Phase I Clinical Study of GNC-038 in Patients With Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma or Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04606433 |
Recruitment Status :
Recruiting
First Posted : October 28, 2020
Last Update Posted : March 15, 2023
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Non Hodgkin Lymphoma Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Drug: GNC-038 | Phase 1 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 41 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Sequential Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | An Open, Multicenter, Phase I Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacokinetics, and Antitumor Activity of GNC-038 Quad-specific Antibody Injection in Relapsed or Refractory Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Relapsed or Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, and Refractory or Metastatic Solid Tumors |
Actual Study Start Date : | November 4, 2020 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | November 2024 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | November 2024 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Study treatment
The patients received intravenous infusion of GNC-038 for 1 cycle. After the completion of 2 cycles of treatment, participants with no unbearable ae could proceed to the 3rd and 4th cycles of treatment. After four cycles of treatment, participants with clinical benefits could also receive four additional cycles of the same dose.
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Drug: GNC-038
Administration by intravenous infusion. |
- Dose limiting toxicity (DLT) [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose ]The incidence and severity of adverse events (TEAE) during treatment were graded according to the National Cancer Institute Standard for Common Terminology for Adverse Events (NCI-CTCAE, v5.0).
- Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or maximum administrated dose (MAD) [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose ]In the dose increment stage, the highest dose whose estimated DLT rate is closest to the target DLT rate but does not exceed the upper bound of the equivalent interval of DLT rate is selected as MTD.
- Treatment-Emergent Adverse Event (TEAE) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 24 months ]TEAE is defined as any unfavorable and unintended change in the structure, function, or chemistry of the body temporally emerging, or any worsening (i.e., any clinically significant adverse change in frequency and/or intensity) of a pre-existing condition during the treatment of GNC-038. The type, frequency and severity of TEAE will be evaluated during the treatment of GNC-038.
- The recommended dose for future clinical study [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose of GNC-038 ]The RP2D is defined as the dose level chosen by the sponsor (in consultation with the investigators) for phase II study, based on safety, tolerability, efficacy, PK, and PD data collected during the dose escalation study of GNC-038.
- Adverse Events of special interest (AESI) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 24 months ]AESI is an event of scientific and medical interest specific to the sponsor's product or research project.
- Cmax: Maximum serum concentration of GNC-038 [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose of GNC-038 ]Maximum serum concentration (Cmax) of GNC-038 will be investigated.
- Css: Concentration of GNC-038 at steady state plateau [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose of GNC-038 ]Concentration of GNC-038 at steady state plateau will be investigated.
- Tmax: Time to maximum serum concentration (Tmax) of GNC-038 [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose of GNC-038 ]Time to maximum serum concentration (Tmax) of GNC-038 will be investigated.
- T1/2: Half-life of GNC-038 [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose of GNC-038 ]Half-life (T1/2) of GNC-038 will be investigated.
- AUC0-inf: Area under the serum concentration-time curve from time 0 to infinity [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose of GNC-038 ]Blood concentration - Area under time line.
- AUC0-t: Area under the serum concentration-time curve from time 0 to the time of the last measurable concentration [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose of GNC-038 ]Blood concentration - Area under time line.
- CL: Clearance in the serum of GNC-038 per unit of time [ Time Frame: Up to 14 days after the first dose of GNC-038 ]To study the serum clearance rate of GNC-038 per unit time.
- Incidence and titer of ADA (Anti-drug antibody) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 24 months ]Frequency and titer of anti-GNC-038 antibody (ADA) will be evaluated.
- Incidence and titer of Nab (Neutralizing antibody) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 24 months ]Incidence and titer of Nab of GNC-038 will be evaluated.
- ORR (Objective Response Rate ) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 24 months ]ORR is defined as the percentage of participants, who has a CR (disappearance of all target lesions) or PR (at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions). The percentage of participants who experiences a confirmed CR or PR is according to RECIST 1.1.
- DCR (Disease Control Rate) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 24 months ]The DCR is defined as the percentage of participants who has a CR, PR, or Stable Disease (SD: neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR nor sufficient increase to qualify for progressive disease [PD: at least a 20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions and an absolute increase of at least 5 mm. The appearance of one or more new lesions is also considered PD]).
- PFS (Progression-free Survival) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 24 months ]The PFS is defined as the time from the participant's first dose of GNC-038 to the first date of either disease progression or death, whichever occurs first.
- DOR (Duration of Response) [ Time Frame: Up to approximately 24 months ]The DOR for a responder is defined as the time from the participant's initial objective response to the first date of either disease progression or death, whichever occurs first.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- The participants could understand and sign the informed consent form, and must participate voluntarily.
- No gender limit.
- Age: ≥18 years old.
- Expected survival time ≥ 3 months.
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Patients with relapsed refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (R/R NHL). Specifically, patients who relapsed for the first time and still progressed during second-line treatment; Patients with relapse after second-line or multiline therapy; Refractory patients showed no remission or progress after full dose and full cycle use of standard or current clinically commonly selected combination therapy regimen, and no remission or progress after replacement of second-line regimen; Patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma who were determined to have no or no other treatments available/intolerant.
- Relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R ALL), including: no response after more than 6 weeks of induction chemotherapy, or no response after 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy; A second or more recurrence of bone marrow; Or relapse for the first time after chemotherapy with no remission after at least 1 cycle of salvage therapy; Bone marrow recurrence after autologous stem cell transplantation (auto-HSCT); Patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia were determined to have no or no other treatments/intolerant.
- Patients with Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) ALL who are intolerant to or fail to treat 1 and/or 2 generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), or Ph+ALL who have a T315I mutation, do not require TKI salvage therapy.
- For patients with NHL, there were measurable lesions in the screening period (lymph node lesions with any length ≥1.5cm or exodal lesions with any length > 1.0cm); CLL/SLL: peripheral blood leukemia cells ≥5.0×109/L; Or lymph node lesions of any length ≥1.5cm; WM: IgM> 2 x ULN.
- For AITL and NK/T lymphoma, a membrane CD3 negative test is required.
- Physical status score ECOG ≤2 points.
- The toxicity of previous antitumor therapy has returned to ≤ Class 1 as defined by NCI-CTCAE v5.0 (except for toxicities that the investigators judged to be of no safety risk, such as alopecia, grade 2 peripheral neurotoxicity, and stable hypothyroidism after hormone replacement therapy).
- The organ function level meets the following requirements: Bone marrow function (for NHL patients only) : without blood transfusion within 7 days prior to screening, without G-CSF (without long-acting rising white needle within 2 weeks), and without drug correction: Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.0×109/L (≥0.5×109/L for subjects with bone marrow infiltration); Hemoglobin ≥80 g/L (≥70g/L for subjects with bone marrow infiltration); Platelet count ≥50×109/L; Liver function: Total bilirubin ≤1.5 ULN (Gilbert's syndrome ≤3 ULN), transaminase (AST/ALT) ≤2.5ULN (in subjects with tumor invasive changes in the liver ≤5.0 ULN), and/or alkaline phosphatase ≤5 ULN when not corrected with hepatoprotective drugs within 7 days prior to screening; Renal function: creatinine (Cr) ≤1.5 ULN and creatinine clearance (Ccr) ≥50 ml/min (based on the center's calculation criteria). The investigators judged renal function intact without injury, except that abnormal creatinine index was caused by tumor. Coagulation function: fibrinogen ≥1.5g/L; Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤1.5×ULN; Prothrombin time (PT) ≤1.5×ULN.
- Fertile female subjects or male subjects with fertile partners must use highly effective contraception from 7 days before the first dose until 6 months after the last dose. A fertile female subject must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to initial dosing.
- The subject is able and willing to comply with visits, treatment plans, laboratory tests, and other study-related procedures as specified in the study protocol.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Live virus vaccine (including attenuated live vaccine) was administered within 28 days prior to administration in this study.
- Patients who received major surgery within 28 days prior to administration of the drug or planned to undergo major surgery during the study period (except for procedures such as puncture or lymph node biopsy).
- Defined as ≥ Grade 3 pulmonary diseases according to NCI-CTCAE v5.0; Patients with present or history of interstitial lung disease (ILD).
- Systemic serious infections occurred within 1 week before screening, including but not limited to severe pneumonia caused by fungi, bacteria and viruses, bacteremia or serious infectious complications.
- Active tuberculosis.
- People with active autoimmune disease, or a history of autoimmune disease, Including but not limited to Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, sarcoidosis, Wegener syndrome, polyvasculitis granulomatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, systemic sclerosing disease, autoimmune vasculitis, autoimmune neuropathy (Guillain-Barre syndrome), etc. Exceptions include type I diabetes, hypothyroidism stable on hormone replacement therapy (including hypothyroidism caused by autoimmune thyroid disease), psoriasis or vitiligo that does not require systemic therapy, and B-cell autoimmune disease.
- Non-melanoma skin cancer in situ, superficial bladder cancer in situ, cervical cancer in situ, gastrointestinal intramucosal cancer, breast cancer, localized prostate cancer and other malignant tumors that were combined with other malignant tumors within 5 years prior to the first administration of the drug, and those that had been cured and had not recurred within 5 years were excluded.
- HBsAg positive; HBcAb positive and HBV-DNA detection ≥ lower limit of detection value; HCV antibody positive and HCV-RNA≥ lower limit of detection value; HIV antibody positive.
- Poorly controlled hypertension (systolic blood pressure > 150 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure > 100 mmHg).
- A history of severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, including but not limited to: severe cardiac rhythm or conduction abnormalities, such as ventricular arrhythmia requiring clinical intervention, degree III atrioventricular block, etc.; At rest, the QT interval was prolonged (QTc > 450 msec in men or 470msec in women); Acute coronary syndrome, congestive heart failure, aortic dissection, stroke, or other grade 3 or higher cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events occurred within 6 months prior to initial administration; There is heart failure ≥II on the New York Heart Association (NYHA) cardiac function scale.
- Patients with a history of allergy to recombinant humanized antibodies or to any excipient component of GNC-038.
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women.
- Patients with central nervous system invasion.
- Previous recipients of organ transplantation or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Allo-HSCT).
- Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AutoHSCT) was performed within 12 weeks prior to initiation of GNC-038 therapy.
- Immunosuppressants are being used, including but not limited to: cyclosporine, tacrolimus, etc., within 2 weeks prior to treatment with GNC-038; GNC-038 received high doses of glucocorticoids within 2 weeks prior to treatment (longer than 14 days, daily steady dose > 30mg of prednisone or equal doses of other corticosteroids), except for patients with R/R ALL, Dexamethasone should be symptomatic when R/R ALL patients have more than 50% bone marrow protocells or peripheral protocells ≥15000/μL during the screening period (see 4.6.2 Availability of drugs during the trial).
- Received radiotherapy within 4 weeks prior to initiation of GNC-038 treatment.
- Patients with NHL who had received anti-CD20 or anti-CD79B therapy within 4 weeks before starting GNC-038 therapy continued to respond; ALL patients were treated with TKI, anti-CD19 or anti-CD22 within 4 weeks prior to GNC-038 and still responded, and were treated with bonatumab (CD19×CD3) and izumab - oxomicin (CD22-ADC) within 4 weeks prior to treatment.
- Received chemotherapy and small-molecule targeted therapy within 2 weeks prior to treatment.
- Received CAR T therapy within 12 weeks prior to initiation of GNC-038 therapy.
- Participants in any other clinical trial within 4 weeks prior to administration of this trial.
- Other conditions deemed unsuitable for participation in this clinical trial by the investigator.

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT04606433
Contact: Hai Zhu, PHD | +86-13980051002 | zhuhai@baili-pharm.com | |
Contact: Sa Xiao, PHD | +86-15013238943 | xiaosa@baili-pharm.com |
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Principal Investigator: | Jianxiang Wang | Hematology Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences | |
Principal Investigator: | Junyuan Qi | Hematology Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences |
Responsible Party: | Sichuan Baili Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT04606433 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
GNC-038-101 |
First Posted: | October 28, 2020 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | March 15, 2023 |
Last Verified: | March 2023 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
Lymphoma Leukemia Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma Leukemia, Lymphoid Neoplasms by Histologic Type |
Neoplasms Lymphoproliferative Disorders Lymphatic Diseases Immunoproliferative Disorders Immune System Diseases |