Blood Advances (Dec 2019)

End points for sickle cell disease clinical trials: renal and cardiopulmonary, cure, and low-resource settings

  • Ann T. Farrell,
  • Julie Panepinto,
  • Ankit A. Desai,
  • Adetola A. Kassim,
  • Jeffrey Lebensburger,
  • Mark C. Walters,
  • Daniel E. Bauer,
  • Rae M. Blaylark,
  • Donna M. DiMichele,
  • Mark T. Gladwin,
  • Nancy S. Green,
  • Kathryn Hassell,
  • Gregory J. Kato,
  • Elizabeth S. Klings,
  • Donald B. Kohn,
  • Lakshmanan Krishnamurti,
  • Jane Little,
  • Julie Makani,
  • Punam Malik,
  • Patrick T. McGann,
  • Caterina Minniti,
  • Claudia R. Morris,
  • Isaac Odame,
  • Patricia Ann Oneal,
  • Rosanna Setse,
  • Poornima Sharma,
  • Shalini Shenoy

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 23
pp. 4002 – 4020

Abstract

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Abstract: To address the global burden of sickle cell disease and the need for novel therapies, the American Society of Hematology partnered with the US Food and Drug Administration to engage the work of 7 panels of clinicians, investigators, and patients to develop consensus recommendations for clinical trial end points. The panels conducted their work through literature reviews, assessment of available evidence, and expert judgment focusing on end points related to patient-reported outcome, pain (non–patient-reported outcomes), the brain, end-organ considerations, biomarkers, measurement of cure, and low-resource settings. This article presents the findings and recommendations of the end-organ considerations, measurement of cure, and low-resource settings panels as well as relevant findings and recommendations from the biomarkers panel.