A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Nenocorilant 200 mg and Nenocorilant 300 mg in Neoplasms, sponsored by Corcept Therapeutics. Recruiting at 5 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-19.
Sponsored by Corcept Therapeutics · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
This open-label, dose-finding, and proof of concept study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) and/or optimal dose of nenocorilant when administered in combination with nivolumab in patients with advanced solid malignancies.
This is a Phase 1b/2 study that consists of 2 parts.
In the dose-finding Phase 1b part, researchers will evaluate escalating dose levels of nenocorilant (given with a fixed dose and schedule of nivolumab) in patients with advanced solid malignancies. All patients will be treated with the combination of nenocorilant plus nivolumab in 28-day cycles. Nenocorilant will be administered orally once daily using a continuous dosing schedule, under fed conditions. Nivolumab will be initially given at 240 mg administered intravenously (IV) once every 2 weeks. After 3 months of treatment, patients may choose to switch to a fixed dosing regimen of 480 mg IV once every 4 weeks if they tolerate the combination regimen of nenocorilant plus nivolumab.
The proof-of-concept Phase 2 part of this study is optional and may be added to further evaluate combination treatment in patients with advanced solid malignancies.
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Part 1
Exclusion Criteria:
Part 1
Past or current immune-related adverse events (irAEs) due to anti-programmed cell death protein 1 ligand 1 (PD[L]1) therapy that meet any of the following criteria:
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.
The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
QT and QTc
On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.
The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cohort 1a: Patients will receive nenocorilant 200 mg orally under fed conditions once daily, and nivolumab 240 mg IV every 2 weeks. After 3 months of treatment, patients may choose to switch the nivolumab regimen to 480 mg IV every 4 weeks if the nenocorilant nivolumab combination is tolerated.
Drug: Nenocorilant 200 mg · Drug: Nivolumab
Cohort 1b: Patients will receive nenocorilant 300 mg orally under fed conditions once daily, and nivolumab 240 mg IV every 2 weeks. After 3 months of treatment, patients may choose to switch the nivolumab regimen to 480 mg IV every 4 weeks if the nenocorilant nivolumab combination is tolerated.
Drug: Nenocorilant 300 mg · Drug: Nivolumab
Cohort 1c: Patients will receive nenocorilant 400 mg orally under fed conditions once daily, and nivolumab 240 mg IV every 2 weeks. After 3 months of treatment, patients may choose to switch the nivolumab regimen to 480 mg IV every 4 weeks if the nenocorilant nivolumab combination is tolerated.
Drug: Nenocorilant 400 mg · Drug: Nivolumab
Nenocorilant 200 mg will be supplied as 50 and/or 100 mg tablets.
Also known as: CORT125236
Nenocorilant 300 mg will be supplied as 50 and/or 100 mg tablets.
Also known as: CORT125236
Nenocorilant 400 mg will be supplied as 50 and/or 100 mg tablets.
Also known as: CORT125236
Nivolumab 240 mg and 480 mg will be supplied as single-dose 120 mg/12 mL (10 mg/mL) vials.
Number of Patients With 1 or More Adverse Event
Time frame: From first dose of study treatment up to 28 days after final dose, assessed up to 9 months
Number of Patients With 1 or More Serious Adverse Events
Time frame: From first dose of study treatment up to 28 days after final dose, assessed up to 9 months
Number of Patients With 1 or More Adverse Events Leading to Study Drug Discontinuation
Time frame: From first dose of study treatment up to final dose, assessed up to 9 months
Percent of Patients who Experience Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT)
Time frame: Up to 28 days after initiation of Cycle 1 (each cycle consists of 28 days)
Objective Response Rate (ORR)
To evaluate the proportion of patients with measurable disease at baseline who attain a confirmed complete response (CR) or partial response (PR).
Time frame: From date of first dose to progressive disease (PD)/confirmed PD using immune Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (iRECIST) (iCPD) or death or start of non-protocol-specified new anticancer therapy, assessed up to 8 months
Duration of Response (DoR)
To evaluate DoR as the time from the first CR or PR to first documented PD/iCPD or death or start of non-protocol-specified new anticancer therapy, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: Time of first objective response until PD/iCPD or death or start of non-protocol-specified new anticancer therapy, assessed up to 8 months
Best Overall Response (BOR)
To evaluate BOR as the proportion of patients with a BOR of CR, PR, stable disease (SD), PD, or nonevaluable.
Time frame: From first dose until PD/iCPD or death or start of non-protocol-specified anticancer therapy, assessed up to 8 months
Duration of SD
To evaluate duration of SD as defined as the time from the start of combination treatment until the criteria for PD/iCPD are met.
Time frame: Date of start of combined treatment until the criteria for PD/iCPD are met, assessed up to 8 months
Progression-Free Survival (PFS)
To evaluate progression-free survival as the time from the first dose of nenocorilant until PD/iCPD or death or start of non-protocol-specified new anticancer therapy, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: Date of first dose until PD/iCPD or death or start of non-protocol-specified new anticancer therapy, assessed up to 8 months
Change from Baseline of Fridericia-Corrected QT (QTcF) Interval
Time frame: Baseline to End of Treatment, assessed up to 8 months
Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve From Time 0 to 24 Hours (AUC0-24) of Nenocorilant
Time frame: Cycle 1 Day 15 predose and 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 hours postdose and Cycle 2 Day 1 predose (each cycle consists of 28 days)
Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration (Cmax) of Nenocorilant
Time frame: Cycle 1 Day 15 predose and 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 hours postdose and Cycle 2 Day 1 predose (each cycle consists of 28 days)
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