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Active, not recruitingNCT03967223IGNYTE-ESOUpdated Aug 11, 2026

Master Protocol to Assess the Safety and Antitumor Activity of Genetically Engineered T Cells in NY-ESO-1 and/or LAGE-1a Positive Solid Tumors

A Phase 2 interventional study of Letetresgene autoleucel (lete-cel, GSK3377794) and Fludarabine in Neoplasms, sponsored by USWM CT, LLC. Active, not recruiting at 38 sites in 7 countries. Open to participants aged 10 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-11.

Sponsored by USWM CT, LLC · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
103
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
10 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This trial will evaluate safety and efficacy of human engineered T-cell therapies, in participants with advanced tumors.

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New York esophageal antigen-1 (NY-ESO-1) and LAGE-1a antigens are tumor-associated proteins that have been found in several tumor types. Clinical trials using adoptively transferred T cells directed against NY-ESO-1/LAGE-1a have shown objective responses. Letetresgene autoleucel (lete-cel, GSK3377794) is the first generation of NY-ESO-1 specific T-cell receptor engineered T cells. This is a master protocol investigating T-cell therapies. It will initially consist of a core protocol with two independent substudies investigating Letetresgene autoleucel in previously untreated (1L) Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-A*02+ participants with NY-ESO-1+ advanced (metastatic or unresectable) synovial sarcoma (SS) or myxoid/round cell liposarcoma (MRCLS) (Substudy 1) and Letetresgene autoleucel as second line or higher (2L+) treatment in HLA-A*02+ participants with NY-ESO-1+ advanced (metastatic or unresectable) SS or MRCLS who have progressed following treatment with anthracycline based chemotherapy (Substudy 2).

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Conditions studied

  • Neoplasms

Keywords

  • Adoptive T-cell therapy
  • Advanced metastatic disease
  • Advanced unresectable disease
  • Synovial sarcoma
  • Myxoid/round cell liposarcoma
  • GSK3377794
  • Positive solid tumors
  • T-cell receptors
  • Leukapheresis
  • Letetresgene autoleucel
  • Lete-cel
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In context

Neoplasms

10,818 studies on the registry are indexed under Neoplasms; 2,324 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 103 is above the median of 60 across 7,703 interventional studies indexed under Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

USWM CT, LLC is the lead sponsor of 9 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
10 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Participant must be greater than or equal to 10 years of age on the day of signing .
  • Participant scheduled to receive clinical drug product supply must also weigh ≥40 kg
  • Participant must be positive for HLA-A*02:01, HLA-A*02:05, and/or HLA-A*02:06 alleles by a designated central laboratory
  • Participant's tumor is positive for NY-ESO-1 expression by a designated central laboratory.
  • Participant has a diagnosis of synovial sarcoma (SS) or myxoid/round cell liposarcoma (MRCLS)
  • Performance status: dependent on age - Lansky > 60, > 60, 0-1.
  • Participant must have adequate organ function and blood cell counts, within 7 days prior to leukapheresis.
  • At time of treatment, participant has according to v1.1.
  • Male or female. requirements will apply at the time of leukapheresis and treatment.
  • Consultation for prior history per protocol specifications.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Central nervous system .
  • Any other prior that is not in complete remission.
  • systemic illness (Serious active infections or significant cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic or other organ dysfunction, that in the judgment of the Investigator would compromise the participant's ability to tolerate protocol therapy or significantly increase the risk of complications).
  • Prior or active demyelinating disease.
  • History of chronic or recurrent (within the last year prior to leukapheresis) severe or immune mediated disease (e.g. Crohn's disease, systemic lupus) requiring or other treatments.
  • Previous treatment with genetically engineered NY-ESO-1-specific T cells.
  • Previous NY-ESO-1 vaccine or NY-ESO-1 targeting antibody.
  • Prior gene therapy using an integrating vector.
  • Previous hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
  • for prior radiotherapy and systemic chemotherapy must be followed.
  • Participant had major surgery in less than or equal to 28 days of first dose of study intervention.
  • Prior radiation exceeds protocol specified limits.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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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.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

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.

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.

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.

Metastases

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
103 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Substudy 1: lete-cel in previously untreated advanced (metastatic or unresectable) SS or MRCLS

    Eligible participants will be leukapheresed to manufacture engineered T cells. Participants will then receive letetresgene autoleucel.

    Drug: Letetresgene autoleucel (lete-cel, GSK3377794) · Drug: Fludarabine · Drug: Cyclophosphamide

  • Experimental
    Substudy 2: lete-cel in advanced (metastatic or unresectable) SS or MRCLS post anthracycline chemo

    Eligible participants will be leukapheresed to manufacture engineered T cells. Participants will then receive letetresgene autoleucel.

    Drug: Letetresgene autoleucel (lete-cel, GSK3377794) · Drug: Fludarabine · Drug: Cyclophosphamide

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Substudy 1: Overall response rate (ORR)

    Overall response rate is defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) relative to the total number of participants within the analysis population at any time per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v) 1.1. as determined by the local investigators.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  2. Substudy 2: Overall response rate (ORR) as assessed by central independent review

    Overall response rate is defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed CR or PR relative to the total number of participants within the analysis population at any time per RECIST v1.1. as assessed by central independent review.

    Time frame: Up to 5 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Substudy 1 and 2: Time to response (TTR)

    Time to response is defined as time from date of T-cell administration to first documented evidence of confirmed (CR or PR) as assessed by local investigators per RECIST v1.1.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  2. Substudy 1 and 2: Duration of response (DOR)

    Duration of response is defined as, in the subset of participants who show a confirmed CR or PR as assessed by local investigators, the time from first documented evidence of CR or PR until the first documented sign of disease progression or death.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  3. Substudy 1 and 2: Disease control rate (DCR)

    Disease control rate is defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed CR, PR, or stable disease (SD) with minimal 12 weeks duration relative to the total number of participants within the analysis population at the time of primary analysis as determined by Investigators per RECIST v1.1.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  4. Substudy 1 and 2: Progression free survival (PFS)

    Progression free survival is defined as the time from the date of T-cell administration until first documented sign of disease progression per RECIST v1.1, or death.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  5. Substudy 1 and 2: Frequency of adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs) and AEs of special interest (AESI) according to severity

    AEs, SAEs and AESIs will be collected. Severity of AEs and SAEs will be summarized using National Cancer Institute-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI-CTCAE), version 5.0.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  6. Substudy 1 and 2: Number of participants with replication competent lentivirus (RCL)

    RCL exposure will be assessed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based assay.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  7. Substudy 1 and 2: Number of participants with insertional oncogenesis (IO)

    Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) samples will be collected for monitoring insertional oncogenesis by PCR for gene modified cells in the blood.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  8. Substudy 2: Number of participants with clinically significant changes in hematology, clinical chemistry and urinalysis parameters

    Blood and urine samples will be collected for assessment of hematology, clinical chemistry and urinalysis parameters.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  9. Substudy 1 and 2: Maximum transgene expansion (Cmax) of letetresgene autoleucel

    Whole blood samples will be collected at indicated time points for evaluation of Cmax.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  10. Substudy 1 and 2: Time to Cmax (Tmax) of letetresgene autoleucel

    Whole blood samples will be collected at indicated time points for evaluation of Tmax.

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  11. Substudy 1 and 2: Area under the concentration/persistence time curve from zero to time t (AUC[0-t]) of letetresgene autoleucel

    Whole blood samples will be collected at indicated time points for evaluation of AUC(0-t).

    Time frame: Until disease progression (up to 5 years)

  12. Substudy 2: Overall response rate (ORR) as determined by the local investigators

    Overall response rate is defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed CR or PR relative to the total number of participants within the analysis population at any time per RECIST v1.1. as determined by the local investigators.

    Time frame: Up to 5 years

  13. Substudy 2: Overall Survival (OS)

    Overall Survival is defined as the interval of time between the date of T-cell infusion and the date of death.

    Time frame: Up to 5 years

  14. Substudy 2: Number of participants with positive anti-drug antibodies (ADA) and titers of ADA against letetresgene autoleucel

    Serum samples will be collected to analyze for the presence of ADAs using validated immunoassays.

    Time frame: Up to 36 months

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Study locations

38 sites
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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 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 Dec 2019 to primary completion in Mar 2024, 50 months.

Of 179 industry-sponsored phase 2 interventional studies under Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 42 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 26 and three quarters within 68. This study's 50 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 514 studies reached it within 52 months; a quarter within 33 and three quarters within 92.

Neoplasms covers many different conditions, not one, so the studies compared here vary widely. Read these figures as a rough guide.

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

Registered
May 10, 2019
First posted
May 30, 2019
StartActual
Dec 31, 2019
Primary completionActual
Mar 1, 2024
CompletionEst.
Jul 31, 2028
Results delay requested
Jul 10, 2025
Last update
Aug 11, 2026
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 Aug 11, 2026, 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
NCT03967223
Lead sponsor
USWM CT, LLC
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 30, 2019
Start date
Dec 31, 2019
Primary completion
Mar 1, 2024
Completion
Jul 31, 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 11, 2026

Study contacts

Michael Nathenson, MD
study director · USWM CT, LLC

Oversight

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