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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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