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The First in Human Study of QLS2319 in Healthy Subjects and Cancer Cachexia

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of QLS2319 and Placebo in Cancer Cachexia and Cancer Cachexia Syndrome, sponsored by Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. Recruiting at 2 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 55 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-25.

Sponsored by Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Sep 2026; still recruiting 1 month later.
Updated Sep 25, 2026Now RecruitingStart date moved+3 moreGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
88
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 55 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Study To Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Preliminary Efficacy of QLS2319 in Healthy Subjects and Cancer Cachexia

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This study is a first-in-human, dose-escalation trial in healthy adult participants and cancer cachexia to evaluate the safety, tolerability, PK, PD, and preliminary efficacy of QLS2319.

The target population of dose escalation part is healthy adult participants, and the dose expansion part will enroll patients with cancer cachexia.

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Conditions studied

  • Cancer Cachexia
  • Cancer Cachexia Syndrome

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Keywords

  • QLS2319
  • cancer cachexia
  • cancer cachexia syndrome
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In context

Cachexia

331 studies on the registry are indexed under Cachexia; 75 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 88 is above the median of 74 across 226 interventional studies indexed under Cachexia.

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Lead sponsor

Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 198 studies on the registry; 120 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 55 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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

Ia phase:

  1. Male and female subjects aged 18-55 years (inclusive), at the time of signing the ICF.;
  2. Body weight ≥ 50 kg for males and ≥ 45 kg for females, with a (BMI = weight (kg)/height 2 (m) 2) of 18.5-26 kg/m2 (inclusive);
  3. Participants (including their partners) who have no plan to become pregnant and voluntarily use effective from screening to 6 months after the last dose;

Ib phase:

  1. Subjects aged ≥ 18 years at screening;
  2. Subjects who are willing and able to comply with all scheduled visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests, and other study procedures;
  3. performance status score of 0, 1;
  4. Cancer cachexia documented in medical records; -

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Ia phase:

  1. Subjects with abnormal laboratory findings, or with clinically significant diseases or conditions, who are considered by the investigator to be ineligible for enrollment in this study.
  2. History of infection, syphilis, , or ;
  3. History of recurrent infections or active infections;
  4. Subjects who, in the judgment of the investigator, are not suitable for participation in the study.

Ib phase:

  1. Current active reversible causes of decreased food intake
  2. Cachexia caused by other reasons
  3. Receiving tube feedings or parenteral nutrition within 28 days prior to the first administration of the product
  4. Presence of concomitant conditions, other than neoplastic cachexia, which are deemed by the investigator to cause difficulty in oral intake or malabsorption of ingested food.
  5. Subjects with known allergy to QLS2319 or any of its components, or with a history of severe allergic reactions or uncontrolled allergic asthma.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(8)

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BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
88 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    QLS2319

    QLS2319 s.c.

    Drug: QLS2319

  • Placebo comparator
    placebo

    placebo s.c.

    Drug: Placebo

Interventions

  • DrugQLS2319

    QLS2319 will be administered via subcutaneous injection

  • DrugPlacebo

    placebo will be administered via subcutaneous injection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Phase Ia:Safety and tolerability after a single subcutaneous injection of QLS2319/placebo

    Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs), assessed according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 6.0 (v6.0)

    Time frame: Up to Day 99

  2. Phase Ib:Safety and tolerability after multiple subcutaneous injections of QLS2319

    Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs), assessed according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 6.0 (v6.0)

    Time frame: Up to 12 weeks

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Study locations

1 of 2 sites recruiting
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Updates

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
Status
Not yet recruiting→Recruiting
changed Sep 25, 2026
Sites
2 sites added, 1 site removed
Show 2 added (2 China)
  • The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University · Hefei, China
  • Sun-Yat-sen University Cancer Center · Guangzhou, China
Show 1 removed
  • Sun-Yat-sen University Cancer Center · Guangzhou, China
Sep 25, 2026
Start date
Sep 1, 2026→Sep 16, 2026 (actual)
Sep 25, 2026
Title
The First in Human Study of the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Preliminary Efficacy of QLS2319 in Healthy Subjects and Cancer Cachexia
Sep 25, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Sep 25, 2026
    Not yet recruiting→Recruiting
    2 sites added, 1 site removed
    Show 2 added (2 China)
    • The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University · Hefei, China
    • Sun-Yat-sen University Cancer Center · Guangzhou, China
    Show 1 removed
    • Sun-Yat-sen University Cancer Center · Guangzhou, China
    Start date Sep 1, 2026→Sep 16, 2026 (now actual)
    Title The First in Human Study of the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Preliminary Efficacy of QLS2319 in Healthy Subjects and Cancer Cachexia
    + 2 other changes: verification date and conditions

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
NCT07735104
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 29, 2026
Start date
Sep 16, 2026
Primary completion
Oct 30, 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 25, 2026

Study contacts

Li Zhang
Contact
zhangli@sysucc.org.cn
020-87343458
Yan Huang
Contact
huangyan@sysucc.org.cn
020-87343366

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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