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Status unknownNCT04363242Updated Apr 12, 2023

A Study to Find the MTD of SYN125 in People With Solid Tumors and the MTD of SYN125 With a Fixed Dose of SYN004 in People in Patients With Epithelial Cancers With EGFR Expressions

A Phase 1 interventional study of SYN125 and SYN004 in Epithelial Carcinoma and Solid Tumor, sponsored by Synermore Biologics Co., Ltd.. Status unknown at 4 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-04-12.

Sponsored by Synermore Biologics Co., Ltd. · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Apr 2023), so the status shown — last known as Active, not recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
22
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

A Phase 1 Dose Escalation Trial of SYN125 Single Agent in the Treatment of Solid Tumors and in Combination With Fixed Dose SYN004 in Patients With Cancer of the Internal or External Lining of the Body.

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Humans have an immune system that can protect and fight infections and abnormal cells. T-cells are a type of cell produced by the body that can attack and kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, many cancer cells have ways preventing T-cells from working properly. SYN125 and SYN004 can make T-cells work again. This is a study to find the maximum tolerated dose of SYN125 when it is used as a single treatment (Part A) for solid tumors, and when it is used as a combined treatment with a fixed dose of SYN004 (Part B), in patients with epithelial cancers with EGFR (epithelial growth factor receptor) expressions.

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Conditions studied

  • Epithelial Carcinoma
  • Solid Tumor

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Keywords

  • Epithelial cancer
  • Epithelial Growth Factor Receptor expression
  • EGFR
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In context

Carcinoma

736 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma; 149 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 22 is below the median of 49 across 571 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma.

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Lead sponsor

Synermore Biologics Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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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

  • Signed form.
  • Have documented diagnosis of recurrent or solid tumors for whom no standard treatment options are available (Part A only).
  • Have epithelial cancers which have endothelial growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressions (not necessarily mutated or over-expressed) (Part B only).

Note: Prior EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) therapy and approved therapy are allowed but not required.

  • Prior anti-PD-1 (programmed cell death 1), anti-PD-L1 (programmed death-ligand 1), anti-PD-L2 (programmed death-ligand 2), anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen (CTLA-4) are allowed, where the will be 28 days from last dose of previous therapy except for palliative RT and smaller molecular oral therapeutic agents where 5 half-lives or 28 days, whichever is shorter, will apply (Part A and Part B).
  • Have evaluable disease per modified (RECIST 1.1) for immune based therapeutics ().
  • Have an Performance Status (ECOG PS) of 0 to 1.
  • Adequate bone marrow function, with >1,500/µL, count >75,000/µL, and >9g/dL (or 5.6 mmol/L).
  • Adequate liver function with \<1.5 x the (ULN) range, and (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) \<2.5 x the ULN.
  • Adequate renal function, as defined by having ≥30 mL/min calculated by either Cockcroft-Gault or Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equations.
  • Adequate cardiac function, no abnormalities assessed by (ECG), and absence of significant cardiac disease.
  • Negative serum pregnancy test within 24 hours prior to start of study drug in female patients of . Not applicable to patients unable to become pregnant, including those with bilateral oophorectomy and/or hysterectomy or .
  • Patients of childbearing potential must be using highly effective consisting of 2 forms of birth control (at least 1 of which must be a barrier method) during heterosexual intercourse, starting at screening and continuing throughout study, for a total of 31 weeks post-treatment completion.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Have ongoing toxicities >Grade 1 according to (National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) v5.0 (excluding alopecia and neuropathy).
  • Have any to receiving cetuximab therapy, , anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-L2, anti-CTLA-4 (anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen) antibody, or other antibody or drug targeting T-cell co-stimulation or immune checkpoint pathways.
  • Have known to study drugs.
  • Have undergone surgery and not recovered adequately from toxicities and/or complications from the intervention prior to starting study therapy; or have unresolved toxicity from prior radiation, chemotherapy, or other targeted treatment, including treatment.
  • Have cardiac arrhythmia, unless well-controlled.
  • Have clinically active central nervous system and/or carcinomatous meningitis. Patients with previously treated brain or meningeal metastasis may participate and be eligible for treatment provided they are stable and asymptomatic, and have no evidence of new or enlarging evaluated within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug.
  • Patients with history of (HIV) and:

    1. is ≤350 cells µL;
    2. History of AIDS-defining opportunistic infection within the past 12 months;
    3. Antiretroviral therapy \<4 weeks and HIV viral load >400 copies/mL.
  • Have participated in another investigational drug or device study within 4 weeks of the first dose of study drug.
  • Female patient who is pregnant or breast feeding.
  • Have signs or symptoms of organ failure, major chronic illnesses other than cancer, or any concomitant medical or social condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, make it undesirable for the patient to participate in the study, or that could jeopardize compliance with the protocol.

Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(26)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

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.

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.

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.

iRECIST and mRECIST

Versions of RECIST adapted to particular cases. iRECIST is for immunotherapy, where a tumour can look bigger for a while before it shrinks, so growth has to be confirmed on a later scan. mRECIST usually means the version for liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), which measures only the part of a tumour that still has a blood supply.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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.

ECG (electrocardiogram)

A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.

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.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

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.

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.

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.

CD4 count

The number of CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, in a given amount of blood. It is used to follow how well the immune system is doing in HIV.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
22 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Part A

    Dose escalation of SYN125. Each dose level (low, medium, high) will be tested in a cohort of 3 patients. If no dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) is observed in the 3 patients, dose escalation will continue to the next SYN125 dose level.

    Biological: SYN125

  • Experimental
    Part B

    Dose escalation of SYN125 administered with a fixed-dose of SYN004 (SYN004 will be administered immediately after SYN125 infusion is complete, if tolerated). Once cohorts with low and medium dose levels in Part A are completed and no DLTs are observed per cohort, Part B with the SYN125 low dose level + SYN004 will start and run in parallel with Part A. The high dose of SYN125 in a cohort in Part A will begin along with Part B.

    Biological: SYN125 · Biological: SYN004

Interventions

  • BiologicalSYN125

    Administered by IV infusion

  • BiologicalSYN004

    Administered by IV infusion

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Part A: Incidence of dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs)

    Incidence of DLTs with single agent SYN125

    Time frame: Up to Day 28

  2. Part B: Incidence of dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs)

    Incidence of DLTs with SYN125 and fixed-dose SYN004 administered in combination

    Time frame: Up to Day 28

Secondary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Adverse Events (AEs)

    Incidence of Adverse Events (AEs)

    Time frame: Up to Day 50

  2. Incidence of Clinical Laboratory Abnormalities

    Defined by National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE v5.0)

    Time frame: Up to Day 50

  3. Serum concentration time profiles (Area under the serum concentration-time curve from time zero to the last measurable concentration)

    Serum concentration time profiles (Area under the serum concentration-time curve from time zero to the last measurable concentration) of SYN125 and SYN004

    Time frame: Up to Day 106

  4. Area under the serum concentration time-curve over the dosing interval

    Area under the serum concentration time-curve over the dosing interval of SYN125 and SYN004

    Time frame: Up to Day 106

  5. Area under the serum concentration-time curve from time zero extrapolated to infinity (AUC0-inf)

    Area under the serum concentration-time curve from time zero extrapolated to infinity (AUC0-inf) of SYN125 and SYN004

    Time frame: Up to Day 106

  6. Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration (Cmax)

    Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration (Cmax) of SYN125 and SYN004

    Time frame: Up to Day 106

  7. Time to maximum observed serum concentration (Tmax)

    Time to maximum observed serum concentration (Tmax) of SYN125 and SYN004

    Time frame: Up to Day 106

  8. Terminal elimination half-life (t1/2)

    Terminal elimination half-life (t1/2) of SYN125 and SYN004

    Time frame: Up to Day 106

  9. Clearance

    Clearance of SYN125 and SYN004

    Time frame: Up to Day 106

  10. Volume of distribution at steady-state (Vss)

    Volume of distribution at steady-state (Vss) of SYN125 and SYN004

    Time frame: Up to Day 106

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Study locations

4 sites
  • University of Kansas Cancer Center, Clinical Research Center, 4350 Shawnee Mission Parkway, MS 6004
    Fairway, Kansas 66205, United States
  • Henry Ford Health System, Henry Ford Hospital
    Brownstown, Michigan 48183, United States
  • Washington University School of Medicine
    Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, United States
  • University of Oklahoma, Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, 800 Northeast 10th Street
    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, United States
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References and documents

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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

Started Apr 2020 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jul 2023, 39 months after the start.

Of 41 industry-sponsored phase 1 interventional studies under Carcinoma, half reached primary completion within 36 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 22 and three quarters within 68. This study's planned 39 months is close to that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 70 studies reached it within 46 months; a quarter within 30 and three quarters within 92.

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

Registered
Apr 23, 2020
First posted
Apr 27, 2020
StartActual
Apr 9, 2020
Primary completionEst.
Jul 31, 2023
CompletionEst.
Sep 30, 2023
Last update
Apr 12, 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 Apr 12, 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
NCT04363242
Lead sponsor
Synermore Biologics Co., Ltd.
Collaborators
Synermore Biologics USA Limited
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 27, 2020
Start date
Apr 9, 2020
Primary completion
Jul 31, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 30, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 12, 2023

Study contacts

Ding Wang, MD
principal investigator · Henry Ford Hospital

Oversight

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