This is a Phase 1/2 study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of 18F-OP-801 in subjects with ALS, AD, MS, PD and age-matched HVs. 18F-OP-801 is intended as a biomarker for PET imaging of activated microglia and macrophages in regions of neuroinflammation.
Microglia and macrophages have emerged as key players in neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease (AD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Treatments that selectively target these cells will need to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) at levels high enough to produce therapeutic effects. Unfortunately, it is difficult to directly measure the amount of a therapeutic that actually reaches the CNS target tissue. Development of biomarkers that allow direct visualization of cellular targeting across the BBB could offer profound insight into drug actions on innate immune cells in the brain. Furthermore, the ability to track accumulation of activated microglia in the brain could allow early identification of patients at risk for neurodegenerative or neuroinflammatory disease, precise stratification of patients for clinical trials and an efficacy measure for therapies that target neuroinflammation. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a noninvasive imaging technology that can provide quantitative biological information in vivo, and it plays an important role in disease diagnosis, therapy assessment, and drug development. PET allows evaluation of the biological process without pharmacological effects because the amount of radiotracer used in imaging studies is very low. Several PET diagnostics track neuroinflammation in the brain, but current methods are limited by high background signal in healthy tissues. 18F-OP-801 is selectively taken up only by activated but not resting microglia, offering the potential to detect neuroinflammation at lower levels and earlier stages of disease than any current clinical PET radiotracer. We propose to use 18F-OP-801 to image activated microglia and brain macrophages in subjects with ALS, AD, MS, and PD to assess the compound's utility as a biomarker of neuroinflammation
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
18F Hydroxyl Dendrimer
UCSF
San Francisco, California, United States
RECRUITINGStanford University
Stanford, California, United States
RECRUITINGMayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
RECRUITINGThe number of participants with treatment emergent adverse events (Safety and Tolerability)
Safety of single dose of 18F-OP-801 as measured by treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v5.0
Time frame: Safety and tolerability of 18F-OP-801 as assessed by the frequency, and severity of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) from Day 1 to Day 15 or Day 18-29
Measurement of biodistribution of 18F-OP-801 for each participant
Measure biodistribution of 18F-OP-801 using whole body PET/MRI or PET/computed tomography (CT) scans
Time frame: Through study completion at Day 15 or Day 18-29
Measurement of clearance of 18F-OP-801 for each participant
Measure clearance of 18F-OP-801 using whole body PET/MRI or PET/computed tomography (CT) scans
Time frame: Through study completion at Day 15 or Day 18-29
Assess ability of 18F-OP-801 to detect regions of neuroinflammation in ALS, AD, MS, and PD participants
Determine correlation between MRI and PET images in each subject, quantifying the extent of 18F-OP-801 uptake in the region of neuroinflammation relative to normal brain section in the same subject as measured by whole body PET/MRI or PET/CT scans
Time frame: Through study completion at Day 15 or Day 18-29
Assess test/retest imaging repeatability
Compare regional and global brain uptake of 18F-OP-801 on two separate occasions
Time frame: Through study completion at Day 18-29
Correlation between plasma NfL levels and degree of 18F-OP-801 uptake in each participant
Correlation of plasma NfL levels with brain PET signal
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Masking
NONE
Enrollment
65
Time frame: Screening and Day 1
Correlation between relevant clinical scales and degree of 18F-OP-801 uptake in each participant
Correlation of ALSFRS-R/PUMNS, MMSE, EDSS or SE-ADL scores with brain PET signal
Time frame: Screening and Day 1