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Record W4415937993 · doi:10.1056/evidoa2500155

Targeted Oral Peptide Icotrokinra for Psoriasis Involving High-Impact Sites

2025· article· en· W4415937993 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNEJM Evidence · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldImmunology and Microbiology
TopicPsoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis
Canadian institutionsLynde Centre for DermatologyUniversity of TorontoProbity Medical ResearchInnovaderm (Canada)SKiN Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsoriasisPlaceboScalpPeptideAdverse effectOral cavity

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Plaque psoriasis involving high-impact sites is difficult to treat. Icotrokinra, a targeted oral peptide that selectively binds interleukin-23 receptors, is a new treatment being investigated for this condition. METHODS: This phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial randomly assigned participants 12 years of age and over with plaque psoriasis {with a body surface area ≥1%; an Investigator's Global Assessment (IGA) score ≥2 [clear (0), minimal (1), mild (2), moderate (3), and severe (4)] for overall skin; and at least moderate psoriasis involving the scalp, genitalia, and/or hands and feet} to receive either icotrokinra 200 mg daily or placebo in a 2:1 ratio. The primary end point at week 16 was the proportion of participants achieving an overall IGA score of 0 or 1 and an improvement of 2 points or more from baseline (IGA score of 0 or 1), reported as the between-group difference adjusted for high-impact site involvement, geographic region, and body surface area category using Mantel-Haenszel weights. Absent/clear or minimal/almost clear scalp, genital, and/or hand and foot psoriasis at 16 weeks were secondary end points. Adverse events were recorded. RESULTS: The trial randomly assigned 311 participants (icotrokinra, n=208; placebo, n=103) with scalp (n=252: icotrokinra, n=167; placebo, n=85), genital (n=140: icotrokinra, n=98; placebo, n=42), and/or hand and foot (n=71: icotrokinra, n=48; placebo, n=23) psoriasis. The proportions of participants achieving an IGA score of 0 or 1 in the icotrokinra and placebo groups were 56.7% and 5.8%, respectively [adjusted difference, 51.1 percentage points; 95% confidence interval (CI), 42.1 to 58.8; P<0.001]. The proportions of icotrokinra-treated and placebo-treated participants achieving absence/clear or minimal/almost clear high-impact site psoriasis were as follows: scalp, 65.9% and 10.6% (difference, 55.5 percentage points; 95% CI, 44.8 to 64.4; P<0.001); genitalia, 76.5% and 21.4% (difference, 55.4 percentage points; 95% CI, 39.1 to 68.0; P<0.001); and hand and foot, 41.7% and 26.1% (difference, 16.7 percentage points; 95% CI, -6.2 to 36.8; P=0.144). Adverse events occurred among 50% and 42% of participants in the icotrokinra and placebo groups, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: At 16 weeks, significantly higher proportions of participants 12 years of age and over with at least moderate psoriasis involving high-impact sites treated with icotrokinra versus placebo achieved clearance or minimal psoriasis in their skin overall and in the scalp and genital areas, but not in their hands and feet. No safety signals were identified. (Funded by Johnson & Johnson; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT06095102.).

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.246
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
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)

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

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.269 · 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