New hope for kids with kidney disease: can dupilumab stop relapses?
NCT ID NCT07091175
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests if dupilumab, a drug already used for allergies, can help children with severe nephrotic syndrome stay relapse-free longer. About 66 kids aged 6–18 will get either dupilumab or a placebo injection for 6 months, while slowly reducing their steroid dose. The goal is to see if dupilumab can control the disease and reduce the need for steroids.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 66 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Nov 2025
- Expected to finish
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Feb 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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6 to 18 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age between 6 years old and 18 years old at the point of recruitment with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome with disease onset between 1-18 years old 2. Steroid-dependent disease or frequently relapsing disease prior to commencement of maintenance immunosuppression 3. On oral prednisolone +/- mycophenolate or levamisole only as maintenance therapy for 6 months or more, and with inadequate disease control or steroid toxicity on therapy 4. Nephrotic relapse or partial relapse (clinical or biochemical) within the last 1 year either unprovoked or during prednisolone wean, and which responded to increase in steroids 5. In complete remission at the time of recruitment 6. Competent with, and compliant to, daily urine protein monitoring with Albustix Exclusion Criteria: 1. Pre-existing ophthalmological conditions except refractive errors, squint or mild cataract 2. Current symptoms of helminth infection or travel to endemic areas, unless helminth infection is excluded 3. eGFR (by Bedside Schwartz equation) \<60 ml/min/1.73m2 4. Received Rituximab or other B-cell depleting agents within the last 1 year 5. Biopsy proven focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 6. Known ongoing infection including HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or tuberculosis, otherwise immunosuppressed or with frequent infections 7. Known or suspected non-compliance to medication or follow-up 8. Pregnancy or intention to become pregnant 9. Major systemic conditions, i.e. ASA Physical Status III-IV. 10. Known hypersensitivity to dupilumab or any of its excipients
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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KK Women's and Children's Hospital
RECRUITINGSingapore, Singapore, 229899, Singapore
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National University Hospital
RECRUITINGSingapore, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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