A Phase 1 interventional study of Lymphodepletion and TCR-T cells (MDG1015) in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Gastro-esophageal Junction Cancer and Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS), sponsored by Medigene AG. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-12-27.
Sponsored by Medigene AG · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
MDG1015 is a third generation TCR-T therapy product targeting NY-ESO-1/LAGE-1a armored and enhanced by the PD1-41BB costimulatory switch protein (CSP). The study purpose is to establish the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of MDG1015 in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer, gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma, round cell liposarcoma and/or synovial sarcoma that expresses NY-ESO-1 and/or LAGE-1a.
The main questions this clinical trial aims to answer are:
Can this TCR-T therapy MDG1015 be given to patients safely? What is the optimal dose of the TCR-T therapy MDG1015? If and what side effects do participants experience after receiving the TCR-T therapy MDG1015? Do participants experience a potential disease response after receiving the TCR-T therapy MDG1015?
Participants will:
Receive (in most cases) 1 single infusion of MDG1015 at a pre-defined dose level and will be followed up regularly up to 1 year. After one year, participants will enter the long term follow-up part up to 15 years after being treated. Any side effects and/or potential disease response will be documented during this period.
The clinical study consists of screening, leukapheresis of mononuclear cells, LDC, followed by a single MDG1015 infusion on Day 0 and a subsequent hospitalization period of at least 3 days for in-patient safety monitoring. All Subjects who have received an MDG1015 infusion will continue to be followed regularly for safety and efficacy assessments in a post-treatment follow-up through month 12 (Y1) and long-term follow-up (LTFU) through years 2 - 15 in an out-patient setting. Dose Escalation Segment (DE) will evaluate an anticipated number of 4 dose levels to establish the maximum tolerated dose (MTD)/recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D). During the cohort expansion (CE) segment the MTD/RP2D will be confirmed
797 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial; 101 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 55 is above the median of 45 across 584 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial.
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Subjects must have
Exclusion Criteria:
Viral serology:
History of another primary that requires intervention beyond surveillance or that has not been in remission for at least 1 year. The following are exempt from the 1-year limit:
Previous hematopoietic stem cell transplant within the last 5 years or solid organ transplant
Specific to GAC/GEJ Subjects:
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
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.
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 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.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
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.
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.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leptomeningeal disease
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Allogeneic and autologous transplant
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
MDG1015 is a first-in-class, 3rd generation TCR-T therapy consisting of autologous, patient-derived CD8+ T cells that are transduced with a New York esophageal squamous cell carcinoma-1 (NY-ESO-1)/ L antigen family member-1a (LAGE-1a)-specific, human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A\*02:01-restricted T cell receptor (TCR) and the costimulatory switch protein (CSP) programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1)-41BB administered following lymphodepletion chemotherapy.
Drug: Lymphodepletion · Biological: TCR-T cells (MDG1015)
Cylcophosamide and Fludarabine
TCR-T cells (MDG1015)
DE Segment: Adverse Events and Dose Limiting Toxicities (Safety and Tolerability)
Incidence and severity of adverse events to establish RP2D measured by dose limiting toxicities (DLTs) up to 28 days post infusion
Time frame: 28 days
Exp Segment: Adverse Events (Safety)
Incidence of (S)AEs by type, grade and duration
Time frame: 12 months
Objective response rate (ORR)
Proportion of Subjects having a confirmed complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) per RECIST v1.1
Time frame: 12 months
Correlation of blood levels and the onset and/or severity of IP-related toxicities
Correlation of certain blood levels in serum over time and any correlation between these levels and the onset and/or severity of IP-related toxicities
Time frame: 12 months
Clinical benefit rate (CBR)
Proportion of Subjects having a sustained confirmed stable disease (SD) or a confirmed PR or CR for any duration of time per RECIST v1.1
Time frame: 12 months
Overall survival (OS)
The interval between MDG1015 infusion and date of death by any cause
Time frame: 15 years
Assess feasibility of MDG1015 generation in study population
Number of MDG1015 products manufactured which comply with the pre-defined release specifications
Time frame: 2 years
Progression Free Survival (PFS)
The interval between MDG1015 infusion and date of disease progression or death per RECIST v1.1
Time frame: 12 months
Duration of response (DOR)
The interval between the first documented response following MDG1015 infusion until first documented disease progression or death
Time frame: 12 months
Best overall response (BOR)
The best response recorded from the start of the treatment until disease progression (taking as reference for progressive disease (PD) the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started)
Time frame: 12 months
Time to response (TTR)
The interval between MDG1015 infusion and first documented CR or PR per RECIST v1.1
Time frame: 12 months
Levels of MDG1015 in blood over time
Time frame: 12 months
Plan to share: Undecided
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Start is estimated for Jul 2025; primary completion for Dec 2027, 29 months later.
Of 55 phase 1 interventional studies under Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, half reached primary completion within 44 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 34 and three quarters within 81. This study's planned 29 months is below that.
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