NCT04573920Active, not recruitingPhase 2
Atrasentan in Patients With Proteinuric Glomerular Diseases
A Phase 2, Open-Label, Basket Study of Atrasentan in Patients With Proteinuric Glomerular Diseases
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The AFFINITY Study is a phase 2, open-label, basket study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of atrasentan in patients with proteinuric glomerular disease who are at risk of progressive loss of renal function.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 103 (actual)
- First submitted
- 28 Sept 2020
- Start date
- 15 Mar 2021
- Primary completion date
- 2 Jul 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals
- Diseases
- Chronic kidney disease, IgA nephropathy
- NCT number
- NCT04573920
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Participants enrolled: 103
- From 15 Mar 2021 to the primary completion date, 2 Jul 2024
- 31 sites in 6 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Except for FSGS patients, use of systemic immunosuppressant medications, such as steroids, for more than 2 weeks in the past 3 months.
- History of heart failure or a previous hospital admission for fluid overload.
- Recently received an investigational agent.
Other illness
- Current diagnosis of another cause of chronic kidney disease or another primary glomerulopathy.
- History of kidney transplantation or other organ transplantation.
- Clinically significant history of liver disease as assessed by the Investigator.
- Clinical diagnosis of nephrotic syndrome
- Malignancy within the past 5 years. Exception to the criteria include nonmelanoma skin cancer and curatively treated cervical carcinoma in situ.
- Clinically significant unstable or uncontrolled medical condition as assessed by the Investigator.
Lab values
- Hemoglobin below 9 g/dL as measured by the Investigator or blood transfusion for anemia within the past 3 months.
Other
- Blood pressure above 150 mmHg systolic or 95 mmHg diastolic as evaluated by the Investigator.
- For women, pregnant, breastfeeding, or intent to become pregnant during the study.
- For men, intent to father a child or donate sperm during the study.
Who the study is looking for
- Age 18 years and older for patients in the IgAN, FSGS, and Alport Syndrome cohorts
- Age 18-70 years for patients in the DKD cohort
- Receiving a maximally tolerated dose of RAS inhibitor therapy (ACEi or ARB) that has been stable for at least 12 weeks.
- For patients enrolling in IgAN Cohort:
- Biopsy-proven IgA nephropathy
- UPCR between 0.5 to less than 1.0 g/g
- Screening eGFR ≥ 30 mL/min/1.73 m2
- For patients enrolling in FSGS Cohort:
- Biopsy-proven FSGS or documented genetic mutation in a podocyte protein associated with FSGS
- UPCR \> 1.0 g/g
- Screening eGFR ≥ 30 mL/min/1.73 m2
- Subjects receiving systemic corticosteroids or other immunosuppressants must be on a stable dose for at least 12 weeks.
- BMI ≤ 40 kg/m2
- For patients enrolling in Alport syndrome Cohort:
- Diagnosis of Alport syndrome by genetic testing
- UPCR \> 0.5 g/g
- Screening eGFR ≥ 30 mL/min/1.73 m2
- For patients enrolling in DKD Cohort:
- Diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus
- UACR ≥ 0.5 g/g
- Screening eGFR ≥ 45 mL/min/1.73 m2
- Receiving a stable dose of SGLT2 inhibitor for at least 12 weeks
- Willing and able to provide informed consent and comply with all study requirements
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (31)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Clayton | Australia | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gosford | Australia | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herston | Australia | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Reservoir | Australia | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Albans | Australia | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Leonards | Australia | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lugo | Spain | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Majadahonda | Spain | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Port de Sagunt | Spain | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sheffield | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Roma | Italy | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Anyang-si | South Korea | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cheonan | South Korea | Unknown status |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Mountain Kidney And Hyper Associa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Asheville | United States | Unknown status |
| Tufts Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
| Baylor Scott and White Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Unknown status |
| Colorado Kidney Care Nephrology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Denver | United States | Unknown status |
| Kidney Disease Medical Group Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Glendale | United States | Unknown status |
| Prolato Clinical Research Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
| DaVita Clinical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Las Vegas | United States | Unknown status |
| Academic Medical Research Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
| Uni of Minnesota Hos and Clinics Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Minneapolis | United States | Unknown status |
| North America Research Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Dimas | United States | Unknown status |
| Northwest Louisiana Nephrology Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shreveport | United States | Unknown status |
| Stanford U School Of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stanford | United States | Unknown status |
| Milwaukee Nephrologists SC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wauwatosa | United States | Unknown status |
| Brookview Hills Research Assoc Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Winston-Salem | United States | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Effects of Atrasentan on Kidney Gene Transcription, Mesangial Cell Proliferation, and Proteinuria in IgA Nephropathy.Kidney360 · 2026 · PMID 41442197
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