A Phase 1 interventional study of Lifileucel (LN-144/LN-145) in Uveal Melanoma, Melanoma and Metastatic Uveal Melanoma, sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Recruiting at 2 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-15.
Sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
This is an open label study evaluating lifileucel (LN-144) in patients with metastatic uveal melanoma.
Cohort 1: Must have a confirmed diagnosis of metastatic Uveal Melanoma.
o Patients will be eligible regardless of the number of prior systemic therapies received.
Cohort 2: Must have a confirmed diagnosis of unresectable or metastatic undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) or dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLPS) that is refractory to at least 1 prior line of systemic therapy
Cohort 3: Must have a confirmed diagnosis of unresectable or metastatic angiosarcoma that is refractory to at least 1 prior line of systemic therapy
Patients must have the following hematologic parameters:
Patients must have adequate organ function:
Patients must be seronegative for the following:
Patients must have a washout period from prior anticancer therapy(ies) of a minimum duration, as detailed below prior to the first study treatment (ie, start of NMA-LD):
Patients must have recovered from all prior anti-cancer therapy-related adverse events (AEs) to ≤ Grade 1 (per Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events [CTCAE] v 5.0), except for alopecia or vitiligo, prior to enrollment.
Patients of childbearing potential (or female partners of male participants) must be willing to take the appropriate precaution to avoid pregnancy or fathering a child for the duration of the study and practice an approved, highly effective method of birth control during treatment and for 12 months after their last dose of IL-2. Approved methods of birth control are as follows:
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients who have a history of hypersensitivity to any component or excipient of LN-144/LN-145 or other study drugs:
Patients with symptomatic brain metastases (of any size and any number).
o Patients with definitively treated brain metastases may be considered for enrollment, if, prior to tumor resection for TIL, the patient is clinically stable for ≥ 14 days, there are no symptomatic brain lesions, and that the patient does not require ongoing corticosteroid treatment.
Patients who have a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \<45% or New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification > Class 1.
Patients who have a smoking history or signs or symptoms of obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease and have a documented forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) of ≤ 60% of predicted normal:
Eligibility Designation for Lymphodepletion
Patients meeting eligibility criteria above between Day -21 and Day -8 prior to the planned initiation of lifileucel will be enrolled to the therapeutic portion of the protocol.
All patients' eligibility criteria, including repeating cardiopulmonary function tests as necessary, will be reassessed within several days prior to the scheduled lymphodepletion in all cases.
Prior to beginning the NMA-LD preparative regimen the following requirements must be met:
Benefit over risk should be assessed and reassessed throughout the treatment course. Successive lifileucel components (preparative lymphodepleting chemotherapy, LN-144/LN-145 and IL-2 ) should be withheld or discontinued if at any time during the treatment course, at the discretion of the treating physician, benefit may not be justified by risks to the patient
Subsequent delays of lymphodepletion up to 14 days due to logistical issues such as production of lifileucel and/or major weather events will not constitute protocol violations and out of window assessments will not need to be repeated unless there is a change in clinical status.
Participants have metastatic uveal melanoma who will undergo surgical excision to generate LN-144/LN-145
Biological: Lifileucel (LN-144/LN-145)
Participants have metastatic sarcoma who will undergo surgical excision to generate LN-144/LN-145
Biological: Lifileucel (LN-144/LN-145)
Patients with angiosarcoma who will undergo surgical excision to generate LN-144/LN-145
Biological: Lifileucel (LN-144/LN-145)
Lifileucel (LN-144/LN-145) is an autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) cell therapy that utilizes a 22-day centralized GMP process. Lifileucel is infused as part of a treatment regimen that includes preparative NMA-LD, followed by one-time autologous TIL infusion, and a short course of high-dose IL-2.
Adverse events as evaluated by CTCAE v5.0
Safety will be measured descriptively using CTCAE v5.0 for all patients who undergo surgical excision.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Plan to share: Yes — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.
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