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. 2020 Oct 30;17(4):1539–1562. doi: 10.1007/s13311-020-00940-4

Table 2.

Summary of dopamine synthetic GT trials to date

NCT number, sponsor, and site Virus and dosing Study details and outcomes

NCT00229736

Sponsor: Genzyme

Site: University of California

Duration: 6 months

Status: completed

Refs: [61]

AAV2-AADC

Putamen, bilateral

Low dose: 9 × 1010 vg/patient

High dose: 3 × 1011 vg/patient

Infusion: 2 deposits of 50 μl per putamen

iMRI—no

Category: phase 1, safety and tolerability

Patients: total 10 subjects, 5 per dose

Disease stage: advanced PD; avg. duration 13/9.4 years

Primary: safety. Well tolerated. One patient with symptomatic hemorrhage, almost complete recovery. Two with asymptomatic hemorrhages

Secondary: improvements in UPDRS, Hauser diaries, and FMT-PET

NCT: no number

Sponsor: Genzyme

Site: Jichi University

Duration: 6 months

Status: completed

Refs: [62]

AAV2-AADC

Putamen, bilateral

Dose: 3 × 1011 vg/patient

Infusion: 2 deposits of 50 μl/putamen

iMRI—no

Category: phase 1, safety and tolerability:

Patients: 6 patients

Disease stage: advanced PD; avg. duration 10 years

Primary: safety. Well tolerated. One patient with small hemorrhage and transient symptoms.

Secondary: improvements in UPDRS and 18F-m-tyrosine PET

NCT01973543

Sponsor: Voyager Therapeutics

Site: Univ. of California and Univ. of Pittsburgh

Duration: 12 months

Status: completed

Refs: [63]

AAV2-AADC (VY-AADC01)

Putamen, bilateral

Low dose: 7.5 × 1011 vg/patient

Medium dose: 1.5 × 1012 vg/patient

High dose: 4.7 × 1012 vg/patient

Infusion: iMRI/SmartFlow, 2 or 3 tracts, 450–900 μl/putamen

iMRI—yes

Category: phase 1, safety /dose finding

Patients: 15 subjects, 5 per dose

Disease stage: advanced PD

Primary: safety. Well tolerated. One patient with three SAEs, due to immobility during procedure—DVT, PE, AF.

Secondary: improvements in all—putaminal coverage (iMRI); 18F-DOPA PET at 6 months; OFF UPDRS3 at 12 months; PDQ-39; levodopa dose

NCT03562494 (RESTORE-1)

Sponsor: Voyager Therapeutics

Site: multicenter

Study duration:

Status: closing 2020

Refs: not yet published

AAV2-AADC (VY-AADC02)

Putamen, bilateral

Up to 2.5 × 1012 vg/patient

Infusion: 2 or 3 tracts, up to 900 μl/putamen

iMRI—yes

Category: phase 2, blinded RCT, sham surgery control

Patients: 42 subjects

Disease stage: advanced PD

Primary: safety (multiple, including psychiatric); striatal coverage; diary; PET (18F-DOPA PET)

Secondary: pending

NCT00627588

Sponsor: Oxford Biomedica

Site: Paris (France) and Cambridge (UK)

Duration: 12 months

Status: completed

Refs: [64, 65]

EIAV-triple enzyme (ProSavin®)

Putamen, bilateral

Dose: three dose levels, 1·9 × 107, 4.0 × 107 and 1.0 × 108 transducing units (TU)/patient

iMRI—no

Category: phase 1, safety and dose finding

Patients: 15 subjects, 3 dose levels.

Disease stage: advanced PD; avg. duration 13.9 years [827]

Primary: safety. Well tolerated; no SAEs due to treatment

Secondary: improvements in UPDRS 3 and PDQ-39; modest improvements in raclopride-PET, and LED

NCT03720418 (SUNRISE-PD)

Sponsor: Axovant

Site: Paris (France), Cambridge (UK), and National Hosp. (London)

Duration: ongoing

Status: active

Refs: not yet published

EIAV-triple enzyme (OXB-102)

Putamen, bilateral

Dose: three dose levels, 4.2 × 106, 1.4 × 107, and 4.2 × 107 TU/patient

Infusion: 3 deposits of 100 μl/putamen

iMRI—no

Category: phase 1/2—safety and dose finding, moving to sham surgery

Disease stage: advanced PD

Patients: 3–4 patients per dose, 3 dose levels

Primary: safety

Secondary: UPDRS, Hauser diaries, PET, dyskinesia rating scale; Hauser diaries; PDQ-39, SF-36, and clinical global impression