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CompletedNCT03052205ILLUMINATE-101Updated Feb 11, 2020

A Study of Intratumoral IMO-2125 in Patients With Refractory Solid Tumors

A Phase 1 interventional study of IMO-2125 in Refractory Solid Tumors and Melanoma, sponsored by Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.. Completed at 12 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-02-11.

Sponsored by Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Jul 2019, 7 years 3 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.

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Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
54
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

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

Among 2,048 studies in Melanoma with a site in United States — 243 open to participants now, 439 under way, 32 of them phase 3. Melanoma · United States.

Enrollment
669th of 1,748
54 · median 37
Started
2017
with 84 others
Phase 1
647 of 2,048
54 open now
Registered
1,254th of 2,048
by date

Among the 2,048 studies in Melanoma with a site in United States, this one is the 669th largest by enrollment of the 1,748 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 85 that started in 2017, is one of 647 in phase 1, and was the 1,254th registered.

Melanoma

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 468 Melanoma studies recruiting now, 381 (81%) set no upper age limit and 49 (10%) stop at 75 or younger; 47 take children under 18; 29 take healthy volunteers.

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

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Study summary

This is a Phase 1b study that incorporates dose expansion cohorts to further evaluate promising clinical or biological activity.

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Conditions studied

  • Refractory Solid Tumors
  • Melanoma

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Keywords

  • ILLUMINATE-101
  • melanoma
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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients must have or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of cancer not amenable to curative therapy.
  2. Patients who have a diagnosis for which a PD-(L)-1 inhibitor has been approved must have previously received treatment with one of these therapies.

    a. Melanoma Dose Expansion: Patients must have histologically confirmed melanoma (ocular melanoma not included) which has progressed on or after treatment with a PD-(L)1 inhibitor.

  3. a) Dose Evaluation Portion: Patients should have at least one lesion accessible for intratumoral injection and .

    b) Melanoma Expansion Cohort: Patients must have at least one target lesion by Response Evaluation Criteria for Solid Tumors ( v1.1), with at least one lesion accessible for intratumoral injection. Tumor biopsies are not required in the expansion cohort.

  4. Patients must be 18 years of age or older.
  5. Patients must have (ECOG) Performance Status ≤2.
  6. Patients must meet the following laboratory criteria:

    1. ANC ≥1.5 x 109/L (≥1500/mm3)
    2. count ≥75 x 109/L (≥75,000/mm3)
    3. ≥8.0 g/dL (≥4.96 mmol/L)
    4. Serum creatinine ≤1.5 x or calculated 24-hour ≥60 mL/minute
    5. (AST) ≤2.5 x ULN; ALT ≤2.5 x ULN or AST/ALT \<5 x ULN if liver involvement
    6. Total ≤1.5 x ULN, except in patients with Gilbert's Syndrome who must have a total bilirubin \<3 mg/dL (51.3 μmol/L)
  7. Women of and men must agree to use effective methods from Screening throughout the study treatment period and until at least 4 weeks after the last dose of study drug.
  8. Patients must be willing and able to provide signed and comply with the study protocol.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients who have received prior therapy with a TLR agonist Patients who have received experimental vaccines or immune therapies other than PD-(L)1 or cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 () inhibitors (e.g., Imlygic®) should be discussed with the Medical Monitor to confirm eligibility.

    Note: (prior treatment with a topical TLR agonist (e.g. imiquimod) is permitted).

  2. Patients who have received treatment with IFN-α within the previous 6 months prior to enrollment.
  3. Patients with known to any oligodeoxynucleotide that cannot be adequately managed with appropriate prophylaxis; e.g. .
  4. Patients with active disease requiring disease-modifying therapy.
  5. Patients requiring concurrent systemic steroid therapy higher than physiologic dosage (>10mg/day of prednisone or equivalent).
  6. Patients with another primary that has not been in remission for at least 3 years, unless approved by the Idera Medical Monitor. The following are exempt from the 3-year limit: non-melanoma skin cancer, curatively treated localized prostate cancer with non-detectable prostate-specific antigen, cervical carcinoma in situ on or a squamous intraepithelial lesion on Papanicolaou (Pap) smear, and thyroid cancer (except anaplastic).
  7. Patients with active infections requiring systemic treatment.
  8. Patients who are known to be surface antigen positive.
  9. Patients with a known diagnosis of (HIV) infection.
  10. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
  11. Patients with known central nervous system, meningeal, or epidural disease. Patients with stable following definitive local treatment are eligible if steroid requirement is \<10 mg/day of prednisone (or equivalent).
  12. Patients with impaired cardiac function or cardiac disease:

    1. Class III or IV cardiac disease, including preexisting clinically significant ventricular arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, or cardiomyopathy
    2. Unstable angina pectoris ≤6 months prior to study participation
    3. Acute myocardial infarction ≤6 months prior to study participation
    4. Other clinically significant heart disease (i.e., Grade ≥3 hypertension, history of labile hypertension, or poor compliance with an anti-hypertensive regimen)
  13. Have not recovered (to baseline or Grade ≤1) from toxicity associated with prior treatment.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(25)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

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).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Metastases

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

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.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

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.

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.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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.

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.

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.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    IMO-2125 at escalating dose levels

    IMO-2125 at escalating dose levels by intratumoral injection

    Drug: IMO-2125

Interventions

  • IMO-2125 will be administered by intratumoral injection on Days 1, 8, and 15 of Cycle 1 and on Day 1 of each subsequent cycle.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Dose Evaluation Cohorts, non-Melanoma Dose Evaluation Cohorts: Number of patients with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE to determine the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D).

    Time frame: 51 weeks of treatment

  2. Dose Evaluation Cohorts, non-Melanoma Dose Evaluation Cohorts: Objective response rate

    Time frame: Assessed every 6 weeks for duration of study participation, which is estimated to be 51 weeks

  3. Melanoma Expansion Cohort: Objective response rate

    Time frame: Assessed every 9 weeks for duration of study participation, which is estimated to be 51 weeks

  4. Melanoma Expansion Cohort: Number of patients with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE

    Time frame: 51 weeks of treatment

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Study locations

12 sites
  • Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals DBA Honor Health
    Scottsdale, Arizona 85258, United States
  • The University of Arizona Cancer Center
    Tucson, Arizona 85724, United States
  • University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
    San Francisco, California 94143, United States
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
    Buffalo, New York 14263, United States
  • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Cleveland, Ohio 44195, United States
  • St. Luke's Hospital
    Easton, Pennsylvania 18045, United States
  • UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, United States
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Houston, Texas 77030, United States
  • Rambam Medical Center
    Haifa, 3109601, Israel
  • Hadassah Medical Center
    Jerusalem, 9112001, Israel
  • Rabin Medical Center Beilinson Campus
    Petah tikva, 49100, Israel
  • The Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Immuno-Oncology
    Ramat Gan, 5265601, Israel
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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 Jun 2017 to primary completion in Jul 2019, 25 months.

Of 225 industry-sponsored phase 1 interventional studies under Melanoma, half reached primary completion within 46 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 28 and three quarters within 66. This study's 25 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 411 studies reached it within 49 months; a quarter within 31 and three quarters within 76.

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

Registered
Feb 6, 2017
First posted
Feb 14, 2017
StartActual
Jun 9, 2017
Primary completionActual
Jul 24, 2019
CompletionActual
Oct 4, 2019
Last update
Feb 11, 2020
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 Feb 11, 2020, 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
NCT03052205
Lead sponsor
Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 14, 2017
Start date
Jun 9, 2017
Primary completion
Jul 24, 2019
Completion
Oct 4, 2019
Last update
Feb 11, 2020

Study contacts

Idera Medical Director
study director · Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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