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A Phase 1 and 2 Study of VMD-102 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Other Solid Tumors

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of VMD-102 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), Metastatic Uveal Melanoma and Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), sponsored by VM Discovery, Inc.. Recruiting at 2 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-03.

Sponsored by VM Discovery, Inc. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jul 2026; still recruiting 3 months later.
Updated Nov 3, 20262 sites added1 site removedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
111
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability to determine (i) the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) of VMD-102 (Phase 1), and (ii) preliminary anti-tumor efficacy (Phase 2), in participants with advanced HCC, metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM), renal cell carcinoma (RCC), non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and colorectal cancer (CRC). The pharmacokinetics (PK), preliminary anti-tumor activity, and potential biomarkers of VMD-102 will also be assessed.

VMD-102 will be the first selective PKC epsilon (PKCε or PKCe) kinase inhibitor to enter human clinical testing. Preclinical VMD-102 anti-tumor activities in mouse liver/HCC tumor models and preclinical toxicology and pharmacology studies support this study.

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Phase 1:

The Phase 1 dose escalation will evaluate escalating dose levels of VMD-102 in approximately 25 evaluable participants. This phase will assess the safety, PKs and tolerability of VMD-102 during cycle 1 (of 21-day cycle). Dose escalation will be guided according to the Bayesian Optimal Interval (BOIN) design to determine the next dose level based on dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) occurrence with participants of advanced HCC, MUM, RCC, NSCLC, and CRC to determine the MTD and the RP2D. Retrospective biomarker studies for the preclinical identified biomarkers may be carried out from tumor tissue and blood samples collected from participants.

Phase 2:

The Phase 2 dose expansion will employ a Bayesian Optimal Phase II (BOP2) design to enroll participants to assess the anti-tumor activity and safety of VMD-102 in Cohort 1 (approximately 43) participants with HCC, and Cohort 2 (approximately 43) participants with MUM, RCC, NSCLC and CRC. A biomarker guided enrollment criterion may be added via amendment. For each of two cohorts, once RP2D is determined, the Phase 2 expansion may be opened in both cohorts parallelly.

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Conditions studied

  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
  • Metastatic Uveal Melanoma
  • Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)
  • Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer
  • Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
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In context

Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

3,648 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; 1,061 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 111 is above the median of 54 across 2,618 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Hepatocellular.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with VM Discovery, Inc. as lead sponsor.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  • Histological or cytological or radiological diagnosis of advanced (unresectable and/or ) HCC, MUM, RCC, NSCLC and CRC that is not responsive to standard of care (SOC), had progressed following SOC, is intolerant to SOC, or for whom the SOC is not considered appropriate by the investigator.
  • (ECOG) Performance Status 0, or 1.
  • Has at least one measurable target lesion according to v1.1 [Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors], or [modified RECIST] for unresectable HCC participants, and either (a). has not been previously treated with local therapy (e.g., radiation therapy, hepatic arterial embolization, radiofrequency ablation, and percutaneous interventional therapy), or (b). if the target lesion was within the field of local therapy, the lesion has shown an increase in size of 25% or greater following local therapy.
  • Adequate organ function evidenced by:

Hematology

  • ≥ 9 g/dL (SI Units: 90 g/L) (post-transfusion if transfusion-dependent)
  • count ≥ 60000/mm3 (60 x109/L) without support(transfusion) within 7 days of testing
  • (ANC) ≥ 1500/mm3 (1.5x109/L) Chemistry
  • Total (TBIL) ≤ 2.0 x (ULN). (For participants with Gilbert's syndrome, TBIL ≤3.0 x ULN provided that direct bilirubin DBIL) is \<30% of the TBIL)
  • (AST) and/or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) 1 ≤ 5 x U LN (participants with advanced HCC or liver metastases)
  • AST and/or ALT 1 ≤ 3 x ULN (participants without known liver disease or liver metastases)
  • Calculated or 24h urine creatinine clearance ≥50 mL/min using Cockroft-Gault formula.
  • Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5x ULN

Coagulation (unless taking an anti-coagulant):

  • (APTT) ≤ 1.5 × ULN (except for participants receiving therapeutic anticoagulants)
  • International normalized ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5 unless the participant is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as the participant is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants
  • Albumin ≥2.8g/d/L.

    • For HCC participants: the diagnosis must be made based on American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Guidelines with confirmed advanced (unresectable) HCC staged by Barcelona Clinic Liver cancer criteria (BCLC). Cirrhosis will be staged by score, and such a score ≤ 6 will be eligible for Phase 1 and ≤7 for Phase 2.
    • Participants must either have available samples, or consent to fresh tumor tissue sampling prior to the first dose unless the biopsy is not safe or not feasible per investigator assessment and with medical monitor approval.
    • Women of (WOCBP) must have a negative pregnancy test prior to enrolment and agree to use a highly effective and acceptable method of from the time of (or screening) until 6 months after the last dose of agent.
    • Male participants who are sexually active with a female partner of childbearing potential must agree to use a condom with spermicide from first dose of investigational agent until 6 months after the last dose, and refrain from sperm donation during that period. Abstinence from heterosexual intercourse is an acceptable method only if the participant's usual lifestyle already includes abstinence.
    • Participant has a of ≥3 months.
    • No history of liver transplantation.
    • Ability to swallow and absorb an orally self-administered medication in tablet form.
    • Have completed any prior chemotherapy, monoclonal antibody or immunotherapy (e.g., tumor vaccine, cytokine, or growth factor given to control the cancer) at least 4 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) before study drug administration. Exceptions to these prior therapy timeframes are possible, on a case by case basis, following discussion and mutual agreement between Investigator and Sponsor.
    • Adverse effects related to prior anticancer therapies must have either returned to baseline or resolved to Grade 0 or 1. Some toxicities with higher grades such as alopecia, immunotherapy-induced hypothyroidism or adrenal insufficiency or panhypopituitarism requiring stable doses of hormone replacement therapy or rash from prior therapy may be permitted with medical monitor approval.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Received anticancer therapy with radiation, immunotherapy, a biologic, surgery and/or tumor embolization within the past 2 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer).
  • Currently pregnant, nursing, or planning to become pregnant during the course of study.
  • The Fridericia (QTcF) interval ≥ 480 msec.
  • Class II, III, or IV heart failure as defined by the (NYHA) functional classification system (Section 14.8); or presence of and uncontrolled cardiac disease, as assessed by the investigator. Such as but not limited to: symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina, cardiac arrhythmia.
  • Unstable or uncompensated respiratory, hepatic, renal, or cardiac disease that would compromise the participant's safety or interfere with assessment of the drug.
  • Psychological, familial, sociological, geographical or other concurrent conditions that would interfere with safety evaluation, limit the participant's ability to follow the procedures in the protocol or otherwise jeopardize compliance with the protocol. Participants with uncontrolled major depression, bipolar disorder, or severe anxiety disorder are excluded.
  • Participants have multiple factors that affect their oral medication (such as inability to swallow and intestinal obstruction or resection).
  • Participants have long-term unhealed wounds or fractures.
  • Participants have uncontrolled pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, or ascites that still require repeated drainage.
  • Any current medical conditions, including impairment of GI function or GI disease, which would alter the absorption, distribution, metabolism or excretion of VMD-102 including but not limited to:

    • Severe uncontrolled nausea or vomiting.
    • Severe uncontrolled diarrhea or ongoing active diarrhea requires medications (e.g. bile acid sequestrant, loperamide).
    • A history of short bowel syndrome; irritable bowel syndrome with diarrheal signs/symptoms or require medications.
    • Clinically diagnosed malabsorption secondary to bowel resection.
    • Active Ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease requiring medication for control.
    • Surgical procedures of the GI tract impacting the drug absorption such as but not limited to small bowel resection and gastric bypass.
  • Unstable central nervous system (CNS) . Participants with previously treated may participate provided they are stable (without evidence of progression by imaging for at least one cycle prior to the first dose and any neurologic symptoms have returned to baseline), have no evidence of new or enlarging brain metastases, and are on stable doses of for at least one cycle prior to the first dose.
  • Known fibrolamellar HCC, sarcomatoid HCC or mixed cholangiocarcinoma and HCC or HCC due to cirrhosis caused from -associated hepatitis.
  • surface antigen (HBsAg) positive with detectable the hepatitis B virus load (HBV DNA) >100 IU/mL. Participants on active HBV therapy with viral loads \<100 IU/mL should stay on the same therapy throughout study intervention and at least 12 weeks after the study is over. Participants cannot be actively co-infected with virus (HCV; HCV RNA detectable) or hepatitis delta virus (HDV; HDV RNA detectable).
  • Positive HBsAg, with or without detectable HBV DNA, if there is evidence in the medical history of an advanced stage of cirrhosis ( B) or history of decompensated chronic liver disease
  • HCV antibody (HCVAb) positive and HCV viral load (HCV RNA) detectable. Previous HCVAb positive with HCV RNA undetectable due to treatment (DAAs or interferon) is allowed but the treated participants must have completed their treatment at least 12 weeks prior to starting study intervention and HCV RNA must be documented at below the limit of quantification.
  • History of allogeneic tissue/organ transplantation (including bone marrow, stem cell, liver, or kidney transplants), except those that do not require therapy (e.g., corneal or hair transplants).
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) or any within 4 weeks of study entry.
  • Participants with active alcohol and/or substances abuse, Phosphatidylethanol (Peth) must be \<50 ng/mL).
  • Concurrent secondary other than that being treated in this study. Exceptions to this exclusion include malignancies treated curatively and have not recurred within 2 years prior to study entry or tumors treated with curative intent that have expected cure rates of >90% such as but not limited to: basal cell and squamous skin cancer and completely resected carcinoma in situs.
  • Participants have uncontrolled pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, or ascites that still require repeated drainage. Exception may be possible, on a case by case basis, e.g. if no more than one paracentesis in a month and a drain is pre-placed for the participant to drain, following discussion and mutual agreement between Investigator and Sponsor
  • Participants have long-term unhealed wounds or fractures.
  • Participants receiving known potent P-glycoprotein (P-gp) efflux transporter inhibitors that cannot be discontinued 3 days prior to the start of study treatment and during the course of the Phase 1 study.
  • Known immediate or delayed reaction or idiosyncrasy to the study drug, or .
  • Known history of uncontrolled (HIV) infection.
  • Any other condition that, in the opinion of the Investigator or the medical monitor, could increase the risk to the participant, interfere with study participation, or affect the proper interpretation of study results and objectives. Such conditions may include but are not limited to, active infections, uncontrolled diabetes, psychiatric illness, social situations, and concomitant therapies.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(33)

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.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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.

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.

iRECIST and mRECIST

Versions of RECIST adapted to particular cases. iRECIST is for immunotherapy, where a tumour can look bigger for a while before it shrinks, so growth has to be confirmed on a later scan. mRECIST usually means the version for liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), which measures only the part of a tumour that still has a blood supply.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Child-Pugh class

A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
111 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Phase 1 and Phase 2

    Phase 1: The dose escalation will evaluate escalating dose levels of VMD-102 in approximately 25 participants. This phase will assess the safety, pharmacokinetics and tolerability of VMD-102 during cycle 1 (of 21-day cycle) with participants of advanced HCC, MUM, RCC, NSCLC, and CRC to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and the RP2D. Retrospective biomarker studies for the preclinical identified biomarkers may be carried out from tumor tissue and blood samples collected from participants. Phase 2: The Phase 2 dose expansion will employ a Bayesian Optimal Phase II (BOP2) design to enroll participants to assess the anti-tumor activity and safety of VMD-102 in Cohort 1 (approximately 43) participants with HCC, and Cohort 2 (approximately 43) participants with MUM, RCC, NSCLC and CRC. A biomarker guided enrollment criterion may be added via amendment. For each of two cohorts, once RP2D is determined, the Phase 2 expansion may be opened in both cohorts parallelly.

    Drug: VMD-102

Interventions

  • DrugVMD-102

    A small organic molecule oral drug in the tablet form

    Also known as: Single agent

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number and severity of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAE) (Phase 1)

    TEAE

    Time frame: First cycle (21 days per cycle)

  2. To determine the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) for VMD-102 (Phase 1)

    RP2D

    Time frame: First cycle (21 days per cycle)

  3. Progression-Free Survival (PFS) (Phase 2)

    Defined as the time from enrollment to tumor progression or death from any cause.

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC) of VMD-102

    AUC

    Time frame: On Day 1 and Day 15 of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 21 days)

  2. Peak plasma concentration (Cmax) of VMD-102

    Cmax

    Time frame: On Day 1 and Day 15 of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 21 days)

  3. Incidence of Dose Limiting Toxicities

    \# of DLTs

    Time frame: During the Cycle 1 (each cycle is 21 days)

  4. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    The proportion of patients with objective tumor response, as evaluated by the investigator, including cases of complete response (CR) and partial response (PR).

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

  5. Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    The proportion of patients with controlled tumor disease, as evaluated by the investigator, including cases of complete response (CR), partial response (PR), and stable disease (SD) (lasting for more than 4 weeks)

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

  6. Duration of Response (DoR)

    The time from the first assessment of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) to the first assessment of progressive disease (PD) or death from any cause.

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

  7. Overall Survival (OS)

    The time from enrollment to death from any cause.

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

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Study locations

2 of 2 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

1 registry update 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 Jul 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for May 2031, 58 months after the start.

Of 72 industry-sponsored phase 1/2 interventional studies under Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, half reached primary completion within 47 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 35 and three quarters within 74. This study's planned 58 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 136 studies reached it within 53 months; a quarter within 38 and three quarters within 76.

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

Registered
May 4, 2026
First posted
Jun 9, 2026
StartActual
Jul 16, 2026
Primary completionEst.
May 2031
CompletionEst.
Dec 2031
Last update
Nov 3, 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.
Sites
2 sites added, 1 site removed
Show 2 added (2 United States)
  • HonorHealth Research Institute (#600) · Scottsdale, United States
  • The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute (#601) · Los Angeles, United States
Show 1 removed
  • HonorHealth Research Institute · Scottsdale, United States
Nov 3, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Nov 3, 2026
    2 sites added, 1 site removed
    Show 2 added (2 United States)
    • HonorHealth Research Institute (#600) · Scottsdale, United States
    • The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute (#601) · Los Angeles, United States
    Show 1 removed
    • HonorHealth Research Institute · Scottsdale, United States
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07636785
Lead sponsor
VM Discovery, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 9, 2026
Start date
Jul 16, 2026
Primary completion
May 2031 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 3, 2026

Study contacts

Jay Wu, PhD
Contact
OM@VMDiscovery.com
+1-510-661-6770 ext. 101
Jay Wu, PhD
study chair · VM Discovery, Inc.

Oversight

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