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RecruitingNCT06801067Updated Jul 28, 2026

A Study of SER-155 to Treat Diarrhea in People on Immunotherapy

A Phase 1 interventional study of SER-155 in Diarrhea and Enterocolitis, sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Recruiting at 7 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-28.

Sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jan 2025; still recruiting 1 year 9 months later.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to find out whether SER-155 may be a safe first treatment that causes few or mild side effects for people due to irEC.

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Conditions studied

  • Diarrhea
  • Enterocolitis

Keywords

  • Diarrhea
  • SER-155
  • Enterocolitis
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • 24-231
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In context

Diarrhea

877 studies on the registry are indexed under Diarrhea; 76 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 15 is below the median of 137 across 738 interventional studies indexed under Diarrhea.

Browse Diarrhea studies →

Lead sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 1,964 studies on the registry; 327 are open to participants now.

Of its 135 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 71 (53%) have results posted.

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

  • Age > 18 years
  • Receipt of ICI (single-agent or combination) within the 180 days preceding screening.

Concurrent treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy or other tumor-directed agents is permitted.

  • Grade 2 - 3 diarrhea (i.e., increase of at least 4 bowel movements a day above baseline during the screening window), deemed by the treating provider as likely related to ICI therapy, with or without concomitant symptoms of grade 1 - 2 colitis (e.g.

abdominal pain, bloody or mucoid stools)

  • Able to swallow oral medication
  • Individuals of willing to use a highly effective method of (failure rate of \<1% per year when used consistently and correctly) for 30 days after the last dose of SER-155.
  • Willing to provide written , comply with the protocol, and understand the potential risks and benefits of study enrollment and treatment.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Active GI infection, including untreated viral, bacterial or fungal cause(s) of diarrhea.
  • Received therapies for suspected or confirmed irEC, including systemic (either oral or intravenous) and/or infliximab, vedolizumab or ustekinumab
  • Grade 3 colitis symptoms, i.e. severe abdominal pain or peritoneal signs
  • Admitted to the hospital for irEC
  • Prednisone (or steroid equivalent) dose > 10 mg a day for a non-GI irAE at time of screening
  • Pre-existing inflammatory bowel disease (e.g. Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) or microscopic colitis
  • Pregnant or lactating women
  • Any condition that requires ongoing prophylactic or therapeutic antibacterial antibiotics
  • Severe neutropenia, as defined by an (ANC) \< 500 cells/mm\^3, at time of screening
  • Treatment with medications used for diarrhea/colitis treatment and microbiome therapeutics within 30 days prior to enrollment
  • Known allergy or intolerance to oral vancomycin
  • Unable to comply with the protocol requirements
  • Any condition that in the opinion of the investigator may increase the risk of study participation and/or may interfere with the interpretation of study results
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
15 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Participants with Immune checkpoint inhibitor-related enterocolitis (irEC)

    Participants with grade 2-3 diarrhea from irEC who have not yet received immunosuppressive therapy for irEC

    Biological: SER-155

Interventions

  • BiologicalSER-155

    SER-155 (Cultivated Multi-Strain Live Bacterial Therapeutic, Encapsulated) is an experimental designed ecology of 16 unique, human-commensal bacterial strains encapsulated for oral administration and will be provided by Seres as an investigational drug

    Also known as: Cultivated Multi-Strain Live Bacterial Therapeutic, Encapsulated

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of participants with treatment-related adverse events of special interest

    Proportion of participants with treatment-related adverse events of special interest, i.e. blood stream infection

    Time frame: 1 year

  2. Proportion of patients with treatment-related adverse events

    Proportion of patients with treatment-related adverse events

    Time frame: 1 year

Secondary outcomes

  1. Proportion of patients with immunosuppressive-free clinical response of irEC (immunotherapy-related enterocolitis) at day 15

    Proportion of patients with immunosuppressive-free clinical response of irEC (immunotherapy-related enterocolitis) at day 15, defined as at least one grade decrease in diarrhea symptoms without the use of immunosuppressive therapy

    Time frame: Day 15

  2. Proportion of patients with immunosuppressive-free clinical remission of irEC at day 15

    Proportion of patients with immunosuppressive-free clinical remission of irEC at day 15, defined as resolution in diarrhea symptoms (grade 0) without the use of immunosuppressive therapy

    Time frame: Day 15

  3. Proportion of patients with immunosuppressive-free clinical response of irEC at day 43

    Proportion of patients with immunosuppressive-free clinical response of irEC at day 43

    Time frame: Day 43

  4. Proportion of patients with immunosuppressive-free clinical remission of irEC at day 43

    Proportion of patients with immunosuppressive-free clinical remission of irEC at day 43

    Time frame: Day 43

  5. Time to immunosuppressive-free clinical response

    Time to immunosuppressive-free clinical response

    Time frame: 1 year

  6. Time to immunosuppressive-free clinical remission

    Time to immunosuppressive-free clinical remission

    Time frame: 1 year

  7. Number of detectable SER-155 strains at day 15

    Number of detectable SER-155 strains at day 15

    Time frame: Day 15

  8. Number of detectable SER-155 strains at day 43

    Number of detectable SER-155 strains at day 43

    Time frame: Day 43

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Study locations

7 of 7 sites recruiting
  • Memoral Sloan Kettering at Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities)
    Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920, United States
    Recruiting
    • David Faleck, MD · Contact212-639-8286
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (All Protocol Activities)
    Middletown, New Jersey 07748, United States
    Recruiting
    • David Faleck, MD · Contact212-639-8286
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (All Protocol Activities)
    Montvale, New Jersey 07645, United States
    Recruiting
    • David Faleck, MD · Contact212-639-8286
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk-Commack (Limited protocol activity)
    Commack, New York 11725, United States
    Recruiting
    • David Faleck, MD · Contact212-639-8286
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Limited Protocol Activities)
    Harrison, New York 10604, United States
    Recruiting
    • David Faleck, MD · Contact212-639-8286
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)
    New York, New York 10065, United States
    Recruiting
    • David Faleck, MD · Contact212-639-8286
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited protocol activities)
    Rockville Centre, New York 11553, United States
    Recruiting
    • David Faleck, MD · Contact212-639-8286
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Jan 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jan 2027, 24 months after the start.

Of 22 phase 1 interventional studies under Diarrhea, half reached primary completion within 14 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 6 and three quarters within 23. This study's planned 24 months is above that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jan 24, 2025
First posted
Jan 30, 2025
StartActual
Jan 24, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Jan 24, 2027
CompletionEst.
Jan 24, 2027
Last update
Jul 28, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
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
NCT06801067
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 30, 2025
Start date
Jan 24, 2025
Primary completion
Jan 24, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 24, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 28, 2026

Study contacts

David Faleck, MD
Contact
faleckd@mskcc.org
212-639-8286
Michael Postow, MD
Contact
PostowM@mskcc.org
646-888-4315
David Faleck, MD
principal investigator · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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