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Healthy-donor Microbiome MTP-101-C in Steroid Relapse/Refractory Immune-related Cutaneous Adverse Events (irCAEs) and Immune-mediated Colitis (IMC)

A Phase 2 interventional study of MTP-101-C in Immune-mediated Colitis (IMC) and Immune-related Dermatitis, sponsored by Diwakar Davar. Withdrawn at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-14.

Sponsored by Diwakar Davar · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was withdrawn
slow accrual
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Multiple retrospective studies suggest that the administration of corticosteroids to treat irAEs is safe, and does not compromise efficacy of ICI therapy in cancer patients. While \~67% of patients respond to corticosteroids, 33% of patients require biologic therapy such as TNFα inhibitors (e.g. infliximab), integrin α4β7 inhibitors (e.g. vedolizumab), or JAK/STAT inhibitors (e.g. tofactinib). This study aims to determine that distinct pathobionts govern the development of irCAE and IMC; and that the administration of hdFMT may reverse steroid-refractory irCAEs or IMC. The use of hdFMT has been shown to be effective in steroid and biologic (TNFα and/or integrin α₄β₇ inhibitor) refractory colitis in PD-1 and/or CTLA-4 ICI treated cancer patients in single-institution case series.

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The study will be conducted over a 42-day period. Patients receiving anti-PD(L)1 and/or anti-CTLA-4 singly or in combination with other investigational agents are eligible to enroll. Enrollment is not limited by setting (adjuvant, metastatic) and/or line of therapy (1L, 2L etc.). Once enrolled, patients will be enrolled to receive MTP-101-C (encapsulated fecal microbiota, containing \~5 x 1011 bacteria derived from healthy donors) without prior antibiotic conditioning. MTP-101-C will be continued for 28 days during which steroids will be tapered rapidly. irAE endpoint assessment will be repeated following completion of hdFMT (D+28 to D+35) and at 6 weeks (D+42 to D+49). Biospecimens will be obtained periodically. The total duration of MTP-101-C therapy is 4 weeks. This study aims to determine distinct pathobionts govern the development of distinct irAEs including steroid-refractory irCAE or IMC; and that the administration of hdFMT ameliorates irCAE or IMC based on validated cohort-specific assessments: modified CTCAE grading system (cohort 1) or endoscopic assessment scale (full Mayo score, FMS) (cohort 2). Further, this trial aims to show that amelioration of inflammatory pathology is associated with key secondary objectives including: 1) improvements in an irAE toxicity-specific PRO FACT-ICM; and 2) clinically assessment scales. Also, this study will measure the correlation between symptom amelioration and changes in integrated biomarkers include measures of intestinal inflammation (fecal calprotectin), bacterial engraftment (metagenomic) and reactivity to donor bacteria (IgG-seq); exploring the effects of microbiome modulation upon time to steroid discontinuation, time to resumption of therapy, time to next treatment clinical remission by FMS, clinical remission by PMS, and key survival endpoints.

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Conditions studied

  • Immune-mediated Colitis (IMC)
  • Immune-related Dermatitis

Keywords

  • gut microbiome
  • anti-PD-1 therapy
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In context

Lead sponsor

Diwakar Davar is the lead sponsor of 13 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.

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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

  • Able to swallow oral medication.
  • The participant provides written for the trial.
  • Willingness to use for duration of trial participation. Male participants: A male participant must agree to use a contraception per protocol during the treatment period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of study treatment and refrain from donating sperm during this period.

Female participants: A female participant is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant, not breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies:

Not a woman of (WOCBP) per protocol; OR A WOCBP who agrees to follow the contraceptive guidance during the treatment period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of study treatment.

-Clinically confirmed inflammatory irCAE or endoscopically confirmed IMC. Cohort 1 (irCAE): Patients with maculopapular rash, psoriasiform, lichenoid eruptions or bullous pemphigoid of at least grade 3 severity per grading system (i.e. >30% BSA with moderate or severe symptoms) during Screening.

Cohort 2 (IMC): Endoscopically confirmed inflammatory colitis as determined by colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy during Screening with minimum severity per Mayo endoscopic subscore 1-¬3 [MES1-3].

-Prior receipt of anti-PD(L)1 and/or singly or in combination with other approved or agents including chemotherapy or targeted therapy.

NOTE: Patient may have received or are receiving ICI therapy as standard-of-care or part of a clinical trial.

Patient must have received treatment with an anti-PD-(L)1 ICI, anti-CTLA-4 ICI singly and/or in combination with other approved and/or investigational anti-cancer agent(s), as their most recent therapy prior to development of colitis.

Cohort 1 ( Grade ≥3 irCAE) only

  • Receipt of high-dose systemic corticosteroids defined as 1-2mg/kg prednisone equivalent daily (either oral or intravenous) with a taper over 4-6 weeks as defined by society consensus guidelines102-105; AND
  • No receipt of biologic such as but not limited to (dupilumab, rituximab) prior to enrollment.
  • NOTE: Patients must have received steroids to be eligible.
  • NOTE: Steroid "resistant" disease: patients whose symptoms responded (reduction in a CTCAE grade) initially but who developed recurrence upon steroid taper or discontinuation.
  • NOTE: Steroid "refractory" disease: patients whose symptoms have not clinically improved by a CTCAE grade in ≥48 hours or maximum of 14 days.

Cohort 2 (steroid-relapsed/refractory Grade ≥3 IMC) only

  • Receipt of high-dose systemic corticosteroids defined as 1-2mg/kg prednisone equivalent daily (either oral or intravenous) with a taper over 4-6 weeks as defined by society consensus guidelines102-105; AND
  • No receipt of biologic such as but not limited to (TNFα inhibitor infliximab OR α₄β₇ integrin inhibitor vedolizumab) prior to enrollment.
  • Patients must have received steroids to be eligible.
  • Steroid "resistant" disease: patients whose symptoms responded (reduction in a CTCAE grade) initially but who developed recurrence upon steroid taper or discontinuation.
  • Steroid "refractory" disease: patients whose symptoms have not clinically improved by a CTCAE grade in ≥48 hours or maximum of 14 days.

    • Patient may have received any number of lines of prior systemic therapy.
    • Patient with any solid tumor or hematologic are eligible.
    • Patient must not be receiving concurrent radiation therapy.
    • Willingness to undergo cohort-specific evaluation.
  • Cohort 1: Dermatologic evaluation, and skin evaluation prior to and after MTP-101-C administration.
  • Cohort 2: GI evaluation, and endoscopic evaluation including colonoscopies prior to and after MTP-101-C administration.

    • Willingness to undergo correlative blood and stool sampling.
    • Have an (ECOG) performance status (PS) of 0 to 2.
  • Patients with ECOG PS 2 wherein the decline in PS from baseline is deemed secondary to IMC may be enrolled at the discretion of Sponsor-Investigator.
  • Patients with ECOG PS 2 wherein PS is at baseline and deemed secondary to disease are excluded.

    • Have adequate organ function per specimens must be collected within 7 days prior to the start of study treatment.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Multiple irAEs besides irCAE or IMC.

    • Patients with concurrent ≥Grade 3 irAEs besides irCAE or IMC that necessitate systemic immune suppression are not candidates for this trial.
    • Patients with irCAE and/or IMC that are not otherwise clarified in Section 5.1.5 (irCAE including alopecia etc.) are not candidates for this trial.
    • Patients with concomitant irAEs that are well controlled (≤Grade 1 or Grade 2 on repletion medication) may be enrolled at the discretion of Sponsor-Investigator.
  • Diagnosis of immunodeficiency, or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy besides /biologics within 7 days prior to the first dose of MTP-101-C treatment.
  • Patients at high risk of MDRO colonization including: nursing home residence, age >85, underlying diseases (dementia, poorly controlled diabetes, chronic wounds), in-dwelling medical devices (urinary catheters, feeding tubes, PEG tubes) and a prior history of MDRO colonization.
  • to endoscopy (cohort 2 only).
  • Contraindication to MTP-101-C administration.
  • Any prior head/neck and/or abdominal surgery resulting in potentially altered absorption of orally administered FMT pills.
  • Active bacterial infection requiring systemic antibiotic therapy.
  • Received within 30 days prior to the first dose of study treatment and while participating in the study
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Informed consent

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    MTP-101-C (Cohort 1: Steroid R/R biologic-naive dermatitis)

    Patients given MTP-101-C (encapsulated fecal microbiota, containing \~5 x 1011 bacteria derived from healthy donors). Dosing: 5 capsules/day (Day 1); 2 capsules/day (D2-D28)

    Biological: MTP-101-C

  • Experimental
    MTP-101-C (Cohort 2: Steroid R/R biologic-naive colitis)

    Patients given MTP-101-C (encapsulated fecal microbiota, containing \~5 x 1011 bacteria derived from healthy donors). Dosing: 5 capsules/day (Day 1); 2 capsules/day (D2-D28)

    Biological: MTP-101-C

Interventions

  • BiologicalMTP-101-C

    MTP-101-C is a screened, freeze-dried, encapsulated, full spectrum, healthy donor fecal microbiota product.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of adverse events (AEs)

    Incidence of adverse events (AEs) in ICB-treated cancer patients treated with MTP-101-C.

    Time frame: Up to 2 months

  2. Incidence of Dose-Limiting Toxicities (DLTs)

    Incidence of dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) in ICB-treated cancer patients treated with MTP-101-C. DLT is defined as any adverse event(s) (AEs) considered possibly, probably, or definitely related to MTP-101-C, which occur during the treatment phase. During DLT monitoring period, no further accrual will be permitted. Any patient who has started the studied treatment will be evaluable for safety. AEs will be considered DLTs if deemed related to study therapy: Hematologic: Grade 4 neutropenia, Febrile neutropenia, Grade ≥ 3 neutropenic infection, Grade ≥ 3 thrombocytopenia with bleeding, Grade 4 thrombocytopenia. Non-hematologic: Grade ≥ 3 toxicities (non-laboratory), Grade ≥ 3 nausea, vomiting or diarrhea despite maximal medical intervention, Grade 4 aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT). Other (non-AST/ALT) non-hematologic Grade ≥ 3 laboratory value if the abnormality leads to overnight hospitalization

    Time frame: Up to 2 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Resolution of steroid relapsed/refractory irCAEs (cohort 1)

    Resolution of steroid relapsed/refractory irCAEs (cohort 1) following MTP-101-C using cohort -specific endpoints including modified CTCAE grading system (cohort 1)

    Time frame: Up to 2 months

  2. Resolution of steroid relapsed/refractory IMC (cohort 2)

    Resolution of steroid relapsed/refractory IMC (cohort 2) following MTP-101-C using cohort -specific endpoints including modified CTCAE grading system (cohort 1) or endoscopic assessment scale Full Mayo Score (FMS) (cohort 2). FMS includes Partial Mayo Score (PMS) plus endoscopic findings. PMS assesses Stool frequency (per day - normal number of stools to ≥ 5 more, Rectal bleeding (none to blood alone passes) and Physician's global assessment (normal to severe disease), all with scores ranging from 0 to 3. Scores range from 0 - 9 points. Endoscopic score findings range from 0 - 3. Total full scores range from 0 to12, with higher scores indicating more severe ulcerative colitis.

    Time frame: Up to 2 months

  3. Resolution of IMC following MTP-101-C in steroid relapsed/refractory irCAE (cohort 1)

    Resolution of IMC following MTP-101-C in steroid relapsed/refractory irCAE (cohort 1) or IMC (cohort 2) using clinical endpoint Partial Mayo Score (PMS), which assesses Stool frequency (per day - normal number of stools to ≥ 5 more, Rectal bleeding (none to blood alone passes) and Physician's global assessment (normal to severe disease), all with scores ranging from 0 to 3. Scores range from 0 - 9 points, with higher scores indicating more severe ulcerative colitis.

    Time frame: Up to 2 months

  4. Resolution of IMC following MTP-101-C in steroid relapsed/refractory IMC (cohort 2)

    Resolution of IMC following MTP-101-C in steroid relapsed/refractory irCAE (cohort 1) or IMC (cohort 2) using clinical endpoint Partial Mayo Score (PMS), which assesses Stool frequency (per day - normal number of stools to ≥ 5 more, Rectal bleeding (none to blood alone passes) and Physician's global assessment (normal to severe disease), all with scores ranging from 0 to 3. Scores range from 0 - 9 points, with higher scores indicating more severe ulcerative colitis.

    Time frame: Up to 2 months

  5. Patient Reported Outcomes - FACT-ICM

    The FACT-ICM is a self-administered questionnaire that measures quality of life within the prior 7 days in patients being treated with immunotherapy, using 52 items with a 5-point Likert-type scale, (0 = Not at all to 5 = Very Much). Subscales include Physical Well-Being max score=28), Social/Family Well-Being (max score=28), Emotional Well-Being (max score=24), Functional Well-Being (max score=28), Immune Checkpoint Modulator Subscale (max score=100). Total scores= 0 to 208, with higher scores indicating better quality of life.

    Time frame: At Screening, Day +28 through Day +35, Day +42 through Day +49

  6. Patient Reported Outcomes - FACIT-general

    FACIT-general is a self-administered questionnaire that measures quality of life within the prior 7 days in patients being treated with immunotherapy, using 27 items with a 5-point Likert-type scale, (0 = Not at all to 5 = Very Much). Subscales include Physical Well-Being max score=28), Social/Family Well-Being (max score=28), Emotional Well-Being (max score=24), Functional Well-Being (max score=28), Total scores= 0 to 108, with higher scores indicating better quality of life.

    Time frame: At Screening, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4

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Study locations

1 site
  • UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 14, 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
NCT06499896
Lead sponsor
Diwakar Davar
Collaborators
Stanley Marks Fund for Cancer Research, Cures Within Reach
Responsible party
Diwakar Davar (Assistant Professor of Medical oncology, University of Pittsburgh) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Jul 15, 2024
Start date
Jan 23, 2027 (estimated)
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 30, 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 14, 2026

Study contacts

Diwakar M Davar, MD, PhD
principal investigator · UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Oversight

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