Conditions: Age Related Macular Degeneration
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 43
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this research study is to determine how safe and effective subconjunctival injections of CGC-11047 are in subjects with wet age related macular degeneration at two different dosing intervals.

Detailed description:
The purpose of this research study is to determine how safe and effective subconjunctival injections of CGC-11047 are in subjects with wet age related macular degeneration at two different dosing intervals. Half of the participants in the study will receive CGC-11047 every two weeks and half of the participants in the study will receive CGC-11047 every four weeks. If your doctor determines that you are eligible for the study based on his/her judgement and according to the entry requirements set by the sponsor of the research, you will be randomly assigned (by chance, like the flip of a coin), to receive CGC-11047 every two weeks or every four weeks. Whether you receive drug every two weeks or every four weeks, you will still need to come to the clinic approximately every two weeks for the first three months, and approximately four times after that until it has been at least 12 months since you received your first treatment of study drug.

Two studies (this one and another one) are occurring to test CGC-11047 in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration for the first time. However, this drug (CGC-11047) is being studied in cancer patients at doses much higher than will be given to any subjects in either of these studies. The cancer patients have tolerated the drug well with the exception of one cancer patient who had two reactions to the drug (pancreatitis and hypotension). However, this patient had advanced cancer (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with a life expectancy of less than 3 months) and received 38X the dose to be administered in this AMD study. Aside from this one patient, there have not been any serious side effects related to the drug.

This study will involve about 100 subjects at about 15 different sites internationally.

The study will take place over 12 months and will include about 12 office visits to the study doctor.

Arms:
arm 1: 16.5 mg CGC-11047 as a subconjunctival injection once every two weeks. arm 2: 16.5 mg CGC-11047 as a subconjunctival injection once every four weeks.

Interventions: intervention 1: CGC-11047
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 16.5 mg (3.3%) subconjunctival injection

Protocol document: