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CompletedNCT03408587CLEVERUpdated May 6, 2023

CAVATAK® and Ipilimumab in Uveal Melanoma Metastatic to the Liver (VLA-024 CLEVER)

A Phase 1 interventional study of CVA21 and Ipilimumab in Uveal Melanoma and Liver Metastases, sponsored by Viralytics. Completed at 3 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-05-06.

Sponsored by Viralytics · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was May 2019, 7 years 5 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.

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Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
11
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 190 studies in Uveal Melanoma with a site in United States — 25 open to participants now, 50 under way, 7 of them phase 3. Uveal Melanoma · United States.

Enrollment
133rd of 162
11 · median 36
Started
2018
with 9 others
Phase 1
53 of 190
4 open now
Registered
116th of 190
by date

Among the 190 studies in Uveal Melanoma with a site in United States, this one is the 133rd largest by enrollment of the 162 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 10 that started in 2018, is one of 53 in phase 1, and was the 116th registered.

Uveal Melanoma

281 studies on the registry are indexed under Uveal Melanoma; 50 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 42 Uveal Melanoma studies recruiting now, 35 (83%) set no upper age limit and 4 (10%) stop at 75 or younger; 3 take children under 18; 1 takes healthy volunteers.

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

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Study summary

This is an open-label Phase 1b clinical study of ipilimumab in combination with intravenous CVA21 in subjects who have uveal melanoma metastatic to liver.

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This is an open-label Phase 1b clinical study of ipilimumab in combination with intravenous CVA21 in subjects who have uveal melanoma metastatic to liver. Subjects will receive up to 8 cycles of CVA21 at a planned dose of 1 x 10e9 TCID50 per infusion, with the first cycle being a 28-day cycle consisting of an intravenous infusion on Days 1, 3, 5 and 8 and subsequent cycles every 21 days from Day 8.

Ipilimumab will be given by intravenous administration at a dose of 3mg/kg, for a maximum of 4 doses, given on Days 8, 29, 50 and 71. On days when both CVA21 and ipilimumab are given, CVA21 will be given first.

Subjects will be monitored for treatment toxicity using the current version of CTCAE.

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Conditions studied

  • Uveal Melanoma
  • Liver Metastases

Keywords

  • CVA21
  • CAVATAK
  • Coxsackievirus
  • ocular
  • eye
  • ipilimumab
  • yervoy
  • oncolytic
  • virus
  • checkpoint
  • CTLA-4
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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. Histologic or confirmed diagnosis of uveal melanoma with (based on 1.1 criteria) in the liver (by CT, PET/CT or MRI) at the time of screening.
  2. Patients that have had prior treatment must show disease progression during or following the last treatment according to RECIST 1.1 criteria.
  3. Men and women ≥ 18 years of age.
  4. The subject has a of greater than 12 weeks.
  5. The subject has an (ECOG) performance status of 0-1.
  6. Adequate organ function as defined by and obtained within 28 days of starting treatment:

    • ≥ 1,500 /mcl
    • WBC ≥ 3.0 x 10e9/L
    • ≥ 100,000 /mcl
    • ≥ 9 g/dL
    • Creatinine ≤ 1.5 x
    • Albumin > 3 g/dL
    • Total ≤ 1.5 x ULN or direct bilirubin ≤ ULN for subjects with total bilirubin > 1.5 x ULN
    • and ALT ≤ 5 x ULN
    • or PT ≤ 1.5 x ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT and PTT are within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants.
    • aPTT ≤ 1.5 x ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT and PTT are within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants.
  7. Prior therapy with an therapy is allowable. A 6-week will be required for those with prior PD-1 or PD-L1 treatment.
  8. Female subjects of must have a negative urine pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to receiving the first dose of study medication. If a urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required.
  9. Female and Male subjects of childbearing potential must be willing to use an adequate method of , starting with the first dose of study drug through 4 weeks after the last dose of study drug. Note: abstinence is acceptable if this is the usual lifestyle and preferred contraception for the subject.
  10. The subject is capable of understanding and complying with protocol requirements.
  11. The subject or the subject's legally acceptable representative provides written, prior to the initiation of any study procedures.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. The subject is a candidate for surgery or loco-regional treatment with curative intent.
  2. Subjects with active (i.e. symptomatic or growing) central nervous system (CNS) . Subjects with are eligible if the metastases have been treated with surgery and/or radiotherapy, the subject is off for at least 2 weeks and the subject is neurologically stable.
  3. Known additional that is progressing or requires active treatment. Exceptions include cutaneous squamous cell or basal cell carcinoma that has undergone potentially curative therapy or in-situ cervical cancer.
  4. Known history of (HIV, HIV 1/2 antibodies), known active (e.g. HBsAg reactive) or (e.g. HCV RNA [qualitative] is detected).
  5. Current systemic steroid therapy other than physiologic replacement (i.e. prednisone ≤ 10 mg or equivalent). Inhaled or topical steroid use is allowed.
  6. Active auto-immune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g. thyroxine, insulin or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is allowed.
  7. Active colitis or previous immune-mediated colitis that has not resolved to grade 1 or less.
  8. Chemotherapy, targeted small molecule therapy, radiation therapy, hormonal treatment or immunotherapy within 21 days prior to initiation of treatment. A 6-week will be required for those with prior or PD-L1 treatment. Subjects must have resolution of toxic effect(s) of the most recent therapy to Grade 1 or less. Exceptions are subjects with ≤ Grade 2 alopecia or ≤ Grade 2 neuropathy who are permitted in the study. If the subject received major surgery or radiation therapy of >30 Gy, they must have recovered from the toxicity and/or any complications from the intervention.
  9. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or expectation to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial, starting with the screening visit through 4 weeks after the last dose of study treatment.
  10. Known sensitivity to any of the products or components to be administered during dosing.
  11. Participation in a study of an agent or device within 4 weeks of Day 1.
  12. Subjects with any other concurrent, uncontrolled illness, including known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders which may interfere with the ability of the subject to cooperate and participate in the trial. Other examples of such conditions would include unstable angina, myocardial infarction (MI) or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) within 6 months of study entry.
  13. Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the trial, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the trial, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator.
  14. Patients with tumors lying close to an airway, major blood vessel or spinal cord that, in the opinion of the investigator, could cause occlusion or compression in the case of swelling, or erosion into a major vessel in the case of necrosis.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(26)

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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.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

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.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

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.

Metastases

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
11 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    CVA21 / Ipilimumab

    Subjects will receive up to 8 cycles (Day 155) of intravenous CVA21 and 4 doses of ipilimumab (Days 8, 29, 50 and 71).

    Biological: CVA21 · Biological: Ipilimumab

Interventions

  • BiologicalCVA21

    Oncolytic virus

    Also known as: CAVATAK, Coxsackievirus A21

  • BiologicalIpilimumab

    Fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody that binds to the CTLA-4 receptor expressed on activated T cells.

    Also known as: Yervoy

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of treatment-related adverse events as assessed using the current NCI-CTCAE.

    Treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) are defined as AEs that start on or after the first day of study treatment and within 30 days of the last administration of study treatment. The incidence of TEAEs will be summarized based on the number and percentage of subjects who experience events classified by MedDRA system organ class and preferred term.

    Time frame: 30 days from the last administration of study treatment

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Response Rate

    Objective responses will be assessed according to immune-related Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (irRECIST) criteria

    Time frame: 2 years

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Study locations

3 sites
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center
    Miami Beach, Florida 33140, United States
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
    Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Lutzky J, Sullivan RJ, Cohen JV, Ren Y, Li A, Haq R. Phase 1b study of intravenous coxsackievirus A21 (V937) and ipilimumab for patients with metastatic uveal melanoma. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2023 Aug;149(9):6059-6066. doi: 10.1007/s00432-022-04510-3. Epub 2023 Jan 18. PubMed 36651961 ↗
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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 Jan 2018 to primary completion in May 2019, 15 months.

Of 32 phase 1 interventional studies under Uveal Melanoma, half reached primary completion within 45 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 32 and three quarters within 66. This study's 15 months is below that.

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

Registered
Jan 10, 2018
First posted
Jan 24, 2018
StartActual
Jan 29, 2018
Primary completionActual
May 22, 2019
CompletionActual
May 22, 2019
Last update
May 6, 2023
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 May 6, 2023, 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
NCT03408587
Lead sponsor
Viralytics
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 24, 2018
Start date
Jan 29, 2018
Primary completion
May 22, 2019
Completion
May 22, 2019
Last update
May 6, 2023

Study contacts

Jose Lutzky, MD
principal investigator · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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