Determining Efficacy and Safety of BXCL501 in Agitation Associated With Pediatric Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
BioXcel Therapeutics Inc · with ProPharma Group · NCT05025605
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Key facts
- Compensation
- Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
- Who can join
- Ages 10–17 · All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted (a condition is required)
- Study type
- Interventional · Phase 1
- Target enrollment
- 140
- US sites recruiting
- 4
- Study start
- August 27, 2021
- Record last updated
- August 11, 2026
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What the study is about
This is a study of the efficacy and safety of BXCL501 in children and adolescents with acute agitation and either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
Being studied: BXCL501 80 Micrograms; Placebo Film; BXCL501 120 Micrograms; BXCL501 60 Micrograms
Conditions: Schizophrenia; Schizo-Affective Disorder; Schizophreniform; Schizophrenic; Bipolar Disorder I; Bipolar Disorder II
Eligibility criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
- Male and female subjects between the ages of 10-17 years, inclusive, with bipolar disorder (DSM-5 criteria) and 13-17 years, inclusive, in subjects with schizophrenia (DSM-5 criteria).
- Patients who are judged to be clinically agitated at Screening and Baseline with a total score of ≥14 on the 5 items comprising the PANSS Excited Component (PEC).
- Patients who have a score of ≥ 4 on at least 1 of the 5 items on the PEC at Baseline.
- Participants who agree to use a medically acceptable and effective birth control method
Exclusion Criteria
- Patients with agitation caused by acute intoxication, including alcohol or drugs of abuse (with the exception of THC) during urine screening.
- Use of benzodiazepines or other hypnotics or oral or short-acting intramuscular antipsychotic drugs in the 4 hours before study treatment.
- Patients who are judged to be at significant risk of suicide.
- Patients with serious or unstable medical illnesses.
- Patients who have received an investigational drug within 30 days prior to the current agitation episode.
- Patients who are considered by the investigator, for any reason, to be an unsuitable candidate for receiving the study drug.
Recruiting US locations
BioXcel Clinical Research Site
Anaheim, CA 92805
Site contact: BioXcel CTM · 475-254-5899 · info@bioxceltherapeutics.com
Bioxcel Clinical Research Site
Hialeah, FL 33016
Site contact: Bioxcel CTM · 475-254-5899 · info@bioxceltherapeutics.com
Bioxcel Clinical Research Site
Decatur, GA 30030
Site contact: Bioxcel CTM · 475-254-5899 · info@bioxceltherapeutics.com
BioXcel Clinical Research Site
DeSoto, TX 75115
Site contact: Bioxcel CTM · 475-254-5899 · info@bioxceltherapeutics.com
Study contacts (from the official record)
- BioXcel CTM · 475-238-6837 · info@bioxceltherapeutics.com
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