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TerminatedNCT03484520Updated Dec 30, 2022

A Study of Venetoclax and Dinaciclib (MK7965) in Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia

A Phase 1 interventional study of Venetoclax and Dinaciclib in Cancer - Acute Myeloid Leukemia, sponsored by AbbVie. Terminated at 13 sites in 3 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-12-30.

Primary conditionLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteRegistry: NeoplasmsReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Neoplasms — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Why
  1. The study's listed conditions name Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, a narrower term within Neoplasms.
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 →
Wrong?
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Sponsored by AbbVie · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Strategic considerations

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Dec 2022, 3 years 11 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
48
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

An open-label, dose-escalation study to assess safety, pharmacokinetics and efficacy as well as determine the recommended Phase 2 doses of co-administered therapy of dinaciclib and venetoclax for patients with relapsed or refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia (R/R AML).

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Conditions studied

  • Cancer - Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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Keywords

  • Cancer, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), venetoclax, dinaciclib, Relapsed/refractory AML, Pharmacokinetics, Venetoclax, Dinaciclib
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In context

Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute Reclassified

3,667 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; 816 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 48 is above the median of 40 across 3,005 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute.

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Lead sponsor

AbbVie is the lead sponsor of 973 studies on the registry; 133 are open to participants now.

Of its 357 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 214 (60%) have results posted.

Compared within Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Neoplasms. 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

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Inclusion criteria

  • Diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by World Health Organization criteria excluding acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)-M3.
  • (ECOG) performance status ≤ 2.
  • Participant must have adequate hematologic, renal, and liver function laboratory values as described in the protocol.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Known central nervous system leukemia
  • Severe (COPD) with hypoxemia
  • History of any within the last 6 months except for those specified in this protocol and low-grade malignancies not requiring active treatment.
  • Prior stem cell transplant within 6 months of study drug administration and no requirement for graft versus host therapy.
  • History of medical condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would adversely affect participation in this study.
  • Known active infection with (HIV), , or .
  • History of tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) due to previous exposure to venetoclax.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(8)

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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.

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.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
48 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Venetoclax + Dinaciclib

    Venetoclax and dinaciclib will be administered in combination. Different combinations of dose levels for venetoclax and dinaciclib will be explored.

    Drug: Venetoclax · Drug: Dinaciclib

Interventions

  • tablet, oral

    Also known as: ABT-199, GDC-0199

  • intravenous

    Also known as: MK-7965, SCH-727965

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Tmax of Venetoclax

    Time to maximum plasma concentration (Tmax) of venetoclax.

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

  2. Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RPTD) of co-administered Dinaciclib and Venetoclax

    Tthe RPTD of co-administered venetoclax and dinaciclib will be determined during the dose escalation phase of the study. RPTD will be determined using available safety and pharmacokinetics data.

    Time frame: Minimum first cycle of dosing (21 days)

  3. Cmax of Venetoclax

    Maximum observed plasma concentration (Cmax) for Venetoclax.

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

  4. AUCt of Venetoclax

    Area Under the Plasma Concentration-time Curve (AUC) from Time 0 to Time of the Last Measurable Concentration (AUCt)

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

  5. AUC0-24 Post-dose of Venetoclax

    Area under the plasma concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 hours (AUC24) post-dose of venetoclax.

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

  6. Cmax of Dinaciclib

    Maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) of dinaciclib.

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

  7. Half-life (t1/2) of Dinaciclib

    Half-life (t1/2) of dinaciclib.

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

  8. AUCt Post-dose of Dinaciclib

    Area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time zero to time t (AUCt) post-dose dinaciclib.

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

  9. AUC0-∞ of Dinaciclib

    Area under the plasma concentration-time curve from 0 to infinity (AUC0-∞) post-dose of dinaciclib.

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

  10. Clearance of Dinaciclib

    Clearance (CL) of dinaciclib.

    Time frame: Approximately 29 days after first dose of study drug

Secondary outcomes

  1. Complete Response (CR) Rate

    CR is defined as the proportion of participants with documented complete response (CR) based on International Working Group (IWG) criteria.

    Time frame: Up to approximately 18 months

  2. Composite CR Rate (CR + CRi)

    Composite is defined as CR + CRi (CR with incomplete blood count recovery) based on IWG criteria.

    Time frame: Up to approximately 18 months

  3. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    ORR is defined as the proportion of participants with documented partial response (PR) or better (CR + CRi + partial response \[PR\]) based on IWG criteria.

    Time frame: Up to approximately 18 months

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Study locations

13 sites
  • University of Arkansas /ID# 200016
    Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, United States
  • David Geffen School of Medicin /ID# 200015
    Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
  • The University ofChicago /ID# 200017
    Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
  • University of Maryland School of Medicine /ID# 204015
    Baltimore, Maryland 21201-1544, United States
  • Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center /ID# 200288
    Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-0001, United States
  • The Ohio State University /ID# 200668
    Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center /ID# 205215
    Houston, Texas 77030, United States
  • Gold coast University Hospital /ID# 202759
    SouthPort, Queensland 4215, Australia
  • Royal Hobart Hospital /ID# 202763
    Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia
  • Monash Medical Centre /ID# 202762
    Melbourne, Victoria 3168, Australia
  • Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal /ID# 201729
    Madrid, 28034, Spain
  • Hospital Universitario de Salamanca /ID# 201728
    Salamanca, 37711, Spain
  • Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe /ID# 202318
    Valencia, 46026, Spain
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Jul 2018 to primary completion in Dec 2022, 52 months.

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

Registered
Mar 26, 2018
First posted
Mar 30, 2018
StartActual
Jul 23, 2018
Primary completionActual
Dec 1, 2022
CompletionActual
Dec 1, 2022
Last update
Dec 30, 2022
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 Dec 30, 2022, 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
NCT03484520
Lead sponsor
AbbVie
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 30, 2018
Start date
Jul 23, 2018
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2022
Completion
Dec 1, 2022
Last update
Dec 30, 2022

Study contacts

ABBVIE INC.
study director · AbbVie

Oversight

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