A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Oral NKT2152 in ccRCC, Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma and Kidney Cancer, sponsored by NiKang Therapeutics, Inc.. Terminated at 13 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-11-12.
Sponsored by NiKang Therapeutics, Inc. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
Among 1,142 studies in Carcinoma, Renal Cell with a site in United States — 157 open to participants now, 280 under way, 26 of them phase 3. Carcinoma, Renal Cell · United States.
Among the 1,142 studies in Carcinoma, Renal Cell with a site in United States, this one is the 228th largest by enrollment of the 1,008 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 53 that started in 2021, is one of 146 in phase 1/2, and was the 922nd registered.
2,037 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Renal Cell; 395 are open to participants now.
Browse Carcinoma, Renal Cell studies →157 of the 1,142 studies in Carcinoma, Renal Cell with a site in United States are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:
National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Sites in United States
University of Oklahoma · Sites in United States
Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Sites in United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Sites in United States
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center · Sites in United States
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Of the 308 Carcinoma, Renal Cell studies recruiting now, 255 (83%) set no upper age limit and 18 (6%) stop at 75 or younger; 20 take children under 18; 19 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
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1,142 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
A study in two phases is counted once above. Listed by phase, each with its combined phases: Phase 1 488 · Phase 2 529 · Phase 3 74 · Phase 4 10
First in 1990; this study’s year is marked. 53 started in 2021.
This study's enrollment of 120 is above the median of 43 across 1,564 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Renal Cell.
Median enrollment 40 across the 1,008 interventional studies, 100 across the 87 observational. Of the 791 that completed or were terminated, 335 (42%) have results posted.
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467 of 1,142 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
NiKang Therapeutics, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.
NiKang Therapeutics, Inc. has 2 studies filed under Carcinoma, Renal Cell — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
98 of the studies in Carcinoma, Renal Cell with a site in United States that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 6 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT03815643Phase 3EMD Serono Research & Development Institute, Inc.Avelumab Program Rollover Study | 2026-11-24 |
| NCT05678673Phase 3ExelixisStudy of XL092 + Nivolumab vs Sunitinib in Subjects With Advanced or Metastatic Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma | 2026-12-15 |
| NCT03592472Phase 3Xynomic Pharmaceuticals, Inc.A Study of Pazopanib With or Without Abexinostat in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (RENAVIV) | 2026-12-30 |
| NCT03873402Phase 3Bristol-Myers SquibbA Study of Nivolumab Combined With Ipilimumab Versus Nivolumab Alone in Participants With Advanced Kidney Cancer | 2027-03-11 |
| NCT05863351Phase 3ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research GroupFocused Radiation Versus Systemic Therapy for Kidney Cancer Patients With Limited Metastasis, SOAR Study | 2027-08-31 |
Among the 1,142 studies in Carcinoma, Renal Cell with a site in United States, from their registry updates:
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The goal of the Phase 1 portion is to identify the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or the recommended doses for expansion (RDEs) of NKT2152. The Phase 2 portion will evaluate the efficacy of NKT2152 in ccRCC.
This is a Phase 1/2 open label multicenter study of NKT2152. Phase 1 is a first in human (FIH) dose escalation study in patients aged 18 years or older with clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC) who have exhausted available standard therapy as determined by the investigator.
Phase 1 is designed to determine the MTD and/or RDEs of NKT2152 as a single agent administered orally once daily. Depending on the tolerability and PK, additional dosing schedules may be tested. Phase 2 will evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics and antitumor efficacy of NKT2152 in ccRCC patients. Patients will be randomized to one of two dosage levels selected for further evaluation.
Patients must meet all of the following criteria to be enrolled in this study.
Has adequate organ function defined as follows:
Female patients of childbearing potential must meet all of the following criteria:
Male patients who can father a child must meet all of the following criteria:
Patients will be excluded from this study if they meet any of the following criteria.
Having one or more of the following conditions:
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
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.
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.
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.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
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.
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.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Phase 1 is designed to determine the maximum tolerated dose and/or identify the recommended Phase 2 dose of NKT2152 as a single agent administered orally once daily in ccRCC patients
Drug: Oral NKT2152
Phase 2 dose expansion will evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics and antitumor efficacy of NKT2152 as a single agent administered orally once daily in ccRCC patients. Patients will be randomized to one of two dosage levels being evaluated.
Drug: Oral NKT2152
Oral HIF2α inhibitor
Number of Participants with Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) events during the DLT monitoring period (first 21 days of dosing) in the Dose Escalation Phase (Phase 1)
DLTs graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) version 5 .0.
Time frame: 21 days
Recommended Doses for Expansion (RDEs) Determined in the Dose Escalation Phase (Phase 1)
The RDE(s) will be determined based on observed dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) and using the totality of (AUC0-∞) and biological data in Phase 1.
Time frame: Approximately 2 years
Objective Response Rate (ORR) determined by the Investigator in the Dose Expansion Phase (Phase 2)
ORR defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) based on Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1.
Time frame: Approximately 1 year
Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D)
Further assess RDEs to determine the RP2D for NKT2152.
Time frame: Approximately 1 year
Number of Participants with Adverse Events
An adverse event (AE) is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a patient and which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. The investigator assessed the relationship of each event to the use of study drug as either probably related, possibly related, probably not related or not related.
Time frame: Approximately 2 years
Area under the plasma concentration time curve (AUC0-t) of NKT2152
Area under the plasma concentration time curve (AUC0-t) of NKT2152.
Time frame: Up to Day 22
Area under the plasma concentration time curve (AUC0-∞) of NKT2152
Area under the plasma concentration time curve (AUC0-∞) of NKT2152
Time frame: Up to Day 22
Maximum observed plasma concentration (Cmax) of NKT2152
Maximum observed plasma concentration (Cmax) of NKT2152
Time frame: Up to Day 22
Time to maximum observed plasma concentration of NKT2152 (Tmax)
Time to maximum observed plasma concentration of NKT2152 (Tmax)
Time frame: Up to Day 22
Objective Response Rate (ORR) determined by the Investigator in the Dose Escalation Phase (Phase 1)
ORR defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) based on Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1.
Time frame: Approximately 1 year
Duration of response (DOR)
Duration of overall response is defined as the time from the date of first documented CR or PR, assessed by investigator and based on RECIST v. 1.1, to the documented date of progressive disease (PD) or death, whichever occurred first.
Time frame: Approximately 1 year
Disease control rate (DCR) determined by the Investigator
DCR defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) or a stable disease (SD) of 8 weeks or longer based on Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1.
Time frame: Approximately 1 year
Progression free survival (PFS)
PFS defined as the time from the date the participant started study drug to the date the participant experiences an event of disease progression or death.
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Overall survival (OS)
OS defined as the time from the date the participant started study drug to death for any reason.
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Plan to share: No — IPD are not planned to be shared at this time
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Ran from Oct 2021 to primary completion in Aug 2025, 45 months.
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Studies of the drug tested here: Imdatifan
NiKang Therapeutics, Inc.