A Phase 1 interventional study of Calderasib and Pembrolizumab in Advanced Solid Tumors, sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC. Recruiting at 75 sites in 21 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-07.
Sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (part of Merck & Co., Inc) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a study evaluating the safety, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of calderasib alone, and calderasib plus other combination therapies in participants with advanced solid tumors with identified kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog G12C (KRAS G12C) mutation.
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC is the lead sponsor of 2,166 studies on the registry; 132 are open to participants now.
Of its 501 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 370 (74%) have results posted.
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For all participants:
For Arm 1 - Has locally advanced unresectable or solid-tumor with histologically OR blood-based confirmation of KRAS G12C mutation who has received at least 1 for systemic disease
For Arm 2
- Has an untreated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with histologically OR blood-based confirmation of KRAS G12C mutation and histologic confirmation of programmed cell death ligand 1 () tumor proportion score (TPS) ≥1%
For Arm 3
Arm 4 only - Has an untreated advanced or metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC with histologically or blood-based confirmation of KRAS G12C mutation
Arm 5 only
Arm 6 only
- Locally advanced unresectable or metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma with histologically or blood-based confirmation of KRAS G12C mutation
Exclusion Criteria:
Arm 4 Only
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
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.
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.
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
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.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
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.
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.
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Line of therapy
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Biopsy and archival tissue
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Live vaccines
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants will receive daily oral escalating doses of up to 800 mg of calderasib until progressive disease or discontinuation. Dosing regimen may be adjusted based on safety.
Drug: Calderasib
Participants will receive calderasib daily oral escalating dose of up to 800 mg plus pembrolizumab given as a 200 mg intravenous infusion once every 21-day cycle up to a total of 35 cycles (up to \~24 months). Treatment with calderasib will continue until progressive disease or discontinuation. Dosing regimen may be adjusted based on safety.
Drug: Calderasib · Biological: Pembrolizumab
Participants will receive alternate formulation of calderasib until progressive disease or discontinuation. Dosing regimen may be adjusted based on safety.
Drug: Calderasib
Participants will receive calderasib daily oral dose plus an intravenous infusion of pembrolizumab (200 mg) once every 21-day cycle for up to 35 cycles (up to \~24 months). Participants will also receive carboplatin (per label) and pemetrexed (per label) once every 21-day cycle for the first 4 cycles.
Drug: Calderasib · Biological: Pembrolizumab · Drug: carboplatin · Drug: pemetrexed
Participants will receive calderasib daily oral dose plus an intravenous infusion of cetuximab (per label) every 2 weeks of each 28-day cycle.
Drug: Calderasib · Biological: cetuximab
Participants will receive calderasib daily oral dose. Additionally, participants receive an intravenous infusion of cetuximab (per label) every 2 weeks of each 28-day cycle, oxaliplatin (per label) for first 6 cycles, and leucovorin (per label) and 5-fluorouracil (per label) once every 14-days.
Drug: Calderasib · Biological: cetuximab · Drug: oxaliplatin · Drug: leucovorin · Drug: 5-fluorouracil
Oral dose
Also known as: MK-1084
Intravenous infusion of 200 mg
Also known as: KEYTRUDA®, MK-3475
Per label
Per label
Per label
Per label
Per label
Per label
Number of Participants Who Experience a Dose-Limiting Toxicity (DLT)
A DLT is defined as an event with toxicity including the type, severity, time of onset, time of resolution, and the probable association with study treatment that are not due to pre-existing conditions as defined by the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version 5.0 (CTCAE 5.0). Number of participants who experience a DLT will be reported.
Time frame: Up to ~21 days
Number of Participants Who Experience an Adverse Event (AE)
An AE is any unfavorable and unintended sign, symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product or protocol-specified procedure, whether or not considered related to the medicinal product or protocol-specified procedure. Any worsening of a preexisting condition that is temporally associated with the use of the Sponsor's product, is also an AE. The number of participants who experience an AE will be reported.
Time frame: Up to ~56 months
Number of Participants Who Discontinue Study Treatment Due to an AE
An AE is any unfavorable and unintended sign, symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product or protocol-specified procedure, whether or not considered related to the medicinal product or protocol-specified procedure. Any worsening of a preexisting condition that is temporally associated with the use of the Sponsor's product, is also an AE. The number of participants who discontinue study treatment due to an AE will be reported.
Time frame: Up to ~56 months
Objective Response Rate (ORR)
ORR is defined as the percentage of participants who have a Complete Response (CR: Disappearance of all target lesions) or a Partial Response (PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions) per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors 1.1 (RECIST 1.1). The percentage of participants who experience a CR or PR as assessed by the investigator based on RECIST 1.1 will be reported.
Time frame: Up to ~56 months
Duration of Response (DOR)
DOR is defined as the time from first documented evidence of CR or PR until progressive disease (PD) or death. Per RECIST 1.1, PD is defined as at least a 20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions. In addition to the relative increase of 20%, the sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of at least 5 mm. The appearance of one or more new lesions is also considered PD. The DOR as assessed by the investigator will be reported.
Time frame: Up to ~56 months
Mean Plasma Concentration of calderasib
Mean Plasma Concentration of calderasib determined by blood samples collected pre-dose and at designated timepoints post-dose will be reported.
Time frame: At designated timepoints during the study in Cycles 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, and every 6 weeks thereafter up to 56 months. Cycle=3 weeks (Arms 1-4) and 4 weeks (Arms 5-6)
Maximum Concentration (Cmax) of calderasib
Cmax of calderasib determined by blood samples collected pre-dose and at designated timepoints post-dose will be reported.
Time frame: At designated timepoints during the study in Cycles 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, and every 6 weeks thereafter up to 56 months. Cycle=3 weeks (Arms 1-4) and 4 weeks (Arms 5-6).
Time to Maximum Concentration (Tmax) of calderasib
Tmax of calderasib determined by blood samples collected pre-dose and at designated timepoints post-dose will be reported.
Time frame: At designated timepoints during the study in Cycles 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, and every 6 weeks thereafter up to 56 months. Cycle=3 weeks (Arms 1-4) and 4 weeks (Arms 5-6)
Minimum Concentration (Cmin) of calderasib
Cmin of calderasib determined by blood samples collected pre-dose and at designated timepoints post-dose will be reported.
Time frame: At designated timepoints during the study in Cycles 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, and every 6 weeks thereafter up to 56 months. Cycle=3 weeks (Arms 1-4) and 4 weeks (Arms 5-6)
Area Under the Concentration Time-Curve 0-12 Hours (AUC 0-12) of calderasib
AUC 0-12 of calderasib determined by blood samples collected pre-dose and at designated timepoints post-dose will be reported.
Time frame: At designated timepoint during the study in Cycle 1 Day 1: Predose and up to 12 hours postdose. Cycle=3 weeks (Arms 1-4) and 4 weeks (Arms 5-6)
Area Under the Concentration Time-Curve 0-24 Hours (AUC 0-24) of calderasib
AUC 0-24 of calderasib determined by blood samples collected pre-dose and at designated timepoints post-dose will be reported.
Time frame: At designated timepoint during the study in Cycle 1 Day 1: Predose and up to 24 hours postdose. Cycle=3 weeks (Arms 1-4) and 4 weeks (Arms 5-6)
Half-Life (t1/2) of calderasib
Half-Life (t1/2) of calderasib determined by blood samples collected pre-dose and at designated timepoints post-dose will be reported.
Time frame: At designated timepoint during the study in Cycle 1 Day 1: Predose and up to 24 hours postdose. Cycle=3 weeks (Arms 1-4) and 4 weeks (Arms 5-6)
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