New pill could tame Crohn's Flare-Ups

NCT ID NCT06456593

First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This study tests an experimental oral drug called obefazimod in 212 adults with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease who haven't responded well to other treatments. Participants receive either obefazimod or a placebo daily for 12 weeks (induction), then up to 40 more weeks (maintenance), followed by a 48-week extension. The goal is to see if the drug reduces inflammation and symptoms better than placebo, and to check its safety over the long term.

What this could mean

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Active substance
obefazimod (a once-daily oral drug)
What this could lead to
If successful, obefazimod could offer a new oral treatment option to reduce inflammation and improve symptoms in people with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease.
What could go wrong
This is a mid-stage (Phase 2b) trial with only 212 participants, so results may not confirm benefit. The drug may cause side effects or fail to outperform placebo.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

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Contacts and locations

Study contacts

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Locations

  • ALLMEDICA sp. z o. o.

    RECRUITING

    Nowy Targ, Poland

  • AMICARE spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością spółka komandytowa

    RECRUITING

    Lodz, Poland

  • AZ Maria Middelares

    RECRUITING

    Ghent, Belgium

  • Advanced Research Institute, Inc.

    RECRUITING

    New Port Richey, Florida, 34653, United States

  • Amsterdam UMC, Locatie AMC

    RECRUITING

    Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Auzmer Research

    RECRUITING

    Lakeland, Florida, 33813, United States

  • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Sant'Orsola Malpighi IRCCS

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Bologna, Italy

  • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Renato Dulbecco di Catanzaro

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Catanzaro, Italy

  • Baylor University Hospital

    RECRUITING

    Dallas, Texas, 75246, United States

  • Bekes Varmegyei Kozponti Korhaz

    RECRUITING

    Békéscsaba, Hungary

  • Bernhoven Uden

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Uden, Netherlands

  • CHU Amiens

    RECRUITING

    Amiens, France

  • CHU Besançon - Hôpital Jean Minjoz

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Besançon, France

  • CHU Bordeaux - Hôpital Haut-Lévêque

    RECRUITING

    Pessac, France

  • CHU Clermont Ferrand - Hopital d'Estaing

    RECRUITING

    Clermont-Ferrand, France

  • CHU Dijon - Hôpital Bocage Central

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Dijon, France

  • CHU Lille - Hôpital Claude Huriez

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Lille, France

  • CHU Nantes - Hôtel Dieu

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Nantes, France

  • CHU Nice - Hôpital de l'Archet 2

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Nice, France

  • CHU Saint Etienne - Hôpital Nord

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Saint-Etienne, France

  • CHU UCL Namur

    RECRUITING

    Yvoir, Belgium

  • CHU de Grenoble - Hôpital Michallon

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Grenoble, France

  • Central Texas Clinical Research, LLC

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Austin, Texas, 78705, United States

  • Centre Hospitalier Départemental Vendée - Les Oudairies

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    La Roche-sur-Yon, France

  • Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud

    RECRUITING

    Pierre-Bénite, France

  • Centre Wallonie Picarde

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Tournai, Belgium

  • Centro Medico Teknon

    RECRUITING

    Barcelona, Spain

  • Centrum Medyczne Medis

    RECRUITING

    Bydgoszcz, Poland

  • Centrum Medyczne Plejady

    RECRUITING

    Krakow, Poland

  • Centrum Zdrowia MDM

    RECRUITING

    Warsaw, Poland

  • Charite-Campus Benjamin Franklin Medizin.Klin.I

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Berlin, Germany

  • Clinfan Szolgaltato Kft.

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Szekszárd, Hungary

  • Clinica Gaias - Santiago

    RECRUITING

    Santiago de Compostela, Spain

  • Clinical Research Of Brandon, LLC

    RECRUITING

    Brandon, Florida, 33511, United States

  • Cliniq s.r.o.

    RECRUITING

    Bratislava, Slovakia

  • DC-MED

    RECRUITING

    Swidnica, Poland

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Lebanon, New Hampshire, 03756, United States

  • ETG Zamosc

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Zamość, Poland

  • ETZ Elisabeth

    RECRUITING

    Tilburg, Netherlands

  • Endomed, s.r.o.

    RECRUITING

    Košice, Slovakia

  • Fakultna nemocnica s poliklinikou F.D. Roosevelta

    RECRUITING

    Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

  • Fejer Varmegyei Szent Gyorgy Egyetemi Oktato Korhaz

    RECRUITING

    Székesfehérvár, Hungary

  • Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo

    RECRUITING

    Pavia, Italy

  • Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS

    RECRUITING

    Roma, Italy

  • Frontier Clinical Research, LLC

    RECRUITING

    Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 15401, United States

  • GCP Clinical Research, LLC

    RECRUITING

    Tampa, Florida, 33609, United States

  • GI Alliance

    RECRUITING

    Cedar Park, Texas, 78613, United States

  • GI Alliance - Garland

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Garland, Texas, 75044, United States

  • GI Alliance - Gurnee

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Mansfield, Texas, 76063, United States

  • GI Alliance -Gurnee

    RECRUITING

    Sun City, Arizona, 85351, United States

  • Gabinet Lekarski Bartosz Korczowski

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Rzeszów, Poland

  • Gastro I, s.r.o.

    RECRUITING

    Prešov, Slovakia

  • Gastroenterology Consultants of Southwest Virginia.

    RECRUITING

    Roanoke, Virginia, 24014, United States

  • Gyongyosi Bugat Pal Korhaz

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Gyöngyös, Hungary

  • Hamburgisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Chronisch Entzuendliche Darmerkrankungen

    RECRUITING

    Hamburg, Germany

  • Henry Ford Columbus Center

    RECRUITING

    Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States

  • Hepato-Gastroenterologie HK s.r.o.

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Hradec Králové, Czechia

  • Hoag Hospital

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Irvine, California, 92618, United States

  • Hopital Rangueil

    RECRUITING

    Toulouse, France

  • Hopital Saint Eloi

    RECRUITING

    Montpellier, France

  • Hopital Universitaire de Bruxelles - Hopital Erasme

    RECRUITING

    Brussels, Belgium

  • Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valencia

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Valencia, Spain

  • Hospital General Juan Ramon Jimenez

    RECRUITING

    Huelva, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Córdoba, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Seville, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Fuenlabrada, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr. Negrin

    RECRUITING

    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

  • Houston Methodist Hospital

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

  • Hôpital Bicêtre

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

  • Hôpital Henri Mondor

    RECRUITING

    Créteil, France

  • Hôpital Nord - CHU Marseille

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Marseille, France

  • Hôpital de Brabois

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France

  • IMC Gulf Coast Gastroenterology, PC

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Fairhope, Alabama, 36532, United States

  • IRCCS Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza

    RECRUITING

    San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

  • ISCARE a.s.

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Prague, Czechia

  • Inquest Clinical Research

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Baytown, Texas, 77521, United States

  • Institut des MICI

    RECRUITING

    Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

  • Istituto Clinico Humanitas

    RECRUITING

    Rozzano, Italy

  • KM Management spol. s r.o.

    RECRUITING

    Nitra, Slovakia

  • Kiepury Clinic MAŁGORZATA JARNOT SPECJALISTYCZNA PRAKTYKA GINEKOLOGICZNO-POŁOŻNICZA

    RECRUITING

    Sosnowiec, Poland

  • Krankenhaus Waldfriede e. V.

    RECRUITING

    Berlin, Germany

  • LMU - Campus Grosshadern

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    München, Germany

  • Lucida Clinical Trials, LLC

    RECRUITING

    New Bedford, Massachusetts, 02740, United States

  • Maastricht University Medical Center

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Maastricht, Netherlands

  • Medical Network Spolka z o.o

    RECRUITING

    Warsaw, Poland

  • Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

    RECRUITING

    Hanover, Germany

  • Melita Medical Sp. Z O. O.

    RECRUITING

    Wroclaw, Poland

  • Mz Badania Slowik Zymla Sp J

    RECRUITING

    Knurów, Poland

  • NSZOZ Termedica - Centrum Badan Klinicznych

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Poznan, Poland

  • NZOZ Centrum Medyczne KERmed

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Bydgoszcz, Poland

  • NZOZ VIVAMED Jadwiga Miecz

    RECRUITING

    Warsaw, Poland

  • Nemocnice Slany

    RECRUITING

    Slaný, Czechia

  • Northwestern University

    RECRUITING

    Evanston, Illinois, 60208, United States

  • Novel Research, LLC

    RECRUITING

    Bellaire, Texas, 77401, United States

  • OSU Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Hilliard, Ohio, 43026, United States

  • Obudai Egeszsegugyi Centrum Kft.

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Budapest, Hungary

  • Orlando Health, Inc.

    RECRUITING

    Orlando, Florida, 32806, United States

  • Ospedale Sacro Cuore Don Calabria

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Negrar, Italy

  • Ospedale San Raffaele

    RECRUITING

    Milan, Italy

  • Pannonia Maganorvosi Centrum

    RECRUITING

    Budapest, Hungary

  • Peak Gastroenterology Associates

    RECRUITING

    Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80907, United States

  • Penta hospitals SK, a.s.

    RECRUITING

    Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia

  • PreventaMed s.r.o.

    RECRUITING

    Olomouc, Czechia

  • Radboud UMC

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Nijmegen, Netherlands

  • Rapid City Medical Center, LLC

    RECRUITING

    Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701, United States

  • Research Associates of South Florida, LLC

    RECRUITING

    Miami, Florida, 33134, United States

  • Richmond VA Medical Center

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Richmond, Virginia, 23249, United States

  • S.C Delta Health Care S.R.L

    RECRUITING

    Bucharest, Romania

  • S.C Pelican Impex S.R.L

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Oradea, Romania

  • SC Centrul Medical Medicum SRL, Specialitatea Gastroenterologie

    RECRUITING

    Bucharest, Romania

  • SOLUMED Centrum Medyczne

    RECRUITING

    Poznan, Poland

  • Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej w Lecznej

    RECRUITING

    Łęczna, Poland

  • Santa Sp. z o.o. Sp. K Polimedica PTG Kielce

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Kielce, Poland

  • Sarkis Clinical Trials - Parent

    RECRUITING

    Ocala, Florida, 34474, United States

  • Scottsdale Gastroenterology Specialists

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Scottsdale, Arizona, 85260, United States

  • Semmelweis Egyetem

    RECRUITING

    Budapest, Hungary

  • Semmelweis Egyetem

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Budapest, Hungary

  • Southern Star Research Institute, LLC

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    San Antonio, Texas, 78229, United States

  • Spitalul Clinic Colentina

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Bucharest, Romania

  • St. Marienkrankenhaus

    RECRUITING

    Ludwigshafen, Germany

  • SurGal Clinic s.r.o.

    RECRUITING

    Brno, Czechia

  • Susquehanna Research Group, LLC

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17110, United States

  • Texas Digestive Specialists

    RECRUITING

    Harlingen, Texas, 78550, United States

  • Theia Clinical Research Centers, LLC

    RECRUITING

    Temple Terrace, Florida, 33617, United States

  • Trialmed CRS

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland

  • Twoja Przychodnia Opolskie Centrum Medyczne

    RECRUITING

    Opole, Poland

  • Twoja Przychodnia PCM

    RECRUITING

    Późna, Poland

  • Twoja Przychodnia-Szczecinskie Centrum Medyczne Sp. z o. o.

    RECRUITING

    Szczecin, Poland

  • Tyler Research Institute, LLC

    RECRUITING

    Tyler, Texas, 75701, United States

  • UPMC

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States

  • UZ Leuven

    RECRUITING

    Leuven, Belgium

  • United Medical Doctors

    RECRUITING

    Murrieta, California, 92563, United States

  • Universitaetsklinikum Brandenburg an der Havel

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

  • Universitaetsklinikum Erlangen

    RECRUITING

    Erlangen, Germany

  • Universitaetsklinikum Frankfurt Goethe-Universitaet

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Heidelberg, Germany

  • Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Kiel

    RECRUITING

    Kiel, Germany

  • Universitaetsklinikum Ulm

    RECRUITING

    Ulm, Germany

  • Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Ghent, Belgium

  • University of Iowa Health Care

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Iowa City, Iowa, 52242, United States

  • University of Massachusetts, Worcester

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Worcester, Massachusetts, 01655, United States

  • University of Utah

    RECRUITING

    Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108, United States

  • University of Washington

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Seattle, Washington, 98195, United States

  • Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

    RECRUITING

    Roma, Italy

  • Valahia Medical SRL

    RECRUITING

    Ploieşti, Romania

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37212, United States

  • Vojenska nemocnice Brno

    RECRUITING

    Brno, Czechia

  • Wellness Clinical Research

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Miami Lakes, Florida, 33016, United States

  • West Central Gastroenterology d/b/a Gastro Florida

    RECRUITING

    Clearwater, Florida, 33762, United States