A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Zilovertamab vedotin in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma and Burkitt Lymphoma, sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC. Recruiting at 71 sites in 23 countries. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 25 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-30.
Sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (part of Merck & Co., Inc) · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
Substudy 01A is part of a platform study. The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of zilovertamab vedotin in pediatric participants with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)/Burkitt lymphoma, or neuroblastoma and in pediatric and young adult participants with Ewing sarcoma.
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The main inclusion and exclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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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 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.
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.
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
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.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
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.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Participants receive escalating doses of zilovertamab vedotin via intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle (every 3 weeks).
Biological: Zilovertamab vedotin
Administered via IV infusion
Also known as: MK-2140, VLS-101
Part 1: Number of Participants from 1 to <18 years of Age Who Experience a Dose-Limiting Toxicity (DLT)
Number of participants experiencing toxicities that are possibly, probably, or definitely related to study therapy; that meet pre-defined severity criteria; and result in a change in the given dose.
Time frame: Up to 42 days
Part 1: Number of Participants from 1 to <18 years of Age Who Experience One or More Adverse Events (AEs)
An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in a participant, whether or not considered drug related. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product and does not imply any judgment about causality. The number of participants in Part 1 who experience at least 1 AE will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1: Number of Participants from 1 to <18 years of Age Who Discontinue Study Treatment Due to AEs
An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in a participant, whether or not considered drug related. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product and does not imply any judgment about causality. The number of participants in Part 1 who discontinue study treatment due to an AE will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1: Number of Participants from 1 to <18 years of Age Who Receive Dose Modification Due to AEs
An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in a participant, whether or not considered drug related. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product and does not imply any judgment about causality. The number of participants in Part 1 who receive a dose modification due to an AE will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1 and Part 2: Objective Response (OR) for Participants with B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL)
OR for participants with B-ALL is defined as complete response (CR) or complete response with incomplete hematologic recovery (CRi) based on investigator's assessment per Ponte-di-Legno Consortium criteria. For Part 1 and Part 2, the OR for participants with B-ALL as assessed by investigator will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1 and Part 2: OR for Participants with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)/Burkitt Lymphoma, Neuroblastoma, and Ewing Sarcoma
OR for participants with DLBCL/Burkitt lymphoma, neuroblastoma, and Ewing sarcoma is defined as complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) based on investigator's assessment per International Pediatric Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (IPNHL) Response Criteria for participants with DLBCL/Burkitt lymphoma, per International Neuroblastoma Response Criteria (INRC) for neuroblastoma, and per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 for Ewing sarcoma. For Part 1 and Part 2, the OR for participants with DLBCL/Burkitt lymphoma, neuroblastoma, and Ewing sarcoma as assessed by investigator will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1 and Part 2: Area Under the Curve (AUC) of Total Antibody
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the AUC of total antibody.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: Maximum Plasma Concentration (Cmax) of Total Antibody
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the Cmax of total antibody.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: Plasma Trough Concentration (Ctrough) of Total Antibody
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the Ctrough of total antibody.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: Apparent Terminal Half-life (t1/2) of Total Antibody
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the t1/2 of total antibody.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: AUC of Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC)
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the AUC of ADC.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: Cmax of ADC
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the Cmax of ADC.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: Ctrough of ADC
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the Ctrough of ADC.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: t1/2 of ADC
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the t1/2 of ADC.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: AUC of Monomethyl Auristatin E (MMAE)
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the AUC of MMAE.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: Cmax of MMAE
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the Cmax of MMAE.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: Ctrough of MMAE
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the Ctrough of MMAE.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: t1/2 of MMAE
Blood samples collected at designated time points will be used to determine the t1/2 of MMAE.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1 through 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter, at end of infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1 and 3, and on Days 3, 8, and 15 of Cycles 1 and 3. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 2: Number of Participants Who Experience One or More AEs
An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in a participant, whether or not considered drug related. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product and does not imply any judgment about causality. The number of participants in Part 2 who experience at least 1 AE will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 2: Number of Participants Who Discontinue Study Treatment Due to AEs
An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in a participant, whether or not considered drug related. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product and does not imply any judgment about causality. The number of participants in Part 2 who discontinue study treatment due to an AE will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 2: Number of Participants Who Receive Dose Modification Due to AEs
An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in a participant, whether or not considered drug related. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a medicinal product and does not imply any judgment about causality. The number of participants in Part 2 who receive a dose modification due to an AE will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1 and Part 2: Incidence of Antidrug Antibodies (ADAs) to Zilovertamab Vedotin
Blood samples collected at designated timepoints will be used to determine the ADA response to zilovertamab vedotin. The incidence of ADAs over time will be presented.
Time frame: Predose on Day 1 of Cycles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and every 4 cycles thereafter. Each cycle is 21 days. (Up to approximately 54 months)
Part 1 and Part 2: Duration of Response (DOR)
DOR is defined as the time from the first documented evidence of CR/CRi for B-ALL or CR/PR for DLBCL/Burkitt lymphoma, Ewing sarcoma, and neuroblastoma until disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first. For participants under 1-year of age, the time from the first dose will start from the first dose a participant receives during Part 2.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1 and Part 2: Percentage of Participants with DLBCL/Burkitt Lymphoma Who Receive Stem Cell Transplant (SCT)
The percentage of participants with DLBCL/Burkitt Lymphoma who go on to receive SCT will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1 and Part 2: Percentage of Participants with B-ALL Who Receive SCT
The percentage of participants with B-ALL who go on to receive SCT will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
Part 1 and Part 2: Percentage of Participants with B-ALL Who Receive Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T)
The percentage of participants with B-ALL who go on to receive CAR-T will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 54 months
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