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CB-103 With Either Lenvatinib or Abemaciclib in Patients With NOTCH ACC

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of CB-103 and Abemaciclib in Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, Metastatic Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma and Recurrent Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, sponsored by Michael J. Dennis, MD. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-09.

Sponsored by Michael J. Dennis, MD · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jun 2023; still recruiting 3 years 5 months later.

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Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
32
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 45 studies in Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic with a site in United States — 11 open to participants now, 21 under way, none of them phase 3. Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic · United States.

Planned enrollment
28th of 43
32 · median 38
Started
2023
with 1 other
Phase 1/2
8 of 45
5 open now
Primary completion
2027-06
later than 11 of 20 live
Registered
35th of 45
by date

Among the 45 studies in Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic with a site in United States, this one is the 28th largest by planned enrollment of the 43 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 2 that started in 2023, is one of 8 in phase 1/2, reaches primary completion later than 11 of the 20 other live ones, and was the 35th registered.

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Study summary

The goal of this study is to treat patients with NOTCH active advanced adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) tumors with a combination or two different oral medications to slow tumor growth and improve survival outcomes.

The names of the study drugs involved in this study are:

  • CB-103 (an oral NOTCH pathway inhibitor)
  • Abemaciclib (CDK4/6 inhibitor)
  • Lenvatinib (a vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI))
Read the detailed description

This is a phase 2, open-label, non-randomized, parallel cohort, multicenter study investigating the novel pan-NOTCH inhibitor, CB-103, in combination with the CDK4/6 inhibitor, Abemaciclib, and CB-103 in combination with the multi-targeted vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), Lenvatinib for patients with advanced, incurable, or metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) with a Notch pathway activating mutation.

Participants will be placed into one of two treatment groups: Cohort 1: CB-103 + Abemaciclib or Cohort 2: VEGFR TKI Lenvatinib + CB-103.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved CB-103 as a treatment for any disease.

The FDA has not approved Abemaciclib or Lenvatinib for advanced adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC)), but it has been approved for other uses or cancer types.

Study procedures include screening for eligibility, treatment visits, radiologic scans of tumors, and blood tests.

Participation in this study is expected to last about 2 years or until disease progression, therapy intolerance, or participant withdrawal.

It is expected that about 32 people will take part in this research study.

Cellestia Biotech AG is supporting this research study by providing funding.

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Conditions studied

  • Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
  • Metastatic Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
  • Recurrent Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma

Keywords

  • Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
  • Metastatic Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
  • Recurrent Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
  • ACC
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Who can participate

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

Eligibility criteria

Participants must meet the following eligibility criteria at the time of screening to be eligible to participate in the study:

Eligibility Criteria

  1. Participants must have confirmed adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) with evidence of recurrent, or advanced, incurable disease arising from any primary site
  2. Activating mutation in the NOTCH signaling pathway
  3. In Cohort 1 only, prior multitargeted VEGFR TKI or systemic therapy is permitted.
  4. In Cohort 2 only, no prior multitargeted VEGFR TKI therapy is permitted, but prior systemic chemotherapy as part of definitive or curative intent management is permitted.

    a. Any participant must obtain prior approval from insurance to reimburse for oral Lenvatinib, or off-label drug assistance to secure Lenvatinib for the duration of the study or agree to self-pay for oral Lenvatinib or obtain institutional commitment from the study site to provide Lenvatinib.

  5. Age 18 years or older
  6. (ECOG) performance status 0 or 1
  7. Patients able and willing to swallow oral capsules or tablet medications.
  8. At least one ( v1.1)
  9. Participant must have organ and marrow function as defined below within 14 days prior to study registration (=upper limit of normal per institution):

    (ANC) ≥1.5 x 109/L (Hgb) ≥9 g/dL (patients may receive erythrocyte transfusions to achieve this hemoglobin level at the discretion of the investigator. Initial treatment must not begin earlier than the day after the erythrocyte transfusion).

    count ≥100 x 109/L (without transfusion within the last 5 days) Serum creatinine ≤1.5x ULN or serum (CrCl) ≥50 mL/min (estimated by Cockcroft-Gault formula) Serum (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤3x ULN Total serum ≤1.5x ULN (patients with Gilbert's syndrome with a total bilirubin ≤2.0 times ULN and direct bilirubin within normal limits are permitted).

  10. Baseline proteinuria with a urinalysis or urine dipstick value of 2+ requires a spot urine protein/creatinine ratio of \<0.3 (or 24-hour urine collection protein value \<300 mg/g) in Cohort 2 only
  11. Participants with treated brain or are eligible if follow-up brain imaging after CNS-directed therapy shows no convincing evidence of progression and patients are neurologically stable with no new neurological deficits.
  12. Female subjects of should have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days before start of study treatment.
  13. Female and male subjects of childbearing potential must agree to use an adequate method of to avoid pregnancy (with at least 99% certainty) from screening through 90-days or 3-months post-treatment completion (see Appendix B).
  14. Participants with a prior or concurrent whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the regimen are eligible for this trial.
  15. Patients who received chemotherapy must have recovered ( grade ≤1) from the acute effects of chemotherapy except for residual alopecia or grade 2 peripheral neuropathy. A of at least 21 days is required between last chemotherapy dose and start of therapy (provided the patient did not receive radiotherapy).

Exclusion Criteria

  1. Participant has untreated or clinically symptomatic CNS metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis
  2. The patient has had major surgery within 14 days prior to study registration.
  3. The patient has serious and/or uncontrolled preexisting medical condition(s) that, in the judgment of the investigator, would preclude participation in this study (for example, interstitial lung disease, severe dyspnea at rest or requiring oxygen therapy, severe renal impairment, history of major surgical resection involving the stomach or small bowel, or preexisting Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis or a preexisting chronic condition resulting in baseline grade 2 or higher diarrhea).
  4. Impairment of GI function or presence of GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of the study agents (e.g. ulcerative diseases, uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, malabsorption syndrome, or small bowel resection)
  5. The patient has active systemic bacterial infection (requiring intravenous [IV] antibiotics at time of initiating study treatment), fungal infection, or detectable viral infection (such as known positivity or with known active or C [for example, hepatitis B surface antigen positive]. Screening is not required for enrollment.
  6. The patient has a personal history of any of the following conditions: syncope of cardiovascular etiology, ventricular arrhythmia of pathological origin (including, but not limited to, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation), or sudden cardiac arrest
  7. Pregnant or lactating women. Pregnant women are excluded from this study because of the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother, breastfeeding should be discontinued.
  8. Patients who received radiotherapy must have completed and fully recovered from the acute effects of radiotherapy. A washout period of at least 14 days is required between end of radiotherapy and start of therapy. Patients on anticoagulants that require monitoring (such as warfarin). The patient has received an experimental treatment in a clinical trial within the last 30 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, or is currently enrolled in any other type of medical research judged by the sponsor not to be scientifically or medically compatible with this study.
  9. Corrected >450 msec for males and >470 msec for females in screening
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(23)

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.

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.

Metastases

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

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.

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.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

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
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
32 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Experimental: Cohort 1A - CB-103 + Abemaciclib

    A modified 3+3 dose escalation design will be used. 3-9 participants will receive: * Standard of care Abemaciclib. * Cycle 1 - End of Treatment --Days 1- 28 of 28-day cycle: Predetermined dose of CB-103 2x daily on five consecutive days followed by two days of treatment break in each treatment week. * A safety review will be performed by primary investigation after completion of the ramp-up phase.

    Drug: CB-103 · Drug: Abemaciclib

  • Experimental
    Experimental: Cohort 1B - CB-103 + Abemaciclib

    Participants will receive: * Cycle 1 - End of Treatment --Days 1- 28 of 28-day cycle: Predetermined dose of CB-103 2x daily on five consecutive days followed by two days of treatment break in each treatment week and predetermined dose of Abemaciclib 1x daily. * Therapy will continue until disease progression, therapy intolerance, or participant withdrawal. * End of Treatment (EOT) visit within 30 days of last administration of study treatments.

    Drug: CB-103 · Drug: Abemaciclib

  • Experimental
    Experimental: Cohort 2A- Lenvatinib + CB-103

    A modified 3+3 dose escalation design will be used. 3-9 participants will receive: * Standard of care VEGFR TKI. * Cycle 1 - End of Treatment --Days 1- 28 of 28-day cycle: Predetermined dose of CB-103 2x daily on five consecutive days followed by two days of treatment break in each treatment week. * A safety review will be performed by primary investigation after completion of the ramp-up phase.

    Drug: CB-103 · Drug: Lenvatinib

  • Experimental
    Experimental: Cohort 2B- Lenvatinib + CB-103

    Participants will receive: * Continue standard of care VEGFR TKI at prior dose and schedule. * Cycle 1 - End of Treatment --Day 1- 28 of 28-day cycle: Predetermined dose of CB-103 2x daily on five consecutive days followed by two days of treatment break in each treatment week. * Therapy will continue until disease progression, therapy intolerance, or participant withdrawal. * End of Treatment (EOT) visit within 30 days of last administration of study treatments.

    Drug: CB-103 · Drug: Lenvatinib

Interventions

  • DrugCB-103

    First-in-class pan-NOTCH inhibitor, capsule taken orally.

  • CDK4/6 inhibitor, tablet taken orally.

  • Per standard care, capsule taken orally.

    Also known as: Lenvima

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Progression-Free Survival (PFS) of Cohort 1

    Progression-Free Survival (PFS) is defined as the time from study registration to the earlier of progression or death due to any cause. Participants alive without disease progression are censored at date of last disease evaluation. Median PFS will be estimated via the Kaplan-Meier method to estimate all time-to-event endpoints with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the median or time-specific event time

    Time frame: At 4 months

  2. Progression-Free Survival (PFS) of Cohort 2

    Progression-Free Survival (PFS) is defined as the time from study registration to the earlier of progression or death due to any cause. Participants alive without disease progression are censored at date of last disease evaluation.

    Time frame: At 4 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of Participants with treatment related Adverse Events per CTCAE 5.0

    Assessed using NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  2. Overall Response Rate (ORR)

    Per RECIST v1.1

    Time frame: From enrollment to end of treatment up to 2 years

  3. Overall Survival (OS)

    Overall Survival (OS) is defined as the time from study registration to death due to any cause, or censored at date last known alive.

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  4. Duration of Overall Response (DOR)

    The duration of overall response is measured from the time measurement criteria are met for Complete Response (CR) or Partial Response (PR), whichever is first recorded, until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented. Participants without events reported are censored at the last disease evaluation).

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — The Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center encourages and supports the responsible and ethical sharing of data from clinical trials. De-identified participant data from the final research dataset used in the published manuscript may only be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement. Requests may be directed to: [contact information for Sponsor Investigator or designee]. The protocol and statistical analysis plan will be made available on Clinicaltrials.gov only as required by federal regulation or as a condition of awards and agreements supporting the research.

Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan

Time frame: Data can be shared no earlier than 1 year following the date of publication

Access criteria: Contact the Belfer Office for Dana-Farber Innovations (BODFI) at innovation@dfci.harvard.edu

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Jun 2023 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2027, 48 months after the start.

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

Registered
Mar 14, 2023
First posted
Mar 20, 2023
StartActual
Jun 1, 2023
Primary completionEst.
Jun 1, 2027
CompletionEst.
Jun 1, 2028
Last update
Sep 9, 2026
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 Sep 9, 2026, 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
NCT05774899
Lead sponsor
Michael J. Dennis, MD
Collaborators
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation, Cellestia Biotech AG
Responsible party
Michael J. Dennis, MD (Principal Investigator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Mar 20, 2023
Start date
Jun 1, 2023
Primary completion
Jun 1, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 1, 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 9, 2026

Study contacts

Michael Dennis, MD
Contact
michael_dennis@dfci.harvard.edu
857-215-2840
Michael Dennis, MD
principal investigator · Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Oversight

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