Mass General - Division of Clinical Research

Drug studies often look at the effect one or two drugs have on a medical condition, and involve one company. There is currently an urgent need for one study to efficiently test multiple drugs from more than one company, in people who have tested positive for COVID-19 but who do not currently need hospitalization. This could help prevent disease progression to more serious symptoms and complications, and spread of COVID-19 in the community. This study looks at the safety and effectiveness of different drugs in treating COVID-19 in outpatients. Participants in the study will be treated with either a study drug or with placebo.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Aug 2020

open study

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of treatment with omecamtiv mecarbil compared with placebo on exercise capacity as determined by cardiopulmonary exercise testing following 20 weeks of treatment with omecamtiv mecarbil or placebo

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Apr 2019

open study

The main purpose of this study are to determine the recommended Phase 2 dose(s) (RP2D) route of administration, schedule and the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) in Part 1 and to determine the safety and tolerability of JNJ-67571244 at the RP2D regimen(s) and to evaluate the preliminary clinical activity of JNJ-67571244 in Part 2.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Mar 2019

open study

This is a sub-study of NIDA CTN Protocol 0080: Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Expectant Mothers (MOMs; Unique protocol ID: 2019-0429-1). Participants in MOMs will be offered the opportunity to enroll in this sub-study, which is designed to evaluate conceptual models of the mechanisms by which extended-release buprenorphine (BUP-XR), may improve mother-infant outcomes, compared to sublingual buprenorphine (BUP-SL). The additional data collected in this sub-study will be combined with data from the main MOMs trial. It is hypothesized that: (1) the buprenorphine blood levels will vary, depending on which formulation of buprenorphine was received, (2) the variation in buprenorphine blood levels will be associated with fetal behavior (including fetal heart rate variability) (3) the variation in buprenorphine blood levels will be associated with differences in mother outcomes (including medication adherence and illicit opioid use) (4) the variation in buprenorphine blood levels and in fetal behavior will be associated with infant outcomes (including neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome and infant development).

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jul 2020

open study

This study will evaluate the efficacy, safety, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of ravulizumab administered in adult patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) severe pneumonia, acute lung injury, or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Patients will be randomly assigned to receive ravulizumab in addition to best supportive care (BSC) (2/3 of the patients) or BSC alone (1/3 of the patients). Best supportive care will consist of medical treatment and/or medical interventions per routine hospital practice.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: May 2020

open study

This research study is studying a drug as a possible treatment for ER-positive Breast Cancer The drug involved in this study is: -Ribociclib

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2017

open study

This study design has two components: 1) a cross-sectional assessment of brain activity and inflammation in migraine patients compared to healthy controls and 2) an assessment of 8 weeks of a combination therapy approach to treating migraine.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Aug 2019

open study

This phase III trial studies how well radiation therapy with protons works compared with photons in treating patients with liver cancer. Radiation therapy, such as photon therapy, uses high energy x-rays to send the radiation inside the body to the tumor while proton therapy uses a beam of proton particles. Proton therapy can stop shortly after penetrating through the tumor and may cause less damage to the surrounding healthy organs and result in better survival in patients with liver cancer.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jun 2017

open study

This study will evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of GDC-0077 in combination with palbociclib and fulvestrant compared with placebo plus palbociclib and fulvestrant in patients with PIK3CA-mutant, hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose disease progressed during treatment or within 12 months of completing adjuvant endocrine therapy and who have not received prior systemic therapy for metastatic disease.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jan 2020

open study

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of olaparib (MK-7339) plus pembrolizumab (MK-3475) with chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab after induction with first-line chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). The primary hypotheses are: 1. Olaparib plus pembrolizumab prolongs progression-free survival (PFS) compared with chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab. 2. Olaparib plus pembrolizumab is non-inferior to chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab in terms of overall survival (OS). 3. Olaparib plus pembrolizumab prolongs OS compared with chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2019

open study

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of TAK-018 in reducing endoscopic recurrence of intestinal inflammation in postoperative participants with CD after a planned laparoscopic ileocecal resection with primary anastomosis.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Aug 2020

open study

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of semaglutide on intra-hepatic triglyceride (IHTG) content in people living with HIV (PLWH), central adiposity, insulin resistance or pre-diabetes, and hepatic steatosis.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Oct 2020

open study

This randomized phase II trial studies how well dose-escalated photon intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) or proton beam radiation therapy works compared with standard-dose radiation therapy when given with temozolomide in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays and other types of radiation to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Specialized radiation therapy that delivers a high dose of radiation directly to the tumor may kill more tumor cells and cause less damage to normal tissue. Drugs, such as temozolomide, may make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy. It is not yet known whether dose-escalated photon IMRT or proton beam radiation therapy is more effective than standard-dose radiation therapy with temozolomide in treating glioblastoma.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Oct 2014

open study

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of treating opioid use disorder (OUD) in pregnant women with extended-release buprenorphine (BUP-XR), compared to sublingual buprenorphine (BUP-SL), on mother and infant outcomes. The primary hypothesis is that the BUP-XR group will not have greater illicit opioid use than the BUP-SL group during pregnancy (non-inferiority).

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jul 2020

open study

The reason for this study is to see if the study drug selpercatinib is safe and more effective compared to a standard treatment in participants with rearranged during transfection (RET)-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) that cannot be removed by surgery or has spread to other parts of the body. Participants who are assigned to the standard treatment and discontinue due to progressive disease have the option to potentially crossover to selpercatinib.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Feb 2020

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The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) plus pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in the treatment of adult participants with medically inoperable Stage I or IIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The primary study hypotheses are: 1. SBRT plus pembrolizumab prolongs Event-free Survival (EFS) compared to SBRT plus placebo (normal saline solution), and 2. SBRT plus pembrolizumab prolongs Overall Survival (OS) compared to SBRT plus placebo.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jun 2019

open study

This is a multicenter, multi-country, open-label, Phase 1b/2a dose-escalation study consisting of two parts: dose escalation (Part 1) for CC-220 monotherapy, CC-220 in combination with DEX, CC-220 in combination with DEX and DARA, CC-220 in combination with DEX and BTZ and CC-220 in combination with DEX and CFZ; and the expansion of the RP2D (Part 2) for CC-220 in combination with DEX for Relapsed Refractory Multiple Myeloma and CC-220 in combination with DEX and BTZ for Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Oct 2016

open study

Study ALD-104 is an international, non-randomized, open-label, multi-site study in male subjects (≤17 years of age at enrollment) with cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD). Approximately 35 subjects will be infused with Lenti-D Drug Product after myeloablative conditioning with busulfan and fludarabine. This trial will evaluate the efficacy and safety of autologous CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells, transduced ex-vivo with Lenti-D lentiviral vector, for the treatment of CALD. A subject's blood stem cells will be collected and modified (transduced) using the Lenti-D lentiviral vector encoding human adrenoleukodystrophy protein. After modification (transduction) with the Lenti-D lentiviral vector, the cells will be transplanted back into the subject following myeloablative conditioning.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jan 2019

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This research study is being conducted to find out how heart function and energy use differ among healthy endurance athletes, individuals who do not exercise regularly, and patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The research study involves taking part in a cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET), two positron emission tomography (PET) scans, an echocardiogram, and blood draws. The study will consist of a total of three visits scheduled over a maximum of two weeks. By determining how heart function and energy use differ between our three groups of healthy endurance athletes, individuals who do not exercise regularly, and patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the investigators hope to have this work translate into a novel clinical tool for differentiating pathologic changes of the heart from physiological changes in heart. This is otherwise known as "gray-zone" left ventricular hypertrophy, or enlargement of the left ventricle.

Type: Observational

Start Date: Feb 2019

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This study is a multi-cohort, open-label, multicenter Phase 2 study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of bb2121 in subjects with relapsed and refractory MM (Cohort 1), in subjects with MM having progressed within one 18 months of initial treatment including autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) (Cohort 2a), and without ASCT (Cohort 2b) or, in subjects with inadequate response post ASCT during initial treatment (Cohort 2c) Approximately 181 subjects will be enrolled into one of two cohorts. Cohort 1 will enroll approximately 73 RRMM subjects with ≥ 3 prior anti-myeloma treatment regimens. Cohort 2a will enroll approximately 39 MM subjects, with 1 prior anti-myeloma therapy including ASCT and with early relapse. Cohort 2b will enroll approximately 39 MM subjects with 1 prior anti-myeloma therapy not including ASCT and with early relapse. Cohort 2c will enroll approximately 30 MM subjects with inadequate response to ASCT during their initial anti-myeloma therapy. The cohorts will start in parallel and independently.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2018

open study

This study looks at the safety and effectiveness of different drugs in treating COVID-19 in people who have been hospitalized with the infection. Participants in the study will be treated with either a study drug plus current standard of care (SOC), or with placebo plus current SOC.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Aug 2020

open study

Evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the OCS Liver System to preserve, optimize the condition, and assess levers from DCD donors.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jul 2020

open study

The objective of this study is to gather initial information about the testing of a novel manual communication system - which is currently called MOCS, for Manually Operated Communicated System - for mechanically ventilated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) subjects. This study is not hypothesis based; the goal is to gather data about which interaction modes and teaching approaches of MOCS are most intuitive for subjects and caregivers.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jun 2018

open study

This study will evaluate the pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, safety, and biologic activity of GDC-9545 in participants with Stage I-III operable estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, untreated breast cancer.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jul 2019

open study

This is an open-label, multicenter, extension study. Patients who are receiving clinical benefit from atezolizumab monotherapy or atezolizumab in combination with other agent(s) or comparator agent(s) during participation in a Genentech or Roche-sponsored study (the parent study), who are eligible to continue treatment and who do not have access to the study treatment locally, may continue to receive study treatment in this extension study following roll-over from the parent study.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Feb 2019

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