Phase 1 Study of CI-8993 Anti-VISTA Antibody in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumor Malignancies

• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04475523
• Recruitment Status: Active, not recruiting
• First Posted: July 17, 2020
• Last Update Posted: April 24, 2023
• Sponsor: Curis, Inc.
• Information provided by (Responsible Party): Curis, Inc.

Study Description

Brief Summary:

This is a phase 1, open-label, multicenter dose-escalation study to determine the RP2D of CI 8993 for administration to patients with relapsed/refractory solid tumors by evaluating the safety and tolerability and characterizing the PK, PD, and anti cancer activity of CI-8993 in this population.

Condition or disease	Intervention/treatment	Phase
Solid Tumor	Drug: CI-8993	Phase 1

Detailed Description:

The plan is to enroll approximately 50 patients with metastatic or unresectable solid tumor malignancy (non-lymphoma) that is considered relapsed and/or refractory to prior therapy into specific dose cohorts to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of full doses of CI-8993, based on the occurrence of dose limiting toxicities (DLTs) 28 days from the first full dose. Administration is every 2 weeks. To assure patient safety, each patient will receive an initial low dose of CI-8993 (step-dose) one week prior to their first full dose.

A Safety Review Committee (SRC) will review all safety data and make cohort escalation/de-escalation decisions.

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional (Clinical Trial)
• Actual Enrollment: 26 participants
• Allocation: N/A
• Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
• Intervention Model Description: Each patient will be administered a step-dose of CI-8993. If a patient experiences a DLT following the step dose, treatment will be discontinued for that patient. If there are no safety concerns following the step dose, the patient will receive the first full dose of CI-8993 a week later. If none of the 3 patients in each cohort (or 1 in 6 patients) experiences a DLT during the first cycle (28 days following the first full dose), the SRC may clear the next dose level for enrollment.
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Official Title: Phase 1 Study of CI-8993 Anti-VISTA Antibody in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumor Malignancies
• Actual Study Start Date: September 22, 2020
• Estimated Primary Completion Date: July 1, 2023
• Estimated Study Completion Date: July 1, 2023

Arms and Interventions

Arm

Intervention/treatment

Experimental: CI-8993 dose escalation; Patients will be administered CI-8993 intravenously at a planned infusion rate over 2 hours at planned step-doses and subsequent full doses. The planned schedule of administration is every 2 weeks. The MTD of full doses of CI-8993 will be determined based on the occurrence of DLTs 28 days from the first full dose. Eligible patients may receive CI-8993 at the dose and schedule, according to their assigned cohorts, until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Drug: CI-8993; CI-8993 is a fully human immunoglobulin (Ig) G1κ monoclonal antibody (mAb) against the VISTA ligand

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures :

1. To determine the maximum tolerated dose of CI-8993 [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
   The highest dose at a schedule, at which the DLT rate during the first cycle of this study (28 days from the first full dose) is < 33% in at least 6 patients.
2. Determine the Recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
   The RP2D will be a dose considered to be appropriately safe for a target phase 2 population and exhibit PK and PD characteristics that are favorable and considered likely to support clinical efficacy of CI-8993. The RP2D will be defined by the Safety Review Committee (SRC) based on PK, PD, safety, efficacy results in this study, as well as practical limitations.

Secondary Outcome Measures :

1. To characterize the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of CI-8993 measured by Cmax [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
   maximum serum concentration (Cmax)
2. To characterize the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of CI-8993 measured by Cmin [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
   trough serum concentration (Cmin)
3. To characterize the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of CI-8993 measured by Tmax [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
   Time to maximum serum concentration
4. To characterize the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of CI-8993 measured by Area under the concentration versus time curve (AUC) [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
   area under the concentration-time curve
5. To characterize the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of CI-8993 measured by T 1/2 [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
   Serum terminal elimination half-life (T 1/2)
6. To characterize the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of CI-8993 measured by volume of distribution at steady state [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
   volume of distribution at steady state (Vdss)
7. To characterize the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of CI-8993 measured by clearance [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
   Clearance (CL)
8. To assess anti-drug antibodies (ADA) of CI-8993 [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
   Evaluate antibodies to CI-8993 in serum
9. To assess objective response rate (ORR) [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
   Assess with Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1)
10. To assess duration of response (DOR) [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
    Assess with Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1 )
11. To evaluate safety of concomitant drugs that are cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme substrates with narrow therapeutic index and drug-drug interaction potential [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
    An analysis of AEs considered related to concomitant drugs that are CYP enzyme substrates with narrow therapeutic index and drug-drug interaction potential

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patient must be ≥18 years of age

2. Patients must have the following disease related criteria:

   • any type of solid tumor malignancy (non-lymphoma) that is metastatic or unresectable and considered relapsed and/or refractory to prior therapy
   • must have evaluable disease.
   • Archival formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor tissue
3. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1
4. Adequate organ and bone marrow function, in the absence of growth factors.

5. Fertility criteria:

   • Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) and fertile males with WOCBP partners must use highly effective contraception
   • Women must agree not to donate eggs (ova, oocytes) for the purposes of assisted reproduction
   • Men must agree not to donate sperm
   • A man who is sexually active with a woman of childbearing potential and has not had a vasectomy must agree to use a highly effective method of birth control.
6. Patient must be willing and able to adhere to the prohibitions and restrictions specified in the protocol. Due to the possibility of neurologic events, patient must agree to refrain from engaging in hazardous occupations or activities such as operating heavy or dangerous machinery during the first cycle of treatment.
7. Each patient must sign an informed consent form (ICF) indicating that he or she understands the purpose and procedures required for the study and is willing to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patient has any of the following medical situations:

   • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to: poorly controlled hypertension; poorly controlled diabetes; ongoing active infection requiring antibiotics or acute infectious illness (including suspected viral infection); symptomatic congestive heart failure; unstable angina pectoris; cardiac arrhythmia considered to increase risk for the patient by the Investigator; psychiatric illness that would limit compliance with study requirement
   • Medical illness requiring systemic glucocorticoid use > 10mg/day prednisone equivalent.
   • Patients with any CNS disorder, such as CNS malignancy/metastasis, stroke, transient ischemic attack, or seizure disorder
   • Personal or familial history of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis or macrophage activation syndrome
   • An autoimmune disease with a history of flares requiring immunosuppressant medications within the past 6 months
   • Prior allogeneic organ or bone marrow transplant (BMT).
   • Social situation that would limit compliance with study requirements
   • Major surgery (eg, requiring general anesthesia) within 4 weeks before the planned first dose of study drug, or not fully recovered from prior surgery, or has surgery planned during the time the patient is expected to participate in the study or within 4 weeks after the last dose of study drug.
   • History of positive testing for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or hepatitis C antibody (anti-hepatitis C virus) or other clinically active liver disease, or positive testing at screening for HBsAg or anti- hepatitis C virus.
   • History of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody positive

2. Patient has had prior therapy meeting the following:

   • Anticancer immunotherapy within 3 weeks prior to the first dose of CI-8993
   • Prior T Cell Receptor-modified or chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CART) therapy
   • Other anticancer therapy, including chemotherapy, targeted therapy, or treatment with an investigational anticancer agent within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of CI-8993
   • Radiotherapy (excluding limited palliative radiation) within 2 weeks of start of CI-8993
   • Unresolved toxicities from previous anticancer therapies above Grade 1.
   • Immune-related AE with prior immunotherapy that was Grade 3 or higher.
   • Patient has known allergies, hypersensitivity, or intolerance to components of CI 8993
3. Patient receiving therapeutic anticoagulants

4. Fertility exclusions:

   • Patient is pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant while enrolled in this study or within 3 months after the last dose of study drug; WOCBP must have a negative pregnancy status confirmed by serum pregnancy test at screening and within 72 hours of first dose of study drug.
   • Patient is a man who plans to father a child while enrolled in this study or within 3 months after the last dose of study drug.
5. Vaccinated with a live vaccine within 28 days (with the exception of the annual inactivated influenza vaccine) prior to the first dose of study drug

Contacts and Locations

Locations

United States, New Hampshire

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756

United States, New York

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States, 10065

United States, Tennessee

The Sarah Cannon Research Institute/Tennessee Oncology

Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203

United States, Texas

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Australia, Victoria

Peninsula & South Eastern Haematology and Oncology Group

Frankston, Victoria, Australia, 3199

Sponsors and Collaborators

Curis, Inc.

More Information

Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Zong L, Mo S, Sun Z, Lu Z, Yu S, Chen J, Xiang Y. Analysis of the immune checkpoint V-domain Ig-containing suppressor of T-cell activation (VISTA) in endometrial cancer. Mod Pathol. 2022 Feb;35(2):266-273. doi: 10.1038/s41379-021-00901-y. Epub 2021 Sep 7.

• Responsible Party: Curis, Inc.
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04475523
• Other Study ID Numbers: CI-8993-101
• First Posted: July 17, 2020
• Last Update Posted: April 24, 2023
• Last Verified: April 2023

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

• Plan to Share IPD: No

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Neoplasms