A Phase 1 interventional study of SIM0518 and SIM0518+Bupropion in ALK-Positive or ROS1-Positive Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Jiangsu Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. Not yet recruiting at 8 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-03.
Sponsored by Jiangsu Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (part of Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Limited) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a multicenter, open-label, Phase I study designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, efficacy, and pharmacokinetic /pharmacodynamic characteristics of SIM0518 in trial participants with ALK-positive or ROS1-positive locally advanced or metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). The study starts with a dose escalation part (Part 1), followed by a dose expansion part (Part 2). A Drug-Drug Interaction (DDI) study (Part 3) may be conducted after the Recommended Dose of SIM0518 is determined.
7,620 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,838 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 270 is above the median of 62 across 6,019 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.
Browse Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung studies →Jiangsu Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 78 studies on the registry; 15 are open to participants now.
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Part 1:
(RECIST 1.1. )Participants enrolled in the backfill phase must have . Lesions previously irradiated cannot be considered target lesions unless the lesion progresses significantly.
Part 2 of 3:
- a: Cohort 1, Cohort 2, Cohort 4, and Cohort 5: disease progression or intolerance during/after treatment with at least one ALK inhibitor or a ROS1 inhibitor, with no more than 3 ALK/ROS1 inhibitors; and progression or intolerance after a maximum of one-line chemotherapy regimen.
Cohort 3: has not received ALK inhibitor therapy and has progressed or is intolerant after up to one chemotherapy regimen.
Trial participants must confirm at screening that archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor tissue samples obtained within 3 years of signing the informed consent form or fresh samples collected prior to the first dose for retrospective testing of the ALK/ROS1 gene are available.
-Women of must have a negative blood pregnancy test within 3 days prior to the first dose. Female trial participants of childbearing potential or male trial participants with female partners of childbearing potential are required to use effective methods of from signing the informed consent form until 180 days after the last dose of study drug and refrain from donating sperm/eggs.
Exclusion Criteria:
Medical Status and Prior/Concomitant Diseases
History of clinically significant cardiovascular disease.
Prior/concomitant therapy
The following medications were administered before the first dose of study treatment:
Radiotherapy (except whole brain radiotherapy, which requires 4 weeks) within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study treatment.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
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.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.
In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
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.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HER2
HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.
In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECG (electrocardiogram)
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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SIM0518 Capsule, Use as specified in the Protocol
Drug: SIM0518
SIM0518 Capsuleand Midazolam Oral Solution ,Use as Specified in the Protocol
Drug: SIM0518+Midazolam
SIM0518 Capsule and Bupropion Hydrochloride Tablets ,Use as Specified in the Protocol
Drug: SIM0518+Bupropion
SIM0518 Capsuleand Repaglinide Tablets ,Use as Specified in the Protocol
Drug: SIM0518+Repaglinide
SIM0518 Capsule, and Tolbutamid Tablets,Use as Specified in the Protocol
Drug: SIM0518+Tolbutamide
SIM0518 Capsule and Fexofenadine Hydrochloride Tablets ,Use as Specified in the Protocol
Drug: SIM0518+Fexofenadine
SIM0518 Capsule and Rosuvastatin Calcium Tablets ,Use as Specified in the Protocol
Drug: SIM0518+ Rosuvastatin Calcium
SIM0518 is an oral, next-generation, highly selective ALK/ROS1 dual inhibitor.
SIM0518 is an oral, next-generation, highly selective ALK/ROS1 dual inhibitor. Bupropion is a sensitive probe substrate for cytochrome P2B6 SIM0518+Repaglinide
SIM0518 is an oral, next-generation, highly selective ALK/ROS1 dual inhibitor. Midazolam is a sensitive substrate of cytochrome P450 3A4/3A5
SIM0518 is an oral, next-generation, highly selective ALK/ROS1 dual inhibitor. Repaglinide is a sensitive probe substrate for Cytochrome P450 2C8 (CYP2C8)
SIM0518 is an oral, next-generation, highly selective ALK/ROS1 dual inhibitor. Tolbutamide is a probe substrate for Cytochrome P450 2C9 (CYP2C9)
SIM0518 is an oral, next-generation, highly selective ALK/ROS1 dual inhibitor. Fexofenadine is a sensitive probe substrate for P-glycoprotein (P-gp).
SIM0518 is an oral, next-generation, highly selective ALK/ROS1 dual inhibitor. Rosuvastatin is a probe substrate for Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (BCRP)
Dose-limiting toxicity(DLT) (Dose escalation)
DLTs will be assessed during the dose-escalation phase and are defined as toxicities that meet pre-defined severity criteria.
Time frame: During the first cycle treatment with SIM0518
Adverse event Rate
The occurrence of all adverse events (AEs), evaluated by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE)6.0.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Adverse event Severity
The Severity of all adverse events (AEs), evaluated by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events(CTCAE)6.0.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Serious Adverse Event Rate
The Occurrence of Serious Adverse Event Rate According to the Protocol
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Serious Adverse Event Severity
The Severitye of Serious Adverse Event Rate According to the Protocol
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Objective Response Rate (ORR)
ORR is the proportion of subjects with complete response(CR)or partial response(PR) assessed according to RECIST v1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Pharmacokinetics: The area under the curve (AUC)
The area under the curve (AUC) of serum concentration of SIM0518
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Pharmacokinetics:Peak concentration (Cmax)
Maximum observed concentration (Cmax) of SIM0518
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Pharmacokinetics: T1/2
Terminal half-life (T1/2)
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Pharmacokinetics: Tmax
Time to maximum concentration
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Pharmacokinetics: Ctrough
Minimum observed concentration (Cmax) of SIM0518
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Duration of Response (DOR)
DOR is the time from the date of first documented complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) to the earliest date of progressive disease (PD) or death from any cause, assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Disease Control Rate (DCR)
DCR is the proportion of participants with complete response (CR), partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD) assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Time To Response (TTR)
TTR is the time from the date of study treatment initiation to the date of first documented complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Intracranial Objective Response Rate (IC-ORR)
IC-ORR is the proportion of participants with complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) for intracranial lesions assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Intracranial Disease Control Rate (IC-DCR)
IC-DCR is the proportion of participants with complete response (CR), partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD) for intracranial lesions assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Intracranial Duration of Response (IC-DOR)
IC-DOR is the time from the date of first documented complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) for intracranial lesions to the earliest date of intracranial progressive disease (PD) or death from any cause, assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Intracranial Time To Response (IC-TTR)
IC-TTR is the time from the date of study treatment initiation to the date of first documented complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) for intracranial lesions, assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Intracranial Progression-Free Survival (IC-PFS)
IC-PFS is the time from the date of study treatment initiation to the earliest date of intracranial progressive disease (PD) or death from any cause, assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Objective Response Rate (ORR) (Part 1)
ORR is the proportion of participants with complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) assessed according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Number of Participants with Abnormal Laboratory Values
This metric is defined as the number of participants with at least one laboratory value outside the predefined reference range during the specified observation period.
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
Tolerability
Tolerability includes, but is not limited to, the proportion of trial participants with dose adjustments (interruption, reduction) or permanent treatment discontinuation due to adverse events (AE)
Time frame: Up to approximately 24 months
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