CLN-617 Alone and in Combination With Pembrolizumab in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors

Stopped early · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Advanced Solid Tumor

In brief

CLN-617-001 is a Phase 1, open-label, dose escalation, dose optimization and dose expansion study of CLN-617 alone and in combination with Pembrolizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06035744

Run by

Cullinan Therapeutics Inc.

People needed

23

Starts

2023-12-12

Expected to finish

2026-06-16

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Aged ≥ 18 years.
• Patient should have previously received or had a contraindication to standard therapy that confers an overall survival benefit.
• Part 1 Dose Escalation Cohorts: Histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced incurable or metastatic non-neurological solid tumor with accessible injectable lesions.
• Part 2 Dose Optimization: Histologically or cytologically confirmed select advanced incurable or metastatic cancer types with accessible injectable lesions.
• Part 3 Dose Expansions:
• Cohort 1: Histologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic or locally advanced, unresectable melanoma with accessible injectable lesions.
• Cohort 2: Histologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic or locally advanced, unresectable HNSCC with accessible injectable lesions.
• Patients must have 2 or more measurable lesions for Part 1, or one or more measurable lesions for Part 2 and Part 3 that meet RECIST v1.1. Also, patients must have tumors able to be palpable, visualized on ultrasound without encasing with blood vessels, amenable to direct injection.
• Patients deemed appropriate for pembrolizumab treatment based on the tumor type and prior available therapy, per the judgment of the investigator.
• Performance status of 0 or 1 based on the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance scale.
• Estimated life expectancy at least 12 weeks or longer.
• Toxicities related to prior study therapy should have resolved to Grade 1 or less according to criteria of NCI CTCAE v5.0, except for alopecia. Patients with chronic but stable Grade 2 toxicities may be allowed to enroll after an agreement between the Investigator and Sponsor.
• Have adequate liver and kidney function and hematological parameters within a normal range as defined by:
• Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5x ULN. This does not apply for patients with confirmed Gilbert's Syndrome, for whom total bilirubin must be less than 3.0 mg/dL with a conjugated bilirubin less than 0.5 mg/dL.
• AST and ALT ≤ 2.5x ULN or ≤ 5x ULN for patients with liver metastases.
• Estimated creatinine clearance (CrCL) ≥ 50 mL/min by using Cockcroft-Gault formula.
• Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/dL without blood transfusions for at least two weeks prior to dosing on C1D1.
• Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1500 cells/mm3 without growth factor support (e.g., three days for filgrastim, 14 days for pegfilgrastim).
• Platelet count ≥ 100,000 cells/mm3.
• Patients in dose escalation (Part 1) must agree to provide a fresh biopsy at baseline, and on-treatment biopsies from both injected and uninjected tumors, at the end of Cycle 1 (mandatory) and at the end of Cycle 3 (strongly encouraged). Patients in dose optimization (Part 2) and dose-expansion (Part 3) must agree to provide a fresh biopsy at baseline, and an on-treatment biopsy from both injected and uninjected tumors at the end of Cycle 2. If a biopsy cannot be performed with acceptable clinical risk in the judgment of the Investigator, the Sponsor's medical monitor must be contacted to approve enrollment.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with concomitant second malignancies (except adequately treated non-melanomatous skin cancers, ductal carcinoma in situ, superficial bladder cancer, prostate cancer, or in situ cervical cancer) are excluded unless in complete remission two years prior to study entry, and no additional therapy is required or anticipated to be required during study participation.
• Patients with any active autoimmune disease or a history of known autoimmune disease, or history of a syndrome that requires systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive medications, except for patients with vitiligo, resolved childhood asthma/atopy, or autoimmune thyroid disorders on stable thyroid hormone supplementation.
• A serious uncontrolled medical disorder that would impair the ability of the patient to receive protocol therapy or whose control may be jeopardized by the complications of this therapy. These criteria include, but are not limited to the following:
• Uncontrolled airway hyper-reactivity.
• Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients are allowed if they are under stable glycemic control as per Investigator's assessment.
• Uncontrolled, clinically significant pulmonary disease.
• Requirement for supplemental oxygen to maintain SpO2 > 93%.
• Symptomatic congestive heart failure as per Investigator's assessment or documented cardiac ejection fraction < 45%.
• QT interval corrected for heart rate using Fridericia's formula (QTcF) of ≥ 470 milliseconds.
• History of unstable angina or myocardial infarction within six months of dosing on C1D1.
• Unstable cardiac arrhythmia.
• History of ventricular arrhythmia that requires medical treatment.
• Uncontrolled hypertension: patients with sustained systolic blood pressure readings greater than 150 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure greater than 100 mmHg should have documentation by the treating physician that the finding is not consistent with uncontrolled hypertension.
• History of stroke or cerebral hemorrhage within one year of dosing on C1D1.
• Poorly controlled seizure disorder.
• Active diverticulitis within one year prior to dosing on C1D1.
• Patient requires active systemic anticoagulation at the time of IT injection or biopsy, or with significant bleeding diathesis due to risk of hematoma at the injection site. Patients on anticoagulant agents require consultation with the sponsor prior to enrollment.
• Risk of vascular catastrophe.
• Treatment with systemic antiviral, antibacterial or antifungal agents for acute infection within ≤ 7 days of dosing on C1D1.
• Diagnosed with HIV1/2 primary immunodeficiency disease with any of the following conditions:
• CD4+ T cell counts ≤ 350 cells/uL.
• Received active antiretroviral therapy within 4 weeks of C1D1.
• HIV viral load > 400 copies/mL.
• Diagnosed with hepatitis B (with positive testing for either hepatitis B surface antigen [HbsAg] or hepatitis B core Ab) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (with positive testing for HCV antibody and/or HCV ribonucleic acid [RNA] in serum) under any of the following conditions:
• Active disease for hepatitis B or hepatitis C and received antiretroviral therapy within 4 weeks.

Where it is running

• USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Orlando Health — Orlando, Florida, United States
• University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• MD Anderson — Houston, Texas, United States
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center — Seattle, Washington, United States

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