A Study of NNZ-2591 in Pediatric Participants With Phelan-McDermid Syndrome
A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Orally Administered NNZ-2591 Compared With Placebo in Pediatric Participants With Phelan-McDermid Syndrome
- Phelan-McDermid Syndrome
At a glance
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Sponsor
- Neuren Pharmaceuticals Limited
- Enrolment target
- 160
- Started
- 12 November 2025
- Main results due
- 31 October 2027
- Study sites
- 18
- Registry updated
- 28 September 2026
Can you take part?
- Ages 3 years to 12 years.
- Open to any sex.
- You need the condition being studied — healthy volunteers are not accepted.
These are the headline rules only. Every study has a longer list, and whether you are eligible is decided by the research team at the site — never by this page.
Read the full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Male or female pediatric participants with Phelan-McDermid syndrome ages 3 to 12 years (inclusive) at the time of signing the informed consent. 2. Clinical diagnosis of Phelan-McDermid syndrome with a documented disease-causing genetic abnormality of SHANK3. 3. Body weight ≥ 10 kg at Screening. 4. Participants with a PMSA-S overall score ≥ 3 at the Screening and Baseline visits. 5. Not actively undergoing regression or loss of skills. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Use of exclusionary medication or unstable treatment regimens of acceptable concomitant medications as required by the protocol. 2. Current treatment with more than 3 allowable psychotropic medications. 3. Participants with seizures must be controlled on no more than 2 anticonvulsant medications (not counting rescue medications). 4. Psychotropic medications or any other medication used for a chronic illness (not including antibiotics, pain relievers, anti-diarrheals, and laxatives) with doses and dosing regimen that have not been stable for at least 4 weeks before Screening. If the treatment was discontinued, the discontinuation must have occurred no fewer than 2 weeks before the start of Screening. 5. Any intercurrent seizures in the past 6 months and /or more than 1 seizure in the past 12 months. •A single febrile seizure in the 6 months prior to screening is allowable if no rescue medication was required. 6. Abnormal liver function laboratory results during the Screening period, as defined by the protocol 7. Abnormal QT interval on Screening ECG as defined by the protocol.
What this study is about
In the sponsor’s own words, from the registry.
This Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group (2-arm), placebo-controlled, multicenter study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of NNZ-2591 compared to placebo in pediatric participants with Phelan- McDermid Syndrome.
Study sites(18)
Neuren PMS-301 Site #116
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#122
Glendale, California, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site #112
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#103
San Diego, California, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#111
San Rafael, California, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site #107
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site #105
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#102
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#109
Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#106
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#104
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site #117
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#101
New York, New York, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#108
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#110
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#115
Houston, Texas, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site #113
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Neuren PMS-301 Site#201
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Showing 18 of 18 sites. 18 of the 18 sites on this study are recruiting right now — a site can stop enrolling while the study as a whole is still open.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT07281079. Trialion does not run this study, is not paid to refer anyone to it, and cannot enrol you. Eligibility is always decided by the research team at the site.
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