New hope for SMA babies: risdiplam trial launches in newborns
NCT ID NCT05808764
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is testing the drug risdiplam in newborn babies with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a serious muscle-weakening disease. The goal is to see how the drug moves through the body and if it is safe for infants under 20 days old. Ten babies will take part, and researchers will monitor side effects and drug levels in the blood.
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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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11 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Apr 2024
- Finished
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May 2026
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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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Up to 19 days
- 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: * Male or female newborn infant aged \<20 days at first dose * Newborn infants with genetic diagnosis of 5q-autosomal recessive SMA or newborn infants identified as positive for SMA via newborn screening or via prenatal testing. * Gestational age equal to or greater than 37 weeks * Receiving adequate nutrition and hydration at the time of screening * Adequately recovered from any acute illness at baseline and considered well enough to participate in the study * Parent/caregiver is willing to consider nasogastric, nasojejunal, or gastrostomy tube placement during the study to maintain safe hydration, nutrition, and treatment delivery, if recommended by the investigator. Exclusion Criteria: * Presence of clinical symptoms or signs consistent with SMA Type 0 * In the opinion of the investigator, inadequate venous or capillary blood access for the study procedures * Systolic blood pressure or diastolic blood pressure or heart rate abnormalities * Presence of clinically relevant electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities * The infant (or the person breastfeeding the infant) taking any of the following: any inhibitor of CYP3A4 taken within 2 weeks (or within 5 times the elimination half-life, whichever is longer) prior to dosing, any inducer of CYP3A4 taken within 4 weeks (or within 5 times the elimination half-life, whichever is longer prior to dosing, and/or use of any multidrug and toxin extrusion (MATE) substrates taken within 2 weeks (or within 5 times the elimination half-life, whichever is longer) prior to dosing * Concurrent or previous administration of nusinersen or onasemnogene abeparvovec * Clinically significant abnormalities in laboratory test
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
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CHR Citadelle
Liège, 4000, Belgium
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Children'S Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L1, Canada
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Clinic for Special Children.
Gordonville, Pennsylvania, 17529, United States
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Fondazione Policlinico Univeristario A. Gemelli
ROMA, Emilia-Romagna, 00168, Italy
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Fondazione Serena Onlus - CENTRO CLINICO NEMO
Milano, Emilia-Romagna, 20162, Italy
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Hopital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola
Brussels, 1020, Belgium
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Instytut Pomnik - Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka
Warsaw, 04-730, Poland
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OUS (Oslo University Hospital), Rikshospitalet
Oslo, 0372, Norway
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UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, 3508, Netherlands
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Universitatsklinikum Essen
Essen, 45147, Germany
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University Of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States
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Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne
Gdansk, 80-952, Poland
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