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RecruitingNCT03908671Updated Apr 13, 2023

Clinical Study of Personalized mRNA Vaccine Encoding Neoantigen in Patients With Advanced Esophageal Cancer and Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

An interventional study of Personalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine in Esophageal Cancer and Non Small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Stemirna Therapeutics. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-04-13.

Sponsored by Stemirna Therapeutics · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Oct 2024, 1 year 11 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Oct 2019; still recruiting 6 years 11 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
24
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

A single arm, open-label pilot study is designed to determine the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of personalized mRNA tumor vaccine encoding neoantigen in Patients with advanced esophageal cancer and non-small cell lung cancer

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Primary objectives:

Assessing the safety and tolerability of mRNA personalized tumor vaccines encoding neoantigen for unresectable or metastatic advanced esophageal and non-small cell lung cancers with standard treatment failure or no standard treatment.

Secondary objectives:

Preliminary observation of the efficacy of mRNA personalized tumor vaccines encoding neoantigen for unsurgically resected or metastatic advanced esophageal and non-small cell lung cancers with standard treatment failure or no standard treatment.

Time of tumor progression (TTP); Disease Control Rate (DCR); Objective Remission Rate (ORR); Overall Survival (OS).

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Conditions studied

  • Esophageal Cancer
  • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Keywords

  • mRNA cancer vaccine
  • cancer vaccine
  • tumor vaccine
  • NSCLC
  • Esophageal Cancer
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In context

Lung Neoplasms

7,243 studies on the registry are indexed under Lung Neoplasms; 1,558 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 24 is below the median of 60 across 5,296 interventional studies indexed under Lung Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Stemirna Therapeutics is the lead sponsor of 7 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Aged between 18 and 75 (including both ends), with no gender limit;
  • The primary lesion was confirmed by histopathology or cytology as esophageal carcinoma (ⅢC (T4bNanyM0, TanyN3M0), and stage Ⅳ) or non-small cell lung cancer (stage ⅢB-Ⅳ).
  • Patients who have metastatic or locally advanced tumor but failed instandard treatments or not suitable for standard treatments;
  • According to RECIST (V1.1), the efficacy evaluation criteria for solid tumors, there is at least one measurable lesion.
  • Participants with Performance Scale (PS) of 0 or 1 on the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) PS
  • Participants must have at least 1 lesion amenable to the mandatory fresh tumor biopsy at study entry
  • Fertile patients must agree to use a reliable contraceptive methods (hormonal or barrier methods or abstinence) during the trial and for at least 12 weeks after the last treatment;
  • The subject voluntarily participates and signs ICF (Informed consent forms).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any clinical research drugs, anti-cancer monoclonal antibodies, anti-cancer therapeutic vaccines, immunostimulants (such as IL-2) or using previous investigational drugs within 7 days of the first treatment with mRNA-personalized tumor vaccine or carrelizumab.
  • Patients who have allergies or previous history of biological drug allergy;
  • Patients who are in pregnant or breast-feeding;
  • Patients who are expected to survive less than 3 months during the screening period;
  • Tumor mutation load (TMB) is less than 2.0/Mb or tumor neogenic antigen load (TNB) is less than 0.5/Mb or the number of predicted neoantigen is less than 3;
  • Patients who underwent major surgery or suffered significant trauma within 4 weeks prior to the enrollment (blood collection), or who are expected to undergo major surgery during the study period;
  • Patients with symptoms of brain metastases (Patients with stable brain metastases can be included)
  • Extensive lung metastases from tumors, causing breathing difficulties;
  • Patients who have tumors close to large blood vessels or nerves;
  • A history of severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, including but not limited to ventricular arrhythmia requiring clinical intervention; Acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, stroke or other grade III and above cardiovascular events within 6 months; New York Heart Association (NYHA) cardiac function grade≥Grade II or left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \<50%; Poorly controlled hypertension after standard treatment (systolic blood pressure> 150 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure> 90 mmHg);
  • Patients with active ulcers and gastrointestinal bleeding;
  • Patients with clinically confirmed autoimmune disease have received systemic treatment in the past 2 years; HIV, HCV positive; HBV-DNA≥1×103 copies/mL (or 2×102 IU/mL); Acute EBV or CMV virus infection;
  • Patients with previous history of non-infectious pneumonia requiring steroid therapy or acute lung cancer;
  • Participants with a history of interstitial lung disease;
  • Patients who have a history of organ transplantation or are waiting for organ transplantation;
  • Have any uncontrolled active infection;
  • Immunosuppressed subjects, including those with known immunodeficiency; those who are currently using steroids systemically (except those who are using inhaled steroids recently or currently);
  • Skin diseases (such as psoriasis) may prevent intradermal vaccines from reaching the target area;
  • Who have received chemotherapy, biotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy and other tumor treatments, or other experimental drug treatments, or surgery (excluding diagnostic biopsy) within 7 days prior to the first administration of mRNA tumor vaccine treatment;
  • Adverse effects from previous antitumor therapy have not recovered referred to CTCAE (V5.0) rating ≤1 (except hair loss);
  • The investigator evaluates that the subject is unable or unwilling to comply with the requirements of study protocol.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
24 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Personalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine

    Personalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine Encoding Neoantigen in Patients with advanced esophageal and non-small cell lung cancers

    Biological: Personalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine

Interventions

  • BiologicalPersonalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine

    subcutaneous injection with personalized mRNA tumor vaccine

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v4.03

    During the trial conduction, especially within the 24 weeks of treatment phase when mRNA tumor Vaccine administered, all adverse events (including laboratory abnormality and clinical events) will be closely monitored, and all ≥ grade 3 adverse events per CTCAE will be recorded, including but not limited to the toxicities potentially suspected to relate to injection procedures and/or mRNA Tumor Vaccine therapy as listed below: Fever Chills Nausea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal symptoms Fatigue Hypotension Respiratory distress Tumor lysis syndrome Neutropenia, thrombocytopenia Liver and kidney dysfunction Neutropenia, thrombocytopenia Liver and kidney dysfunction

    Time frame: 24 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    Disease Control Rate of Personalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine

    Time frame: 1.5 years

  2. Progression-free Survival (PFS)

    Progression-free Survival of Personalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine

    Time frame: 2 years

  3. Time to Tumor Progression (TTP)

    Time to Tumor Progression of Personalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine

    Time frame: 2 years

  4. Overall Survival (OS)

    Overall Survival of Personalized mRNA Tumor Vaccine

    Time frame: 3 years

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University
    Zhengzhou, Henan, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 13, 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
NCT03908671
Lead sponsor
Stemirna Therapeutics
Collaborators
The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 9, 2019
Start date
Oct 18, 2019
Primary completion
Oct 31, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 13, 2023

Study contacts

Li Yang
Contact
yanglizzuyl@163.com
0371-66295320
Yi Zhang
Contact
yizhang001@163.com
0371-66295219

Oversight

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