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NCT07640542RecruitingEarly phase 1

Test-retest Trial With [11C]MODAG-005 in PD or MSA and AMHC - Pilot Phase

An Open-label, Single-center Study to Evaluate the Safety and Test-retest Characteristics of [11C]MODAG-005 as PET Radioligand for Imaging Pathological Alpha-synuclein Deposition in the Brains of Patients With Parkinson's Disease (PD) or Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) Compared to Age-matched Healthy Controls (AMHC) - Pilot Phase

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 31 Jul 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This is an open-label, single-center Phase 1 study evaluating the safety, tolerability, and test-retest characteristics of \[11C\]MODAG-005, an investigational positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) radioligand intended to image pathological alpha-synuclein deposition in the brain. The study will enroll participants with Parkinson's disease (PD), participants with multiple system atrophy (MSA), and age-matched healthy controls (AMHC). Participants with PD or MSA will undergo two \[11C\]MODAG-005 PET/CT imaging sessions: one baseline scan and one follow-up scan 7 to 48 days later. Age-matched healthy controls will undergo one baseline scan. A subset of PD and MSA participants will receive a single oral dose of anle138b (Emrusolmin) before the second scan to evaluate tracer uptake under blocking conditions. The primary objective is to assess the safety and tolerability of \[11C\]MODAG-005. Secondary objectives include evaluating whether \[11C\]MODAG-005 PET imaging can distinguish participants with MSA or PD from age-matched healthy controls, distinguish PD from MSA, and determine test-retest variability of PET outcome measures.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Early phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
9 (estimated)
First submitted
24 May 2026
Start date
29 Jul 2026
Primary completion date
Jul 2027
Lead sponsor
MODAG GmbH
NCT number
NCT07640542
EU CT number
2023-506965-72-00

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Early phase 1
  • Planned participants: 9
  • From 29 Jul 2026 to the primary completion date, Jul 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

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Prior treatment

  • Participant has received an investigational drug within 3 months of screening.
  • Blood donations within 7 days before enrolment.

Other illness

  • Evidence of clinically significant disease that is expected to interfere with cognitive assessments or the ability to complete the trial procedures as judged by the investigator.
  • Known hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients of \[11C\]MODAG-005 solution for injection.
  • Known hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients in anle138b (Emrusolmin) capsules.
  • Contraindication to blood sampling and/or arterial cannulation, including but not limited to allergy to local anesthetics, peripheral vascular disease, Raynaud's phenomenon as determined by abnormal Allen's test on both arms or abnormal coagulation profile at screening. If Allen's test should be "abnormal" on both arms, the participant will not be eligible for arterial sampling, but will participate in the remaining assessments.
  • MRI exclusion criteria include but not limited to: findings of cerebrovascular disease (more than two lacunar infarcts, any territorial infarct \>1 cm\^3, or deep white matter abnormality corresponding to an overall Fazekas scale of 3 with at least one confluent hyperintense lesion on the Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recov ery (FLAIR) sequence that is \>20 mm in any dimension), infectious disease, space-occupying lesions normal pressure hydrocephalus or any other abnormalities associated with central nervous system (CNS) disease. Findings that are expected to be present in the PD and MSA participants (e.g. absence of swallow tail sign, presence of regional atrophy or hot cross bun sign) do not lead to exclusion of these participants.
  • Implants such as implanted cardiac pacemakers or defibrillators, insulin pumps, cochlear implants, metallic ocular foreign body, implanted neural stimulators, CNS aneurysm clips and other medical implants that have not been certified for MRI, or history of claustrophobia in MRI.
  • Systolic blood pressure \<90 or \>140 mmHg; diastolic blood pressure \<45 or \>90 mmHg; heart rate \<50 or \>95 beats per minute (BPM)

Lab values

  • Laboratory tests with clinically significant abnormalities and/or clinically significant unstable medical illness equivalent to CTC v5.0 (common toxicity criteria) toxicities greater than grade 2.
  • Relevant hepatic parameters above upper limit of normal (ULN), i.e., glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), bilirubin
  • Relevant renal parameters outside normal limits, i.e., serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) above ULN; urinary albumin-creatinine ratio (uACR) below lower limit of normal (LLN)

Other

  • Clinically significant renal and hepatic dysfunction as judged by the investigator.
  • Pregnant (see 9.1.5) or breast-feeding or having the intention of getting pregnant. Female participants of childbearing potential and male participants with female partners of childbearing potential not willing to practice effective contraception during the trial period and for 90 days following each PET/CT scan.
  • Unsuitable veins for repeated venipuncture.
  • Unwilling and/or unable to cooperate with trial procedures.

Who the study is looking for

  • Key inclusion criteria: Patients with MSA fulfilling both the criteria for probable MSA (Gilman et al., 2008) and clinically established MSA (Wenning et al., 2022), patients with PD fulfilling the criteria for clinically established PD (Postuma et al., 2015) or age-matched healthy controls (AMHC).

Age in the registry: 50 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
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TübingenGermanyRecruiting

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