Showing 1 - 10 of 39 Nervous System Diseases

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

Study Coordinator: Nilene Crisci

Phone: 713.441.3771

To clarify the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of AD, it is important to measure inflammation in brain of people with AD and its relationship with abnormal tau, as the disease progresses. So far, there is no in vivo data in humans verif ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Olga Waln

Study Coordinator: Yvonne Subhan

Phone: 346.238.9068

The purpose of the study is to assess the safety and tolerability of UCB0599 and to demonstrate the superiority of UCB0599 over placebo with regard to clinical symptoms of disease progression over 12 and 18 months in participants diagnosed with ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: William Ondo

Study Coordinator: Nijah Russell

Phone: 346.238.2287

This study consists of 2 parts. Part 1 of the study is conducted to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of two doses of K0706 compared to placebo in subjects with early Parkinson's Disease who are not receiving dopaminergic therapy. ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: William Ondo

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics (PK) of 2 fixed doses of tavapadon and placebo in participants with early PD. ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Jason Thonhoff

Study Coordinator: KaDeesia Brown

Phone: 713.441.9120

In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the reduction of regulatory T lymphocyte (Treg) numbers and suppressive function correlates with rapid disease progression. We completed a phase 1 study of infusions of expanded autologous Tregs in combina ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Gustavo Roman

Study Coordinator: Edwin Vega Vargas

Phone: 713.443.2044

This is a Phase IIa, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial to determine the tolerability of L-serine for Mild Cognitive Impairment patients and assess preliminary indications of efficacy. Efficacy will be assessed by cognitive tes ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Andrew Billnitzer

Study Coordinator: Valerie Flores

Phone: 713.363.9803

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of Troriluzole (200mg once daily) versus placebo after 48 weeks of treatment in subjects with spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA). ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Bing Liao

Study Coordinator: Anjana Singh

Phone: 713.441.9120

The purpose of this study is to measure the safety and effectiveness of Spinraza in adults with SMA. ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Stanley Appel

Study Coordinator: Anjana Singh

Phone: 713.441.9120

The purpose of this protocol is to develop and maintain a biospecimen bank comprised of blood, urine, CSF collected during diagnostic evaluations, tissue from biopsies and autopsies collected from patients with neurological disease and non-neu ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Juan Toledo Atucha

Study Coordinator: Maushami Gurung

Phone: 346.238.1565

The reason for this study is to see how safe and effective the study drug donanemab is in participants with early Alzheimer's disease. Additional participants will be enrolled to an addendum safety cohort. The participants will be administere ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Jason Thonhoff

Study Coordinator: Aramide Balogun

Phone: 713.441.6955

This leukapheresis study proposes to continue our work in developing and optimizing our Treg manufacturing process. Under this study, up to 10 patients with ALS will undergo leukapheresis. Their Tregs will subsequently be isolated and expand ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Sherif Nagueh

Study Coordinator: Nirali Patel

Phone: 713.441.2116

Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Parallel-group Extension to Study AC-058B201 to Investigate the Long-term Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Three Doses of ACT-128800, an Oral S1P1 Receptor Agonist, in Patients With Relapsing-remitting ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Juan Toledo Atucha

Study Coordinator: Quang Bobby Nguyen

Phone: 832.530.2622

The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether treatment with lecanemab is superior to placebo on change from baseline of the Preclinical Alzheimer Cognitive Composite 5 (PACC5) at 216 weeks of treatment (A45 Trial) and to determine w ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

Study Coordinator: Benjamin Batista Ramos

Phone: 346.238.1259

The overall goal of ADNI3 is to determine the relationships among the clinical, cognitive, imaging, genetic and biochemical biomarker characteristics of the entire spectrum of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as the pathology evolves from normal aging ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Maria Pascual

Study Coordinator: Victoria Arbones

Phone: 713.441.7650

The ARTFL LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Dementia (ALLFTD) study aims to evaluate sporadic (s-) and familial (f-) frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) patients and asymptomatic family members of f-FTLD patients, characterizing the cohor ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Andrew Billnitzer

Study Coordinator: Nijah Russell

Phone: 346.238.2287

Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are genetic neurological diseases that cause imbalance, poor coordination, and speech difficulties. There are different kinds of SCA and this study will focus on types 1, 2,3, and 6 (SCA 1, SCA 2, SCA 3 , also known ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Tetsuo Ashizawa

Study Coordinator: Valerie Flores

Phone: 713.363.9803

The investigators plan to fill the gap between the current state of clinical trial readiness and the optimal one for SCA1 and SCA3, which are fatal rare diseases with no treatments. Through US-European collaborations, the investigators will esta ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Stanley Appel

Study Coordinator: Aramide Balogun

Phone: 713.441.6955

The purpose of this protocol is to develop and maintain a clinical findings data bank including diagnostic evaluations obtained from medical records sent from prior medical evaluations, diagnostic intake evaluations and follow-up care in the Met ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Tetsuo Ashizawa

Study Coordinator: Valerie Flores

Phone: 713.363.9803

While solid evidence for direct CNS infection by SARS-CoV-2 is lacking, a consensus has been forming that affected patients are at higher risk of developing neuropsychiatric and neurologic sequelae after overcoming the primary infection, as a co ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Ericka Greene

Study Coordinator: KaDeesia Brown

Phone: 713.441.9120

Provide natural history data, biomarkers, and biological understanding of the phenotypic heterogeneity of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Stanley Appel

Study Coordinator: Sharon Halton

Phone: 713.441.3420

The purpose of the this study to look for abnormal genes and gene expression profiles that help determine why a person develops amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and related motor neuron diseases (MND) and why their symptoms present and progre ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

Study Coordinator: Chimaoge Onyechi

Phone: 713.363.7729

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with significant, progressive cognitive decline. Key defects in mitochondrial fuel metabolism insulin resistance, inflammation and decreased brain glucose uptake are linked to AD. This trial will investigat ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

Study Coordinator: Chimaoge Onyechi

Phone: 713.363.7729

Elderly humans have an increased risk of dementia which begins as mild defects in memory called mild cognitive impairment. Glutathione (GSH), a key endogenous antioxidant has been linked to cognition. This exploratory study will investigate mech ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Sheetal Shroff

Study Coordinator: Aramide Balogun

Phone: 713.441.6955

The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial is a perpetual multi-center, multi-regimen clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational products for the treatment of ALS. ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Sheetal Shroff

Study Coordinator: Aramide Balogun

Phone: 713.441.6955

The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial is a perpetual multi-center, multi-regimen clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational products for the treatment of ALS. Regimen A will evaluate the safety and efficacy of a single study ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Stanley Appel

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The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial is a perpetual multi-center, multi-regimen clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational products for the treatment of ALS. Regimen B will evaluate the safety and efficacy of a single study ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Stanley Appel

Study Coordinator: Bing Liao

Phone: 713.363.7310

The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial is a perpetual multi-center, multi-regimen clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational products for the treatment of ALS. Regimen C will evaluate the safety and efficacy of a single study ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

Study Coordinator: Andrea Franco Pando

Phone: 713.441.1150

The purpose of this study is to clarify at the individual level what genes and changes in the body predispose people to Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. We will measure changes in brain imaging, body fluids, and memory or thinking abiliti ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

Study Coordinator: Jeffrey Ling

Phone: 713.363.7753

The Longitudinal Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease Study (LEADS) is a non-randomized, natural history, non-treatment study designed to look at disease progression in individuals with early onset cognitive impairment. Clinical, cognitive, imaging, ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Ericka Greene

Study Coordinator: Aramide Balogun

Phone: 713.441.6955

Complement component 5 (C5) inhibition therapies have been available for patients with generalized Myasthenia Gravis (gMG) in the United States since the introduction of Soliris® in late 2017. Alexion is developing potential new therapies that ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

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The purpose of the study is to see if daily transdermal nicotine is able to produce a significant cognitive, clinical and functional improvement in participants with MCI. Neuronal nicotinic receptors have long been known to play a critical role ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Ericka Greene

Study Coordinator: KaDeesia Brown

Phone: 713.441.9120

The purpose of this protocol is to make available clinical findings, including blood pressure, pulmonary function tests, cardiac function tests, clinical evaluations, cognitive evaluations, performance tests, medications, routine blood work eval ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Ericka Greene

Study Coordinator: KaDeesia Brown

Phone: 713.441.9120

This is a registry of people with neuromuscular diseases. It is the intent to follow patients with ALS and other neuromuscular diseases to determine best practices for care delivery. ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

Study Coordinator: Chimaoge Onyechi

Phone: 713.363.7729

New IDEAS is an observational, open-label, longitudinal cohort study designed to address the requirements of the CED provisions of the NCD on beta-amyloid PET. Building on the initial Imaging Dementia-Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) study, ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: David Baskin

Study Coordinator: Helga Jones

Phone: 713.363.9388

" Purpose The primary purpose of the study is to determine the efficacy of an investigational therapy called DCVax(R)-L in patients with newly diagnosed GBM for whom surgery is indicated. Patients must enter screening at a participating site p ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: David Baskin

Study Coordinator: Melissa Daly

Phone: 713.441.3834

NCT03603405 This is a prospective, phase I-II study to assess the efficacy and toxicity of HSV-tk + valacyclovir gene therapy in combination with radiotherapy and standard of care chemotherapy for anaplastic astrocytoma (AA) or glioblastoma mul ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: David Baskin

Study Coordinator: Melissa Daly

Phone: 713.441.3834

NCT03596086 This is a prospective phase I-II study to assess the efficacy and toxicity of HSV-tk + valacyclovir gene therapy in combination with radiotherapy and standard of care chemotherapy in recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma or glioblastoma ... Read more >

Status: Open Not Enrolling

Investigator: Jun Li

Study Coordinator: KaDeesia Brown

Phone: 713.441.9120

This study aims to look at the genetic differences between individuals with neurological disorders and healthy controls, and whether these genetic differences contribute to nerve conduction speeds. We expect that this study will identify a small ... Read more >

Status: Enrolling

Investigator: Joseph Masdeu

Study Coordinator: Nilene Crisci

Phone: 713.441.3771

The discovery of AD risk genes coding for proteins involved in inflammation has revived the interest in neuroinflammation (or brain inflammation) in the pathogenesis of AD. To understand the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of AD, it is ... Read more >