Ligelizumab

Participants with treatment emergent adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) summary for entire study (64 weeks) An AE is any untoward medical occurrence, unfavorable, or unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, disease, or injury, temporally associated with the use of a marketed or investigational medicinal product, gene therapy, theragnostic product, or medical device, in patients, clinical-trial subjects, device users, or other persons, whether or not it is considered to be related to or due to the product.

The Urticaria Activity Score (UAS) is sum of the Hive Severity Score (HSS) and the Itch Severity Score (ISS). UAS7 is sum of the HSS7 and the ISS7 scores. Possible range of weekly UAS7 score is 0 to 42. Complete UAS7 response is UAS7 = 0. Hives Severity Score (HSS) scale is 0 to 3. A weekly score (HSS7) is derived by adding up the average daily scores of the 7 days preceding the visit. Possible range of the weekly score is therefore 0 to 21. Hives Severity Score scale: 0 - None 1 - Mild (1-6 hives/12 hours) 2 - Moderate (7-12 hives/12 hours) 3 - Severe (\>12 hives/12 hours). Itch Severity Score (ISS) scale is 0 to 3. Score (ISS7) is derived by adding up average daily scores of 7 days preceding visit. Possible range of weekly score is therefore 0 to 21. Itch Severity Score scale: 0 - None 1 - Mild (minimal awareness, easily tolerated) 2 - Moderate (definite awareness, bothersome but tolerable) 3 - Severe (difficult to tolerate). Negative change from baseline indicates improvement

The Urticaria Activity Score (UAS) is sum of the Hive Severity Score (HSS) and the Itch Severity Score (ISS). UAS7 is sum of the HSS7 and the ISS7 scores. Possible range of weekly UAS7 score is 0 to 42. Complete UAS7 response is UAS7 = 0. Hives Severity Score (HSS) scale is 0 to 3. A weekly score (HSS7) is derived by adding up the average daily scores of the 7 days preceding the visit. Possible range of the weekly score is therefore 0 to 21. Hives Severity Score scale: 0 - None 1 - Mild (1-6 hives/12 hours) 2 - Moderate (7-12 hives/12 hours) 3 - Severe (\>12 hives/12 hours). Itch Severity Score (ISS) scale is 0 to 3. Score (ISS7) is derived by adding up average daily scores of 7 days preceding visit. Possible range of weekly score is therefore 0 to 21. Itch Severity Score scale: 0 - None 1 - Mild (minimal awareness, easily tolerated) 2 - Moderate (definite awareness, bothersome but tolerable) 3 - Severe (difficult to tolerate). Negative change from baseline indicates improvement

UAS7 is a self-reported scoring system to evaluate urticaria signs and symptoms. UAS7 is the sum of daily urticaria activity scores (UAS) over a seven-day period. The possible range of UAS7 score is 0 to 42 (0 to 6 for daily UAS x 7 days). A higher urticaria activity score indicates more severe symptoms. A negative change score from baseline indicates improvement. Baseline was calculated using data from the 7 days prior to the first treatment date. To handle the missing data, if a participant had at least 4 non-missing daily scores within the 7 days prior to a study visit, the weekly score was calculated as the sum of the available scores in that week, divided by the number of days with daily scores available, multiplied by 7. However, if there were less than 4 non-missing daily scores within the prior 7 days, then the weekly score was missing for the week.

The primary objective of this study was to assess the long-term safety of one-year treatment of QGE031 in adult Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria (CSU) patients who completed the core study CQGE031C2201 using the following evaluations: number of participants with treatment emergent AEs of non-serious and serious nature including any events of special interest.

The primary objective was to establish the dose-response relationship of ligelizumab (24, 72 and 240 mg every 4 weeks) with respect to achievement of complete hives response (HSS7=0) at Week 12 and select an appropriate dose (or range of doses) which is likely to be superior to omalizumab at the highest approved dose (300 mg every 4 weeks). Hives Severity Score (HSS) is on a scale of 0 to 3. A weekly score (HSS7) is derived by adding up the average daily scores of the preceding 7 days, with a possible range of 0 - 21. Hives Severity Score scale: 0 - None 1. \- Mild (1-6 hives/12 hours) 2. \- Moderate (7-12 hives/12 hours) 3. \- Severe (\>12 hives/12 hours) To confirm an overall dose-response signal based on MCP-Mod, and to estimate the minimal ligelizumab dose that shows a relevant superior effect over omalizumab, based on the selected dose response model, the lowest ligelizumab dose that provides a response rate 15% higher than the response of omalizumab 300 mg.

The ACQ-7 measures asthma symptom control and consisted of 7 items: 5 on symptom assessment, 1 on rescue bronchodilator use and 1 on airway caliber (FEV1 % predicted). All 7 questions of the ACQ were equally weighted. Items 1-6 scored along a 7-point response scale, where 0 = good controlled and 6 = poor controlled. The 7th item on % predicted FEV1 (pre-bronchodilator) was scored by clinic staff on a 7-point scale (0 - \> 95%; 1 - 90-95%; 2 - 80-89%; 3 - 70-79%; 4 - 60-69%; 5 - 50-59%; 6 - \< 50%). The average score of the 7 questions was calculated as the sum of scores divided by the number of questions that were answered by the participants, as long as there were at least 6 questions answered and the missing items were neither question 1 nor question 7.

Efficacy response will be assessed using EASI.

Adverse events will be determined by evaluating clinical, laboratory evaluations, impact on vital signs and impacts on ECGs and other safety assessments.