Recruiting
Phase 3

Stroke

Sponsor:

The George Institute

Code:

NCT06352632

Conditions

Stroke

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Standard-dose intravenous tenecteplase

Low-dose intravenous tenecteplase

No intravenous tenecteplase

Conservative Blood Pressure Control

Moderate Blood Pressure Control

Study Details

Brief summary:

Stroke is causing 6.6 million deaths and is a major cause of disability worldwide in 2019. There remains an urgent need for interventions that improve outcomes which can be implemented with wide applicability for stroke. ACT-GLOBAL is a multi-factorial, multi-arm, multi-stage, randomised, global adaptive platform trial for stroke, aiming to identify the treatment/s associated with the highest chance of improving outcome in stroke patients. In ACT-GLOBAL multiple questions will be evaluated simultaneously and sequentially as data accrues and can evaluate interactions between different treatment options.

Conditions

Stroke

Study ID

NCT06352632

Start date

Sep 26, 2024

Status verified date

Jul, 2026

Completion date

Sep, 2034

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Sep, 2034

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Platform Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age ≥18 years
2. Clinical diagnosis of stroke

Platform Exclusion Criteria:

There are no platform level exclusion criteria

Each state and domain will specify additional inclusion and exclusion criteria in the respective Domain-Specific Registration. Patients who fulfill the overall platform criteria will be assessed for enrollment into each active domain.

Study Design

Enrollment

20000 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Factorial

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: IV thrombolysis domain

This domain has a prospective, randomized, controlled, open-label, parallel group with blinded endpoint assessment (PROBE) design to optimize the use of intravenous Tenecteplase in participants with Acute Ischemic Stroke.

experimental: Blood Pressure domain

Third Enhanced Control of Hypertension and Thrombectomy Stroke Study (ENCHANTED3/MT) as a domain of ACT-GLOBAL to compare three BP lowering management strategies, that of conservative, moderate and intensive BP lowering in patients with Acute Ischaemic Stroke admitted to participating hospitals who has an elevated SBP after reperfusion therapy via Endovascular Thrombectomy, and reliably determine, which approach leads to improved functional outcome.

Locally available and approved i.v. BP lowering agents can be used in this domain.

experimental: ACT-42 domain

This domain has a Phase 2b, multicenter, prospective, randomized, open label, blinded-endpoint (PROBE) controlled single-dose adaptive design and aim to determine the efficacy and safety of NoNO-42 in participants with Acute Ischaemic Stroke selected for thrombolysis with or without Endovascular Thrombectomy.

experimental: INTERACT5 Domain

This is a domain within the Intracerebral Haemorrhage State of the ACT-GLOBAL adaptive platform trial for stroke.

The objective of this domain is to determine the efficacy of intravenous deferoxamine and low-dose oral colchicine, both individually and in combination, compared to standard of care alone, on improving functional outcome in patients with acute spontaneous supratentorial ICH.

experimental: IA Thrombolysis Domain

This domain will be conducted as part of ACT-GLOBAL platform trial and will have the nested domain name of REACT. This domain aims to efficiently, reliably, and simultaneously, determine the effectiveness of targeted intraarterial (IA) thrombolysis using either tenecteplase or alteplase vs. no IA thrombolysis in all patients who undergo EVT. It has a prospective, randomised, controlled, open-label, parallel group with blinded endpoint assessment (PROBE) design of up to 1,500 subjects with AIS who undergo EVT.

Randomisation will be stratified by country/ region, and the IA thrombolytic agent (tenecteplase or alteplase). Minimal sufficient balance algorithm will operate within each stratum to preserve balance on key covariates while maintaining allocation randomness.

The duration of follow-up is 90 days. Primary outcome will be mRS, conducted through centralized telephone interviews or online media performed by central trial personnel blinded treatment assignment and received.

Interventions

Standard-dose intravenous tenecteplase

Standard-dose intravenous tenecteplase (0.25 mg/kg body weight); one-time IV bolus injection soon after randomisation

Low-dose intravenous tenecteplase

Low-dose intravenous tenecteplase (0.18 mg/kg body weight); one-time IV bolus injection soon after randomisation

No intravenous tenecteplase

No intravenous tenecteplase only in subjects on direct oral anticoagulant (DOACs) or those planned for emergency endovascular thrombectomy (EVT)

Conservative Blood Pressure Control

No or minimal Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) control; SBP reduction by 5-10mmHg or a target of 175-180mmHg if very-high baseline SBP (≥180mmHg); the timing of administration of interventions is specified to be immediately after randomisation; the intervention target is to be achieved ideally at 1 hour after randomisation and maintained for 24 hours (or until hospital discharge or death if this should occur earlier)

Moderate Blood Pressure Control

SBP reduction by 10-20mmHg or a target of 160 ± 5, whichever is higher; no control if low-high baseline SBP (150-160mmHg); the timing of administration of interventions is specified to be immediately after randomisation; the intervention target is to be achieved ideally at 1 hour after randomisation and maintained for 24 hours (or until hospital discharge or death if this should occur earlier)

Intensive Blood Pressure Control

SBP reduction by 30-50mmHg or a target of 140±5 mmHg, whichever is higher after endovascular thrombectomy (EVT); the timing of administration of interventions is specified to be immediately after randomisation; the intervention target is to be achieved ideally at 1 hour after randomisation and maintained for 24 hours (or until hospital discharge or death if this should occur earlier)

Placebo

100 mL of 0.9% normal saline, administered as a single IV infusion with a 20-minute dosing duration.

NoNO-42

NoNO-42 at weight-based dosing - 2.6 mg/Kg, administered as a single IV infusion with a 20-minute dosing duration

No deferoxamine mesylate and no colchicine

No deferoxamine mesylate and no colchicine

Deferoxamine mesylate only

Deferoxamine mesylate at a dose of 32mg/kg/day via intravenous infusion immediately (within 1 hour) and continued for 2 consecutive days

Colchicine only

0.5mg of oral colchicine daily for 30 days

Both deferoxamine mesylate and colchicine

Deferoxamine mesylate at a dose of 32mg/kg/day via intravenous infusion immediately (within 1 hour) and continued for 2 consecutive days; plus 0.5mg of oral colchicine daily for 30 consecutive days

IA thrombolysis

Participants randomised to the IA thrombolysis group will receive IA thrombolysis (tenecteplase or alteplase) at the time of completion of the mechanical thrombectomy part of the EVT procedure. Tenecteplase will be given at a dose of 0.0625mg/kg (maximum dose of 6.25mg) and alteplase at a dose of 0.225 mg/kg (maximum dose 22.5mg) intraarterially by the treating neuro-interventional staff. The selection of thrombolytic agent will be determined according to local availability.

The study drug dose will be increased to 0.125 mg/ kg (maximum dose 12.5mg) for tenecteplase or 0.45 mg/kg (maximum dose 40mg) for alteplase if above dose meet prespecified posterior probabilities at the first or second interims per adaptive design report.

no IA thrombolysis

Participants randomised to the No IA thrombolysis group will not receive IA thrombolysis.

Primary outcome measure

  • modified Rankin scale (mRS) scores [ Time Frame: Platform level time frame: 90 days in Ischaemic Stroke State; 6 months in Intracerebral Haemorrhage State; Domain specific time frame may differ (details will be included in domain-specific registration) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

University of Calgary

Recruiting

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

Contacts

More Information

Sponsor

The George Institute

Last update posted

Jul 8, 2026

Last verified

Jul, 2026

Keywords

  • Adaptive Platform Trial
  • Blood Pressure
  • Tenecteplase
  • Ischaemic stroke
  • Intracerebral Haemorrhage

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by The George Institute on 2026-07-08.