A Phase 2/3 interventional study of Pivekimab Sunirine and Venetoclax in Acute Myeloid Leukemia, sponsored by AbbVie. Recruiting at 38 sites in 7 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-22.
Sponsored by AbbVie · Phase 2/3, Interventional, and Treatment
Cancer is a condition where cells in a specific part of the body grow and reproduce uncontrollably. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow (the spongy tissue inside the bones) that affects white blood cells that helps to fight infections and also prevents normal blood cell production. This study will assess the adverse events and changes in the disease activity when Pivekimab Sunirine (PVEK) is given in combination with Venetoclax (VEN) and Azacitidene (AZA) in adult participants with AML ineligible to receive intensive chemotherapy.
Pivekimab sunirine is a drug being evaluated in the treatment of AML.This is a Phase 2/Phase 3, study of PVEK. Phase 2 is open-label and randomized. Phase 3 is double-blind, randomized. Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies test potential new treatments in patients with a condition or disease. Open-label means that both patients and study doctors know which study treatment is given to patients in Phase 2 of the study. Double-blind means that neither the patients nor the study doctors know who is given which study treatment in Phase 3 of the study. Approximately 660 adult participants will be enrolled in 180 sites worldwide.
In Phase 2 of the study, patients will be randomized to receive PVEK + VEN + AZA or standard of care treatment with VEN + AZA. In Phase 3, patients will be randomized to receive PVEK + VEN + AZA or a matching-placebo for PVEK plus VEN + AZA. PVEK is given as an infusion into the vein, AZA is given as an injection under your skin (subcutaneous) or as an infusion into the vein (intravenous) (depending on country where patient enrolls), and VEN is a tablet given by mouth. The total study duration is approximately 71 months.
There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, and checking for side effects.
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Ineligible for intensive induction therapy (chemotherapy) defined by:
≥ 18 to 74 years of age with at least one of the following co-morbidities:
Subjects must have adequate organ function:
Adequate liver function as demonstrated by:
Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3.0 × ULN*,
---*Unless considered due to leukemic organ involvement
Exclusion 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.
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 share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
FEV1
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)
Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.
Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants will receive PVEK, VEN, and AZA
Drug: Pivekimab Sunirine · Drug: Venetoclax · Drug: Azacitidine
Participants will receive VEN and AZA
Drug: Venetoclax · Drug: Azacitidine
Participants will receive PVEK, VEN, and AZA
Drug: Pivekimab Sunirine · Drug: Venetoclax · Drug: Azacitidine
Participants will receive PVEK-Placebo, VEN, and AZA
Drug: Venetoclax · Drug: Azacitidine · Drug: Matching Placebo for PVEK
Intravenous
Orally
Intravenous Or Subcutaneous
Intravenous
Phase 2: Complete remission (CR)
CR per modified 2022 European LeukemiaNet (ELN) response criteria in AML
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 3: Complete remission (CR)
CR per modified 2022 European LeukemiaNet (ELN) response criteria in AML
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 3: Overall Survival (OS)
The time (in number of days) from randomization to death due to any cause.
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Number of Participants with Adverse Events (AEs)
An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation in which a participant is administered a pharmaceutical product which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment.
Time frame: Up to approximately 71 months
Phase 2 and Phase 3: Composite Response
Composite Complete Remission (CR) + Complete Remission with Incomplete Blood Count Recovery (CRi) and Complete Remission (CR) + Complete Remission with Partial Hematologic Recovery (CRh) response defined as participants achieving CR plus CRi, and CR plus CRh
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 2 and Phase 3: Duration of CR (DoCR)
Duration of CR (DoCR) defined as the time from achieving CR to hematologic relapse or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 2: Change from baseline in the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORCT QLQ-C30) domains
The EORTC QLQ-C30 is a 30-item patient-reported questionnaire composed of both multi-item and single scales including 5 functional scales, 3 symptom scales, a global health status/Quality of Life (QoL) scale, and 6 single items. Participants rate items on a 4-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 4 (very much).
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 3: Percentage of Participants with Transfusion Independence
Transfusion independence is defined as a period of at least 56 days with no red blood cell (RBC) and no platelet transfusion during the treatment period.
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 3: Conversion from baseline transfusion dependence to post-baseline transfusion independence
Conversion from baseline transfusion dependence to post-baseline transfusion independence is defined as a period of at least 56 days with no RBC and no platelet transfusion during the treatment period among participants who were transfusion dependent within at least 28 days prior to study treatment.
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 3: Change from baseline in the EORCT QLQ-C30 physical functioning domains
The EORTC QLQ-C30 is a 30-item patient-reported questionnaire composed of both multi-item and single scales including 5 functional scales, 3 symptom scales, a global health status/QoL scale, and 6 single items. Participants rate items on a 4-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 4 (very much).
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 3: Change from baseline in the remaining EORCT QLQ-C30 domains
The EORTC QLQ-C30 is a 30-item patient-reported questionnaire composed of both multi-item and single scales including 5 functional scales, 3 symptom scales, a global health status/QoL scale, and 6 single items. Participants rate items on a 4-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 4 (very much).
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 3: Change from Baseline in European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions (EQ-5D-5L) Utility Index and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scores
The EQ-5D-5L is a generic preference instrument that has been validated in numerous cancer populations. The EQ-5D-5L consists of 2 components: the descriptive system and the visual analog scale (VAS). The descriptive system comprises 5 dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. Each dimension has 5 levels (no problems, slight problems, moderate problems, severe problems, and extreme problems).
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Phase 3: Change from Baseline to the responses to FACT GP5
Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General item GP5 (FACT GP5) item is a one-item questionnaire that is used to assess overall treatment tolerability in participants by assessing the overall side effect impact on participants. This item is rated on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 = "not at all" to 4 = "very much" using a 7-day recall period.
Time frame: Up to Approximately 71 Months
Plan to share: Yes — AbbVie is committed to responsible clinical trial data sharing. This includes access to anonymized, individual and trial-level data (analysis data sets), as well as other information.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan
Time frame: For details on when studies are available for sharing, visit https://vivli.org/ourmember/abbvie/
Access criteria: To learn more about the process, or to submit a request, visit the following link https://www.abbvieclinicaltrials.com/hcp/data-sharing/
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