Selective TrkA Inhibitor VMD-928 to Treat TrkA Overexpression Driven Solid Tumors or Lymphoma
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03556228 |
Recruitment Status :
Recruiting
First Posted : June 14, 2018
Last Update Posted : May 10, 2023
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Any Solid Tumors Progressed After a Prior Immunotherapy Cervical Cancer Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck Mesothelioma Gall Bladder Cancer Thymic Carcinoma Non-Small Cell Squamous Lung Cancer Bladder Cancer Ovarian Cancer Pancreatic Cancer Colon Cancer Leiomyosarcoma Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Thymoma Urothelial Carcinoma | Drug: VMD-928 300 mg Tablet (ongoing); 100 mg Capsule (complete) | Phase 1 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 74 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Sequential Assignment |
Intervention Model Description: |
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Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | An Open-Label, Multiple-Dose, Dose-Escalation Study to Investigate the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of VMD-928 in Subjects With Solid Tumors or Lymphoma |
Actual Study Start Date : | June 8, 2018 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | December 2024 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | June 2025 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: VMD-928 300 mg Tablet (ongoing); 100 mg Capsule (complete) |
Drug: VMD-928 300 mg Tablet (ongoing); 100 mg Capsule (complete)
Taken orally once daily |
- Number and severity of treatment-emergent AEs [ Time Frame: Within 2 cycles (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC) of VMD-928. [ Time Frame: On Day 1 and Day 15 of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Peak plasma concentration (Cmax) of VMD-928. [ Time Frame: On Day 1 and Day 15 of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Incidence of Dose Limiting Toxicities. [ Time Frame: During the Cycle 1 (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Analgesic response as defined by the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI). [ Time Frame: On Day 1 and Day 15 of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Change in TrkA protein expression. [ Time Frame: Pre-dose and at the end of Cycle 2 (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Correlation between clinical antitumor and AUC. [ Time Frame: Up to the end of the Cycle 2 (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Correlation between clinical antitumor and TrkA protein expression. [ Time Frame: Up to the end of the Cycle 2 (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Correlation between analgesic response and TrkA protein expression. [ Time Frame: Up to the end of the Cycle 2 (each cycle is 28 days) ]
- Correlation between analgesic response and AUC. [ Time Frame: Up to the end of the Cycle 2 (each cycle is 28 days) ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Key Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of any type of solid tumor malignancy or lymphoma that is not responsive to standard therapies or had progressed following standard therapy and for which there is no approved or curative therapy. Additionally, patients must not be candidates for or have exhausted regimens known to provide clinical benefit, including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in lymphoma patients if they are deemed transplant eligible.
- ECOG score of 0 or 1.
- Able to swallow and retain oral medication.
- Adequate organ system function.
- Subjects must either have available archival tumor tissue samples, or consent to tumor tissue sampling prior to the first dose, that is sufficient for IHC analysis of TrkA expression.
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Subjects must have a tumor:
(i). with TrkA protein overexpression in the validated TrkA IHC assay, OR (ii). with documented NTRK1 gene fusion, or a tumor which has progressed due to NTRK1 mutation after treatment of a pan-Trk inhibitor (e.g. larotrectinib or entrectinib)
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Adequate organ system function as defined as follows:
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥1.5x10^9/L
- Hemoglobin ≥9g/dL
- Platelets ≥100x10^9/L
- PT/INR, PTT ≤1.5xULN
- Total bilirubin ≤1.5x ULN
- AST, ALT ≤2.5xULN
- Creatinine ≤1.2xULN for age, weight
- Calculated creatinine clearance or 24h urine creatinine clearance ≥60mL/min
Key Exclusion Criteria:
- Received chemotherapy having delayed toxicity within the last 14 days (six weeks for prior nitrosourea or mitomycin C).
- Received anticancer therapy with radiation, immunotherapy, and a biologic, surgery and/or tumor embolization within the past 2 weeks.
- Received an investigational anticancer drug within 14 days or 5 half-lives of the investigational agent, whichever is longer, prior to the first dose of VMD-928. Any exceptions to the above must be approved by the Sponsor Medical Monitor.
- Unresolved toxicity from previous anticancer therapy > CTCAE Grade 1 (except alopecia or anemia) unless agreed to by both the Sponsor Medical Monitor and the Investigator.
- Negative result on TrkA immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay.
- Known active infections including HIV disease.
- Patients with a history of chronic viral hepatitis (HBV/HCV) or a history of cirrhotic liver secondary to any etiology (i.e. alcoholism, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis).
- Currently pregnant, nursing, or planning to become pregnant during the course of the study.
- QTcF interval ≥ 480 msec.
- Class II, III, or IV heart failure as defined by the New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification system.
- Acute coronary syndromes (including unstable angina), coronary angioplasty, or stenting within the past 24 weeks.
- Unstable or uncompensated respiratory, hepatic, renal, or cardiac disease that would compromise the patient's safety or interfere with assessment of the drug.
- Psychological, familial, sociological, geographical, or other concurrent conditions that would interfere with safety evaluation, limit the patient's ability to follow the procedures in the protocol or otherwise jeopardize compliance with the protocol. Patients with uncontrolled major depression, bipolar disorder, or severe anxiety disorder are excluded.
- Known immediate or delayed hypersensitivity reaction or idiosyncrasy to the study drug, or excipients

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03556228
Contact: Jay Wu, PhD | 510-270-2790, 510-661-6770 ext 101 | OM@VMOncology.com | |
Contact: Stephanie Saathoff | ssaathoff@TD2inc.com |
United States, California | |
City of Hope National Medical Center | Active, not recruiting |
Duarte, California, United States, 91010 | |
United States, Florida | |
Memorial Cancer Institute at Memorial Healthcare Systems | Recruiting |
Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States, 33028 | |
Contact: Shoria Martelly 954-844-9917 SMartelly@mhs.net | |
Contact: Noeli Zamora 954-265-2615 NZamora@mhs.net | |
Principal Investigator: Luis E Raez, MD | |
United States, New Jersey | |
Atlantic Health System, Morristown Medical Center | Recruiting |
Morristown, New Jersey, United States, 07962 | |
Contact: Salome Geene, RN, BSN, OCN 973-971-6373 salome.geene@atlantichealth.org | |
Contact: Amanda Hall 973-971-5235 amandamaria.hall@atlantichealth.org | |
Principal Investigator: Angela Alistar, MD | |
United States, New York | |
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University | Recruiting |
New York, New York, United States, 10065 | |
Contact: Marvin Castellon 646-962-6091 mac7087@med.cornell.edu | |
Contact: Jessica Wilk jsw9043@med.cornell.edu | |
Principal Investigator: Barbara Ma, M.D., M.S. | |
United States, Ohio | |
Gabrail Cancer Center Research | Recruiting |
Canton, Ohio, United States, 44718 | |
Contact: Amanda Rich 330-492-3345 arich@gabrailcancercenter.com | |
Contact: Carrie Smith csmith@gabrailcancercenter.com | |
Principal Investigator: Nashat Y Gabrail, MD | |
United States, Tennessee | |
Erlanger Health System (Hospital); University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga | Recruiting |
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, 37403 | |
Contact: Deborah Dyer, RN 423-778-3903 Deborah.Dyer@erlanger.org | |
Principal Investigator: Stephen DePasquale, MD | |
United States, Texas | |
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Recruiting |
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 | |
Contact: Madison Maas MEMaas@mdanderson.org | |
Contact: Ly M Nguyen 713-563-2169 LMNguyen1@mdanderson.org | |
Principal Investigator: David S Hong, MD | |
United States, Wisconsin | |
Medical College of Wisconsin | Recruiting |
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226 | |
Contact: Colleen Cotter, CHES 414-805-8839 cmcotter@mcw.edu | |
Contact: Gabrielle Threatt gthreatt@mcw.edu | |
Principal Investigator: Sailaja Kamaraju, MD |
Study Chair: | Clinical Development | VM Oncology, LLC |
Responsible Party: | VM Oncology, LLC |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT03556228 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
VMO-01C |
First Posted: | June 14, 2018 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | May 10, 2023 |
Last Verified: | May 2023 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | Undecided |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | Yes |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
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