A Phase 1/2 interventional study of TUB-040 and Bevacizumab in Ovarian Cancer and Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Gilead Sciences. Recruiting at 21 sites in 7 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-03.
Sponsored by Gilead Sciences · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of this clinical study is to learn more about the study drug, TUB-040, including its safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy, and to determine the best dose of TUB-040 in participants with ovarian cancer or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
The primary objectives of this study are:
Phase 1: To determine the safety and tolerability of TUB-040 and determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or the identified dose for optimization (IDO).
Phase 2a: To assess safety of TUB-040, the preliminary efficacy of TUB-040, and to identify the recommended phase II dose (RP2D) for further development of TUB-040 .
Phase 2b: To determine the efficacy of TUB-040 in patients with PROC.
3,381 studies on the registry are indexed under Ovarian Neoplasms; 790 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 334 is above the median of 54 across 2,548 interventional studies indexed under Ovarian Neoplasms.
Browse Ovarian Neoplasms studies →Gilead Sciences is the lead sponsor of 692 studies on the registry; 26 are open to participants now.
Of its 261 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 251 (96%) have results posted.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
The criteria were revised on the registry on Nov 3, 2026. See what changed
Key Inclusion Criteria (for all phases)
Key Exclusion Criteria (for all phases)
Individuals with acute or chronic infections such as:
Note: Other protocol defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
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.
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.
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.
Participants will receive escalating doses of TUB-040 every 3 weeks until the disease progresses or the patient has to stop due to side effects.
Drug: TUB-040
Participants will receive escalating doses of TUB-040 every 3 weeks until the disease progresses or the patient has to stop due to side effects.
Drug: TUB-040
Participants will receive escalating doses of TUB-040 combined with BEV every 3 weeks until the disease progresses or the patient has to stop due to side effects.
Drug: TUB-040 · Drug: Bevacizumab
Participants will receive two different dose levels of TUB-040 every 3 weeks until the disease progresses or the patient has to stop due to side effects.
Drug: TUB-040
Patients will receive TUB-040 at the safe dose established during dose escalation until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: TUB-040
Administered intravenous (IV) on day 1 of each 21-day treatment cycle
Administered IV
Also known as: BEV
Phase 1: Percentage of Participants Experiencing any Dose-limiting Toxicities (DLTs)
Time frame: First dose up to 21 days
Phase 1 and 2a: Percentage of Participants Experiencing Treatment-Emergent Adverse Event (TEAEs)
Time frame: First dose date up to 30 days post last dose (Up to 3 years)
Phase 2a & 2b: Overall Response Rate (ORR) by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR)
ORR is defined as the percentage of participants who have achieved complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), as assessed by BICR.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 2a & 2b: Duration of Response (DOR) by BICR
DOR is defined as the interval from the first documentation of CR or PR until the date of first documented disease progression or death, whichever comes first, as assessed by BICR.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1, 2a & 2b: ORR by INV
ORR is defined as the percentage of participants who have achieved complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), as assessed by Investigator (INV).
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1, 2a & 2b: DOR by INV
DOR is defined as the interval from the first documentation of CR or PR until the date of first documented disease progression or death, whichever comes first, as assessed by INV.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1, 2a & 2b: Progression-Free Survival (PFS) by INV
PFS is defined as the time from first dose date until disease progression or death from any cause, whichever comes first, as assessed by INV.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1, 2a & 2b: Disease Control Rate (DCR) by INV
DCR is defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed CR, PR, or stable disease, as assessed by INV.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 2a & 2b: Progression-Free Survival (PFS) by BICR
PFS is defined as the time from first dose date until disease progression or death from any cause, whichever comes first, as assessed by BICR.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 2a & 2b: Disease Control Rate (DCR) by BICR
DCR is defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed CR, PR, or stable disease, as assessed by BICR.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1, 2a & 2b: Percentage of Participants Experiencing Grade ≥3 Lab Abnormalities
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1: Percentage of Participants Experiencing Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)
Time frame: First dose date up to 30 days post last dose (Up to 3 years)
Phase 1 & 2a: Pharmacokinetic (PK) Parameter of TUB-040, total Monoclonal Antibody (mAb), and Free Exatecan: Cmax
Cmax is defined as the maximum observed drug concentration.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1 & 2a: PK Parameter of TUB-040, Total mAb, and Free Exatecan: Cmin
The concentration of TUB-040 (conjugated ADC), total mAb, and free payload (Cmin will be derived).
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1 & 2a: PK Parameter TUB-040, Total mAb, and Free Exatecan: Tmax
Tmax is defined as the time (observed time point) of Cmax.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1 & 2a: PK Parameter TUB-040, Total mAb, and Free Exatecan: Area Under Curve (AUC)
AUC is a measure of the serum concentration of the drug over time. It is used to characterize drug absorption.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1 & 2a: PK Parameter TUB-040, Total mAb, and Free Exatecan: Half life (t1/2)
t1/2 is defined as the terminal elimination half-life at steady state.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 1, 2a & 2b: Percentage of Participants Developing anti-TUB-040 antibodies and semiquantitative titer assessments
Time frame: From enrollment until 30 days after last study drug
Phase 2a & 2b: Overall Survival (OS)
OS is defined as the length of time from first dose until the date of death from any cause.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 2a & 2b: Cancer Antigen (CA)-125 response according to Gynecological Cancer InterGroup (GCIG)
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Phase 2a & 2b: Percentage of Participants Experiencing TEAEs
Time frame: First dose date up to 30 days post last dose date (Up to 3 years)
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Started Jun 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2027, 42 months after the start.
Of 116 industry-sponsored phase 1/2 interventional studies under Ovarian Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 61 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 44 and three quarters within 88. This study's planned 42 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 173 studies reached it within 65 months; a quarter within 44 and three quarters within 100.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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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Studies of the drug tested here: Anti-NaPi2b/Exatecan Antibody-drug Conjugate TUB-040