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APG-115 in Combination With PD-1 Inhibitor in Patients With Advanced Liposarcoma or Advanced Solid Tumors

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of APG-115 and Toripalimab in Liposarcoma and Advanced Solid Tumor, sponsored by Ascentage Pharma Group Inc.. Recruiting at 3 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-02-26.

Sponsored by Ascentage Pharma Group Inc. (part of Ascentage Pharma Group International) · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Apr 2026, 7 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started May 2021; still recruiting 5 years 5 months later.
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
95
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Part 1 is a phase Ib standard "3 + 3" design, will be employed to determine the MTD of APG-115 by assessing the DLT of APG-115 in combination with PD-1 inhibitor(toripalimab) in advanced solid tumors.

Part 2 is a Simon two-stage phase II study design. At RP2D of APG-115 in combination with toripalimab in advanced liposarcoma, approximately 34 patients will be treated with the combination until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or another discontinuation criterion is met.

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Part 1 is the open label, dose-escalation phase Ib portion of the study to establish an MTD/RP2D of APG-115 in combination with toripalimab. Dose levels/schedule of APG115 will be tested: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg, and 200mg, QOD with 2 weeks on 1 week off as a cycle of 21 days (3 weeks), toripalimab will administrated with label dose.

Part 2 is the phase II portion of the study to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of the RP2D of APG-115 in combination with label dose of toripalimab in patients with advanced liposarcoma. In this part, Simon's two-stage design (Simon R (1989). Controlled Clinical Trials 10: 1-10.) will be used. The null hypothesis that the true response rate of combination is 30% or lower will be tested against a one-sided alternative. In the first stage, 19 patients will be accrued. If there are 3 or fewer responses in these patients, the study will be stopped. Otherwise, 15 additional patients will be accrued for a total of 34. The null hypothesis will be rejected if 7 or more responses are observed in 34 patients. This design yields a type I error rate of 0.05 and power of 90%.

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Conditions studied

  • Liposarcoma
  • Advanced Solid Tumor

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Keywords

  • APG-115
  • Toripalimab
  • Liposarcoma
  • Advanced solid tumors
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In context

Liposarcoma

160 studies on the registry are indexed under Liposarcoma; 36 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 95 is above the median of 52 across 136 interventional studies indexed under Liposarcoma.

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Lead sponsor

Ascentage Pharma Group Inc. is the lead sponsor of 53 studies on the registry; 31 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 and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Male or non-pregnant, non-lactating female patients age ≥18 years on day of signing the ;
  2. PS 0-1;
  3. Phase Ib: confirmed, advanced liposarcoma or advanced solid tumor patients who failed standard of care therapy; Phase II: Histologically confirmed, advanced liposarcoma with TP53 wide-type and MDM2 Amplification;
  4. The expected survival period is more than 12 weeks;
  5. on CT or MRI by 1.1.
  6. Adequate bone marrow and organ function as indicated by: the following laboratory values without continuous supportive treatment (such as blood transfusion, coagulation factors and/or infusion, red/white blood cell growth factor administration, or albumin infusion)

    1. ≥1.5 x 10\^9/ L;
    2. PLT≥100 x 10\^9/ L;
    3. ≥90 g/L;
    4. Alb≥30 g/L;
    5. and AST ≤3 * (for hepatic , ALT and AST≤5*ULN);
    6. Serum creatinine (Cr) ≤ 1.5ULN or (CCr) ≥ 50ml / min.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients who have previously been treated with MDM2-p53 inhibitor;
  2. Known reaction to PD-(L)1 inhibitors, or any prior ≥ Grade 3 irAE;
  3. Prior treatment consisted of any kinds of immunotherapies, like PD-(L)1 inhibitors, antibodies, CTLA-4, OX-40 et.al( for phase II);
  4. Has known active central nervous (CNS) and/or carcinomatous meningitis;
  5. Has any active or history of disease;
  6. Active infection or unexplained fever > 38.5 ° C two weeks before first dose;
  7. Patients with any severe and/or uncontrolled diseases, including: hypertension and uncontrollable levels of normal anti-hypertensive medication; cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, including but not limited to severe acute myocardial infarction, unstable or severe angina, or coronary artery bypass surgery, congestive heart failure ( (NYHA) ) > 2);active or uncontrolled serious infection (≥ 5.0 Level 2 infection);objective evidence of previous or current history of pulmonary disease; moderate to severe hepatic impairment ( score ≥ 10 points); moderate to severe renal impairment or psychiatric illness/social circumstances that may affect study compliance;
  8. Poorly controlled arrhythmia (including ≥450 ms for males and ≥470 ms for females).
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(20)

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Informed consent

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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.

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.

Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Metastases

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

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.

Child-Pugh class

A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
95 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    APG-115+Toripalimab

    Drug: APG-115 · Drug: Toripalimab

Interventions

  • Dose escalation of APG-115 in combination with label dose of toripalimab, four dose levels of APG-115 will be tested: 50, 100, 150, and 200mg. APG-115 will be administrated orally every other day (QOD) for consecutive 2 weeks (ie. dosed at Day 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13), with one week dosing off as 3 weeks a cycle.

  • Toripalimab is administrated following CDE approved label dose, i.e.: 240 mg intravenous infusion at Day 1 of every 3 weeks as a cycle.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Dose Limiting Toxicity (Phase I)

    DLT will be defined based on the rate of drug-related grade 3-5 adverse events experienced within the first 3 weeks of study treatment. These will be assessed via CTCAE version 5.0.

    Time frame: 21 days

  2. Recommended Phase II Dose

    Phase I is aimed to generate data to select the recommended Phase II dose.

    Time frame: 21 days

  3. Overall Response Rate (Phase II)

    Phase II is to assess overall response rate of APG-115 in combination with toripalimab defined as the percentage of subjects with a best overall confirmed CR or a PR at any time as per RECIST v1.1.

    Time frame: up to 12 months

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Study locations

2 of 3 sites recruiting
  • Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
    Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Recruiting
    • Xing Zhang, M.D. · Contact
  • Cancer Hospital of The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310005, China
    Not yet recruiting
    • Meiyu Fang, Ph.D · Contact
    • Meiyu Fang, Ph.D · Principal investigator
  • Shanghai East Hospital (East Hospital affiliated to Tongji University)
    Shanghai, China
    Recruiting
    • Ye Guo, MD, PhD · Contact
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started May 2021 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Apr 2026, 59 months after the start.

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

Registered
Feb 24, 2021
First posted
Mar 5, 2021
StartActual
May 26, 2021
Primary completionEst.
Apr 2026
CompletionEst.
Jan 2027
Last update
Feb 26, 2025
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 Feb 26, 2025, 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
NCT04785196
Collaborators
Suzhou Yasheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 5, 2021
Start date
May 26, 2021
Primary completion
Apr 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 26, 2025

Study contacts

Yifan Zhai, MD, PhD
Contact
Yzhai@ascentage.com
+86-20-28068501
Guojuan Chen, MD.
Contact
guojuan.chen@ascentage.com
+86-20-28068520
Ye Guo, MD, PhD
principal investigator · Shanghai East Hospital

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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