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Study to Check the Safety of Fazirsiran and Learn if Fazirsiran Can Help People With Liver Disease and Scarring (Fibrosis) Due to an Abnormal Version of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Protein

RecruitingPhase 3

A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Fazirsiran in the Treatment of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency-Associated Liver Disease With METAVIR Stage F2 to F4 Fibrosis

Who can join

Ages 18 to 75 · All sexes

Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria:

* The participant must have a diagnosis of the Z allele homozygotes (PiZZ) genotype AATD. PiZZ diagnosis from source verifiable medical records is permitted. Otherwise, participants must undergo PiZZ confirmatory testing (genotyping for PiS and PiZ alleles) at screening. PiMZ or PiSZ genotypes are not permitted.
* The participant, of any sex, is aged 18 to 75 years, inclusive.
* The participant's liver biopsy core sample collected should meet the requirements of the protocol.
* The participant has evidence of METAVIR stage F2, F3, or F4 liver fibrosis, evaluated by a centrally read baseline liver biopsy during the screening period; or confirmed as meeting all the entry criteria by central reading of a previous biopsy conducted within 6 months before the estimated enrollment date using an adequate liver biopsy and slides as defined in the study laboratory manual.
* The participant has a pulmonary status meeting the protocol's requirements.
* It must be confirmed that the participant does not have HCC. Participants will be screened for HCC with alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and abdominal ultrasound. If the participant has any of the following, they will be required to have contrast-enhanced CT or MRI imaging to exclude HCC before randomization.
* An adult participant must have a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to (\>=) 18.0 kilograms per meter square (kg\^m2).
* The participant is a nonsmoker for at least 6 months before screening.

Exclusion Criteria

* The participant has a history of liver decompensating events (overt hepatic encephalopathy \[West Haven Grade \>=2\] documented by a physician or healthcare professional, clinically significant ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, GI bleeding from varices, hepatopulmonary syndrome, hepatorenal syndrome, portal pulmonary hypertension, or bleeding portal hypertensive gastropathy).
* The participant has a history of the presence of medium or large varices or varices with red wale signs based on a previous esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) within 6 months before the estimated enrollment date. For certain participants, an EGD will be required at screening if there is no EGD available within 6 months before the estimated enrollment date. Presence of small varices with no red wale signs on EGD and no history of bleeding will be acceptable for study eligibility.
* The participant has evidence of chronic liver disease attributable to other diseases, including viral hepatitis B or C, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, Wilson disease, alcoholic hepatitis, hemochromatosis, liver cancer, history of biliary diversion, or autoimmune hepatitis.
* The participant has alanine transaminase (ALT) or aspartate transaminase (AST) levels \>250 units per liter (U/L).
* The participant has a platelet count \<60,000 per cubic millimeter (mm\^3) (\<60 × 10\^9 per liter \[10\^9/L\]).
* The participant has albumin \<=2.8 gram per deciliter (g/dL) (28 grams per liter \[g/L\]).
* The participant has international normalized ratio (INR) \>=1.7.
* The participant is expected to have severe and unavoidable high-level exposure to inhaled pulmonary toxins during the study such as may occur with occupational exposure to mineral dusts or metals.
* The participant has a history of drug abuse (such as cocaine, phencyclidine) within 1 year before the screening visit or has a positive urine drug screen at screening.
* The participant has previously been treated with fazirsiran or any other RNAi for AATD-LD.
* The participant has portal vein thrombosis.
* The participant has a prior transjugular portosystemic shunt procedure.
* The participant has a history of malignancy within the last 5 years, except for adequately treated basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell skin cancer, superficial bladder tumors, or in situ cervical cancer. Participants with other curatively treated malignancies who have no evidence of metastatic disease and a greater than 1-year disease-free interval may be entered after approval by the medical monitor.

About the study

The main aim of this study is to learn if fazirsiran reduces liver scarring (fibrosis) compared to placebo. Other aims are to learn if fazirsiran slows down the disease worsening in the liver, to get information on how fazirsiran affects the body (called pharmacodynamics), to learn if fazirsiran reduces other liver injury (inflammation) and the abnormal Z-AAT protein in the liver, to get information on how the body processes fazirsiran (called pharmacokinetics), to test how well fazirsiran works compared with a placebo in improving measures of liver scarring including imaging and liver biomarkers (substances in the blood that the body normally makes and help show if liver function is improving, staying the same, or getting worse) as well as to check for side effects in participants treated with fazirsiran compared with those who received placebo.

Participants will either receive fazirsiran or placebo. Liver biopsies, a way of collecting a small tissue sample from the liver, will be taken twice during this study.

What is being tested

Sponsor: Takeda · Participants: 160 · Started: Mar 6, 2023

Contact the study team

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05677971

Locations in the U.S.

AlabamaUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
ArizonaMayo Clinic, Phoenix
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix
CaliforniaUniversity of California San Diego, Altman Clinical and Translational Institute, La Jolla
UCLA Pulmonary and Critical Care, Los Angeles
Stanford University, Palo Alto
University of California Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco
ColoradoPeak Gastroenterology Associates, PC, Colorado Springs
FloridaUniversity of Florida, Gainesville
Schiff Center for Liver Diseases/University of Miami, Miami
IndianaIndiana University School of Medicine - Indianapolis, Indianapolis
IowaUniversity of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City
LouisianaOchsner Medical Center, New Orleans
MarylandUniversity of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore
MassachusettsBoston Medical Center, Boston
Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston
MichiganUniversity of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor
Henry Ford Medical Center - Columbus, Novi
MinnesotaMayo Clinic - PPDS, Rochester
MissouriCardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, St Louis
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St Louis
New YorkColumbia University Irving Medical Center, New York
NYU Langone Health, New York
OhioUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland
PennsylvaniaPenn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey
Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia
South CarolinaMedical University of South Carolina, Charleston
TennesseeVanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
TexasTexoma Liver Center, Denison
Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center, Houston
The Texas Liver Institute, San Antonio
VirginiaBon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond
VCU Medical Center North Hospital, Richmond

Conditions

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.