A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Emavusertib and Ibrutinib in Relapsed Hematologic Malignancy, Refractory Hematologic Malignancy and Relapsed Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma, sponsored by Curis, Inc.. Recruiting at 45 sites in 7 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-06.
Sponsored by Curis, Inc. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a multi-center, open-label study to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics (PK), and anti-cancer activity of oral administration of emavusertib alone or in combination with ibrutinib in adult participants with relapsed or refractory (R/R) hematologic malignancies.
This trial will be completed in four parts. In Part A1, emavusertib will be evaluated first in a dose escalating monotherapy setting to establish the safety and tolerability (complete). In Part A2, emavusertib will be evaluated in combination with ibrutinib at 560 milligrams (mg) once daily (QD) or 420 mg QD as indicated by disease (Part A2 complete).
Part B will comprise 2 cohorts to assess safety and efficacy of emavusertib in combination with ibrutinib in participants with R/R primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) who have directly progressed on a bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor (BTKi). In this part of the study, emavusertib will be dosed at 100 mg or 200 mg twice daily (BID) in combination with ibrutinib in 28-day treatment cycles.
Part C will comprise 3 treatment arms in the second-line setting to assess the efficacy and safety of emavusertib monotherapy, ibrutinib monotherapy, and emavusertib in combination with ibrutinib in participants with R/R PCNSL who are naïve to BTKi treatment. In this part of the study, eligible second-line participants with R/R PCNSL who are naïve to BTKi treatment will be randomized 1:1:1 to 1 of 3 treatment arms: (1) emavusertib 200 mg BID, (2) ibrutinib 560 mg QD, or (3) emavusertib 200 mg BID in combination with ibrutinib 560 mg QD.
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Histopathologically confirmed diagnosis of PCNSL (medical record is acceptable). Cerebral are not required if imaging reveals typical images of PCNSL.
Exclusion Criteria for Part B and Part C
Received prior drugs (including treatment in clinical research, unapproved combination products, and new dosage forms) within 28 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter, prior to Cycle 1 Day 1; hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) within 60 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1; or had (GVHD) requiring ongoing up-titration of medications prior to Screening (with the exception of a BTKi for Part B only).
Note: The use of a stable or tapering dose of immunosuppressive therapy post-HSCT and/or topical for ongoing skin GVHD is permitted with Sponsor Medical Monitor approval
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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.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
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.
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
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.
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.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Leptomeningeal disease
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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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.
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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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Allogeneic and autologous transplant
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
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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.
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GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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Part A1: Dose-level cohorts with up to approximately 6 participants each will be used to define the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) for emavusertib.
Drug: Emavusertib
Part A2: Evaluate escalating dose levels of oral emavusertib in combination with 560 mg QD or 420 mg QD of oral ibrutinib. The starting dose of emavusertib to be used in combination will be 200 mg BID. It is anticipated that 12 to 20 participants at a potential dose level will be required to establish optimal combination dosing.
Drug: Emavusertib · Drug: Ibrutinib
In two Expansion Cohorts (Part B), emavusertib in combination with ibrutinib will be administered in participants with R/R PCNSL who have progressed on a BTKi. In Cohort 1, emavusertib 100 mg BID will be administered with ibrutinib 560 mg QD consecutively in 28-day treatment cycles. In Cohort 2, emavusertib 200 mg BID will be administered with ibrutinib 560 mg QD consecutively in 28-day treatment cycles.
Drug: Emavusertib · Drug: Ibrutinib
In this part of the study (Part C), eligible second-line participants with R/R PCNSL who are naïve to BTKi treatment will receive 1 of 3 treatment arms: (1) emavusertib 200 mg BID, (2) ibrutinib 560 mg QD, or (3) emavusertib 200 mg BID in combination with ibrutinib 560 mg QD. Treatments will be administered continuously in 28-day treatment cycles.
Drug: Emavusertib · Drug: Ibrutinib
Emavusertib will be provided as a tablet dosage form to be taken BID.
Also known as: CA-4948
Ibrutinib will be provided as a tablet or capsule dosage form to be taken QD.
Part A: To determine the safety and tolerability of emavusertib as a monotherapy and in combination with ibrutinib: dose-limiting toxicity (DLT)
The number of participants with a dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) in the first treatment cycle
Time frame: 12 months
Part A: Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of emavusertib as a monotherapy and in combination with ibrutinib measured by dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs)
MTD determined by the highest dose level studied at which fewer than 2 out of 6 subjects (\<33%) experience a dose limiting toxicity.
Time frame: 12 months
Part A: Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) of emavusertib as a monotherapy and in combination with ibrutinib based on overall tolerability data
RP2D selected based on overall tolerability data from all participants treated at different dose levels and will not exceed the MTD.
Time frame: 12 months
Part B: Overall Response Rate (ORR) in participants with R/R PCNSL
Time frame: 18 months
Part C: ORR in participants with R/R PCNSL
Time frame: 18 months
Parts A, B and C: Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of emavusertib and ibrutinib measured by AUC
Area Under the concentration-time curve (AUC)
Time frame: 24- 66 months
Parts A, B and C: Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of emavusertib and ibrutinib measured by Cmax
Maximum plasma concentration (Cmax)
Time frame: 24- 66 months
Parts A, B and C: Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of emavusertib and ibrutinib measured by Cmin
Minimum plasma concentration (Cmin)
Time frame: 24- 66 months
Parts A, B and C: Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of emavusertib and ibrutinib measured by Tmax
Time to maximum plasma concentration (Tmax)
Time frame: 24- 66 months
Parts A, B and C: Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of emavusertib and ibrutinib measured by plasma terminal half-life
Plasma terminal elimination half-life (T 1/2)
Time frame: 24- 66 months
Part A: To assess efficacy of emavusertib as a monotherapy and in combination with ibrutinib measured by ORR
Assessed by ORR
Time frame: 24- 36 months
Parts A, B and C: To assess efficacy of emavusertib as a monotherapy and in combination with ibrutinib and ibrutinib as monotherapy measured by duration of response (DOR)
Assessed by DOR
Time frame: 24- 66 months
Part A: To assess efficacy of emavusertib as a monotherapy and in combination with ibrutinib measured by disease control rate (DCR)
Assessed by DCR
Time frame: 24- 36 months
Parts A, B and C: To assess efficacy of emavusertib as a monotherapy and in combination with ibrutinib and ibrutinib as monotherapy measured by progression free survival (PFS)
Assessed by PFS
Time frame: 24- 66 months
Parts A, B and C: To assess efficacy of emavusertib as a monotherapy, in combination with ibrutinib and ibrutinib as monotherapy measured by overall survival (OS)
Assessed by OS
Time frame: 24 - 66 months
Parts B and C: To assess the safety and tolerability of emavusertib as monotherapy, ibrutinib as monotherapy and emavusertib in combination with ibrutinib in participants with R/R PCNSL
Measured by the number of participants with treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) and treatment-related adverse events
Time frame: up to 66 months
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Studies of the drug tested here: CA-4948
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