NCT07533591

Clinical Study of Chemogenetic Gene Therapy With AAV Virus for Parkinson's Disease Using Stereotactic Surgery in the Subthalamic Nucleus

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 6 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators propose a gene therapy strategy for Parkinson's disease - a chemogenetic inhibition technique to intervene in the abnormal activity of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's patients. The investigators design and construct a therapeutic injection agent called STP-001, through an efficient adeno-associated virus capsid (AAV), a neuronal promoter (hSyn), and a chemogenetic effector element (hM4Di). Then, the drug was accurately injected into the bilateral subthalamic nuclei through stereotactic surgery. After the surgery, combined with clozapine, the abnormal activity of the subthalamic nucleus was precisely intervened to improve the core motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Detailed description

This is a single-arm, open-label preliminary safety assessment study design. Six patients with iPD will be recruited from the Department of Neurology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. After signing the informed consent form, these 6 participants will be divided into 2 dose groups according to the dose escalation principle and receive the STP-001 injection solution. The virus dose escalation principle is as follows: After 3 sentinel subjects receive 1×10¹² volts of the virus vector, the research team will assess the safety, tolerance and efficacy of the current drug dosage 3 months later. If the test subjects do not show dose-limiting toxicity and have some efficacy, the sample size will be expanded to 6 at the original dosage. If the test subjects do not show dose-limiting toxicity but have no obvious efficacy, the titer will be increased to 3×10¹² volts and three more participants will be recruited for the trial. Four weeks after the injection of STP-001, when the participants recover, clozapine dose escalation treatment will be carried out. The participants will take clozapine orally every day, with doses of 1/32, 1/16 and 1/8 tablets respectively, taken in the morning and noon, and each dose will be repeated for 3 days, totaling 9 days. If there is no disease progression during this period, the participants will continue to take the 1/8 dose of the drug twice a day as the maintenance dose and undergo monitoring for 12 months.

Conditions

• Parkinson's Disease (PD)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
GENETIC	gene therapy	Six participants are planned to be divided into two dose groups in the dose escalation principle. The dose escalation principle is as follows: After 3 sentinel subjects receive 1×10¹² volts of the virus vector, the research team will assess the safety, tolerance and efficacy of the current drug dosage 3 months later. If the test subjects do not show dose-limiting toxicity and have some efficacy, the sample size will be expanded to 6 at the original dosage. If the test subjects do not show dose-limiting toxicity but have no obvious efficacy, the titer will be increased to 3×10¹² volts and three more participants will be recruited for the trial. Four weeks after the injection of STP-001, when the participants recover, clozapine dose escalation treatment will be carried out.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-05-01
• Primary completion: 2029-04-01
• Completion: 2029-04-01
• First posted: 2026-04-16
• Last updated: 2026-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China