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Efficacy and safety of vemircopan as monotherapy in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

2025· article· en· W4415442914 on OpenAlexaff
Austin Kulasekararaj, Peter Browett, Antonio M. Risitano, Christopher J. Patriquin, Mustafa Nuri Yenerel, Danièle Marceau, Fahri Şahin, Lorenzo Algarra, Masayo Ogawa, Ji Yu, Nicholas Cross, Rosario Notaro, Jong Wook Lee, Robert A. Brodsky

Bibliographic record

VenueBlood Advances · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldImmunology and Microbiology
TopicComplement system in diseases
Canadian institutionsUniversité LavalCentre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de Chaudière-AppalachesCentre Intégré de Santé et Services Sociaux de Chaudière-AppalacheUniversity of Toronto
FundersJanssen PharmaceuticalsSamsungNovo NordiskAgios PharmaceuticalsSwedish Orphan BiovitrumApellis PharmaceuticalsOmeros CorporationBioCrystRegeneron PharmaceuticalsBeiGeneSanofiCelgeneAstraZenecaAlexion PharmaceuticalsPfizerAmgen
KeywordsParoxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuriaEculizumabAdverse effectClinical endpointHemoglobinuriaClinical trialAnemiaHemolysis

Abstract

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ABSTRACT: Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare, complement-mediated hematologic disease. We present the results of a phase 2, open-label clinical trial of vemircopan monotherapy in patients with PNH to explore the efficacy and safety of inhibiting the complement alternative pathway via factor D. Adults (aged ≥18 years) with PNH who were treatment-naïve and switched from eculizumab with hemoglobin (Hgb) of <10 g/dL or rolled over from danicopan monotherapy (ACH471-103 trial; ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03181633) were enrolled. The trial comprised a 60-day screening period, 12-week treatment period, and 148-week long-term extension. Participants received vemircopan 120 mg twice daily, with potential escalation to 180 mg twice daily. The primary endpoint was change in Hgb from baseline to week 12. Safety endpoints included treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) and serious AEs. Twenty-nine participants were enrolled (treatment-naïve, n = 12; eculizumab-switch, n = 11; and danicopan-rollover, n = 6); all completed the 12-week treatment period, and 1 danicopan-rollover participant completed the long-term extension. Clinically meaningful improvements from baseline to week 12 in Hgb (change of ≥2 g/dL) were reported in the treatment-naïve (mean, 3.6 [standard deviation [SD], 1.5]) and eculizumab-switch (mean, 3.3 [SD, 2.0]) cohorts and maintained through the end of the trial. Eighty-two breakthrough intravascular hemolysis (BT-IVH) events in 25 participants were reported. Twenty-eight participants reported TEAEs, and 14 reported serious AEs; most were unrelated to vemircopan. No deaths occurred. This trial evaluating vemircopan monotherapy met its primary efficacy endpoint; however, concerns regarding BT-IVH risk and suboptimal, inconsistent control of IVH emerged, leading to early trial termination. This trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT04170023, and EudraCT as #2019-003830-17.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.372

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.003
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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