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CTRI Number  CTRI/2016/05/006899 [Registered on: 05/05/2016] Trial Registered Prospectively
Last Modified On: 09/09/2017
Post Graduate Thesis  No 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study   Biological 
Study Design  Randomized, Parallel Group, Active Controlled Trial 
Public Title of Study   A study to compare the biosimilar of Etanercept (coded as YLB113) made by YLBiologics with Enbrel (originator’s Etanercept) in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis with respect to its efficacy, safety and antibody formation. 
Scientific Title of Study   A Comparative Study to Assess the Efficacy, Safety and Immunogenicity of YLB113 and Enbrel for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis 
Trial Acronym   
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  Dr Shoaib Mohammad  
Designation  Sr. Medical Director 
Affiliation  Kendle India Private Limited 
Address  Building No. 14, Tower-B, 14th Floor DLF Cyber City, Phase III

Gurgaon
HARYANA
122001
India 
Phone  01244642458  
Fax  01244642401  
Email  shoaib.mohammad@incresearch.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
Name  Dr Shoaib Mohammad  
Designation  Sr. Medical Director 
Affiliation  Kendle India Private Limited 
Address  Building No. 14, Tower-B, 14th Floor DLF Cyber City, Phase III

Gurgaon
HARYANA
122001
India 
Phone  01244642458  
Fax  01244642401  
Email  shoaib.mohammad@incresearch.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
Name  Mamta Singh 
Designation  Associate Director - SSU & RA 
Affiliation  Kendle India Private Limited 
Address  Building No. 14, Tower-B, 14th Floor DLF Cyber City, Phase III Gurgaon

Gurgaon
HARYANA
122001
India 
Phone  01244642449  
Fax  01244642401  
Email  mamta.singh@incresearch.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
YL Biologics Ltd. 2-31-1, Nihonbashi-Hamacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 103-0007, Japan  
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  YL Biologics Ltd 
Address  2-31-1, Nihonbashi-Hamacho, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo - 103-0007, Japan AND Lupin Limited ( Research Park), 46A/47A, Nande Village, Mulshi Taluka, Pune-412115, Maharashtra, India 
Type of Sponsor  Other [Pharmaceutical Company] 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL  NIL 
 
Countries of Recruitment     Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Hungary
India
Latvia
Poland
Romania
Russian Federation
Spain
Ukraine
Japan  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 23  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
Dr Sumeet Agarwal  Artemis Hospitals  Rheumatology Department, Sector-51, 122001 
Gurgaon
HARYANA 
9958493459
1246767708
sumeeta@artemishospitals.com 
Dr Himanshu Panchal  B.J. Medical College and Civil Hospital  Department of Orthopedics, Asarwa-380016
Ahmadabad
GUJARAT 
9825463696

drhimanshupanchal@gmail.com 
Dr Vasuda Sardesai  B.J.Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital  Department of Medicine, Near Pune Railway Station - 411001
Pune
MAHARASHTRA 
9822074378

drvasudhasardesai@gmail.com 
Dr Pradeep Kumar  BGS Global Hospitals  Department of Rheumatology, BGS Health& Education City, 5th Floor GCRS deparment, #67 Uttarahalli Road, Kengeri- 560060
Bangalore
KARNATAKA 
8792993073
80-30444192
pradeepkumar@nhs.net 
Dr Jayachandran Nambiar  Government Medical College  Department of General Medicine, Kozhikode-673008
Kozhikode
KERALA 
4952355737

njayachandran9@gmail.com 
Dr Milind Vyawahare  Government Medical College and Hospital  Department of Medicine, Medical College Square - 440003
Nagpur
MAHARASHTRA 
9822234566

drmilindvyawhare@yahoo.com 
Dr Krishnakant N Bhatt  Government Medical college and New Civil Hospital  Department of Medicine, Outside Majuragate, Ring Road - 395002
Surat
GUJARAT 
02612222256
02612230063
drkrishnakantnbhatta@gmail.com 
Dr Sudhir Garg  Govt. Medical College & hospital (GMCH)  Room No. D331, Department of Orthopaedics, Sector 32, Chandigarh-160030, India
Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH 
9646121591
1722609360
sudhir_ortho@yahoo.com 
Dr Shrikant Wagh  Jehangir Clinical Development Centre Pvt Ltd  Rheumatology Department, Jehangir Hospital Premises, 32 Sassoon Road, 411001
Pune
MAHARASHTRA 
9822032373
20-26059319
sywagh@yahoo.co.in 
Dr Vineet Kumar  King George Medical College  Department of Orthopaedic, Chowk- 226003,
Lucknow
UTTAR PRADESH 
9936901111

mailsforvineet@gmail.com 
Dr Arvind Goregaokar  Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College  Department of Orthopaedics, Dr B R Ambedkar Road, Sion- 400022
Mumbai
MAHARASHTRA 
9821351787
2224098946
abgortho@hotmail.com 
Dr Girish Bhatia   Medipoint Hospital Pvt. Ltd.   Department of Rheumatology, 241/ 1, New DP road, Aundh- 411007
Pune
MAHARASHTRA 
02027298081
02027298081
drbhatia.pentagon@gmail.com 
Dr Vijay Goni  Nehru Hospital, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER)  Department of Orthopaedics, Sector 12, 160012
Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH 
9815712727
1722740909
vijaygoni@gmail.com 
Dr Bankim Desai  Nirmal Hospital Pvt.Ltd.  Medicine Department, Ring Road, Civil Street, Near Kadiwala School- 395002
Surat
GUJARAT 
9825136077

drbankim.desai@gmail.com 
Dr Rajendra VaraPrasad Irlapati  Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences  Rheumatology Department, 3rd Floor, Panjagutta,- 500082, Telangana
Hyderabad
ANDHRA PRADESH 
9885099834

rajendravaraprasad1@gmail.com 
Dr LA Gauri  S.P. Medical College & AG of Hospitals  Rheumatology Unit, Department of medicine, Bikaner-334003
Bikaner
RAJASTHAN 
9829795116

drliyakatali@rediff.com 
Dr Anjali Rajadhyksha  Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital  Department of Medicine, Acharya Donde Marg, Parel-400012
Mumbai
MAHARASHTRA 
9821275280

anjalirajadhyaksha@kem.edu 
Dr Reena Sharma  Shalby Hospitals  Rheumatology Department, Opp.Karnavati Club, S.G.Highway- 380015
Ahmadabad
GUJARAT 
9737299455

reena.sharma@shalby.org 
Dr Avinash Agarwal  Shri Nidaan Hospital & Hope Fertility  Centre  Rheumatology Department, 27 Vidhut Nagar-A, Ajmer Road-302006
Jaipur
RAJASTHAN 
1412356669
9829052451
dravitrial@gmail.com 
Dr Lalit Duggal  Sir Gangaram Hospital  Department of Rheumatology, Rajinder Nagar- 110 060
New Delhi
DELHI 
9540013386

lduggal@gmail.com 
Dr Rahul Katta  SR Kalla Memorial Gastro and General Hospital  Department of Orthopaedics and Polytrauma, 78-79 Dhuleshwar Garden Behind HSBC Bank Sardar Patel Marg C-Scheme - 302001
Jaipur
RAJASTHAN 
9829010490

rahulkatta@hotmail.com 
Dr Praveen Jadhav  Sujata Birla Hospital And Medical Research Centre  Rheumatology Department, Opposite Bytco College, Nashik Pune Highway, Nashik Road- 422101,
Nashik
MAHARASHTRA 
9822055612

drpravinjadhav@gmail.com 
Dr Vikram Haridas  Sushruta Multispeciality Hospital & Research Centre Private Limited  Rheumatology Department, P. B. Road, Vidyanagar, Hubli-580021
Belgaum
KARNATAKA 
9343649883

drvikramharidas@gmail.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee
Modification(s)  
No of Ethics Committees= 17  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
Artemis Health Sciences Institutional Ethics Committee  Approved 
Ethics Committee - S.P.Medical College & AG of Hospitals  Approved 
Ethics Committee Jehangir Clinical Development Centre Pvt. Ltd.  Approved 
Ethics Committee, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital  Approved 
Ethics Committee-Shalby Limited  Approved 
Govt Medical College, Kozhikode, Institutional Ethics Committee  Approved 
Institutional Ethics Committee of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research  Approved 
Institutional Ethics committee,Govt. Medical College, Nagpur  Approved 
Institutional Ethics Committee-BGS Global Hospitals  Approved 
Institutional Ethics Committee-NIMS  Approved 
Institutonal Ethics Committee, B.J. Medical College & Civil Hospital  Approved 
Nirmal Hospital Pvt Ltd Ethics Committee  Approved 
Penta-Med Ethics Committee  Approved 
SR Kalla Memorial Ethical Committee For Human Research  Approved 
Sushruta Hospitals Ethics Committee  Approved 
Swastic Ethics Committee  Approved 
Yash Society Ethics Committee  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Approved/Obtained 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Patients  Patients with active RA despite treatment with a fixed dose of MTX,  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Comparator Agent  Enbrel  Etanercept is a fusion protein produced by recombinant DNA technology in a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) mammalian expression system. Etanercept is a dimer of a chimeric protein genetically engineered by fusing the extracellular ligand binding domain of human tumor necrosis factor receptor-2 (TNFR2) to the Fc domain of human IgG1. 
Intervention  YLB113  YLB113 (developed by YL Biologics Co., Ltd. hereinafter referred to as YL Biologics Ltd.) is an investigational biosimilar of Enbrel® (manufactured and marketed by Pfizer, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Pfizer Inc.)) which has the active ingredient Etanercept. YLB113 is found to be equivalent in Phase 1 clinical studies in Japan & India. 
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  18.00 Year(s)
Age To  75.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  Stage A
Patients must meet the following criteria:
(1) Male or female adults more than or equal to 18 and less than or equal to 75 years of age at the time of informed consent.
(2) Patients diagnosed with RA according to the 2010 American College of Rheumatology
(ACR)/ European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) classification criteria for RA and are capable of providing written informed consent to participate in the study.
(3) Patients with more than or equal to 6 tender joints and more than or equal to 6 swollen joints (based on the Swollen Joint Count [SJC] using 66 joints and Tender Joint Count [TJC] using 68 joints) and a DAS28 score
more than or equal to 3.2.
(4) Patients classified as Global Functional Assessment Class I, II, or III, according to the revised ACR criteria.
(5) Patients who have been treated with MTX for at least 3 months at an optimum dose (6 - 25 mg/week [15 – 25 mg/week for India], not exceeding the local approved dose) that
has remained stable for at least 6 weeks prior to screening.
(6) Patients who have discontinued treatment with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs
(DMARDs), other than MTX and complete a washout period of at least 2 weeks or at least five half-lives prior to drug administration, whichever is longer.

Stage B
(1) Patients who complete evaluations for Week 24 in Stage A and are willing to continue in Stage B.
(2) Patients without serious adverse events (SAEs) or unresolved Grade 3 or higher adverse
events related to the study drugs and who tolerated the study drugs administered in Stage A.
 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  Patients who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded from this clinical trial:
Stage A:
(1) Patients with known hypersensitivity to Etanercept or any other components of the YL Biologics Ltd.
(2) Patients allergic to latex (the needle cap on the Etanercept prefilled syringe contains
latex, which may cause allergic reactions in individuals sensitive to latex).
(3) Patients suffering from acute or chronic, localized or disseminated infections (bacterial/fungal/viral) or sepsis, or patients with a history of recurring infections, or
those who are at an increased risk of developing infections or sepsis (and those with
positive test results for beta-D-glucan only for Japan) within 3 months prior to screening.
(4) Patients with active tuberculosis (TB), prior history of unsuccessfully treated TB,
latent TB, or those who are at risk of developing TB (e.g. those who were in contact
with patients of active TB in the recent past prior to screening) and patients who are
not negative for TB tests (e.g., T-SPOT® TB or QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test/ appropriate test).
(5) Patients with a history of septic arthritis of native joints within 12 months prior to
screening, or any prior history of septic arthritis of a prosthetic joint.
(6) Patients diagnosed with other rheumatic diseases, autoimmune disease, connective
tissue disease, or immune deficiencies (e.g., psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, primary
Sjogren’s syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, or demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis).
(7) Patients with active or prior history of malignancies (except for successfully treated
non-metastatic basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and carcinoma insitu of the cervix).
(8) Patients with a prior history of blood dyscrasias.
(9) Patients with a history of alcohol, drug, or chemical abuse in the past 2 years prior to
screening.
(10) Patients who received any live or attenuated vaccines within 4 weeks of screening.
(11) Patients previously treated with any other biologic response modifiers for any
auto-immune indication (including but not limited to tocilizumab, adalimumab,
anakinra, abatacept, infliximab, rituximab, golimumab, etanercept, certolizumab and
tofacitinib).
(12) Patients with serious systemic infections (e.g., patients who test positive for hepatitis
B surface antigen [HBsAg], hepatitis B core antibody [HBcAb] & hepatitis B surface
antibody [HBsAb] (except those with history of Hepatitis B vaccination, who will be
included, if positive for HBsAb but negative for HBsAg and HBcAb), hepatitis C
virus [HCV], or human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]).
(13) Patients with class III or IV congestive heart failure (as defined by the New York
Heart Association criteria) (New York Heart Association, 1994).
(14) Patients with clinically significant abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) findings.

"Other standard Exclusion criteria are as per Protocol".
 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Stratified block randomization 
Method of Concealment   On-site computer system 
Blinding/Masking   Participant and Investigator Blinded 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Stage A: ACR20 response rate at Week 24 of dosing.  24 weeks 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Efficacy assessments:
- ACR20 response rate at Weeks4, 8 and 12 of dosing
- ACR50 response rate at Weeks 4, 8, 12 and 24of dosing
- ACR70 response rate at Weeks 4, 8, 12 and 24 of dosing
- An improvement in the DAS28 response rate at Weeks 4, 8,12 and 24 of dosing
- Safety assessments (Adverse events, Physical examination, vital signs, ECG, Clinical laboratory examination and Injection site assessment)
- Immunogenicity (at Weeks 4, 8, 12 and 24 of dosing)

 
Weeks 4, 8, 12 and 24 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="500"
Sample Size from India="100" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "471"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="26" 
Phase of Trial   Phase 3 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   16/05/2016 
Date of Study Completion (India) 22/07/2017 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  19/08/2015 
Date of Study Completion (Global) 02/08/2017 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="1"
Months="1"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)
Modification(s)  
Completed 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Completed 
Publication Details    
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Brief Summary   This is Multicenter, double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, comparative study.
The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety, at Week 24 of
treatment with YLB113 50 mg or Enbrel 50 mg given once a week as a
subcutaneous injection along with methotrexate (MTX) in patients with active
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) despite MTX therapy and to evaluate the long-term
safety and immunogenicity, of YLB113 administration.
Stage A: To compare the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of YLB113 and
Enbrel
Stage B: To compare long-term safety and immunogenicity of YLB113 and
Enbrel
 
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