Terheyden, J.H. orcid.org/0000-0002-0174-4066, Dunbar, H.M.P., Schmitz-Valckenberg, S. et al. (97 more authors) (2025) Validating candidate endpoints for intermediate age-related macular degeneration trials in a multi-centre setting—lessons from the MACUSTAR study. Eye. ISSN 0950-222X
Abstract
For the conduct of future interventional age-related macular degeneration (AMD) trials, the availability of clinical study endpoints is key. However, no endpoints have been accepted by regulators for evaluation of treatment for intermediate (i) AMD, i.e. the AMD stage at highest risk of developing irreversible geographic atrophy or macular neovascularization. The European MACUSTAR consortium has recruited more than 700 individuals to develop and validate structural, functional and patient-reported endpoints, enabling future iAMD trials based on a prospective observational, multi-centre cohort study. Reliably assessing candidate endpoints in a setting that involves multiple clinical sites across countries comes with a plurality of challenges in the study set-up, quality of data, recruitment of participants and study conduct. Therefore, the MACUSTAR consortium has established a framework that successfully addresses these topics, provides relevant insights into the natural history of iAMD and its sub-phenotypes, and will open new regulatory pathways. The MACUSTAR study is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov under NCT03349801.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | MACUSTAR consortium |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Student and Academic Services The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Medicine and Population Health |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 116076 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2025 10:58 |
Last Modified: | 07 Mar 2025 10:58 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-024-03568-2 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41433-024-03568-2 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224141 |