Psoriasis clinical trials at University of California Health

26 in progress, 13 open to eligible people

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  • Patients With Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of ESK-001

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if ESK-001 works to treat moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Does ESK-001 reduce the severity of people's psoriasis? - How safe is ESK-001 in people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis? The study includes 2 comparators: a placebo control (a 'dummy' tablet that does not contain the medicine ESK-001 but looks just like it) and an active control (apremilast, which is a medicine approved to treat psoriasis). People taking part in this study must be men or women aged at least 18 years and have had plaque psoriasis for at least 6 months, currently moderate to severe. Participants will: - take drug every day for 24 weeks. - visit the clinic for checkups and tests. - fill out questionnaires about their psoriasis, itch severity, and change in quality of life. - be assessed for health issues and side effects, physical examinations, vital signs, heart electrical activity measurements, and psychological health. - provide blood and urine samples.

    at UCSD

  • Apremilast in Pediatric Participants in Children With Mild to Moderate Plaque Psoriasis

    open to eligible people ages 6-17

    The primary objective of this post-marketing study is to assess the safety and tolerability of apremilast in pediatric participants (ages 6 through 17 years) with mild to moderate plaque psoriasis.

    at UC Irvine

  • TAK-279 in Participants With Moderate-to-Severe Plaque Psoriasis

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    The main aim of this study is to check the side effects of TAK-279 and how well it is tolerated in participants with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. All participants will be assigned to study treatments of TAK-279 and will be treated with TAK-279 if the participants meet the study rules. Participants will be in the study for up to 217 weeks, including up to 35 days for the screening period, 52 weeks (Part A) up to 156 additional weeks (Part B) study treatment and 4 weeks follow up period. During the study, participants will visit their study clinic multiple times.

    at UC Davis UCLA

  • ESK-001 in Patients With Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if ESK-001 works to treat moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Does ESK-001 reduce the severity of people's psoriasis? - How safe is ESK-001 in people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis? The study includes 2 comparators: a placebo control (a 'dummy' tablet that does not contain the medicine ESK-001 but looks just like it) and an active control (apremilast, which is a medicine approved to treat psoriasis). People taking part in this study must be men or women aged at least 18 years and have had plaque psoriasis for at least 6 months, currently moderate to severe. Participants will: - take drug every day for 24 weeks. - visit the clinic for checkups and tests. - fill out questionnaires about their psoriasis, itch severity, and change in quality of life. - be assessed for health issues and side effects, physical examinations, vital signs, heart electrical activity measurements, and psychological health. - provide blood and urine samples.

    at UCLA

  • Correction of Psoriatic T Cell Signatures by Deucravacitinib

    open to eligible people ages 18-75

    This study aims to assess cutaneous and blood immune cell function of patients with psoriasis before and after initiation of treatment with the Tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) blocker, deucravacitinib.

    at UCSF

  • Guselkumab Immunogenetics

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    This is a two-arm open-label study to evaluate the clinical and immunogenetic responses of patients with plaque or guttate psoriasis to treatment with guselkumab.

    at UCSF

  • Immune Spatial Features of Guselkumab Cutaneous Response

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    This study examines the effect of IL-23 blockade with Guselkumab on the immune cells of scalp psoriasis lesions.

    at UCSF

  • Nivolumab in Treating Patients With Autoimmune Disorders and Advanced, Metastatic, or Unresectable Cancer

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    This phase Ib trial studies the side effects of nivolumab and to see how well it works in treating patients with autoimmune disorders and cancer that has spread to other places in the body or cannot removed by surgery. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.

    at UC Davis

  • Psoriatic Immune Response to Tildrakizumab

    open to eligible people ages 18-75

    This study aims to assess cutaneous and blood immune cell function of patients with psoriasis before and after initiation of treatment with the IL23 blocker, tildrakizumab.

    at UCSF

  • Total-Body PET to Quantify Systemic and Cutaneous Inflammation in Psoriasis Patients Before and After Intervention With a Nutritionally Balanced Diet

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the skin and joints in 2-3 % of people in the United States. This inflammation of the skin, joints, and blood vessels in patients with psoriasis has been measured by older PET Scan technology but with limitations. With the new EXPLORER PET scanner technology, the investigators are testing to see if the EXPLORER is better than previous PET scanners and improve our ability to assess inflammation in patients. Also, it is known that the typical Western Diet - high in saturated fats, added sugars, and low in fiber - contributes to obesity and inflammation worldwide. There is evidence in animals that these signs of inflammation are reversible within 4 weeks when changed to a more balanced diet. Thus, this study aims to assess whether there are detectable decreases in inflammation of the skin and body of psoriasis patients who usually eat a Western Diet on an EXPLORER PET scan following 6 weeks of a more balanced diet.

    at UC Davis

  • Longitudinal Observational Study of Patients Undergoing Therapy for IMISC

    open to all eligible people

    TARGET-DERM is a longitudinal, observational study of adult and pediatric patients being managed for Atopic Dermatitis and other Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Skin Conditions (IMISC) in usual clinical practice. TARGET-DERM will create a research registry of patients with IMISC within academic and community real-world practices in order to assess the safety and effectiveness of current and future therapies.

    at UC Irvine UCSD

  • Dermatologic Research Evaluation and Monitoring of Sleep in Moderate-to-Severe Psoriasis

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    Getting enough sleep is important for maximizing health and well-being. When it comes to health, sleep is as vital as regular exercise and eating a balanced diet. Not getting enough sleep can lead to health problems like heart attacks, diabetes, and even cancer. Since individuals with psoriasis have these same health problems, getting better sleep may help to keep them happier and healthier. This study will look at how individuals with psoriasis sleep and if their sleep is different than indivuduals without psoriasis.

    at UCSF

  • Stelara and Tremfya Pregnancy Exposure Registry OTIS Autoimmune Diseases in Pregnancy Project

    open to eligible females

    The purpose of the OTIS Autoimmune Diseases in Pregnancy Study is to monitor planned and unplanned pregnancies exposed to certain medications, to evaluate the possible teratogenic effect of these medications and to follow live born infants for one year after birth. With respect to fetal outcome, it is important to evaluate the spectrum of outcomes that may be relevant to a medication exposure during pregnancy, and these include both easily recognizable defects which are visible at birth, as well as more subtle or delayed defects that may not be readily identifiable without special expertise and observation beyond the newborn period.

    at UCSD

  • About How Well TAK-279 Works and Its Safety in Participants With Moderate-to-severe Plaque Psoriasis During 52 Weeks of Treatment

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The main aim of this study is to show how well TAK-279 reduces the skin plaques compared to placebo, in participants with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. Participants will be assigned to one of the 3 study treatments (TAK-279, apremilast (an approved treatment), or a placebo). Participants will be in the study for up to 61 weeks.

    at UC Davis UCLA

  • JNJ-77242113 for the Treatment of Participants With Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The purpose of the study is to see how effective JNJ-77242113 is in participants with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis compared to placebo and deucravacitinib.

    at UCLA

  • JNJ-77242113 for the Treatment of Participants With Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis (ICONIC-ADVANCE 2)

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The purpose of the study is to evaluate how effective JNJ-77242113 is in participants with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis compared to placebo and deucravacitinib.

    at UCLA UCSF

  • Subcutaneously Administered Guselkumab for the Treatment of Chronic Plaque Psoriasis in Pediatric Participants

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of guselkumab in pediatric participants aged greater than or equal to 6 through less than 18 years with chronic plaque psoriasis.

    at UCSD

  • Test Whether Spesolimab Helps People With Generalized Pustular Psoriasis (GPP) Who Need Treatment for Repeated Flares

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    This study is open to adults with a serious skin disease called generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) who have repeated flares of GPP. The purpose of this study is to find out whether a medicine called spesolimab helps people with repeated flares of GPP. Participants are given a single dose of spesolimab as an infusion into a vein on the first day of an outbreak of GPP. They may be given a second dose 1 week later if doctors think it is helpful. They are also treated for additional GPP flares. During the time of the study, doctors regularly examine participants' skin for signs of GPP to see how well the treatment works and take blood samples. The doctors also regularly check participants' health and take note of any unwanted effects.

    at UC Irvine

  • Immunogenetic Profiling of Goeckerman Therapy in the Treatment of Psoriasis Vulgaris

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    This study examines the effect of Goeckerman therapy (a combination of phototherapy and topical crude coal tar), crude coal tar alone, and phototherapy alone on the immunologic and genetic environment within psoriatic skin lesions.

    at UCSF

  • Long-Term Study That Measures the Safety and Efficacy of Deucravacitinib (BMS-986165) in Participants With Psoriasis

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The main purpose of this study is to characterize the long-term safety and efficacy of the drug Deucravacitinib (BMS-986165) in patients who have been previously enrolled in an applicable Phase 3 psoriasis study.

    at UCSD

  • Risankizumab Long-term Remission Study

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    Although the newly developed biologics (drugs derived from living cells cultured in a laboratory) are highly effective in controlling psoriasis, all the biologics should be continuously injected to suppress recurrence of the disease. In this regard, the observation in the phase II clinical trial conducted by us (Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology at the Rockefeller University) was groundbreaking that just a single dose of anti-IL-23p19 antibody (risankizumab, trade name: Skyrizi, study drug in this clinical trial) administration produced disease clearance up to 66 weeks in 46% (6 of 13) of patients. However, there is a lack of understanding about immune regulation in human skin induced by anti-IL-23p19 antibody injection, and there is a need to conduct a psoriasis clinical trial for single-cell sequencing immune cells in human psoriasis skin before and after anti-IL-23p19 antibody administration, and to correlate regulatory immune cell alterations with clinical disease progression. The overall objective of the clinical trial is to study regulatory immune cell alterations induced by anti-IL-23p19 antibody administration in psoriasis patients who achieve long-term disease clearance off drugs.

    at UC Davis

  • Guselkumab in Skin of Color Participants With Moderate-to-severe Plaque and/or Scalp Psoriasis

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of guselkumab treatment versus placebo in skin of color participants with predominant moderate-to-severe body psoriasis or predominant moderate-to-severe scalp psoriasis by assessing improvements in the signs and symptoms of psoriasis.

    at UCSF

  • Adverse Events and Change in Disease Activity in Participants Between 6 and 17 Years With Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis Treated With Subcutaneous (SC) Injection of Risankizumab Who Have Completed Participation in Study M19-977

    Sorry, accepting new patients by invitation only

    Psoriasis is a chronic, systemic, inflammatory disease in which skin cells build up and develop thick, red and white scaly patches on the skin. This study evaluates adverse events and change in disease activity with risankizumab in pediatric participants with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis who completed the study M19-977. Risankizumab is an approved drug for treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adults and is being studied in the pediatric population (6 to 17 years). A maximum of 132 participants will be enrolled in the study across approximately 50 sites worldwide. Participants will receive subcutaneous injection of risankizumab every 12 weeks for 204 weeks and are followed up for safety for 20 weeks after last dose. There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, checking for side effects and completing questionnaires.

    at UCSD

  • Apremilast Pregnancy Exposure Registry

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The purpose of the Apremilast Pregnancy Exposure Registry is to monitor planned and unplanned pregnancies exposed to apremilast and to evaluate the safety of this medication relative to specified pregnancy outcomes, and to evaluate potential effects of prenatal apremilast exposure on infant health status through one year of age.

    at UCSD

  • OTIS Cimzia Pregnancy Registry

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The purpose of the OTIS Autoimmune Diseases in Pregnancy Study is to monitor planned and unplanned pregnancies exposed to certain medications, to evaluate the possible teratogenic effect of these medications and to follow live born infants for five years after birth. With respect to fetal outcome, it is important to evaluate the spectrum of outcomes that may be relevant to a medication exposure during pregnancy, and these include both easily recognizable defects which are visible at birth, as well as more subtle or delayed defects that may not be readily identifiable without special expertise and observation beyond the newborn period.

    at UCSD

  • CorEvitas Psoriasis (PSO) Registry

    Sorry, accepting new patients by invitation only

    The primary objective of the CorEvitas Psoriasis Registry is to study the comparative safety of approved psoriasis therapies in a North American cohort of psoriasis subjects treated by dermatologists. This includes assessing the incidence and nature of adverse events of special interest, including malignancy, in a real world population of psoriasis patients on new biologic therapies (e.g. secukinumab). Secondary objectives include analyzing the epidemiology and natural history of the disease, comorbidities, current treatment practices, and comparative effectiveness.

    at UCLA

Our lead scientists for Psoriasis research studies include .

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