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CompletedNCT02580552Updated Nov 23, 2020

Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of MRG-106 in Patients With Mycosis Fungoides (MF), CLL, DLBCL or ATLL

A Phase 1 interventional study of Cobomarsen in Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma (CTCL), Mycosis Fungoides (MF) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), sponsored by miRagen Therapeutics, Inc.. Completed at 19 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-11-23.

Primary conditionMycosis FungoidesRegistry: Lymphoma, T-Cell, CutaneousReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Mycosis Fungoides
Why
  1. The study's listed conditions name Mycosis Fungoides, a narrower term within Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by miRagen Therapeutics, Inc. · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
66
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Objectives of this clinical trial are to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and potential efficacy of the investigational drug, cobomarsen (MRG-106), in patients diagnosed with certain lymphomas and leukemias, including cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) [mycosis fungoides (MF) subtype], chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) [activated B-cell (ABC) subtype], and adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL). Cobomarsen is an inhibitor of a molecule called miR-155 that is found at high levels in these types of cancers and may be important in promoting the growth and survival of the cancer cells. Participants in the clinical trial will receive weekly doses of cobomarsen administered by injection under the skin or into a vein, or by injection directly into cancerous lesions in the skin (for CTCL only). Blood samples will be collected to measure how cobomarsen is processed by the body, and other measurements will be performed to study how normal and cancerous cells of the immune system respond when exposed to cobomarsen.

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Study Design:

  • Part A: Cohorts of 3-6 patients diagnosed with MF will receive up to five intratumoral injections of cobomarsen over a period of up to 15 days with follow-up for an additional 20 days, beginning with the maximum deliverable intratumoral dose. Doses may be decreased in subsequent cohorts to determine the minimum pharmacodynamically active dose.
  • Parts B-F: Patients in these parts of the study will be diagnosed with MF (Parts B and C), CLL (Part D), DLBCL (Part E), or ATLL (Part F). All patients will receive subcutaneous or intravenous cobomarsen (or a combination of systemic and intratumoral administration for MF patients only) on Days 1, 3 and 5, and will continue dosing on a weekly schedule until the patient becomes intolerant, develops clinically significant side effects, progresses, or the trial is terminated. Doses administered will not exceed a dose level predicted to be safe based on all prior treatment experience with the drug. Patients in Part B may continue on a stable background therapy for their disease during their treatment with cobomarsen, while patients in Parts C-F will be treated with cobomarsen alone.
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Conditions studied

  • Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma (CTCL)
  • Mycosis Fungoides (MF)
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
  • Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), ABC Subtype
  • Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL)

Keywords

  • Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma
  • CTCL
  • Mycosis Fungoides
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
  • CLL
  • Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
  • DLBCL
  • Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma
  • ATLL
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In context

Mycosis Fungoides Reclassified

447 studies on the registry are indexed under Mycosis Fungoides; 42 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 66 is above the median of 34 across 321 interventional studies indexed under Mycosis Fungoides.

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Lead sponsor

miRagen Therapeutics, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Compared within Mycosis Fungoides, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

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

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  • Parts A-C only: Patients must have proven MF, clinical stage I, II, or III (excluding visceral or nodal involvement), and must be to or intolerant of established therapies for their condition
  • Part D only: Patients diagnosed with CLL who are intolerant to, or have disease that is relapsed/refractory after, at least two prior therapies
  • Part E only: Patients with biopsy-proven DLBCL who are intolerant to, or have disease that is relapsed/refractory after, at least two prior therapies, including any anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody and chemotherapy with curative intent
  • Part F only: Patients with documented HTLV-1 infection and or cytologically proven ATLL of any stage, and who are intolerant to, or have disease that is relapsed/refractory after, at least one prior therapy
  • Females must not be pregnant or lactating. Women of must use a highly effective method of throughout their study participation and for at least 6 months following the last dose of study drug.
  • Males must be surgically sterile, abstinent, or if engaged in sexual relations with a female of child-bearing potential, must be willing to use a highly effective method of contraception throughout their study participation and for at least 6 months after the last dose of study drug.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Evidence of renal or liver dysfunction at screening
  • anemia, neutropenia or thrombocytopenia at screening
  • History of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy
  • Clinically significant cardiovascular disease, history of myocardial infarction within the last 6 months, or evidence of prolongation at screening
  • Serologically positive for ; serologically positive for or with evidence of liver dysfunction or documented liver cirrhosis
  • Prior within the past 3 years (with allowance for adequately treated in situ carcinoma of the cervix uteri, and basal cell or localized squamous cell carcinoma of the skin treated with curative intent)
  • Use of an small molecule drug during the 30 days prior to screening or use of an investigational oligonucleotide or biologic drug during the prior 90 days
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

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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.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

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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.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
66 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Part A, MF

    Intratumoral Injection of cobomarsen

    Drug: Cobomarsen

  • Experimental
    Part B, MF

    Subcutaneous, intravenous or a combination of systemic and intratumoral administration of cobomarsen with or without stable background therapy

    Drug: Cobomarsen

  • Experimental
    Part C, MF

    Subcutaneous or intravenous administration of cobomarsen as monotherapy

    Drug: Cobomarsen

  • Experimental
    Part D, CLL

    Subcutaneous or intravenous administration of cobomarsen as monotherapy

    Drug: Cobomarsen

  • Experimental
    Part E, DLBCL, activated B-cell (ABC) subtype

    Subcutaneous or intravenous administration of cobomarsen as monotherapy

    Drug: Cobomarsen

  • Experimental
    Part F, ATLL

    Subcutaneous or intravenous administration of cobomarsen as monotherapy

    Drug: Cobomarsen

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety and tolerability of cobomarsen based on vital signs, physical examination, clinical laboratory tests, ECG, and incidence and severity of adverse events

    Time frame: From start of treatment to end of study participation

Secondary outcomes

  1. Area under the plasma concentration vs. time curve (AUC) of cobomarsen following single and repeat doses administered intratumorally, subcutaneously or intravenously

    Time frame: Up to 56 days

  2. Peak plasma concentration (Cmax) of cobomarsen following single and repeat doses administered intratumorally, subcutaneously or intravenously

    Time frame: Up to 56 days

  3. Trough plasma concentration (Ctrough) of cobomarsen following each 4-week cycle of dosing

    Time frame: Monthly from Week 5 up to end of study participation

  4. Skin disease severity (index lesions) - MF only

    Changes in MF skin lesion severity before and after treatment based on the Composite Assessment of Index Lesion Severity (CAILS) score

    Time frame: Every 2 weeks from start of treatment until end of study participation

  5. Skin disease severity (whole body) - MF only

    Changes in MF skin lesion severity before and after treatment based on the modified Severity Weighted Assessment Tool (mSWAT) score

    Time frame: Every 2 weeks from start of treatment until end of study participation

  6. Overall Response Rate in the skin - MF

    Proportion of subjects who achieve a partial response (PR) or complete response (CR) in the skin, based on SWAT score

    Time frame: Approximately 1 year

  7. Overall Response Rate - CLL

    Proportion of subjects who achieve a PR or CR as defined by IWCLL criteria (Hallek et al., 2008) based on CT scans, bone marrow biopsies, and flow cytometry

    Time frame: Approximately 1 year

  8. Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) - CLL only

    Proportion of subjects who achieve a CR with no evidence of MRD by flow cytometry

    Time frame: Approximately 1 year

  9. Overall Response Rate - DLBCL

    Proportion of subjects who achieve a PR or CR as defined by the Lugano classification (Cheson et al., 2014) based on positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scans and bone marrow biopsy to confirm CR

    Time frame: Approximately 1 year

  10. Overall Response Rate - ATLL

    Proportion of subjects who achieve a PR or CR as defined by international consensus criteria (Tsukasaki et al., 2009) based on CT scans and flow cytometry, and bone marrow biopsy to confirm CR

    Time frame: Approximately 1 year

  11. Duration of Response

    Number of days from initial date of confirmed PR or CR until loss of response or relapse

    Time frame: Up to approximately 2 years

  12. Time to Progression

    Number of days from first dose until objective disease progression

    Time frame: Up to approximately 2 years

  13. Progression Free Survival (PFS)

    Number of days from first dose until objective disease progression or death from any cause

    Time frame: Up to approximately 2 years

  14. Overall Survival (OS)

    Number of days from first dose until death from any cause

    Time frame: Up to approximately 2 years

Other outcomes

  1. miR-155-5p expression in cutaneous lesions of subjects with MF

    Exploratory assessment based on quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis of total RNA isolated from skin biopsies

    Time frame: At baseline and between Week 16 and end of study participation

  2. Proportion of neoplastic lymphoid cells in cutaneous lesions of subjects with MF

    Exploratory histological assessment before and after treatment with cobomarsen

    Time frame: At baseline and between Week 16 and end of study participation

  3. Proportions of immune cell subsets

    Exploratory assessment before and after treatment with cobomarsen by flow cytometry on whole blood

    Time frame: At baseline and monthly or bimonthly, up to end of study participation

  4. Dermatology-specific quality of life - MF only

    Changes in skin-related quality of life based on the Skindex-29 assessment tool

    Time frame: At baseline and monthly, up to approximately 2 years

  5. Pruritus - MF only

    Changes in intensity of skin itch based on the Pruritus Numerical Rating Scale

    Time frame: At baseline and monthly, up to approximately 2 years

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Study locations

19 sites
  • City of Hope
    Duarte, California 91010, United States
  • UCSD Moores Cancer Center
    La Jolla, California 92093, United States
  • UCLA Department of Medicine
    Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
  • Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California, Irvine
    Orange, California 92868, United States
  • Stanford University Hospital and Clinics
    Stanford, California 94063, United States
  • University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
    Aurora, Colorado 80045, United States
  • Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven
    New Haven, Connecticut 06510, United States
  • University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Miami, Florida 33136, United States
  • Northwestern University; Department of Dermatology
    Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
  • University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Omaha, Nebraska 68198, United States
  • Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Bronx, New York 10467, United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    New York, New York 10065, United States
  • Weill Cornell Medicine
    New York, New York 10065, United States
  • The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
  • Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States
  • The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Houston, Texas 77030, United States
  • Huntsman Cancer Institute
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
  • Inova Melanoma and Skin Cancer Center / Inova Schar Cancer Institute
    Fairfax, Virginia 22003, United States
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References and documents

Publications

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  • Moyal L, Barzilai A, Gorovitz B, Hirshberg A, Amariglio N, Jacob-Hirsch J, Maron L, Feinmesser M, Hodak E. miR-155 is involved in tumor progression of mycosis fungoides. Exp Dermatol. 2013 Jun;22(6):431-3. doi: 10.1111/exd.12161. PubMed 23711069 ↗
  • Maj J, Jankowska-Konsur A, Sadakierska-Chudy A, Noga L, Reich A. Altered microRNA expression in mycosis fungoides. Br J Dermatol. 2012 Feb;166(2):331-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2011.10669.x. Epub 2012 Jan 9. PubMed 21966986 ↗
  • Kopp KL, Ralfkiaer U, Gjerdrum LM, Helvad R, Pedersen IH, Litman T, Jonson L, Hagedorn PH, Krejsgaard T, Gniadecki R, Bonefeld CM, Skov L, Geisler C, Wasik MA, Ralfkiaer E, Odum N, Woetmann A. STAT5-mediated expression of oncogenic miR-155 in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Cell Cycle. 2013 Jun 15;12(12):1939-47. doi: 10.4161/cc.24987. Epub 2013 May 15. PubMed 23676217 ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02580552
Lead sponsor
miRagen Therapeutics, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 20, 2015
Start date
Feb 9, 2016
Primary completion
Oct 6, 2020
Completion
Oct 6, 2020
Last update
Nov 23, 2020

Study contacts

Diana M. Escolar, MD, FAAN
study director · miRagen Therapeutics, Inc.

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Data monitoring committee
No
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