Low-dose Carbon Monoxide (HBI-002) Trial to Evaluate Safety, Tolerability, PK, and Biomarkers in Parkinson's Disease
A Phase 2a Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Multiple Dose Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, of HBI-002, an Oral Low-dose Carbon Monoxide (CO) Liquid Drug Product, Administered Daily Over 14 Days in Subjects With Parkinson's Disease (PD)
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 40 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
- Time periods mentioned: 14 days
Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.
Show the study's own words
- "A phase 2a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multiple dose study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, of HBI-002, an oral low-dose carbon monoxide (CO) liquid drug product, administered daily over 14 days in subjects with Parkinson's disease (PD)."
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
In plain language
This study tests HBI-002, a liquid medicine with a low dose of carbon monoxide, in adults ages 40–80 with Parkinson’s disease. Participants take HBI-002 or a placebo, which has no study drug, daily for 14 days. Researchers check its safety, side effects, and how the body handles it.
A phase 2a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multiple dose study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, of HBI-002, an oral low-dose carbon monoxide (CO) liquid drug product, administered daily over 14 days in subjects with Parkinson's disease (PD).
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- Be age 40–80 and sign a form agreeing to join.
- Have Parkinson’s diagnosed within the past 5 years, with a disease stage of 3 or lower on the Hoehn and Yahr scale.
- Take levodopa at least 100 mg three times daily, or an equal dose of Parkinson’s treatment, with stable doses for at least 30 days. Levodopa must work well for you.
- Have no smoking or vaping for at least 5 years, and no smoking in your home.
- Weigh 60–110 kg (about 132–243 pounds). Have a BMI, a measure of weight compared with height, below 30.
- Meet the study’s health, blood test, liver, kidney, and heart test requirements.
- If able to become pregnant, have a negative pregnancy test. Follow birth control rules during the study and for 45 days afterward; men must not donate sperm during the study or for 60 days afterward.
- Have a study partner watch you for at least 4 hours after each home dose for signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. Live within 100 driving miles of the clinic, unless an exception is approved.
Who can't join
- Have another condition that looks like Parkinson’s, dementia, certain abnormal brain or nerve signs, or trouble swallowing liquids. Past or current use of neuroleptic drugs, often used for mental illness, also excludes you.
- Have low blood oxygen, use oxygen at home, or have certain heart, blood pressure, blood vessel, brain, lung, or kidney problems. This includes kidney failure needing dialysis.
- Have diabetes or certain related blood sugar problems, seizures, or an immune disease needing medicine that changes immune activity. A history of cancer excludes you except for certain skin cancers treated more than 3 months ago.
- Have certain mental health conditions, including hallucinations, delusions, problem gambling, or moderate or worse depression. Certain suicidal thoughts or a suicide attempt within 5 years, or serious current suicide risk, also exclude you.
- Have a history of drug abuse or dependence, recent alcohol abuse or heavy drinking, or a positive drug screen.
- Have positive tests for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV; certain recent infections, including COVID-19; or recent pneumonia. Pregnancy or breastfeeding also excludes you.
- Have ongoing severe anemia (too few red blood cells), a recent blood transfusion or live vaccine, weight change over 5 kg (about 11 pounds) within 3 months, or loss of consciousness within 2 years.
- Have recently joined another drug or device study or received an experimental treatment. You must also be able and willing to follow study rules and speak with study staff by phone.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Subjects must meet the following criteria before being enrolled into the study: 1. Signed informed consent. 2. Male or female 40-80 years of age 3. Non-smoker for at least 5 years with smoking defined as the use of smoked products (e.g. tobacco, marijuana, vaping or other) 4. No smoking in the home (i.e. not living with a smoker) 5. Body weight between 60 kg and 110 kg (inclusive) and with BMI less than 30 kg/m2 at screening and baseline 6. Diagnosis of PD according to the Movement Disorder Society within 60 months of screening 7. Hoehn and Yahr stage ≤ 3 8. PD therapy: use of ≥100 mg TID levodopa or equivalent dose with additional carbidopa/levodopa or other antiparkinsonian medication (e.g. dopamine agonists \[e.g., pramipexole, ropinirole, rotigotine\] and monoamine oxidase inhibitors \[e.g., selegiline or rasagiline\]) for ≥30 days of stable dosing 9. Good clinical response to levodopa therapy in the Site Investigator's opinion 10. Negative pregnancy test for females of childbearing potential 11. Where appropriate, subjects must be willing to use a highly effective method of contraception for the duration of the study and for 45 days thereafter 1. Male subjects, without a vasectomy, whose partner is of childbearing potential, must use a condom and be instructed that their female partner should use another form of contraception such as an IUD, diaphragm with spermicide, oral contraceptive, injectable progesterone, subdermal implant or a tubal ligation. Male subjects are prohibited from donating sperm for the duration of the study and 60 days following the end of study visit. 2. Female subjects of childbearing potential (not surgically sterilized and less than one year post-menopausal) should use a medically accepted form of contraception such as an IUD, diaphragm with spermicide, oral contraceptive, injectable progesterone, subdermal implant or a tubal ligation, and be instructed that their male partners should use a condom, if not vasectomized. 12. Subjects must be healthy as defined by the following. 1. liver function: alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) ≤ 2X ULN 2. total bilirubin ≤ 1.5X ULN 3. renal function: creatinine clearance within normal range as assessed by Cockcroft and Gault calculation 4. carboxyhemoglobin level by venous blood gas ≤ 3.5% 5. the absence of current clinically relevant abnormalities identified by a detailed medical history, full physical examination including blood pressure, pulse rate, and respiratory rate measurement, 12-lead ECG, and clinical laboratory tests (hematology and clinical chemistries), as determined by the Site Investigator. 6. HbA1c \< 6.5% 13. Subjects must have a study partner who can observe the subject for at least 4 hours after dosing at home (non-clinic days) in order to monitor for indications of CO toxicity. 14. Subjects should live within 100 miles driving distance (door to door) of the site/clinic due to the need to carry study drug and ship study drug between the site/clinic and subject's home. Exceptions to this may be considered with Sponsor approval if it can be assured that the subject can transport study drug from clinic to home within two hours. Exclusion Criteria: Subjects who meet any of the following criteria will be ineligible for participation in the study: 1. Clinical signs indicating a parkinsonian syndrome other than idiopathic PD, specifically: 1. Atypical parkinsonism, including parkinsonism due to drugs, metabolic disorders, encephalitis, cerebrovascular disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus, or other neurodegenerative disease. 2. Supranuclear gaze palsy 3. Signs of dementia (MoCA \< 22) 4. History of repeated strokes with stepwise progression of parkinsonian features 5. History of repeated head injury 6. History of definite encephalitis 7. Cerebellar signs 8. Early severe autonomic involvement 9. Babinski sign present 2. Dysphagia with liquids 3. History of exposure to or current treatment with neuroleptic drugs. 4. History of dementia 5. Oxygen saturation by transcutaneous measurement ≤ 95% confirmed on repeat assessment (any time prior to the first dose) 6. Clinically significant ECG abnormalities (prolonged QTc greater than normal range, arrhythmia detected, bradycardia \<45 bpm, tachycardia \>120 bpm, AV block \[second or greater degree\], bundle branch block) or vital sign abnormalities (systolic blood pressure lower than 90 or above 140 mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure lower than 50 or above 90 mm Hg, or heart rate less than 45 or above 100 bpm or arrhythmia), as determined by the Site Investigator. 7. Renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy 8. History of: 1. Serious cardiovascular diseases * History of angina pectoris * History of myocardial infarction or cardiac failure (NYHA from II to IV), myocardial insufficiency, symptomatic congestive heart failure with a documented ejection fraction below 45% * History of serious cardiac arrhythmia other than stable atrial fibrillation * History of stroke or occlusive peripheral vascular disease, brain vasospasm 2. Structural brain disease or cerebrovascular disease with clinical significance, including intracranial space-occupying lesion 3. Severe uncontrolled arterial hypertension 4. Severe pulmonary disease (asthma, COPD, other) 5. Specific psychiatric disorders, including hallucinations, delusions, pathologic gambling, alcohol or substance abuse or dependence 6. Type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus, impaired glucose tolerance, metabolic syndrome, maturity onset diabetes of the young, and gestational diabetes. 7. Pulmonary infiltrate or pneumonia within 6 months before screening or acute infection within 14 days of screening 8. Seizures / epilepsy 9. Autoimmune disease requiring prescribed immunomodulatory therapy 9. Alcohol abuse or dependence within one year prior to screening or regular use of alcohol within six months prior to the screening visit (defined as more than 14 units of alcohol per week; 1 Unit = 150 mL wine, 360 mL beer or 45 mL of 40% alcohol) 10. History of drug abuse or dependence 11. Positive result on drug screen for THC, cocaine, opiates/opioids, and methamphetamine 12. History of cancer, with the exception of adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin more than 3 months prior 13. Subject on domiciliary oxygen 14. Positive HBsAg, aHCV, or aHIV 15. Positive SARS-CoV-2 test within 10 days prior to study drug treatment 16. Weight loss or gain of more than 5 kg within 3 months of screening 17. Febrile or infective illness within 10 days prior to study drug treatment 18. Moderate or more severe depression (Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) ≥9) 19. Suicide attempt or suicidal ideation within five years (Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) defined as answering yes to items 4 or 5 on the C-SSRS, or history of suicide attempt in previous 5 years, or, in the Investigator's opinion, at serious risk of suicide. 20. Positive pregnancy test or breast feeding for females 21. Treatment with an investigational drug or medical device within the longer of 60 days or ten half-lives of the investigational agent 22. Simultaneous participation or previous participation within 60 days before screening in another clinical drug or medical device study 23. Persisting anemia with hemoglobin \<9 g/dL 24. Blood transfusion within 42 days prior to the first administration of study drug 25. Exposure to any live vaccine within 28 days prior to study drug administration 26. Syncope or other cause of loss of consciousness within the last 2 years 27. Unwilling or unable to respond to follow-up phone calls 28. Unwilling or unable to communicate with study site staff by telephone 29. Unwilling or unable to comply with the requirements of the protocol 30. Any coincident disease or condition that in the opinion of the Site Investigator will confound the assessment of HBI-002 safety or efficacy 31. Other severe acute or chronic medical or psychiatric condition or laboratory abnormality that may increase the risk associated with study participation or investigational product administration or may interfere with the interpretation of study results and, in the judgment of the Site Investigator, would make the subject inappropriate for entry into the study 32. History of allergic reactions to any of the drug product excipients 33. Contraindications to a routine lumbar puncture 1. History of thrombocytopenia (platelet count \<100,000) 2. History of coagulopathy (INR \>1.3, PTT \>ULN) 3. Current use of warfarin or other anticoagulants, or clopidogrel (Plavix) 4. History of lumbar surgery or severe spinal arthritis 5. Infection at LP site (may be included once resolved)
Study sites (8)
CA
- The Parkinson's & Movement Disorder Institute · Fountain Valley, CA 92708Emily Nguyen · Study contact · enguyen@pmdi.orgMore trials in Fountain Valley
FL
- University of Florida · Gainesville, FL 32608Camille Swartz · Study contact · Cami.Swartz@neurology.ufl.eduMore trials in Gainesville
MA
- Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA 02114Grace Bwala · Study contact · gbwala@mgh.harvard.eduMore trials in Boston
MI
- University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI 48105Gerianne Que · Study contact · queg@med.umich.eduMore trials in Ann Arbor
- Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI 48823Aubrey Alexander · Study contact · alexaub@msu.eduMore trials in East Lansing
- Quest Research Institute · Farmington Hills, MI 48334Tamsin Andres · Study contact · tamsin.andres@questri.comMore trials in Farmington Hills
NY
- Weill Cornell Medical College · New York, NY 10021Charles Snajdr-Trinch · Study contact · chs4056@med.cornell.eduMore trials in New York
WA
- Inland Northwest Research · Spokane, WA 99202Lindsey Strom · Study contact · Contact@inwresearch.comMore trials in Spokane