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Active, not recruitingNCT06396065Updated Jul 28, 2026

Phase III Study of AK112 for NSCLC Patients

A Phase 3 interventional study of AK112 Injection and Placebo Injection in Non-Squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Summit Therapeutics. Active, not recruiting at 74 sites in 6 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-28.

Sponsored by Summit Therapeutics · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 11 months after the study started (first participant enrolled May 2023, registered Apr 2024).
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
420
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

A Randomized, Double-blind, Multi-center, Phase III Clinical Study of AK112 or Placebo Combined With Pemetrexed and Carboplatin in Patients With EGFR-mutant Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Who Have Progressed on or Following Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) Treatment (HARMONi)

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The trial will be performed as a randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter trial to compare Ivonescimab (SMT112 /AK112) Plus Pemetrexed and Carboplatin to Placebo Plus Pemetrexed and Carboplatin in Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Harboring. Approximately 420 subjects will be randomized to two treatment arms at the ratio of 1:1. Each enrolled subject will receive an intravenous infusion of the Ivonescimab (SMT112 /AK112)/Placebo Plus Pemetrexed and Carboplatin (Q3W,up to 4 cycles) in treatment periods per the randomization schedule. Afterward, Ivonescimab (SMT112 /AK112)/ Placebo Plus Pemetrexed will be used for maintenance treatment (administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) up to 2 years.

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Conditions studied

  • Non-Squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Keywords

  • NSCLC
  • EGFR Positive
  • ivonescimab
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In context

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

7,620 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,838 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 420 is above the median of 62 across 6,019 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.

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Lead sponsor

Summit Therapeutics is the lead sponsor of 13 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Ability to understand and voluntarily sign a written form (ICF), which must be signed before the specified study procedures required for the study are performed.
  2. Males or females aged ≥ 18 to ≤ 75 years at the time of signing informed consent. (For patients from North America and Europe, there will be no upper age cutoff)
  3. performance status score of 0 or 1.
  4. Expected survival ≥3 months.
  5. Histologically or cytology-confirmed, locally advanced (Stage IIIB/IIIC) or (Stage IV) non-squamous NSCLC (according to TNM staging of lung cancer, 8th edition) that cannot be completely resected by surgery and cannot receive radical concurrent/sequential chemoradiation.
  6. EGFR activation mutations that are confirmed by tumor histology or cytology or blood test before enrollment (eg, exon 18 point mutations, exon 19 deletions, exon 20 point mutations, and exon 21 point mutations). Patients must provide a previous EGFR mutation test report, otherwise tumor tissue samples, peripheral blood samples, or pleural fluid samples will need to be collected for EGFR status testing prior to enrollment.
  7. Prior treatment with EGFR TKI and treatment failure, meeting any of the following requirements: Progression after treatment with first- or second-generation EGFR TKI, and confirmation of absence of T790M mutation after progression (only for patients enrolled in China). Progression after treatment with a third-generation EGFR TKI (eg, osimertinib, ametinib, vometinib). Note, for North America and Europe patients only.
  8. According to v1.1, there is at least 1 measurable noncerebral lesion.
  9. Adequate organ function determined by the following requirements
  10. Female patients of childbearing age have a negative serum pregnancy test result within 3 days before the first dose
  11. If a female patient of has sex with an unsterilized male partner, the patient must use a highly effective method of from the beginning of screening and must agree to continue using these precautions until 120 days after the last dose of the study drug or until 6 months after the last carboplatin and pemetrexed dose (whichever is longer).
  12. If an unsterilized male patient has sex with a female partner of childbearing potential, the patient must use an effective method of contraception from the beginning of screening to day 120 after the last dose or until 6 months after the last carboplatin and pemetrexed dose (whichever is longer). The decision to stop contraception after this time point should be discussed with investigator.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Histologic or cytopathologic evidence of the presence of a small cell carcinoma component, or a predominantly squamous cell carcinoma.
  2. Patients who have received (eg, anti-PD-1/L1 antibodies, anti-CTLA-4 antibodies, anti-LAG-3 antibodies, etc.)
  3. Received prior systemic chemotherapy, anti-angiogenic therapy, or more than one prior line of antitumor therapy (other than EGFR inhibitors) for advanced stage (IIIB to IV) NSCLC.
  4. Concurrent enrollment in another clinical study, unless it is a noninterventional clinical study or the follow-up period of the interventional study is more than 4 weeks from the last dose of the prior clinical study or more than 5 half-lives of the prior study drug, whichever is shorter.
  5. Received EGFR inhibitor therapy within 2 weeks (with the exception of osimertinib to be within 7 days) prior to the first dose; received nonspecific immunomodulatory therapy (eg, interleukin, interferon, thymus peptide, tumor necrosis factor) within 2 weeks prior to the first dose, excluding IL-11 for the treatment of thrombocytopenia; have received Chinese herbal medicines or proprietary Chinese medicines with antitumor indications within 1 week before the first dose.
  6. Imaging during the screening period shows that the tumor surrounds important blood vessels or has obvious necrosis and/or cavitation of tumor lesions within the lung parenchyma.
  7. Imaging during the screening period shows that the tumor invades the surrounding vital organs and blood vessels, such as the heart and pericardium, trachea, esophagus, aorta, superior vena cava, or patient is at risk of esophageal tracheal fistula or esophageal pleural fistula.
  8. Symptomatic of the central nervous system.
  9. Malignant tumors other than NSCLC within 3 years before the first dose.
  10. Active disease requiring systemic therapy (eg, with disease-modifying drugs, , therapy) within 2 years prior to the first dose (excluding ir AEs due to PD-1/L1 inhibitors). Replacement therapy (eg, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy (prednisone ≤ 10 mg daily or equivalent) for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is permitted.
  11. There is a history of major diseases before the first dose
  12. History of perforation of the gastrointestinal tract and/or fistula, history of gastrointestinal obstruction (including incomplete intestinal obstruction requiring parenteral nutrition), extensive bowel resection (partial colectomy or extensive small bowel resection, complicated by chronic diarrhea) within 6 months before the first study drug administration.
  13. Patients with >30 Gy of chest radiation therapy within 6 months prior to the first dose, nonthoracic radiation therapy >30 Gy within 4 weeks prior to the first dose, and palliative radiation therapy of ≤30 Gy within 2 weeks prior to the first dose and failed to recover from the toxicity and/or complications of these interventions to Grade ≤1 (except hair loss and fatigue). Palliative radiotherapy for symptom control is permitted if it has been completed at least 2 weeks before the first dose, and no additional radiotherapy for the same lesion is planned.
  14. Inactivated vaccines are allowed. Patients are excluded if they have received a or live attenuated vaccine within 4 weeks prior to the first dose, or if they are scheduled to receive a live vaccine or live attenuated vaccine during the study period.
  15. Severe infection within 4 weeks prior to the first dose, including but not limited to comorbidities requiring hospitalization, sepsis, or severe pneumonia; active infection that has received systemic anti-infective therapy within 2 weeks prior to the first dose (excluding antiviral therapy for or C)
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(13)

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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.

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.

Metastases

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

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.

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.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

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.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
420 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    AK112 in combination with Pemetrexed and Carboplatin

    Subjects will receive AK112 Plus Pemetrexed and Carboplatin via intravenous infusion (IV) Q3W, up to 4 cycles. Afterward, AK112 Plus Pemetrexed will be used for maintenance treatment (administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) up to 2 years.

    Drug: AK112 Injection

  • Active comparator
    Placebo in combination with Pemetrexed and Carboplatin

    Subjects will receive Placebo Plus Pemetrexed and Carboplatin via intravenous infusion (IV) Q3W, up to 4 cycles in treatment periods per the randomization schedule. Afterward, Placebo Plus Pemetrexed will be used for maintenance treatment (administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) up to 2 years.

    Drug: Placebo Injection

Interventions

  • Subjects will receive AK112 Plus Pemetrexed and Carboplatin via intravenous infusion (IV) Q3W, up to 4 cycles. Afterward, AK112 Plus Pemetrexed will be used for maintenance treatment (administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) up to 2 years.

    Also known as: Pemetrexed, Carboplatin

  • DrugPlacebo Injection

    Subjects will receive Placebo Plus Pemetrexed and Carboplatin via intravenous infusion (IV) Q3W, up to 4 cycles in treatment periods per the randomization schedule. Afterward, Placebo Plus Pemetrexed will be used for maintenance treatment (administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) up to 2 years.

    Also known as: Pemetrexed, Carboplatin

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Progression-free survival (PFS)

    Progression-free survival (PFS) assessed by IRC per RECIST v1.1 in the ITT population.

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  2. Overall Survival (OS) in the ITT population

    Overall Survival (OS) in the ITT population

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. ORR

    Efficacy measures such as overall response rate (ORR) and duration of response (DoR), which is the proportion of subjects with CR or PR by IRRC based on RECIST v1.1

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  2. AE

    Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs), and clinically significant abnormal laboratory results.

    Time frame: From the subject signs the ICF to 30 days (AE) and 90 days (SAE) after the last dose of study treatment or initiation of other anti-tumor therapy, whichever occurs first,up to 2 years

  3. Observed concentrations of AK112

    The endpoints for assessment of PK of AK112 include serum concentrations of AK112 at different timepoints after AK112 administration

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years

  4. Number of subjects who develop detectable anti-drug antibodies (ADAs)

    The immunogenicity of AK112 will be assessed by summarizing the number of subjects who develop detectable antidrug antibodies (ADAs)

    Time frame: From first dose of AK112 through 90 days after last dose of AK112, up to 2 years

  5. DoR

    Duration of response (DoR) which is the proportion of subjects with CR or PR by IRRC based on RECIST v1.1

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

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Study locations

74 sites
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 28, 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
NCT06396065
Lead sponsor
Summit Therapeutics
Collaborators
Akeso
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 2, 2024
Start date
May 4, 2023
Primary completion
Apr 12, 2025
Completion
Dec 31, 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 28, 2026

Oversight

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