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Phase 2 Trial of Voyager V1 in Combination With Cemiplimab in Cancer Patients

A Phase 2 interventional study of VV1 and Cemiplimab in Melanoma, Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Colo-rectal Cancer, sponsored by Vyriad, Inc.. Active, not recruiting at 13 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-08.

Sponsored by Vyriad, Inc. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
87
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a Phase 2 study designed to determine the preliminary anti-tumor activity and confirm the safety of VV1 in combination with cemiplimab. The study will enroll patients with three distinct separate tumor cohorts. The cancers types are colorectal, head and neck carcinoma, and melanoma that are progressing on CPI treatment. (CRC and melenoma cohorts are now closed to new patients)

Read the detailed description

Patients enrolled into three parallel doublet cohorts with an optimal Simon's two stage design. Patients will receive Voyager V1 as a direct to tumor injection (IT) in all 3 cancer groups and cemiplimab via IV infusion. Patients will return for treatment every 3 weeks until lack of clinical benefit or limiting toxicity. Efficacy evaluations will be conducted every 6 weeks.

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Conditions studied

  • Melanoma
  • Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  • Colo-rectal Cancer

Keywords

  • Solid Tumor
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In context

Melanoma

3,006 studies on the registry are indexed under Melanoma; 520 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 87 is above the median of 38 across 2,351 interventional studies indexed under Melanoma.

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Lead sponsor

Vyriad, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; 1 is 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 and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Age ≥18 years on day of signing informed consent.
  2. Specific by tumor cohorts:

    a. For the HSNCC cohort, histologically confirmed diagnosis of advanced and/or metastatic HSNCC suitable for first line immunotherapy.

    i. HPV+ and HPV- patients are allowed.

    ii. Primary tumor locations of oropharynx, oral cavity, hypopharynx, or larynx. Participants may not have a primary tumor site of nasopharynx (any histology) or salivary gland tumors.

    iii. PD-L1 status ≥ 1% per local CPS score. Samples should be provided to central lab for post-hoc centralized testing.

    iv. At least 12 months between last dose of prior adjuvant therapy and date of relapse diagnosis (if given). For the purposes of this protocol, "prior adjuvant therapy" only applies to full dose systemic chemotherapy (such as pre-operative systemic induction chemotherapy), but does not include radiation + surgery, or radiation + low or partial dose platinum radiosensitization. There is no time limit (washout) between the end of any prior radiation/ chemoradiation and the start of study drug v. No prior anti-PD-(L)1 treatment for HNSCC.

    b. For the melanoma cohorts, histologically confirmed diagnosis of advanced and/or metastatic cutaneous melanoma for which no existing options are considered to provide clinical benefit.

    i. Best response of uPR, SD or PD to an anti-PD-(L)1-containing regimen.

    ii. Prior anti-PD-(L)1 therapy must have lasted ≥ 12 weeks.

    iii. Radiological progression was demonstrated during or after therapy with a PD-(L)1 immune CPI (only one prior line of PD-(L)1 therapy is permitted.

    iv. If patient received anti-PD-1 as prior adjuvant therapy, patient should have relapsed during therapy or within the subsequent 6 months after last dose. Note: Progression on ipilimumab is not required.

    v. Patients with BRAF V600-positive tumor(s) should have received prior treatment with a BRAF inhibitor (alone or in combination with a MEK inhibitor) in addition to treatment with an anti-PD-1 or to have declined targeted therapy. Note: Patients with BRAF V600-positive tumors with no clinically significant tumor-related symptoms nor evidence of rapidly progressive disease are not required to be treated with a BRAF inhibitor (alone or in combination with a MEK inhibitor) based on investigator's decision

    c. For the CRC cohort, a histologically confirmed diagnosis of advanced and/or metastatic CRC.

    i. Received or are not eligible for standard of care fluoropyrimidine(s), oxaliplatin, irinotecan, anti-VEGF and EGFR-targeted therapies.

    ii. Non-microsatellite instability high (non-MSI high).

    iii. Progression on previous systemic therapy.

  3. At least one tumor lesion amenable to IT injection and biopsy that has not been previously irradiated.
  4. Measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1., including ≥ 1 measurable lesion(s) to be injected
  5. Performance status of 0 or 1 on the ECOG Performance Scale
  6. Life expectancy of >3 months.
  7. Willingness to provide biological samples required for the duration of the study, including a fresh tumor biopsy sample whilst on study.
  8. Adequate organ function assessed by laboratory values obtained ≤14 days prior to enrollment

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion:

Patients meeting any of the following exclusion criteria at screening/Day -1 of first dosing will not be enrolled in the study:

  1. Availability of and patient acceptance of an alternative curative therapeutic option.
  2. Patients with tumor lesion(s) > 5cm in diameter.
  3. Recent or ongoing serious infection, including any active Grade 3 or higher per the NCI CTCAE, v5.0 viral, bacterial, or fungal infection within 2 weeks of registration.
  4. Patients who have a diagnosis of ocular, mucosal or acral melanoma.
  5. Known seropositivity for and with active infection with HIV.
  6. Seropositive for and with evidence of active viral infection with HBV.
  7. Seropositive for and with active viral infection with HCV.
  8. Known history of active or latent TB.
  9. Any concomitant serious health condition, which, in the opinion of the investigator, would place the patient at undue risk from the study, including uncontrolled hypertension and/or diabetes, clinically significant pulmonary disease (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring hospitalization within 3 months) or neurological disorder (e.g., seizure disorder active within 3 months).
  10. Prior therapy within the following timeframe before the planned start of study treatment as follows:

    1. Small molecule inhibitors, and/or other investigational agent: ≤ 2 weeks or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter.
    2. Chemotherapy, other monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, or other similar experimental therapies: ≤ 3 weeks or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter.
    3. Radioimmunoconjugates or other similar experimental therapies ≤ 6 weeks or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter.
  11. NYHA classification III or IV, known symptomatic coronary artery disease, or symptoms of coronary artery disease on systems review, or known cardiac arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation or SVT).
  12. Any known or suspected active organ-threatening autoimmune disease, such as inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune hepatitis, lupus, or pneumonitis, with the exception of hypothyroidism and type 1 diabetes that are controlled with treatment
  13. Immunodeficiency or immunosuppression, including systemic corticosteroids at >10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent within 1 week prior to planned start of study treatment.
  14. History of Grade 3 or 4 immune-mediated adverse reaction to immune CPIs.
  15. Toxicities from previous therapies that have not resolved to a Grade 1 or less.
  16. History of non-infectious pneumonitis that required steroids, or current pneumonitis.
  17. High volume disease, as assessed clinically by the medical monitor via parameters such as radiologic impression and tumor markers or lactate dehydrogenase (LDH).
  18. Portal vein thrombosis involving more than intrahepatic portal vein branches: thrombosis of the right or left portal vein branch or the bifurcation, partial or complete obstruction of the portal vein trunk.

18.19. Known concurrent malignancy.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Melanoma intratumoral

    (CLOSED): Melanoma, IT VV1 + IV cemiplimab Patients will receive both treatments on Day 1 and every 3 weeks thereafter until lack of clinical benefit or limiting toxicity. VV1 or cemiplimab can continue after the first dose in combination or as a single agent treatment in subsequent doses.

    Biological: VV1 · Biological: Cemiplimab

  • Experimental
    Head and Neck SCC intratumoral

    HNSCC, IT VV1 + IV cemiplimab, Patients will receive both treatments on Day 1 and every 3 weeks thereafter until lack of clinical benefit or limiting toxicity. VV1 or cemiplimab can continue after the first dose in combination or as a single agent treatment in subsequent doses.

    Biological: VV1 · Biological: Cemiplimab

  • Experimental
    Colo-rectal Carcinoma intratumoral (Arm closed)

    (CLOSED) IT VV1 + IV cemiplimab, Patients will receive both treatments on Day 1 and every 3 weeks thereafter until lack of clinical benefit or limiting toxicity. VV1 or cemiplimab can continue after the first dose in combination or as a single agent treatment in subsequent doses.

    Biological: VV1 · Biological: Cemiplimab

Interventions

  • BiologicalVV1

    VV1 is to be administered on Day 1 and every 3 weeks as long as there is clinical benefit

    Also known as: VSV-IFNβ-NIS, Voyager V1, VV1

  • BiologicalCemiplimab

    Cemiplimab should be given on Day 8 of Cycle 1 (28 days) and then Day 1 of each subsequent 21-day cycle.

    Also known as: Libtayo

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Objective response rate (ORR) per imaging assessment

    Percentage of participants with objective response is assessed every six weeks from Cycle 1 Day 1 through disease progression, by investigator review based on RECIST version 1.1

    Time frame: within 24 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events assessed by CTCAE v5.0

    Safety and tolerability

    Time frame: within 24 months

  2. Serum concentration time

    Serum concentration time data using RT-PCR of VSV-IFNβ-NIS and systemic cemiplimab levels

    Time frame: within 24 months

  3. To investigate the pharmacodynamics (PD) of VV1 by measuring serum IFNβ

    To investigate the pharmacodynamics (PD) of VV1 by measuring serum IFNβ expression

    Time frame: within 24 months

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Study locations

13 sites
  • Saint John's Health Center - John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI)
    Santa Monica, California 90404, United States
  • Yale University
    New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8032, United States
  • University of Miami
    Miami, Florida 33136, United States
  • Ochsner Clinic Foundation
    New Orleans, Louisiana 70121, United States
  • Mayo Clinic
    Rochester, Minnesota 55905, United States
  • Billings Clinic Montana Cancer Consortium
    Billings, Montana 59101, United States
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    New York, New York 10029, United States
  • University of Cincinnati Medical Center
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45219, United States
  • Sanford Cancer Center
    Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57104, United States
  • Hospital Sao Rafael
    Salvador, BR 41253-190, Brazil
  • INCA
    Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20231-050, Brazil
  • Hospital Moinhos de Vento
    Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 90035-000, Brazil
  • Hospital de Amor de Barretos
    Barretos, São Paulo 14.784-400, Brazil
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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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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 8, 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
NCT04291105
Lead sponsor
Vyriad, Inc.
Collaborators
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 2, 2020
Start date
Apr 24, 2020
Primary completion
Oct 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 8, 2026

Study contacts

Alice Bexon, MD
study chair · CMO
Stephen J Russell, MD, Ph.D.
study director · Clinical Lead

Oversight

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