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RecruitingNCT07751042ASCENT-1Updated Oct 27, 2026

Phase 1/2 Study of Intravenous Injection of STX-003 in Advanced Solid Tumors as Monotherapy or in Combination With Pembrolizumab

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of STX-003 and KEYTRUDA® in Advanced Solid Tumor, sponsored by Strand Therapeutics Inc.. Recruiting at 4 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-27.

Sponsored by Strand Therapeutics Inc. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jun 2026; still recruiting 4 months later.
Updated Oct 27, 2026First site in AustraliaSite recruiting status changed+1 moreGo to Updates ↓

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Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
220
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 3,366 studies in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung with a site in United States — 518 open to participants now, 892 under way, 142 of them phase 3. Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung · United States.

Planned enrollment
587th of 2,993
220 · median 56
Started
2026
with 127 others
Phase 1/2
483 of 3,366
117 open now
Primary completion
2030-07
later than 809 of 890 live
Registered
3,294th of 3,366
by date

Among the 3,366 studies in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung with a site in United States, this one is the 587th largest by planned enrollment of the 2,993 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 128 that started in 2026, is one of 483 in phase 1/2, reaches primary completion later than 809 of the 890 other live ones, and was the 3,294th registered.

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This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

Protocol Title: Phase 1/2, Open-label, Multi-center, First-in-human Study of the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Anti-tumor Activity of STX-003 Delivered by Intravenous Injection in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors as a Monotherapy or in Combination with Pembrolizumab.

Protocol Name: ASCENT-1: Activated, Selective, Controlled Expression of a Novel Programmable mRNA Therapeutic

Read the detailed description

This open-label, Phase 1/2, first-in-human (FIH), multiple ascending dose and dose expansion study involves STX-003 administration, alone or in combination with pembrolizumab, to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and preliminary antitumor activity in patients with advanced cancers. (Update after review)

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Conditions studied

  • Advanced Solid Tumor

Keywords

  • Intravenous
  • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Melanoma
  • Advanced Solid Tumors
  • mRNA
04

Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Inclusion Criteria (Phase 1 and Phase 2)

    1. Mentally competent and able to understand and sign the ICF.
    2. Tumor type for which there is an FDA-approved /L1 antibody therapy, specifically including biomarker labeled subsets (i.e. PD-L1+) as well as anatomical subsets in some disease (cutaneous melanoma is eligible whereas acral, mucosal and uveal are not; Phase 1) and advanced cutaneous melanoma or PD-L1+ NSCLC.
    3. or cytologically documented, locally advanced, or solid tumor.
    4. At least one per v1.1 criteria.
    5. The patient lacks a curative therapy or has progressive disease despite, or refused, standard therapy.
    6. performance status of 0 or 1.
    7. of ≥ 12 weeks per the Investigator.
    8. ≥ 18 years of age at the time of .
    9. Body weight ≥ 40 kg.
    10. and males with female partners of child-bearing potential must agree to use adequate throughout their participation and for 3 months following the last dose of STX-003.
    11. Willing and able to comply with protocol required assessments.

Hematology:

  • ≥ 1,000 cells/mm3.
  • count ≥ 75,000 cells/mm3.
  • ≥ 8.0 g/dL.

    • Renal: Serum creatinine \< 1.5 × or ≥ 40 mL/min based on the Cockcroft-Gault estimation

Coagulation:

  • or PT must be ≤ 1.5 × ULN.
  • aPTT ≤ 1.5 × ULN unless undergoing anticoagulation therapy.

    • Liver:
  • Albumin ≥ 3.5 g/dL or within the normal range of the local reference laboratory.
  • and ALT \< 2 × ULN.
  • ≤ 1.5 × ULN (except participants with documented Gilbert's syndrome who may be enrolled if the conjugated bilirubin is within normal limits) or ≤ 5 × ULN with liver metastases.

Phase 2 Inclusion Criteria

13. NSCLC :

  • Histologically or cytologically documented findings consistent with NSCLC not amenable to curative surgery, radiation, or other therapy.
  • Biomarker confirmed as PD-L1+ per local institutional standard practice.
  • Patients with known activating EGFR, STK11 or KEAP1 mutations as well as ALK/ROS1 fusions, are not eligible.
  • Prior treatment (for advanced, metastatic or [neo]adjuvant) should have included a platinum-based therapy and a PD-1/L1 pathway checkpoint inhibitor, unless the patient is not a candidate for or has refused viable therapies due to inability to tolerate treatment (i.e. cell therapy) or potential side effects (i.e. checkpoint inhibitor toxicity).

    14. Melanoma : Histologically or cytologically documented findings consistent with advanced cutaneous melanoma not amenable to curative surgery, radiation, or other therapy. Acral, mucosal and uveal melanoma are excluded.

  • Patients who are not candidates for or have refused available therapies due to inability to tolerate treatment (i.e. cell therapy) or potential side effects (i.e. checkpoint inhibitor toxicity) are also eligible.
  • Received an anti-PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor as monotherapy or in combination with anti-CTLA-4 inhibitor and have either primary or secondary checkpoint inhibitor resistance asper SITC consensus definition, unless deemed intolerable by the Investigator. Patients with BRAF V600E mutant melanoma should have received a BRAF inhibitor as monotherapy or in combination with other targeted agents (MAPK kinase MEK inhibitors), unless deemed intolerable by the Investigator.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Exclusion Criteria (Phase 1 and 2)

    1. Medical Conditions

      • History of primary immune deficiency.
      • History of disease that has required intervention in the last 6 months. Consultation with the MM may inform the discussion of whether autoimmune disease is clinically significant.
      • History of Grade 3 or higher IRAEs that has not resolved to Grade ≤ 1 at the time of enrollment. Exceptions include endocrine disorders that are well-managed with stable physiological hormone replacement and Grade 3 immune-related rash. Patients meeting this criterion may be considered for enrollment following approval by the MM.
      • History of solid organ transplant and taking medications.
    2. Cardiovascular exclusions

      • Medical history of an arterial thrombotic event, stroke, or within the past 6 months.
      • Medical history of symptomatic congestive heart failure ( classes II-IV) or a cardiac arrhythmia that required treatment within the past 6 months.
      • Medical history of myocardial infarction or unstable angina within 6 months before C1D1.
    3. Recent medical concerns exclusions

      • Evidence of active infection requiring IV antibiotics within 7 days prior to C1D1.
      • Active uncontrolled bleeding, or a bleeding diathesis within 7 days prior to C1D1.
      • Serious or non-healing wound, fistula, skin ulcer, or non-healing bone fracture within 7 days prior to C1D1.
      • Known infection, active infection, or infection:
  • Virology evaluation should be conducted at Screening to include serum HIV antibody, HBc antibody, HBsAg antigen, and HCV antibody. Patients with a positive antibody evaluation for HCV and/or HBc should undergo evaluation to measure HCV RNA or HBV DNA, respectively.

    • Untreated CNS tumor, epidural tumor or metastasis, or . Patients with any primary CNS including glioma and current, active, or progressing CNS malignancy, including carcinomatosis meningitis, are excluded.
    • Patients with treated brain metastases are eligible if there is no evidence of progression for at least 4 weeks after CNS-directed treatment, as ascertained by clinical examination and brain imaging (MRI or CT scan) during the Screening period and are off systemic (for at least 2 weeks prior to first dose).
    • Another primary malignancy that has not been treated with curative intent (discuss with MM), except for non-metastatic cutaneous basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma, or non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
    • Serious illness considered by the Investigator as incompatible with participating in this clinical study.
    • Major surgery within 4 weeks of first dose of study drug.
    • Any condition that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would interfere with evaluation of the product or interpretation of the patients' safety or study results.

      4. Prior/Concomitant Therapy

    • Prior treatment with STX-003 or other VEEV-based replicating RNA.
    • Prior IL-12 therapy.
    • Receipt of any within 30 days prior to the first dose of study treatment.
    • Use of another systemic anticancer therapy within 3 weeks prior to C1D1 or 5 halflives, whichever is shorter or use of radiotherapy within 1 week prior to C1D1 5. Prior/Concurrent Clinical Study Experience
    • Previously enrolled in this study.
    • Actively enrolled in another clinical study unless it is an observational (noninterventional) clinical study or the follow-up component of an interventional study.
    • Known severe (Grade ≥ 3) to study treatment or any of the of the products.

Other Exclusions

  • History of interstitial lung disease or active, non-infectious pneumonitis (combination cohorts only).
  • Known psychiatric or substance use disorder that would interfere with the patient's ability to cooperate with the requirements of the study.
  • Currently pregnant (confirmed with a positive pregnancy test), breast-feeding or planning to become pregnant within 6 months following treatment. For WOCBP, a negative serum β-HCG result must be available within a 72-hour window before the first treatment dose.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(34)

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PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Metastases

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

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
220 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Phase 1 Monotherapy

    STX-003 administered intravenously, at ascending doses across sequential cohorts, once per cycle for up to 35 cycles (approximately 24 months).

    Biological: STX-003

  • Experimental
    Phase 1 Combination (STX-003 with Pembrolizumab)

    STX-003 administered intravenously, at ascending doses across sequential cohorts, once per cycle in combination with pembrolizumab for up to 35 cycles (approximately 24 months).

    Biological: STX-003 · Biological: KEYTRUDA®

  • Experimental
    Phase 2 Monotherapy (STX-003)

    STX-003 administered intravenously, at 4 planned dose expansion cohorts in patients with advanced cancers with high unmet need, once per cycle for up to 35 cycles (approximately 24 months).

    Biological: STX-003

  • Experimental
    Phase 2 Combination (STX-003 with Pembrolizumab)

    STX-003 administered intravenously, at 4 planned dose expansion cohorts in patients with advanced cancers with high unmet need, once per cycle for up to 35 cycles (approximately 24 months).

    Biological: STX-003 · Biological: KEYTRUDA®

Interventions

  • BiologicalSTX-003

    STX-003 is a LNP formulated self-replicating mRNA encoding the therapeutic payload human IL-12 (hIL-12) with miRNA target sites to sense specific endogenous miRs.

  • BiologicalKEYTRUDA®

    Pembrolizumab (Keytruda USPI 2026) is a marketed PD-1 blocking humanized monoclonal IgG4 kappa antibody.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of TEAEs, SAEs, and DLTs

    Time frame: From time of informed consent until 30 days after the last dose of investigational product.

  2. Occurrence of changes from baseline in patients' clinical safety laboratory values and vital signs to assess the safety and tolerability of STX-003.

    Collection and analysis of changes in data from baseline of patients' safety laboratory values (chemistry, hematology, coagulation, complement (Bb \& C3a), urinalysis, and lipids). Vital signs will include Temperature: (degrees Fahrenheit) Pulse: (beats per minute) Respiratory rate: (breaths per minute) Blood pressure: (systolic and diastolic each reported in mmHg) Oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry: (percentage (SpO2, %))

    Time frame: From Day 1 until 30 days after last dose of STX-003

Secondary outcomes

  1. Assessment of PK and PD in patients dosed with STX-003

    Area under the concentration curve (AUC)

    Time frame: Day 1,2,3,4,8,15,22,23,24,25,29,36, 43,44,51,58

  2. Number and nature of preliminary antitumor activity of STX-003 as monotherapy and in combination with Pembrolizumab.

    Time frame: From time of informed consent until 30 days after the last dose of investigational product.

  3. Assessment of Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes

    Tumor biopsies will be analyzed by immunohistochemistry to assess tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in the tumor microenvironment, including density of CD4 and CD8 positive cells and PD-L1 expression.

    Time frame: From time if informed consent until 30 days after the last dose of investigational product (STX-003)

  4. Objective Response Rate (ORR) in patients with advanced solid tumors.

    Time frame: From time of informed consent until 30 days after the last dose of investigational product.

  5. Assessment of PK and PD in patients dosed with STX-003

    Maximum observed plasma concentration (Cmax) of STX-003

    Time frame: Day 1,2,3,4,8,15,22,23,24,25,29,36, 43,44,51,58

  6. Changes from baseline in vital signs

    Vital signs will include Temperature: (degrees Fahrenheit) Pulse: (beats per minute) Respiratory rate: (breaths per minute) Blood pressure: (systolic and diastolic each reported in mmHg) Oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry: (percentage (SpO2, %))

    Time frame: From Day 1 until 30 days after last dose of STX-003.

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Study locations

4 of 4 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

2 registry updates 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 Jun 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jul 2030, 48 months after the start.

Of 309 industry-sponsored phase 1/2 interventional studies under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, half reached primary completion within 58 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 39 and three quarters within 77. This study's planned 48 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 432 studies reached it within 63 months; a quarter within 42 and three quarters within 80.

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

Registered
Apr 6, 2026
First posted
Aug 6, 2026
StartActual
Jun 30, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Jul 17, 2030
CompletionEst.
Nov 15, 2030
Last update
Oct 27, 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 — first site in Australia. 2 sites changed recruiting status (2 now recruiting)
Show 2 sites
  • Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, United StatesNot yet recruiting→Recruiting
  • Melanoma Institute Australia · Wollstonecraft, AustraliaNot yet recruiting→Recruiting
Show 2 added (1 United States, 1 Australia)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, United States
  • Melanoma Institute Australia · Wollstonecraft, Australia
across 2 updates, Oct 2, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026
Show all 2 updates
  1. Oct 27, 2026
    2 sites changed recruiting status (2 now recruiting)
    Show 2 sites
    • Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, United StatesNot yet recruiting→Recruiting
    • Melanoma Institute Australia · Wollstonecraft, AustraliaNot yet recruiting→Recruiting
    + 3 other changes: identifiers, verification date and description
  2. Oct 2, 2026
    2 sites added — first site in Australia
    Show 2 added (1 United States, 1 Australia)
    • Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, United States
    • Melanoma Institute Australia · Wollstonecraft, Australia

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
NCT07751042
Lead sponsor
Strand Therapeutics Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 6, 2026
Start date
Jun 30, 2026
Primary completion
Jul 17, 2030 (estimated)
Completion
Nov 15, 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 27, 2026

Study contacts

Jason Luke, MD, Chief Medical Officer
Contact
stx-003-study@strandtx.com
617-993-9271

Oversight

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