🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2025-11-19

Safety and Efficacy of ONT01 in Lupus (NCT07107659)

Safety and Efficacy of ONTO1 in Lupus

🟢 Recruiting Early Phase1 💊 Investigational Drug / Biologic Sponsor: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)

ONT01 is a drug that is being studied for the treatment of Lupus Nephritis (LN) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and is not approved by the FDA. The purpose of this study is to better determine whether ONT01 is safe and tolerated by people with lupus nephritis or SLE. The study also looks at how the administration of ONT01 in combination with widely used treatments given for lupus, including the medication mycophenolate mofetil and others, can improve symptoms of lupus. A total of 61 participants will be enrolled in this study.

Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (7 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (22 items).

Location: Hospital for Special Surgery — New York, New York

Age range: 18 Years

🧪 Interventions in This Study

📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener

Instant Checklist

Check every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).

Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:

  • Exclusion Criteria:
  • Any condition, including any uncontrolled disease (eg, asthma, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, morbid obesity), that in the Sponsor-Investigator's opinion constitutes an inappropriate risk or a contraindication for participation in the study or that could interfere with the study objectives, conduct or evaluation.
  • Active central nervous system SLE associated with significant cognitive impairment leading to inability to provide informed consent and/or comply with the protocol.
  • Comorbidities requiring systemic corticosteroid (CS) therapy, such as asthma or inflammatory bowel disease. Systemic is defined as oral, rectal or any injectable route of administration (thus stable dosing by other routes is allowed, including inhaled, topical, ophthalmic, otic, and intranasal).
  • Active clinically significant viral, bacterial or fungal infection, or any major episode of infection requiring hospitalization or treatment with parenteral anti-infectives within 4 weeks of or during the Screening Visit, or completion of oral anti-infectives within 2 weeks before or during the Screening Visit.
  • History of positive human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C antibody and/or polymerase chain reaction, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) (+), and/or hepatitis B core IgG and/or IgM antibody (+) at the Screening Visit.
  • History, or current diagnosis, of active tuberculosis (TB), or untreated latent TB infection (LTBI), determined by a positive QuantiFERON test at the Screening Visit
  • History of malignancy (hematologic or solid tumor) within 10 years prior to Screening Visit, except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinomas of the skin (no more than 3 lesions requiring treatment in lifetime) or adequately treated carcinoma in situ/cervical intraepithelial neoplasia of the uterine cervix.
  • Immunization with live or live-attenuated vaccines within 1 month before or during the Screening period.
  • Initiation of, or change in, dosing of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker within 2 weeks before the Screening Visit or during the Screening period.
  • Treatment with Voclosporin or Cyclophosphamide at time of screening.
  • Treatment with other investigational agents within the last 3 months or 5 half-lives, or as per washout requirement from the previous protocol, whichever is longest, prior to the Screening Visit.

🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.

📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)

  • Hospital for Special Surgery — New York, New York

📞 Contact the Study Coordinator

Phone: (646) 797-8698

Email: felixc@hss.edu

Coordinator details come directly from the registered NIH protocol. Confirm the study is still recruiting before traveling.

💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights

  • 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
  • Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
  • Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.

💡 How to Participate

  1. Check the checklist above to see if you may qualify.
  2. Contact the study coordinator using the phone/email above.
  3. Ask about the visit schedule, what is covered at no cost, and any travel support.
  4. Confirm with your own doctor before making a decision.
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