This is a Phase 1 Trial of ZM008, an Anti-LLT1 Antibody, Used as Single Agent Followed by Combination Treatment With Toripalimab in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors
Phase 1 Dose Escalation Trial of ZM008, an Anti-LLT1 Antibody, as Single Agent Followed by Combination With Toripalimab in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
In plain language
This phase 1 study tests increasing doses of ZM008, first alone and then with toripalimab. It is for adults with certain advanced cancers who have no standard treatment options left or cannot tolerate them.
This is a phase 1 dose escalation trial of ZM008, an anti-LLT1 antibody as a single agent followed by combination with Toripalimab in patients with advanced solid tumors who have exhausted all standard therapy available or are intolerant of the same.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- You must be at least 18 years old.
- Your cancer must be confirmed by a tissue test and have spread or returned where treatment cannot cure it. The study team must confirm that your cancer type qualifies and needs more treatment.
- If your cancer has gene changes that drugs can target, all approved targeted drugs must have stopped working or be unsafe for you.
- Your cancer must usually be measurable on scans. Some people in Part 1 may join without measurable cancer if approved.
- You must be fully active or able to do light work. Some people with kidney cancer in Part 1 may qualify with more limits on activity.
- Blood tests must show enough blood cells and adequate liver and kidney function. Certain blood transfusions and drugs that boost blood cells are not allowed in the prior 2 weeks.
- You must have veins suitable for treatment and blood draws. If you or your partner could become pregnant, you must follow birth control rules through at least 4 months after your last dose.
- You must allow access to stored tumor tissue, if available. Stored tissue is required for Part 2, which also calls for new tissue samples before and during treatment unless an exception is approved.
Who can't join
- Side effects from past cancer treatment have not improved to mild levels or your usual baseline, with exceptions for hair loss and nerve damage. Hormone replacement doses must be stable.
- Cancer in the brain is not controlled. Previously treated, stable brain cancer may be allowed if the steroid dose is below 10 mg of prednisone or its equivalent per day.
- You recently had radiation and still have more than mild side effects: within 4 weeks for a large area, or 2 weeks for a smaller area treated to ease symptoms.
- You have an active infection needing antibiotics at your first dose. Oral antibiotics may be allowed with special approval.
- You have a serious uncontrolled illness, or mental health or social concerns that make participation unsafe, prevent you from following study rules, or limit your ability to give written consent.
- You have another active cancer that has grown into nearby tissue. Exceptions include certain early cervical, breast, or skin cancers and stable prostate cancer being watched without treatment.
- You have severe heart disease or, without a pacemaker, a heart rhythm test showing a QTc above 470 milliseconds.
- You have an active immune disease needing whole-body treatment, recently used certain drugs that weaken the immune system, or stopped a prior immune checkpoint cancer drug because of immune side effects. Some stable conditions and replacement hormones are allowed. The provided rule about ongoing side effects from these cancer drugs is cut off.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Adult patients aged 18 years and older, at the time of signing the informed consent form. 2. Part 1: Patients with histologically confirmed diagnosis of advanced (locoregionally recurrent, not amenable to curative therapy) or metastatic solid tumors that have no standard therapeutic option with a proven clinical benefit or are intolerant to these therapies with the following selected tumor histologies: NSCLC, triple-negative breast cancer, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, biliary tract cancer, high grade serous ovarian cancer, diffuse large B cell lymphoma, kidney cancer, or urothelial cancer. This selection corresponds to tumor histologies known to express higher LLT1 levels. Other tumor histologies can be enrolled only if approved by the sponsor after discussion with the investigator. Tumors should be progressing or deserving another anticancer treatment in the opinion of the investigator. Part 2: The same patient population as Part 1 although it will be enriched or modified based on the observed antitumor activity observed in Part 1. In case the patient population is modified to include patients with standard therapeutic alternatives, a substantial amendment will be issued. 3. Patients with tumors with actionable mutations should have progressed to all approved targeted therapies or have them contraindicated. 4. The patient has measurable disease with RECIST 1. 1 on computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET)/CT, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. Imaging tests outside the screening period are valid if performed not more than 3 weeks before consent signature and otherwise fulfill protocol criteria. Patients with non-measurable disease may be allowed in Part 1 only with the explicit approval of the trial Medical Monitor. 5. The patient has Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 to 1. Patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) to be allocated to a backfill cohort in Part 1 can have PS ≤2. 6. The patient has adequate hematologic function as defined by: 1. Hemoglobin ≥9 g/dL (whole or partial blood transfusions not allowed in the two previous weeks). 2. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.0 × 109/L (growth factors like granulocyte colony-stimulating factor are not allowed in the two previous weeks). 3. Platelet count ≥75 × 109/L (platelet transfusions are not allowed in the two previous weeks). 7. The patient has adequate hepatic function as defined by: 1. Total bilirubin ≤1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN). 2. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤3.0 times ULN, (if liver metastases are present, then ≤5.0 times ULN is allowed). 3. The patient has adequate renal function as defined by: estimated creatinine clearance (CrCL) using the Cockcroft- Gault formula ≥30 mL/minute. 8. Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) and men with sexual partners who are WOCBP must consent to adhere to contraceptive requirements as detailed in the protocol from the day of the signature of the informed consent to at least 4 months after the last dose of trial treatment. 9. Suitable venous access for safe drug administration and the trial-required drug concentration and pharmacodynamic sampling. 10. Permission to access archival biopsy located at the treating site or elsewhere. Note: Archival tissue does not need to be checked before Cycle 1 Day 1. The most modern archival biopsy is requested. If no archival tissue is available, the patient can still be enrolled in the escalation phase but not in Part 2. 11. Pretreatment fresh biopsy is highly encouraged in Part 1 dose escalation once BED has been achieved. In Part 2, fresh pre-treatment and on-treatment biopsies should be obtained unless biopsy is associated with significant risk or declined by the patient and per discussion with the sponsor medical monitor (or designee). Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients should have recovered from toxicity related to previous anticancer treatments (including surgery and radiation) to Grade 0/1 or baseline (except alopecia and peripheral neuropathy). Patients with endocrinopathies should have the replacement treatment in stable dosing. 2. The patient has a history of uncontrolled brain metastasis. Patients with brain metastases are allowed if they are previously treated with surgery, whole-brain radiation, or stereotactic radiosurgery and have new brain imaging confirming that brain metastasis are stable (without evidence of progression by imaging using the identical imaging modality for each assessment, either MRI or CT) and considered controlled with \<10 mg/day prednisone equivalent at the time of receiving the first dose of ZM008. For asymptomatic patients, screening brain imaging is not required. 3. The patient has received extended field radiotherapy ≤4 weeks before the start of treatment (≤2 weeks for limited field radiation for palliation), and who has not recovered to Grade ≤1 or baseline from related side effects of such therapy (except for alopecia). 4. The patient had an active infection requiring parenteral or oral antibiotics at the time of the first dose. Patients receiving oral antibiotics can be enrolled after discussion and approval of the trial Medical Monitor. 5. The patient has evidence of serious uncontrolled medical disorder that, in the opinion of the investigator or Medical Monitor, makes it unwise for the patient to participate in the trial or that might jeopardize compliance with the protocol. 6. The patient has a psychiatric illness/social circumstance that would limit compliance with trial requirements and substantially increase the risk of AEs or has compromised ability to provide written informed consent. 7. The patient has clinical evidence of an active second invasive malignancy with the exception of stable prostate cancer on watchful waiting, in situ cervical cancer, in situ breast carcinoma or localized non-melanoma skin cancers. 8. The patient has uncontrolled or significant cardiovascular disease defined as New York Heart Association classification III or IV. 9. The patient has baseline QTc (using the Fridericia correction calculation) \>470 msec in patients without pacemaker. Active autoimmune disease that is requiring systemic treatment (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids at \>10 mg/day of equivalent prednisone, or immunosuppressive drugs at any dose). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment. Participants with adrenal insufficiency on oral steroid replacement are allowed to participate in the study. Participants with controlled type I diabetes mellitus on stable insulin regimen are also eligible for the study. Participants with rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis may be eligible if they have not experienced a flare in 2 years and do not require systemic therapy within the past year. Participants with vitiligo are also eligible. 10. Use of therapeutic immunosuppressive medication (eg, prednisone dose of ≥ 10 mg/day or equivalent, tumor necrosis factor inhibitors at any dose) within 28 days prior to the first planned dose of study treatment. This does not include intranasal, intraocular, inhaled corticosteroids, topical and intra-articular joint injections, or physiologic replacement doses of systemic corticosteroids. Less than 10 mg prednisone per day or equivalent, short term, is allowed. 11. For patients in the ZM008 monotherapy and combination arms: Patients who discontinued prior treatment with any immune checkpoint due to immune-related AEs, irrespective of grade, recovery, or need for continued steroid therapy. Also, patients without formal contraindication due to previous irAE are not eligible if the AE has not resolved to Grade 1 or better and/or still requires steroids (\>10 mg of prednisone equivalent per day) for ongoing management. 12. History of interstitial lung disease/non-infectious pneumonitis, including immune-related pneumonitis of any Grade, radiation pneumonitis, active pulmonary tuberculosis, or evidence of active pneumonitis on screening chest CT scan. Participants with radiation therapy to the lung that is \>30 Gy within 6 months of the first dose of treatment are excluded. Participants with active lung infections requiring treatment are also excluded. 13. The patient has live vaccines reception within 30 days of enrollment. 14. Known active hepatitis B or C. 15. Patients positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be enrolled only in Part 2 of the trial, but HIV-positive patients must meet the following criteria: a. have CD4+ T cell (CD4+) counts ≥350 cells/μL. b. have not had an opportunistic infection within the past 12 months. Patients on prophylactic antimicrobials can be included in the trial. c. should be on established antiretroviral therapy for at least 4 weeks. d. have an HIV viral load of less than 400 copies/mL prior to enrollment. e. known history of any other relevant congenital or acquired immunodeficiency other than HIV infection. 16. Has known or suspected allergy to trial treatment, excipients, or related products. 17. Prior allogeneic bone marrow transplantation or solid organ transplantation. 18. Toripalimab cohort only: Any contraindication present in the toripalimab prescribing information.
Study sites (3)
MA
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA 02215Glenn Hanna, MD · Study contact · 617-632-6799Glenn Hanna, MD · Principal investigatorMore trials in Boston
TX
- NEXT Oncology · Austin, TX 78758, TX 78758Andrae Vandross, MD · Study contact · 210-580-9500Andrae Vandros, MD · Principal investigatorMore trials in Austin, TX 78758
- NEXT Oncology · San Antonio, TX 78229Ildefonso Rivera, MD · Study contact · 210-580-9500Ildefonso IR Rivera, MD · Principal investigatorMore trials in San Antonio