Safety of SNK01 in Subjects With Pathologically Confirmed Metastatic and/or Unresectable Cancer Refractory to Conventional Therapy

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of SNK01 (autologous natural killer cell), as a single agent and in combination with avelumab or pembrolizumab, for the treatment of subjects with advanced and/or metastatic refractory cancer that has failed three or more prior lines of conventional standard of care therapy.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: NKGen Biotech, Inc.; NKMax America, Inc.
• Treatments: Avelumab; Pembrolizumab

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Voluntary written informed consent signed by patient, obtained prior to study enrollment.

• Males and females ages 18 to 75 years, inclusive.

• Pathologically confirmed diagnosis of refractory cancer that has failed three or more prior lines of conventional standard of care therapy.

• Diagnosed with any histologically confirmed malignancy whose disease is confirmed to be metastatic and/or unresectable for which standard curative or beneficial treatments are no longer effective.

• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status <2.

• At least 4 weeks since any prior systemic therapy (excluding corticosteroid therapy) to treat the underlying malignancy (standard or investigational).

• At least 2 weeks since prior palliative radiotherapy.

• Adequate bone marrow function:

• Neutrophils: 2.0-8.0 K/uL

• Platelet Count: 140-440 K/uL

• Hemoglobin: 10.0-18.0 g/dL

• No ongoing transfusion requirements

• Adequate hepatic function:

• Serum total bilirubin < 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)

• Serum albumin ≥ 3.0 g/dL

• Alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) ≤ 2.5 x ULN

• International normalized ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5 x ULN

• Adequate renal function with creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL.

• Negative pregnancy test for women of childbearing potential and use of effective contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control) during study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant and/or lactating females.

• Life expectancy of less than three months.

• Currently being treated by "biological therapy" as defined by the National Cancer Institute (example: checkpoint inhibitors, adoptive cell transfer, monoclonal antibodies, treatment vaccines, cytokines, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (CAR-T), and natural killer cell therapy).

• Patients tested positive for hepatitis B and/or C surface antigen.

• High fever or any active or unresolved infection, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive.

• Autoimmune disease requiring therapy; immunodeficiency, or any disease process requiring immunosuppressive therapy.

• Prior clinical trial requiring patient to receive an investigational drug within two weeks of enrollment.

• Congestive heart failure, unstable angina or other underlying cardiac disease; history of thrombosis currently requiring anticoagulation.

• Mental or psychological illness preventing cooperation with treatment, efficacy evaluations, or unable to understand the informed consent process.

• Subjects who have undergone prior organ transplantation, including allogeneic stem-cell transplantation.

• Adult subjects who lack capacity to consent for themselves and for whom consent must be provided by a legally authorized representative.

• For SNK01+avelumab arm only: Subjects with prior hypersensitivity to avelumab or its excipients, including known severe hypersensitivity reactions to monoclonal antibodies (NCI CTCAE v4.03 Grade ≥ 3).

• For SNK01+avelumab arm only: Subjects with a significant immune-mediated adverse event due to a prior checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy that led to permanent discontinuation of the therapy.