Phase II Study of EMB-01 in Recurrent/Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients

Recruiting now · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

In brief

This study is testing different dosing schedules of EMB-01 in patients with advanced colorectal cancer whose disease has recurrent or progressed on previous treatments. Patients will be randomly assigned to one of two dosing schedules: EMB-01 once weekly, or once weekly for 6 weeks then every two weeks.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07314294

Run by

Shanghai EpimAb Biotherapeutics Co., Ltd.

People needed

54

Starts

2025-12-18

Expected to finish

2028-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-03

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Able to understand and willing to sign the informed consent form (ICF).
• Male or female aged ≥ 18 years.
• Histologically or cytologically confirmed unresectable or metastatic left-sided colorectal cancer (primary tumor from splenic flexure to rectum) with at least one measurable lesion according to RECIST v1.1.
• ECOG performance status ≤ 1.
• Willing to provide a fresh tumor biopsy sample or a stored sample obtained within the past 2 years.If no eligible archived tumor tissue sample is available and the patient's clinical condition is not suitable for biopsy, the patient may still be allowed to participate in screening upon confirmation and agreement between the investigator and the sponsor.
• Adequate organ function prior to the first study treatment.
• Prior anti-cancer treatment:
• Must have progressed on or been intolerant to at least first- or second-line systemic therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer. Prior therapy must include fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy, and bevacizumab with or without cetuximab. Patients should not have received TAS-102, fruquinitinib, or regorafenib.
• Any approved or investigational anti-cancer therapy (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormone therapy except for replacement therapy, testosterone, or oral contraceptives, biological therapy, targeted therapy) must be discontinued ≥ 4 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) before first study treatment.
• Local radiotherapy, bone metastasis radiotherapy, or oral fluoropyrimidines (e.g., tegafur, capecitabine) must be stopped ≥ 2 weeks before first study treatment; therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals must not have been administered within 8 weeks prior to the first dose of EMB-01.
• Women of childbearing potential or male patients with partners of childbearing potential must use one or more contraceptive methods from clinical screening and continue during study treatment until 3 months after the last EMB-01 dose.

You may not qualify if…

• Presence of KRAS/NRAS exon 2, 3, 4 mutations, BRAF V600 mutation, HER2 positivity (IHC3+ or amplification), RET fusion, NTRK fusion, or other molecular mutations affecting anti-EGFR or cMET efficacy(Investigator and sponsor discussion recommended if applicable), based on central lab testing or prior treatment history.
• Life expectancy < 3 months.
• Residual adverse events (AEs) from prior anti-cancer therapy > CTCAE grade 1.
• Primary CNS malignancy or symptomatic CNS metastases (brain, leptomeningeal, or arachnoid). Patients with asymptomatic CNS metastases may be eligible if no local radiotherapy is needed, or radiotherapy was completed ≥ 4 weeks prior to study treatment.
• Pregnant or breastfeeding women.
• Major surgery within 28 days prior to screening. Surgical wounds must be fully healed.
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, unresolved active or chronic inflammatory lung disease, or history of interstitial lung disease (ILD). Patients with resolved radiation pneumonitis may be eligible.
• History of Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, or severe skin infections.
• Prior dual anti-EGFR and cMET therapy or bispecific antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).
• Prior EGFR inhibitor therapy discontinued due to severe skin toxicity.
• Other significant medical conditions, psychiatric or psychological disorders, or familial/endemically high-risk diseases that may interfere with study assessments, treatment, follow-up, adherence, or increase risk of treatment-related complications.
• Any condition deemed by the investigator to make study participation not in the patient's best interest or likely to interfere, limit, or confound study assessments.

Where it is running

• Beijing Cancer Hospital — Beijing, China (enrolling)
• The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University — Guangzhou, China

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