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NCT04938427CompletedPhase 3

A Study of Soticlestat as an Add-on Therapy in Children, Teenagers, and Adults With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel Group Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Soticlestat as Adjunctive Therapy in Pediatric and Adult Subjects With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 10 Sept 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The aims of the study are: * to learn if soticlestat, when given as add-on therapy, reduces the number of major motor drop seizures in children, teenagers, and adults with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. * to assess the safety profile of soticlestat when given in combination with other therapies. Participants will receive their standard antiseizure therapy, plus either tablets of soticlestat or placebo. A placebo looks just like soticlestat but will not have any medicine in it. Participants will take soticlestat or placebo for 16 weeks, followed by a gradual dose reduction for 1 week. Then, participants will be followed up for 2 weeks.

Status (registry)
Completed
Phase (registry)
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
270 (actual)
First submitted
18 Jun 2021
Start date
8 Nov 2021
Primary completion date
25 Jan 2024
Lead sponsor
Takeda
Diseases
Epilepsy
NCT number
NCT04938427
EudraCT number
2021-002481-40

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
  • Participants enrolled: 270
  • From 8 Nov 2021 to the primary completion date, 25 Jan 2024
  • 98 sites in 18 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

  • Considered by the investigator to be at imminent risk of suicide or injury to self, others, or property, or the participant has attempted suicide within 12 months before the Screening Visit (Visit 1). Participants who have positive answers on item numbers 4 or 5 on the Columbia suicide severity rating scale (C-SSRS) before dosing (Visit 2) are excluded. This scale will only be administered to participants aged ≥6 years.

Other illness

  • Admitted to a medical facility and intubated for treatment of status epilepticus 2 or more times in the 3 months immediately before Screening (Visit 1). For the purpose of this exclusion criterion, status is defined as continuous seizure activity lasting longer than 5 minutes or repeated seizures without return to Baseline in between seizures.
  • Unstable, clinically significant neurologic (other than the disease being studied), psychiatric, cardiovascular, ophthalmologic, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, metabolic, gastrointestinal, urologic, immunologic, hematopoietic, endocrine disease, malignancy including progressive tumors, or other abnormality that may impact the ability to participate in the study or that may potentially confound the study results. It is the responsibility of the investigator to assess the clinical significance; however, consultation with the medical monitor may be warranted.

Who the study is looking for

  • Has documented clinical diagnosis of LGS.
  • Has had ≥8 MMD seizures each month in the 3 months prior to Screening based on the historical information and has had ≥8 MMD seizures per 28 days during the 4 to 6 week prospective Baseline Period.
  • Weighs ≥10 kg at the Screening Visit (Visit 1).
  • Failure to control seizures despite appropriate trials of at least 1 ASM based on historical information, and is currently on an antiseizure therapy or other treatment options considered as standard of care (SOC).
  • Artisanal cannabidiols are allowed at a stable dose for at least 4 weeks before the screening visit (Visit 1); the dosing regimen and manufacturer should remain constant throughout the study. (Artisanal cannabidiols will not be counted as ASMs.)
  • Currently taking 0 to 3 ASMs at stable doses for at least 4 weeks before the Screening Visit (Visit 1); Fenfluramine and cannabidiol (Epidiolex) are allowed where available and counted as an ASM. ASM dosing regimen must remain constant throughout the study.

Age in the registry: 2 years to 55 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (98)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Austin Hospital
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HeidelbergAustraliaUnknown status
Alfred Hospital
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MelbourneAustraliaUnknown status
Sydney Children's Hospital
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RandwickAustraliaUnknown status
Queensland Childrens Hospital
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South BrisbaneAustraliaUnknown status
Hòpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola
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BrusselsBelgiumUnknown status
UZ Antwerpen PIN
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EdegemBelgiumUnknown status
Centre Neurologique William Lennox
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Ottignies-Louvain-la-NeuveBelgiumUnknown status
Alberta Childrens Hospital
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CalgaryCanadaUnknown status
Hospital for Sick Children
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TorontoCanadaUnknown status
Child and Family Research Institute
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VancouverCanadaUnknown status
Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University
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BeijingChinaUnknown status
Peking University First Hospital
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BeijingChinaUnknown status
The First Hospital of Jilin University
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ChangchunChinaUnknown status
Xiangya Hospital Central South University
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ChangshaChinaUnknown status
Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University
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ChongqingChinaUnknown status
The second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Guangzhou Women and Children's medical center
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Jiangxi Provincial Children's Hospital
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NanchangChinaUnknown status
Children's Hospital of Shanghai
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ShanghaiChinaUnknown status
Children's Hospital Of Fudan University
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ShanghaiChinaUnknown status
Shenzhen Children's Hospital
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ShenzhenChinaUnknown status
Wuhan Childrens Hospital
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WuhanChinaUnknown status
Krankenhaus Mara gGmbH - Epilepsiezentrum Bethel
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BielefeldGermanyUnknown status
Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
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Frankfurt am MainGermanyUnknown status
Kleinwachau Sächsisches Epilepsiezentrum Radeberg Gemeinnützige Gmbh
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RadebergGermanyUnknown status
Schön Klinik Vogtareuth
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VogtareuthGermanyUnknown status
Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron - PPDS
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BarcelonaSpainUnknown status
Hospital Regional Universitario de Malaga - Hospital General
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MálagaSpainUnknown status
Clinica Universidad Navarra
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PamplonaSpainUnknown status
Centro de Neurologia Avanzada
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SevilleSpainUnknown status
Hospital Universitari i Politecnic La Fe de Valencia
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ValenciaSpainUnknown status
CHRU Dijon Hopital General
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DijonFranceUnknown status
Hopital Roger Salengro
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LilleFranceUnknown status
Hopitaux de La Timone
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MarseilleFranceUnknown status
Hopital Necker Enfants Malades
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ParisFranceUnknown status
Hopital Robert Debre
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ParisFranceUnknown status
Attikon University General Hospital
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ChaïdáriGreeceUnknown status
University General Hospital of Larissa
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LarissaGreeceUnknown status
Hippokration Hospital
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ThessalonikiGreeceUnknown status
Orszagos Mentalis Ideggyogyaszati Es Idegsebeszeti Intezet
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BudapestHungaryUnknown status
Szent Janos Korhaz es Eszak-Budai Egyesitett Korhazak
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BudapestHungaryUnknown status
Bethesda Gyermekkorhaz
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BudapestHungaryUnknown status
Pécsi Tudományegyetem
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PécsHungaryUnknown status
Ospedale Bellaria
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BolognaItalyUnknown status
Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria A Meyer - INCIPIT - PIN
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FlorenceItalyUnknown status
ASST di Pavia - Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Mondino IRCCS
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PaviaItalyUnknown status
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli
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RomeItalyUnknown status
Fukuoka Children's Hospital
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FukuokaJapanUnknown status
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
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Kodaira-shiJapanUnknown status
Kumamoto-Ezuko Medical Center for The Severely Disabled
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KumamotoJapanUnknown status
Aichi Medical University Hospital
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Nagakute-shiJapanUnknown status
Yasuhara Childrens Clinic
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NeyagawaJapanUnknown status
National Hospital Organization Nishi-Niigata Chuo National Hospital
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NiigataJapanUnknown status
Okayama University Hospital
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OkayamaJapanUnknown status
National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center
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Omura-ShiJapanUnknown status
Osaka City General Hospital
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OsakaJapanUnknown status
National Hospital Organization Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders
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ShizuokaJapanUnknown status
Osaka University Hospital
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Suita-shiJapanUnknown status
Childrens University Hospital
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RigaLatviaUnknown status
Kempenhaeghe - PPDS
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HeezeNetherlandsUnknown status
Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland
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ZwolleNetherlandsUnknown status
Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne
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GdanskPolandUnknown status
Centrum Medyczne Plejady
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KrakowPolandUnknown status
Szpital Kliniczny im. H.Swiecickiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu
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PoznanPolandUnknown status
Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia Dr Vukan Cupic
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BelgradeSerbiaUnknown status
Clinic for Neurology and Psychiatry for Children and Youth
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BelgradeSerbiaUnknown status
University Clinical Center NIS
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NišSerbiaUnknown status
Children and Youth Health Care Institute of Vojvodina
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Novi SadSerbiaUnknown status
UGMK-Zdorojie, LLC
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YekaterinburgRussiaUnknown status
Communal Non-profit Enterprise City Childrens Clinical Hospital #6 of DCC
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DniproUkraineUnknown status
Municipal Institution Dnipropetrovsk Regional Children Clinical Hospital of DRC
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DniproUkraineUnknown status
Communal Non-commercial Enterprise Iv-Frank Regional Childrens Clinical Hosp of Iv-Frank RC
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Ivano-FrankivskUkraineUnknown status
CNPE Clinical Hospital Psychiatry of the Executive Body of the Kyiv City Council KCSA
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KyivUkraineUnknown status
SI Ukr. Med. Rehabilitation Center For Children With Organic Injury of Nervous System of MoH of Ukr
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KyivUkraineUnknown status
Clinical Integrative Research Center of Atlanta
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AtlantaUnited StatesUnknown status
Midatlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center
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BethesdaUnited StatesUnknown status
Medical University of South Carolina Children Hospital - PIN
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CharlestonUnited StatesUnknown status
Children's Hospital Colorado
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DenverUnited StatesUnknown status
Cook Children's Medical Center - Jane and John Justin Neurosciences Center
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Fort WorthUnited StatesUnknown status
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics - (CRS)
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Iowa CityUnited StatesUnknown status
Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Saint Barnabas, LLC
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LivingstonUnited StatesUnknown status
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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Los AngelesUnited StatesUnknown status
Northwell Health Physician Partners - Neurology at Lenox Hill
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Premier Healthcare Inc.
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Thomas Jefferson University
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PhiladelphiaUnited StatesUnknown status
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
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PhiladelphiaUnited StatesUnknown status
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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PhiladelphiaUnited StatesUnknown status
Phoenix Childrens Hospital
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PhoenixUnited StatesUnknown status
Oregon Health and Science University
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PortlandUnited StatesUnknown status
Minnesota Epilepsy Group PA
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RosevilleUnited StatesUnknown status
University of Utah - Primary Children's Hospital - PPDS
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Salt Lake CityUnited StatesUnknown status
University of California Benioff Children's Hospital
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San FranciscoUnited StatesUnknown status
Seattle Children's Hospital
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SeattleUnited StatesUnknown status
MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation - Tacoma
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TacomaUnited StatesUnknown status
Center for Neurosciences
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TucsonUnited StatesUnknown status
Pediatric Neurology PA
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Winter ParkUnited StatesUnknown status
WellSpan Oncology Research
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YorkUnited StatesUnknown status

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