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A Study of Perioperative Navlimetostat Combined With Modified FOLFIRINOX in Patients With MTAP-Deleted Pancreatic Cancer

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Navlimetostat and mFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), sponsored by Daniel Nussbaum, M.D.. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-02.

Sponsored by Daniel Nussbaum, M.D. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
18
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 · 2026-11-12

Among 1,852 studies in Pancreatic Neoplasms with a site in United States — 305 open to participants now, 477 under way, 25 of them phase 3. Pancreatic Neoplasms · United States.

Planned enrollment
1,137th of 1,575
18 · median 37
Started
2027
with 8 others
Phase 1/2
223 of 1,852
44 open now
Primary completion
2029-06
later than 403 of 474 live
Registered
1,850th of 1,852
by date

Among the 1,852 studies in Pancreatic Neoplasms with a site in United States, this one is the 1,137th largest by planned enrollment of the 1,575 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 9 that started in 2027, is one of 223 in phase 1/2, reaches primary completion later than 403 of the 474 other live ones, and was the 1,850th registered.

Pancreatic Neoplasms

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This study's planned enrollment of 18 is below the median of 47 across 2,932 interventional studies indexed under Pancreatic Neoplasms.

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Of the 746 Pancreatic Neoplasms studies recruiting now, 479 (64%) set no upper age limit and 151 (20%) stop at 75 or younger; 40 take children under 18; 59 take healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, feasibility, and recommended dose of navlimetostat (BMS-986504) combined with mFOLFIRINOX before and after surgery in patients with localized pancreatic cancer with MTAP deletion.

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Conditions studied

  • Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC)

Keywords

  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Resectable pancreatic cancer
  • Localized pancreatic cancer
  • MTAP deleted pancreatic cancer
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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Age ≥ 18 years.
  2. and/or cytologically confirmed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
  3. MTAP deletion or loss in tumor tissue as diagnosed by next generation sequencing.
  4. Treatment naïve and clinically staged as resectable or borderline resectable, without evidence of distant disease.
  5. (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.
  6. Eligible to receive mFOLFIRINOX and undergo curative-intent pancreatic resection.
  7. Females are eligible to participate if they are not pregnant or breastfeeding. If must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test at screening. IOCBP are not permitted to use hormonal methods alone as a highly effective method of contraception and must use an additional non-hormonal highly effective method of contraception (as described in Appendix B).
  8. WOCBP are not permitted to use hormonal contraceptive methods alone as a highly effective method of contraception and must use an additional non-hormonal highly effective method of contraception (as described in Appendix B).
  9. A female (as assigned at birth) is eligible to participate if they are not pregnant or breastfeeding and at least 1 of the following conditions applies:

    1. Is not an IOCBP, OR
    2. Is an IOCBP and using a combination of a hormonal and a non-hormonal contraceptive method or a non-hormonal method alone that is highly effective (with a failure rate of \< 1% per year), as described in Appendix B, during the intervention period and for at least 9 months after the last dose of study intervention, or according to approved local product label requirements for individual agents, whichever is longer. IOCBP participants must also agree not to donate eggs (ova, oocytes) for the purpose of reproduction for the same period.
  10. Females of child-bearing potential and males with partners of child-bearing potential must agree not to donate eggs (ova, oocytes) for the purpose of reproduction or sperm and to practice sexual abstinence or use the forms of contraception listed in Child-Bearing Potential/Pregnancy section for the duration of study participation and for 9 months after the last dose of the study medication.
  11. If needed, male (as assigned at birth) participants should be advised to seek advice about sperm donation and cryopreservation of germ cells before treatment.
  12. Breastfeeding partners of male (as assigned at birth) participants should be advised to consult their health care provider about using appropriate highly effective contraception during the time the male participant is required to use condoms.
  13. Capable of understanding and complying with the protocol requirements and has signed the document.
  14. Adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:

    1. ≥ 1,500/μl
    2. ≥ 100,000/μl
    3. > 9 g/dL
    4. /ALT ≤ 3 X (ULN)
    5. Total ≤ 1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN)
    6. Calculated CrCL ≥50 mL/min using the formula.
    7. or PT ≤ 1.5× ULN; if receiving anticoagulant therapy, PT or aPTT should be within therapeutic range.
  15. Provide written, informed consent to participate in the study and follow the study procedures.
  16. Willing to provide mandatory tissue and blood samples for research purposes.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Prior treatment for pancreatic adenocarcinoma other than up to two doses of mFOLFIRINOX administered prior to initiation of navlimetostat.
  2. Concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions which may compromise participation in the study.
  3. Female patients who are pregnant or breast feeding.
  4. Patients of either sex, not willing to use an effective method of .
  5. within 30 days of planned start of study medication, during treatment and for 90 days after treatment. Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles, mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster, yellow fever, rabies, BCG, and typhoid vaccine.
  6. Patients taking medications specified by the protocol as prohibited for administration in combination with study drugs.
  7. Radiotherapy to the primary tumor prior to or planned post-surgery.
  8. Inability to swallow pills or any significant gastrointestinal disease which would preclude the adequate oral absorption of medications.
  9. Major surgical procedure, open , or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to the start of study or anticipation of need for major surgical procedure during the course of the study other than surgical resection of the pancreatic tumor.
  10. Serious, non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture.
  11. History of myocardial infarction, unstable angina, cardiac or other vascular stenting, angioplasty, or surgery within 6 months prior to study enrollment.
  12. Cardiac abnormalities including:

    1. \< 50%
    2. prolongation > 480 msec, except for right bundle branch block, per the investigator's assessment.
  13. Uncontrolled/symptomatic or significant cardiovascular conditions within 6 months prior to randomization, including, but not limited to, any of the following: cardiac angioplasty or stenting, unstable angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, stroke/, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, symptomatic peripheral vascular disease, class III-IV congestive heart failure, pericarditis, myocarditis, atrial fibrillation, or other arrhythmias (eg, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, or Torsades de pointes).
  14. Ongoing need for a medication with a known risk of Torsades de Pointes that cannot be switched to alternative treatment prior to study entry.
  15. seropositivity, active or C infection, or other serious chronic infection requiring ongoing treatment.
  16. Known dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) deficiency
  17. Unable or unwilling to abide by the study protocol or cooperate fully with the investigator or designee.
  18. Known chronic liver disease, hepatitis, or sclerosing cholangitis.
  19. Receiving any other agent which would be considered as a treatment for the primary neoplasm.
  20. Treatment with another device or study drug or participation in another drug study within 30 days of screening. Other investigational procedures while participating in this study are excluded.
  21. Known to the active substances or to any of the .
  22. Patients with another for which treatment is required, per investigator's clinical judgment.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(27)

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Navlimetostat Phase 1b

    Phase 1b Navlimetostat dose optimization

    Drug: Navlimetostat · Drug: mFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen

  • Experimental
    Navlimetostat Phase 2

    Phase 2 Navlimetostat expansion

    Drug: Navlimetostat · Drug: mFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen

Interventions

  • Investigational, small molecule anticancer agent being developed for the treatment of malignancies with homozygous deletion of the MTAP gene.

    Also known as: BMS-986504, MRTX1719

  • DrugmFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen

    Drug pages: Fluorouracil · Leucovorin · Irinotecan · Oxaliplatin

    Chemotherapy regimen composed of 5-fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, irinotecan, and leucovorin

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Adverse Events

    Adverse events are assessed at every study visit and logged according to NCI-CTCAE v6.0.

    Time frame: Up to 15 months

  2. Recommended phase 2 dose of navlimetostat, as measured by the number of participants who experience a dose limiting toxicity during the first cycle of the phase 1b portion of the study

    Dose limiting toxicities are assessed throughout the first 28 days on combination treatment and are logged according to NCI-CTCAE v6.0

    Time frame: Dose limiting toxicities are assessed throughout the first 28 days on combination treatment.

  3. Feasibility of perioperative navlimetostat combined with mFOLFIRINOX

    Feasibility is measured by the proportion of evaluable participants who receive at least four doses of mFOLFIRINOX and at least one dose of navlimetostat prior to surgery, undergo surgical resection within 60 days of completing mFOLFIRINOX, and do not experience significant unexpected postoperative complications considered at least possibly related to navlimetostat within 14 days of surgery.

    Time frame: Measured from the start of study treatment with navlimetostat through 14 days after surgery.

  4. Severity of Adverse Events

    Adverse events are assessed at every study visit and logged according to NCI-CTCAE v6.0.

    Time frame: Up to 15 months

  5. Incidence of dose limiting toxicities

    Incidence of protocol-defined dose limiting toxicites, as assessed and graded per NCI-CTCAE v 6.0.

    Time frame: The first 28 days of combination treatment

Secondary outcomes

  1. Pathologic response rate

    Pathologic response rate is measured by College of American Pathologists (CAP) score of patients who undergo surgery. CAP scores range from 0-3, where 0=Complete response and 3=Poor or no response.

    Time frame: Measured within one week post-operatively

  2. Recurrence free survival (RFS)

    RFS is defined as the time from surgery to documented recurrence or death due to any cause.

    Time frame: Up to three years

  3. Overall survival (OS)

    OS is defined as the time from the first dose of navlimetostat to death due to any cause.

    Time frame: Up to three years

  4. Event free survival (EFS)

    EFS is defined as the time from the first dose of navlimetostat to clinical or radiographic progression, death due to any cause, or navlimetostat discontinuation due to toxicity

    Time frame: Up to three years

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes

Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form, Clinical study report

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

Start is estimated for Jan 2027; primary completion for Jun 2029, 29 months later.

Of 94 non-industry phase 1/2 interventional studies under Pancreatic Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 61 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 38 and three quarters within 95. This study's planned 29 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 209 studies reached it within 51 months; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 89.

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

Registered
Oct 23, 2026
First posted
Oct 29, 2026
StartEst.
Jan 15, 2027
Primary completionEst.
Jun 30, 2029
CompletionEst.
Jun 30, 2031
Last update
Nov 2, 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.
Interventions
Arm changed Phase 1b→Navlimetostat Phase 1b; Phase 2→Navlimetostat Phase 2
Nov 2, 2026
Title
A Phase Ib/II Open Label Study of Perioperative Navlimetostat Combined With Modified FOLFIRINOX in Patients With MTAP-Deleted Pancreatic Cancer
Nov 2, 2026
Registered
First appeared on the registry
Oct 29, 2026
Show all 2 updates
  1. Nov 2, 2026
    Interventions Arm changed Phase 1b→Navlimetostat Phase 1b; Phase 2→Navlimetostat Phase 2
    Title A Phase Ib/II Open Label Study of Perioperative Navlimetostat Combined With Modified FOLFIRINOX in Patients With MTAP-Deleted Pancreatic Cancer
  2. Oct 29, 2026
    First appeared on the registry

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
NCT07905131
Lead sponsor
Daniel Nussbaum, M.D.
Responsible party
Daniel Nussbaum, M.D. (Associate Professor of Surgery, Duke University) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Oct 29, 2026
Start date
Jan 15, 2027 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 30, 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 2, 2026

Study contacts

Emily Bolch
Contact
emily.bolch@duke.edu
919-668-6359
Duke University GI Oncology Research
Contact
gi-oncology-cru@dm.duke.edu
919-668-1861
Daniel Nussbaum, MD
principal investigator · Duke University
John Strickler, MD
study chair · Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center

Oversight

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