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CompletedNCT02480374Updated Oct 2, 2024

Study of Safety & Biological Activity of IP IMNN-001 (also Known As GEN-1) with Neoadjuvant Chemo in Ovarian Cancer

A Phase 1 interventional study of IMNN-001 in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Fallopian Tube Cancer and Primary Peritoneal Cancer, sponsored by Imunon. Completed at 4 sites in United States. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-10-02.

Sponsored by Imunon · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was May 2017, 9 years 6 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.

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Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
18
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Female
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 500 studies in Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial with a site in United States — 29 open to participants now, 50 under way, 8 of them phase 3. Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial · United States.

Enrollment
288th of 381
18 · median 35
Started
2015
with 5 others
Phase 1
153 of 500
9 open now
Registered
393rd of 500
by date

Among the 500 studies in Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial with a site in United States, this one is the 288th largest by enrollment of the 381 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 6 that started in 2015, is one of 153 in phase 1, and was the 393rd registered.

Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 75 Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial studies recruiting now, 50 (67%) set no upper age limit and 12 (16%) stop at 75 or younger; 2 take children under 18; 4 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · female · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

This dose escalation study will determine a maximum tolerated dose and/or optimal biological dose of GEN-1 for carboplatin/paclitaxel combination in newly diagnosed ovarian cancer.

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Conditions studied

  • Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
  • Fallopian Tube Cancer
  • Primary Peritoneal Cancer

Keywords

  • GEN-1
  • IMNN-001
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients must have histologic diagnosis of epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal carcinoma per pre-treatment by laparoscopy, or interventional radiology or CT guided core biopsy. Histologic documentation of the original primary tumor is required via the pathology report.
  2. Patients with the following histologic epithelial cell types are eligible: High grade serous adenocarcinoma, endometrioid adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, clear cell adenocarcinoma, mixed epithelial carcinoma, or adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified (N.O.S.).
  3. Patients must have adequate:

    i. Bone marrow function: (ANC) greater than or equal to 1,500/mcl. This ANC cannot have been induced or supported by granulocyte colony stimulating factors. greater than or equal to 100,000/mcl.

    ii. Renal function: Creatinine ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit normal (). iii. Hepatic function: ≤ 1.5 x ULN. (AST) and SGPT (ALT) ≤ 3.0 x ULN and alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 x ULN.

    iv. Neurologic function: Neuropathy (sensory and motor) less than or equal to Grade 1.

  4. Patients should be free of active infection requiring parenteral antibiotics or a serious uncontrolled medical illness or disorder within four weeks of study entry.
  5. Any hormonal therapy directed at the malignant tumor must be discontinued at least one week prior to the first treatment. Continuation of hormone replacement therapy is permitted.
  6. Patients must have a performance status score of 0, 1 or 2 by Eastern Cooperative Group () criteria.
  7. Patients of must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 14 days prior to initiation of protocol therapy and be practicing an effective form of . If applicable, patients must discontinue breastfeeding prior to study entry.
  8. Patients must have satisfactory results for the baseline laboratory analyses and diagnostic procedures as specified in the protocol.
  9. Patients must have signed an IRB-approved and authorization permitting release of personal health information.
  10. Patients must be at least 18 years old.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients who have received prior treatment with IMNN-001.
  2. History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to GEN-1 or other agents used in this study.
  3. Patients who have received oral or parenteral within 2 weeks of study entry or who have a clinical requirement for ongoing systemic therapy not related to chemotherapy administration.
  4. Patients receiving treatment for active disease. "Active" refers to any condition currently requiring therapy. Examples of autoimmune disease include systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
  5. Patients with other invasive , with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer and other specific malignancies as noted in the protocol are excluded if there is any evidence of other malignancy being present within the last three years. Patients are also excluded if their previous cancer treatment contraindicates this protocol therapy.
  6. Patients who have received prior radiotherapy to any portion of the abdominal cavity or pelvis are excluded. Prior radiation for localized cancer of the breast, head and neck, or skin is permitted, provided that it was completed more than three years prior to registration, and the patient remains free of recurrent or disease.
  7. Patients who have received prior chemotherapy for any abdominal or pelvic tumor are excluded. Patients may have received prior chemotherapy for localized breast cancer, provided that it was completed more than three years prior to registration, and that the patient remains free of recurrent or metastatic disease.
  8. Patients with known active hepatitis.
  9. Patients with concurrent severe medical problems unrelated to the malignancy that would significantly limit full compliance with the study or expose the patient to extreme risk or decreased .
  10. Patients of , not practicing adequate , patients who are pregnant, or patients who are breastfeeding are not eligible for this trial.
  11. Patients with history or evidence upon physical examination of CNS disease, including primary brain tumor, seizures not controlled with standard medical therapy, any , or history of cerebrovascular accident (CVA, stroke), (TIA) or subarachnoid hemorrhage within six months of the first date of treatment on this study.
  12. Patients with any condition/anomaly that would interfere with the appropriate placement of the IP catheter for study drug administration including: abdominal surgery within 4 weeks of study entry (for reasons other than IP port placement), intestinal dysfunction, or suspected extensive adhesions from prior history or finding at laparoscopy.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(19)

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Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant

Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
18 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Single Arm

    Carboplatin + Paclitaxel + IMNN-001

    Biological: IMNN-001

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. DLT

    Dose-limiting toxicity

    Time frame: 4 weeks

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Study locations

4 sites
  • University of Alabama Birmingham Cancer Center
    Birmingham, Alabama 35233, United States
  • Washington Univ. in St. Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital
    St. Louis, Missouri 63110, United States
  • Stephenson Cancer Center
    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, United States
  • Medical College of Wisconsin/Froedtert Hospital
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Gonzalez-Junca A, Liu FD, Nagaraja AS, Mullenix A, Lee CT, Gordley RM, Frimannsson DO, Maller O, Garrison BS, Iyer D, Benabbas A, Truong TA, Quach A, Tian M, Martinez R, Savur R, Perry-McNamara A, Nguyen D, Almudhfar N, Blanco C, Huynh C, Nand A, Lay YE, Magal A, Mangalampalli S, Lee PJ, Lu TK, Lee G. SENTI-101, a Preparation of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Engineered to Express IL12 and IL21, Induces Localized and Durable Antitumor Immunity in Preclinical Models of Peritoneal Solid Tumors. Mol Cancer Ther. 2021 Sep;20(9):1508-1520. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-21-0030. Epub 2021 Jul 1. PubMed 34210826 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Sep 2015 to primary completion in May 2017, 20 months.

Of 55 phase 1 interventional studies under Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, half reached primary completion within 44 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 34 and three quarters within 81. This study's 20 months is below that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jun 22, 2015
First posted
Jun 24, 2015
StartActual
Sep 2015
Primary completionActual
May 2017
CompletionActual
May 2017
Last update
Oct 2, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 2, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02480374
Lead sponsor
Imunon
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 24, 2015
Start date
Sep 2015
Primary completion
May 2017
Completion
May 2017
Last update
Oct 2, 2024

Study contacts

Premal Thaker, M.D.
study chair · Washington University School of Medicine

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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