NCT06808984RecruitingPhase 2
Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of BMS-986368, for the Treatment of Agitation in Participants With Alzheimer's Disease
A Phase 2, Randomized, Double-blind, Three-Arm, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Study Assessing the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Orally Administered BMS-986368, a FAAH/MAGL Inhibitor, for the Treatment of Agitation in Participants With Alzheimer's Disease (BALANCE-AAD-1)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a study to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of BMS-986368, a FAAH/MAGL inhibitor, for the treatment of agitation in participants with Alzheimer's Disease.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 120 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 24 Jan 2025
- Start date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Primary completion date
- 26 Nov 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Celgene
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT06808984
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Planned participants: 120
- From 9 Jun 2025 to the primary completion date, 26 Nov 2027
- 77 sites in 4 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
- History of major depressive episode with psychotic features during the 12 months prior to Screening.
Other illness
- History of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder.
- History of delirium within 30 days of Screening.
Other
- Clinically significant delusions/hallucinations requiring hospitalization.
- Other protocol-defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria apply.
Who the study is looking for
- Participants with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease with biomarker confirmation meeting the 2024 Revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of AD: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup.
- The diagnosis of agitation must meet the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) definition of agitation.
- History of agitation with onset at least four weeks prior to Screening.
- MMSE-1 score ≤24.
- NPI-NH agitation/aggression sub-score ≥ 4.
- Stable living environment for at least 6 weeks prior to Screening. Participants are eligible if they are in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or living at home and have an identified study partner (caregiver).
- Capable of self-locomotion (alone or with the aid of an assistive device); wheelchairs and other mobility aids are acceptable.
Age in the registry: 55 years to 90 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (77)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires | Argentina | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Córdoba | Argentina | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Córdoba | Argentina | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mar del Plata | Argentina | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mendoza | Argentina | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago del Estero | Argentina | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Darlinghurst | Australia | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Daw Park | Australia | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Macquarie Park | Australia | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nedlands | Australia | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Beijing | China | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hangzhou | China | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hefei | China | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nanjing | China | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shanghai Shi | China | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wuhan | China | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Anaheim | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ardmore | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Completed |
| University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aurora | United States | Recruiting |
| Pinnacle Clinical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Austin | United States | Recruiting |
| University at Buffalo - UBMD Neurology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Buffalo | United States | Recruiting |
| New Hope Clinical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charlotte | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chattanooga | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| Inland Psychiatric Medical Group. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chino | United States | Recruiting |
| Cleveland Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cleveland | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbus | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| Neurology Clinic, P.C. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cordova | United States | Recruiting |
| Horizon Clinical Research Center - Houston Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cypress | United States | Recruiting |
| Arrow Clinical Trials Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Daytona Beach | United States | Recruiting |
| CenExel iResearch, LLC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Decatur | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Elgin | United States | Withdrawn |
| ANESC Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | El Paso | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Flower Mound | United States | Completed |
| K2 Medical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Foxborough | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Homewood | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Honolulu | United States | Completed |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Withdrawn |
| University of Alabama - Huntsville Regional Medical Campus Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Huntsville | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Jolla | United States | Completed |
| Kaizen Brain Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Jolla | United States | Recruiting |
| Shreenath Clinical Service - Lakewood Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lakewood | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Las Vegas | United States | Completed |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Livingston | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Maitland | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| ClinCloud Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Maitland | United States | Recruiting |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Manhasset | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Marrero | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Completed |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Withdrawn |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Missoula | United States | Completed |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center- Village Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Recruiting |
| Mid Hudson Medical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Windsor | United States | Recruiting |
| Be Well Clinical Studies - Omaha Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Omaha | United States | Recruiting |
| Thomas Jefferson University - Vickie & Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Phoenix | United States | Completed |
| Stryde Research - Plano Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Plano | United States | Recruiting |
| Boeson Research - Provo Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Provo | United States | Recruiting |
| UNC Health REX Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Raleigh | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Richardson | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| Be Well Clinical Studies Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Round Rock | United States | Recruiting |
| CenExel iResearch, LLC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Savannah | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Scottsdale | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sherman Oaks | United States | Completed |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | South Dartmouth | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Staten Island | United States | Completed |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sterling Heights | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| Research Central LLC (DBA Ichor Research) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Syracuse | United States | Recruiting |
| University of South Florida Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| Charter Research - Lady Lake Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | The Villages | United States | Recruiting |
| Ocean Medical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toms River | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington D.C. | United States | Withdrawn |
| Georgetown University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington D.C. | United States | Recruiting |
| Next Level Clinical Trials Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | West Covina | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | West Hills | United States | Completed |
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