NCT04624659Active, not recruitingPhase 3
A Study of Etavopivat in Adults and Adolescents With Sickle Cell Disease (HIBISCUS)
An Adaptive, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind, Multi-center Study of Oral Etavopivat, a Pyruvate Kinase Activator in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease (HIBISCUS)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This clinical trial is a Phase 2/3 study that will evaluate the efficacy and safety of etavopivat and test how well etavopivat works compared to placebo to improve the amount of hemoglobin in the blood and to reduce the number of vaso-occlusive crises (times when the blood vessels become blocked and cause pain).
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 450 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 5 Nov 2020
- Start date
- 29 Jan 2021
- Primary completion date
- 6 Feb 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Forma Therapeutics, Inc.
- Diseases
- Sickle cell disease
- NCT number
- NCT04624659
- EU CT number
- 2024-511535-97-00
- EudraCT number
- 2020-003884-25
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 450
- From 29 Jan 2021 to the primary completion date, 6 Feb 2026
- 130 sites in 17 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- History of unstable or deteriorating cardiac or pulmonary disease within 6 months prior to consent including but not limited to the following:
- Unstable angina pectoris or myocardial infarction or elective coronary intervention
- Congestive heart failure requiring hospitalization
- Uncontrolled clinically significant arrhythmias
- Symptomatic pulmonary hypertension
- History of overt clinical stroke within previous 2 years or any history of an intracranial hemorrhage
- History of deep venous thrombosis requiring systemic anti-coagulation therapy for ≥ 6 weeks, occurring within 6 months prior to Day 1 of study treatment.
- Prior/Concomitant Therapy
- Patients receiving regularly scheduled blood (RBC) transfusion therapy (also termed chronic, prophylactic, or preventive transfusion)
- Receiving or use of concomitant medications that are strong inducers of CYP3A4/5 within 2 weeks of starting study treatment or anticipated need for such agents during the study
- Use of voxelotor within 28 days prior to starting study treatment or anticipated need for this agent during the study
- Use of an experimental selectin antagonist (eg, monoclonal antibody or small molecule) within 28 days of starting study treatment or anticipated need for such agents during the study
- Receipt of prior cellular-based therapy (eg, hematopoietic cell transplant, gene modification therapy)
Other illness
- Known HIV positivity
- Active hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection
Lab values
- Hepatic dysfunction characterized by:
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) \> 4.0 × upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Direct bilirubin \> 3.0 × ULN
Other
- More than 15 vaso-occlusive crises within the past 12 months
- Female who is breastfeeding or pregnant
- Severe renal dysfunction or on chronic dialysis
- Use of erythropoietin or other hematopoietic growth factor treatment within 28 days of starting study treatment or anticipated need for such agents during the study
Who the study is looking for
- Provision of consent
- Patient has a confirmed diagnosis of sickle cell disease
- At least 2 episodes of vaso-occlusive crises in the past 12 months
- Hemoglobin ≥ 5.5 and ≤ 10.5 g/dL (≥ 55 and ≤ 105 g/L) during screening
- Patients taking hydroxyurea, must demonstrate a stable dose for at least 90 days prior to start of study treatment
- Patients on crizanlizumab or L-glutamine treatment at the time of consent must be on a stable dose for ≥ 12 months and must be ≥ 80% compliant with the planned regimen at the time of consent and meet the VOC eligibility criteria
- Female patients of childbearing potential must use highly effective methods of contraception, male patients are willing to use barrier methods of contraception
Age in the registry: 12 years to 65 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (130)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU Sainte-Justine Mother and Child University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Unknown status |
| University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| The Hospital for Sick Children Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| Providence Hematolgy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Vancouver | Canada | Unknown status |
| Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Active, not recruiting |
| Medical Center- University of Freiburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Freiburg im Breisgau | Germany | Active, not recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Heidelberg | Germany | Active, not recruiting |
| [Legal] Alexandria Clinical Research LLC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Alexandria | Egypt | Unknown status |
| Cairo University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cairo | Egypt | Unknown status |
| Al Kasr AL Aini Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cairo | Egypt | Unknown status |
| Ain Shams University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cairo | Egypt | Unknown status |
| Sydnawy University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zagazig | Egypt | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitario de Cruces Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barakaldo | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Clínico San Carlos Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario La Paz Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| University Hospital Virgen Del Rocio S.L. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sevilla | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Creteil Cedex | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Edouard Herriot Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lyon Cedex 03 | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Montpellier Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montpellier Cedex 5 | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Robert Debre University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Leicester Royal Infirmary - Haemostasis & Thrombosis Unit Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leicester | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust / Evelina Childrens Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Kings College Hospital - Haematology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Hammersmith Hospital London Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Churchill Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oxford | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Royal Hallamshire Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sheffield | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Accra | Ghana | Unknown status |
| Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kintampo | Ghana | Unknown status |
| Hippokration Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Athens | Greece | Completed |
| General Hospital Of Larissa Koutlibaneio And Triantafylleio Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Larissa | Greece | Completed |
| General University Hospital Of Patras Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Patras | Greece | Completed |
| Ippokratio General Hospital of Thessaloniki Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Thessaloniki | Greece | Completed |
| Victoria Hospital, Bangalore Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bangalore | India | Unknown status |
| Srirama Chandra Bhanj Medical College & Hospital (S.C.B Medical College) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cutack | India | Unknown status |
| Yashoda Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hyderabad | India | Unknown status |
| K.J Somaiya Hospital and Research Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mumbai | India | Unknown status |
| All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Delhi | India | Unknown status |
| Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico G. Rodolico-San Marco Di Catania Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Catania | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria San Luigi Gonzaga Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orbassano | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Padova | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pavia | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Bambino Gesu Childrens Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Kombewa Clinical Research Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kisumu | Kenya | Unknown status |
| KEMRI CRDR Siaya Clinical Research Annex, Country Referral Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kisumu | Kenya | Unknown status |
| KEMRI Kondele Children Hospital, Kisumu Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kisumu | Kenya | Unknown status |
| Gertrude's Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nairobi | Kenya | Unknown status |
| Master Centre for Lebanon Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Amman | Lebanon | Unknown status |
| American University of Beirut Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Beirut | Lebanon | Unknown status |
| Hospital Nini Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tripoli | Lebanon | Unknown status |
| University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Abuja | Nigeria | Unknown status |
| Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, Kaduna Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kaduna | Nigeria | Unknown status |
| Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kano | Nigeria | Unknown status |
| University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lagos | Nigeria | Unknown status |
| Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lagos | Nigeria | Unknown status |
| Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Muscat | Oman | Unknown status |
| King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dammam | Saudi Arabia | Unknown status |
| Prince Mohammad Bin Naser Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jizan | Saudi Arabia | Unknown status |
| King Khaled University Hospital,King Saud Univ. Med. City Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | Unknown status |
| Cornerstone Research Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Altamonte Springs | United States | Unknown status |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Investigational Medication Pharmacy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Unknown status |
| Sonar Clinical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Unknown status |
| Emory University School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Unknown status |
| Center for Blood Disorders Augusta University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Augusta | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Maryland School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
| Univ of Alabama Birmingham Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Unknown status |
| Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
| Boston Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
| NYC Health+Hospitals Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brooklyn | United States | Unknown status |
| [Legal] The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chapel Hill | United States | Unknown status |
| Medical University of South Carolina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charleston | United States | Unknown status |
| Levine Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charlotte | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Illinois at Chicago Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Cincinnati Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cincinnati | United States | Unknown status |
| [Legal] Children's Hospital Medical Center dba Cincinnati Children's Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cincinnati | United States | Unknown status |
| The Ohio State University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbus | United States | Unknown status |
| iResearch Atlanta, LLC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Decatur | United States | Unknown status |
| Karmanos Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Detroit | United States | Unknown status |
| [Legal] Dr. Vince Clinical Research, LLC and Dr. Vince Clinical Research, P.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Detroit | United States | Unknown status |
| Duke University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durham | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Connecticut Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Farmington | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gainesville | United States | Unknown status |
| Prisma Health-Upstate Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Greenville | United States | Unknown status |
| East Carolina University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Greenville | United States | Unknown status |
| Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hollywood | United States | Unknown status |
| [Legal] Baylor College of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
| UT Health University of Texas Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
| Queens Hospital Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jamaica | United States | Unknown status |
| [Legal] Woodland International Research Group, LLC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Little Rock | United States | Unknown status |
| [Legal] Collaborative Neuroscience Network, LLC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Long Beach | United States | Unknown status |
| [Legal] St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Memphis | United States | Unknown status |
| Methodist University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Memphis | United States | Unknown status |
| Advanced Pharma CR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Miami Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Unknown status |
| Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milwaukee | United States | Unknown status |
| Yale University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Haven | United States | Unknown status |
| North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Hyde Park | United States | Unknown status |
| Children's Hosp-New Orleans Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Orleans | United States | Unknown status |
| Weill Cornell Med Coll-NYPH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Columbia University Medical Center_New York Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Neuro-Behavioral Clinical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | North Canton | United States | Unknown status |
| Pacific Research Partners Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oakland | United States | Unknown status |
| UCSF Oakland Benioff ChildHosp Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oakland | United States | Unknown status |
| Jimmy Everest Cancer Hematology & Oncology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oklahoma City | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Omaha | United States | Unknown status |
| University of California Irvine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orange | United States | Unknown status |
| Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orlando | United States | Unknown status |
| Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
| Children's Hosptl Philadelphia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
| Phoenix Children's Hsptl Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Phoenix | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pittsburgh | United States | Unknown status |
| Rhode Island Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Providence | United States | Unknown status |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Richmond | United States | Unknown status |
| UC Davis Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sacramento | United States | Unknown status |
| Washington University School of Medicine - St. Louis Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Louis | United States | Unknown status |
| Mary Bridge Children's Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tacoma | United States | Unknown status |
| Jacobi Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | The Bronx | United States | Unknown status |
| Montefiore Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | The Bronx | United States | Unknown status |
| Lynn Institute of Tulsa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tulsa | United States | Unknown status |
| Howard University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington D.C. | United States | Unknown status |
| Children's National Health Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington D.C. | United States | Unknown status |
| Wake Forest Baptist Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Winston-Salem | United States | Unknown status |
| Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Balcalı Hastanesi- Hematoloji Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Adana | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Başkent Üniversitesi Adana Dr. Turgut Noyan Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Adana | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Adana City Training and Research Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Adana | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Hacettepe Üniversitesi Hastanesi- Hematoloji Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Ege Üniversitesi Tip Fakultesi Hastanesi - Nefroloji Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Izmir | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| Mersin Üniversitesi Tip Fakültesi Hastanesi- Çiftlikköy Yerleşkesi- Hematoloji Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mersin | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
| VM Medical Park Mersin Hastanesi- Kardiyoloji Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mersin | Turkey (Türkiye) | Unknown status |
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