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A Phase 1/2 Study of Bleximenib in Participants With Acute Leukemia (cAMeLot-1)

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Bleximenib in Acute Leukemia, sponsored by Janssen Research & Development, LLC. Recruiting at 102 sites in 13 countries. Open to participants aged 2 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-04.

Sponsored by Janssen Research & Development, LLC (part of Johnson & Johnson) · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started May 2021; still recruiting 5 years 5 months later.
Updated Nov 4, 2026Site recruiting status changedPrimary completion moved+2 moreGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
420
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
2 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the recommended Phase 2 dose(s) (RP2D[s]) of bleximenib in phase 1 Part 1 (Dose Escalation) and to determine the safety and tolerability at RP2D in Phase 1 Part 2 (Dose expansion). The purpose of the Phase 2 part of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of bleximenib at the RP2D.

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Conditions studied

  • Acute Leukemia
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In context

Lead sponsor

Janssen Research & Development, LLC is the lead sponsor of 932 studies on the registry; 76 are open to participants now.

Of its 285 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 136 (48%) have results posted.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
2 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

Phase 1:

  • Age 2 years to less than (\<) 18 years of age (pediatric cohort only), all other cohorts 18 years and above
  • (R/R) acute leukemia and has exhausted, or is ineligible for, available therapeutic options
  • Acute leukemia harboring histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2A (KMT2A), nucleophosmin 1 gene (NPM1) or nucleoporin 98 gene or nucleoporin 214 gene (NUP98 or NUP214) alterations

Phase: 2

  • Participants greater than 18 years are eligible
  • Must have had an initial diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) per the WHO 2022 classification criteria and have relapsed/refractory disease
  • AML harboring KMT2A-r (gene rearrangement/translocation) or NPM1 mutations only

For Both Phase 1 and 2:

  • Pretreatment clinical laboratory values meeting the following criteria: (a) Hematology: white blood cell (WBC) count \<= 20*10\^9/liter (L) and (b) renal function; For adult participants, estimated or measured >= 30 milliliter per minute (mL/min) per four variable MDRD equation. For pediatric participants an estimated or measured glomerular filtration rate >=40 mL/min per the CKiD (Chronic Kidney Disease in Children) Schwartz formula
  • (ECOG) performance status grade of 0, 1 or 2. Pediatric participants only: Performance status >=70 by Lansky scale (for participants \< 16 years of age) or >=70 scale (for participants >=16 years of age)
  • A female of must have a negative highly sensitive serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin at screening and within 48 hours prior to the first dose of study treatment
  • Participant must agree to all protocol required requirements and avoid sperm or egg donations or freezing for future reproductive use while on study and for 90 days (males) or 6 months (females) after the last dose of study treatment

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Acute promyelocytic leukemia, diagnosis of Down syndrome associated leukemia or juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia according to World Health Organization (WHO) 2016 criteria
  • Active central nervous system (CNS) disease
  • Prior solid organ transplantation
  • according to Fridericia's formula (QTcF) for males >= 450 millisecond (msec) or for females >= 470 msec. Participants with a family history of Long QT syndrome are excluded
  • Exclusion criteria related to stem cell transplant: a. Received prior treatment with allogenic bone marrow or stem cell transplant \<=3 months before the first dose of study treatment ; b. Has evidence of ; c. Received donor lymphocyte infusion \<=1 month before the first dose of study treatment; d. Requires therapy (exception: daily doses \<=10 milligrams (mg) prednisone or equivalent are allowed for adrenal replacement)
  • Prior cancer immunotherapy within 4 weeks prior to enrollment or blinatumomab within 2 weeks prior to enrollment. Additional prior cancer therapies must not be given within 4 weeks prior to enrollment or 5 half-lives of the agent (whichever is shorter)
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)

After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.

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.

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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
420 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Bleximenib

    Participants in Phase 1 Part 1 (dose escalation) will receive bleximenib orally. The dose levels will be escalated based on the dose limiting toxicities (DLT) evaluation by Study Evaluation Team (SET) until the recommended Phase 2 Doses (RP2Ds) have been identified. Participants in Phase 1 Part 2 (dose expansion) will receive bleximenib orally at the RP2D(s) determined in Part 1. In Phase 2 participants will receive bleximenib at the RP2D to evaluate anti-leukemia activity and demonstrate acceptable safety at the RP2D(s).

    Drug: Bleximenib

Interventions

  • Bleximenib is administered orally.

    Also known as: JNJ-75276617

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Phase 1: Number of Participants with Adverse Events (AEs) as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability

    An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a participant participating in a clinical study that does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the pharmaceutical/biological agent under study.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  2. Phase 1: Number of Participants with AEs by Severity

    Severity will be graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI-CTCAE) version 5.0. Severity scale ranges from Grade 1 (Mild) to Grade 5 (Death). Grade 1= Mild, Grade 2= Moderate, Grade 3= Severe, Grade 4= Life-threatening and Grade 5= Death related to adverse event.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  3. Phase 1: Part 1: Percentage of Participants with Dose-Limiting Toxicity (DLT)

    Percentage of participants with DLT will be assessed accordingly to national cancer institute common terminology criteria for adverse events (NCI-CTCAE) version 5.

    Time frame: Up to 28 days Cycle 1

  4. Phase 2: Rate of Complete Remission or Complete Remission with Partial Hematologic Recovery (CR/CRh)

    Rate of CR/CRh is defined as the percentage of participants achieving a CR or CRh at any time post-treatment.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Phase 1 and 2: Plasma Concentration of Bleximenib

    Plasma concentration of bleximenib will be reported.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  2. Phase 1 and 2: Overall Response Rate (ORR)

    ORR is defined as the percentage of participants who achieve any response.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  3. Phase 1: Duration of Response (DOR)

    DOR will be calculated among responders from the date of initial documentation of a response to the date of first documented evidence of relapse, as defined in the disease-specific response criteria, or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  4. Phase 1 and 2: Time To Response (TTR)

    TTR is defined for the responders as the time from the date of the first dose of bleximenib to the date of the first documented response.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  5. Phase 2: Duration of Complete Response (CR)/Complete Remission With Partial Hematologic Recovery (CRh)

    The duration of CR/CRh is defined from the date of first CR or CRh response achieved to the date of first evidence of relapsed disease or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first, for participants who achieve a CR or CRh.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  6. Phase 2: Time To CR/CRh

    Time to CR/CRh is defined for responders as the time from the date of the first dose of bleximenib to the date of first achieving either CR or CRh, depending on which milestone is reached.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  7. Phase 2: Event-free survival (EFS)

    EFS is defined as the time from the date of first dose of study treatment to the date of treatment failure, relapse, or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  8. Phase 2: Overall survival (OS)

    OS is defined from the date of first dose of study treatment to the date of death due to any cause.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  9. Phase 2: Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) Negativity Among Participants Achieving CR/CRh/CRi

    MRD-negative rate is defined as the percentage of participants who are MRD-negative at any timepoint after the first dose of bleximenib in the responders.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  10. Phase 2: Number of Participants with Adverse Events (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)

    An AE is any untoward medical event that occurs in a participant administered an investigational product, and it does not necessarily indicate only events with clear causal relationship with the relevant investigational product. A Serious AE is an AE resulting in any of the following outcomes or deemed significant for any other reason: death; initial or prolonged inpatient hospitalization; life-threatening experience (immediate risk of dying); persistent or significant disability/incapacity; congenital anomaly.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

  11. Phase 2: Number of Participants Reporting Transfusion Independence

    Transfusion independence is defined as independence from red blood cells (RBC) and platelet transfusions during any 56-day interval after receiving study treatment.

    Time frame: Up to 4 years and 9 months

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Study locations

85 of 102 sites recruiting

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References and documents

Publications

  • Kwon MC, Thuring JW, Querolle O, Dai X, Verhulst T, Pande V, Marien A, Goffin D, Wenge DV, Yue H, Cutler JA, Jin C, Perner F, Hogeling SM, Shaffer PL, Jacobs F, Vinken P, Cai W, Keersmaekers V, Eyassu F, Bhogal B, Verstraeten K, El Ashkar S, Perry JA, Jayaguru P, Barreyro L, Kuchnio A, Darville N, Krosky D, Urbanietz G, Verbist B, Edwards JP, Cowley GS, Kirkpatrick R, Steele R, Ferrante L, Guttke C, Daskalakis N, Pietsch EC, Wilson DM, Attar R, Elsayed Y, Fischer ES, Schuringa JJ, Armstrong SA, Packman K, Philippar U. Preclinical efficacy of the potent, selective menin-KMT2A inhibitor JNJ-75276617 (bleximenib) in KMT2A- and NPM1-altered leukemias. Blood. 2024 Sep 12;144(11):1206-1220. doi: 10.1182/blood.2023022480. PubMed 38905635 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — The data sharing policy of Johnson \& Johnson Innovative Medicine is available at innovativemedicine.jnj.com/our-innovation/clinical-trials/transparency. As noted on this site, requests for access to the study data can be submitted through Yale Open Data Access (YODA) Project site at yoda.yale.edu

Data sharing details ↗ · innovativemedicine.jnj.com

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Updates

2 registry updates since Sep 25, 2026
Sites
1 site added, 1 site removed. 3 sites changed recruiting status (3 now completed)
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  • Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical Hospital · Guangzhou, ChinaRecruiting→Completed
  • Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital · Kobe, JapanActive, not recruiting→Completed
  • Hokkaido University Hospital · Sapporo, JapanActive, not recruiting→Completed
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  • Maine Health · South Portland, United States
Show 1 removed
  • Maine Health · Providence, United States
across 2 updates, Sep 25, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Primary completion
Feb 26, 2027→Dec 29, 2028
Nov 4, 2026
Show all 2 updates
  1. Nov 4, 2026
    1 site added, 1 site removed. 2 sites changed recruiting status (2 now completed)
    Show 2 sites
    • Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital · Kobe, JapanActive, not recruiting→Completed
    • Hokkaido University Hospital · Sapporo, JapanActive, not recruiting→Completed
    Show site
    • Maine Health · South Portland, United States
    Show 1 removed
    • Maine Health · Providence, United States
    Primary completion Feb 26, 2027→Dec 29, 2028
    + 1 other change: verification date
  2. Sep 25, 2026
    Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical Hospital is now Completed
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04811560
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 23, 2021
Start date
May 19, 2021
Primary completion
Dec 29, 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 22, 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 4, 2026

Study contacts

Study Contact
Contact
Participate-In-This-Study1@its.jnj.com
844-434-4210
Janssen Research & Development, LLC Clinical Trial
study director · Janssen Research & Development, LLC

Oversight

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