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NCT05838560Active, not recruitingPhase 2

Dasatinib Plus Quercetin for Accelerated Aging in Mental Disorders

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 21 Apr 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This pilot open-label study examines the effects of a combination of dasatinib plus quercetin - two drugs that have known senolytics properties - on physiological aging in older individuals with depression or schizophrenia.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40 (estimated)
First submitted
17 Apr 2023
Start date
1 Jul 2023
Primary completion date
1 Oct 2027
Lead sponsor
Washington University School of Medicine
NCT number
NCT05838560

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Planned participants: 40
  • From 1 Jul 2023 to the primary completion date, 1 Oct 2027
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Taking medications that are strong CPY3A4 inhibitors or strong inducers, or that induce senescence (e.g., alkylating agents, anthracyclines, platins/other chemotherapy), or everolimus and topotecan (which have interactions with quercetin).

Other illness

  • All medications and medical conditions will be reviewed by physician study investigators to determine whether the medication or condition, in the opinion of the investigators, makes the participant inappropriate for the study. Examples of such potential excluding conditions: Active inflammatory, infectious, or malignant disease; sensory deficits that would interfere with assessments; recent heart attack or stroke; severe bleeding disorder; uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes mellitus; active liver disease or cirrhosis; current use of systemic steroids, quinolone antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine.

Other

  • Contraindications for dasatinib or quercetin
  • Active SI such that participant could not be safely managed in an outpatient clinical trial.

Who the study is looking for

  • Either major depression, which is treatment-resistant (currently depressed despite at least 2 adequate trials of antidepressants in this or the previous episode), or schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder.
  • Age 50+ (60+ for depression).
  • Three conditions associated with aging (e.g., hypertension/diabetes/metabolic syndrome, cardiac disease, lung disease other than asthma, cancer with adult-onset, arthritis, and inflammatory diseases typically seen in aging).
  • No history of dementia by patient report.
  • Already taking an adequate dose of medication for schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder or depression.

Age in the registry: 50 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Washington University School of Medicine
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St LouisUnited StatesUnknown status

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