDs) treatment;
✕. Subjects judged by the investigator to have active symptoms of primary fibromyalgia or other conditions that may interfere with the assessment of RA symptoms;
✕. Lactating or pregnant women, or fertile subjects unwilling to take effective contraceptive measures throughout the trial period and for 1 month after the last administration of emmacitinib tablets;
✕. Subjects with uncontrolled infections, such as hepatitis B carriers with liver dysfunction (aspartate aminotransferase or alanine aminotransferase ≥ 3 times the upper limit of the laboratory normal range, or bilirubin ≥ 1.5 times the upper limit of the laboratory normal range); subjects with a history of latent or active tuberculosis who have not completed an adequate course of anti-tuberculosis treatment; subjects with symptomatic herpes zoster infection;
✕. Subjects with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) \< 60 mL/min/1.73 m² calculated by the Modified Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula or other methods;
✕. Subjects with moderate to severe congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association Class III or IV), or those who have experienced a cardiovascular or cerebrovascular event requiring hospitalization within 6 months prior to enrollment, including but not limited to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, coronary artery bypass grafting, cerebral hemorrhage, or subarachnoid hemorrhage;
✕. Subjects with a current or history of malignancy (except for adequately treated or excised non-metastatic basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or cervical carcinoma in situ);