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NCT03850574PHASE1, PHASE2Recruiting

Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Tuspetinib (HM43239) in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Aptose Biosciences Inc.

Start Date

3/11/2019

Completion Date

4/1/2027

Summary

The main purpose of this study is to identify a safe and potentially effective dose of tuspetinib to be used in future studies in study participants diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndromes with increased blasts grade 2 (MDS-IB2), or chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) that is relapsed or refractory after at least one line of prior therapy, or in study participants with newly diagnosed AML. Tuspetinib will be administered as a single agent or in combination with other drugs (venetoclax or venetoclax plus azacitidine), as specified for each part of the study.

Detailed Description

This is a Phase 1/2, open-label, multi-center study designed to assess the efficacy, safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics, including determining the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) of tuspetinib (HM43239) in subjects with relapsed or treatment-refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Part C: This portion of the study will evaluate tuspetinib (HM43239) as monotherapy in patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) AML, focusing on safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy (Aptivate). Part D: This portion of the study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and PK parameters of tuspetinib (HM43239) in combination with venetoclax and azacitidine when administered to newly diagnosed AML patients who are ineligible for induction chemotherapy (Tuscany).

Eligibility Criteria

Age Range: 18 years to No maximum

Inclusion Criteria for Parts A/B/C: * Study participant is defined as having morphologically documented primary or secondary AML, MDS-IB2 (≥ 10% bone marrow blasts), or CMML by the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria (2016), and fulfills one of the following: 1. Refractory to at least 1 cycle of prior therapy 2. Relapsed after achieving remission with a prior therapy * Study participant has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 2. * Study participant's interval from prior treatment to time of study drug administration is at least 2 weeks for cytotoxic agents (except hydroxyurea given for controlling blast cells), at 4 weeks for biologic or cellular immunotherapies, or least 5 half-lives for prior experimental agents or noncytotoxic agents, including immunosuppressive therapy post hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Upon discussion with the Medical Monitor, a shorter than stated washout period may be considered provided that the study participant has recovered from any clinically relevant safety issue and recovered to Grade ≤ 1 toxicity from prior therapies. * Study participant must meet the following criteria as indicated on the clinical laboratory tests. 1. Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3× institutional upper limit normal (ULN) 2. Total serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5× institutional ULN 3. Creatinine clearance as calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula or measured by 24-h urine collection of \> 45 mL/min. * Study participant is suitable for oral administration of study drug and has minimum life expectancy (≥ 3 months) * Female study participants must be either: * Of non-childbearing potential 1. Post-menopausal (defined as at least 1 year without any menses) prior to screening, or 2. Documented surgically sterile or status post hysterectomy (at least 1 month prior to screening) * Or, if of childbearing potential, 1. Must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test at screening (within 72 hours prior to start of treatment), and 2. Must use an acceptable highly effective method of birth control starting at screening and throughout the study period and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Female study participants must not be breastfeeding at screening and during the study period, and for 90 days after the final study drug administration * Female study participants must not donate ova starting at screening and throughout the study period, and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Male study participants and their female spouse/partners who are of childbearing potential must be using highly effective contraception starting at screening and continue throughout the study period and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Male study participants must not donate sperm starting at screening and throughout the study period and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Study participant agrees not to participate in another interventional study while on treatment. Exclusion Criteria for Parts A/B/C: Study participants must not enter the study if any of the following exclusion criteria are met: * Study participant was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). * Study participant has known BCR-ABL-positive leukemia. * Study participant has an active malignancy other than AML, MDS-IB2, or CMML. * Study participant has persistent non-hematological toxicities of ≥ Grade 2 (CTCAE v4.03), with symptoms and objective findings, from prior AML, MDS-IB2, or CMML treatment (including chemotherapy, kinase inhibitors, immunotherapy, experimental agents, radiation, or surgery) * Study participant has had hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) and meets any of the following criteria: 1. Has undergone HSCT within the 2-month period prior to the first study dose 2. Has clinically significant graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) requiring treatment 3. Has ≥ Grade 2 persistent non-hematological toxicity related to the transplant 4. Had a donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) ≤ 30 days prior to the first study dose. * Study participant has meningeal or central nervous system (CNS) involvement with leukemia or other CNS disease related to underlying and secondary effects of malignancy. * Study participant has disseminated intravascular coagulation abnormality (DIC). * Study participant has had major surgery within 4 weeks prior to the first study dose. * Study participant has had radiation therapy within 4 weeks prior to the first study dose. * Study participant has congestive heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 3 or 4, or study participant with a history of congestive heart failure NYHA class 3 or 4 in the past, unless a screening echocardiogram or multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan performed within 3 months prior to study entry results in a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) that is ≥ 45%. * Study participant has any of the following cardiac abnormalities of history: 1. Study participant has any clinically important abnormalities in rhythm, conduction or morphology of resting ECG, e.g., complete left bundle branch block, third-degree heart block, second-degree heart block, or PR interval \> 250 milliseconds (ms). 2. Study participant has a mean QT interval (QTc) by Friderica's method (QTcF) \> 450 ms in three successive screening measurements. 3. Study participant has any factors that increase the risk of QTc prolongation or risk of arrhythmic events, such as congenital long QT, syndrome, family history of long QT syndrome. * Study participant is known to have active infection including any identified active COVID-19 infection. * Study participant is known to have human immunodeficiency virus infection. * Study participant has known active hepatitis B or C, or other active hepatic disorder. * Study participant has any condition which, in the Investigator's opinion, makes the study participant unsuitable for study participation. * Study participant has a history of Grade 3 or 4 non-hematologic toxicity related to tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Inclusion Criteria for Part D: * Study participant is defined as having morphologically documented newly diagnosed previously untreated primary or secondary AML by the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria (2016) and considered ineligible to receive intensive chemotherapy. Study participants ≥ 75 years of age are considered ineligible to receive intensive chemotherapy if they meet any of the following criteria: 1. ECOG Performance Status of 2 or 3; 2. Cardiac history of congestive heart failure (CHF) requiring treatment or ejection fraction ≤ 50% or chronic stable angina; 3. Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) ≤ 65% or forced expiratory volume during the first second (FEV1) ≤ 65%; 4. Creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min to \< 45 ml/min; 5. Moderate hepatic impairment with total bilirubin \> 1.5 to ≤ 3.0×ULN; 6. Any other comorbidity that the Investigator judges to be incompatible with intensive chemotherapy must be reviewed and approved by the Medical Monitor during screening and prior to treatment. Study participants are considered ineligible to receive intensive chemotherapy based on their age being ≥ 75 years. * Study participant \< 75 years has an ECOG performance status ≤ 2; study participant ≥ 75 years has an ECOG performance status 0-2. * Study participant must meet the following criteria as indicated on the clinical laboratory tests: 1. Serum AST and ALT ≤ 3× institutional ULN unless considered due to leukemic organ involvement. 2. Total serum bilirubin ≤ 3x institutional ULN unless considered due to leukemic organ involvement for study participants \< 75 years; total serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5x institutional ULN (or ≤ 3x institutional ULN if documented history of Gilbert's syndrome) unless considered due to leukemic organ involvement for study participants ≥ 75 years. 3. Creatinine clearance as calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula or measured by 24-h urine collection of ≥ 30 mL/min for study participants \< 75 years; creatinine clearance as calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula or measured by 24-h urine collection of ≥ 45 mL/min for study participants ≥ 75 years. * Study participant is suitable for oral administration of study drug and has minimum life expectancy (≥ 3 months) * Female study participants must be either: * Of non-childbearing potential 1. Post-menopausal (defined as at least 1 year without any menses) prior to screening, or 2. Documented surgically sterile or status post hysterectomy (at least 1 month prior to screening) * Or, if of childbearing potential, 1. Must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test at screening (within 72 hours prior to start of treatment), and 2. Must use an acceptable highly effective contraception starting at screening and throughout the study period and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Female study participants must not be breastfeeding at screening and during the study period, and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Female study participants must not donate ova starting at screening and throughout the study period, and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Male study participants and their female spouse/partners who are of childbearing potential must be using highly effective contraception starting at screening and continue throughout the study period and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Male study participants must not donate sperm starting at screening and throughout the study period and for 90 days after the final study drug administration. * Study participant agrees not to participate in another interventional study while on treatment. Exclusion Criteria for Part D: Study participants must not enter the study if any of the following exclusion criteria are met: * Study participant was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). * Study participant has known BCR-ABL-positive leukemia. * Study participant has an active malignancy other than AML. * Study participant has received treatment with the following: 1. An HMA, VEN (or other BCL-2 inhibitor), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), a FLT3 inhibitor (FLT3i), a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), and/or a chemotherapeutic agent for antecedent myeloid neoplasm (Note: Prior chemotherapy for solid tumors considered in remission is allowed.) 2. CAR-T cell therapy 3. Experimental therapies for antecedent myeloid neoplasms 4. Current participation in another research or observational study * Study participant has persistent non-hematological toxicities of ≥ Grade 2 (CTCAE v4.03), with symptoms and objective findings, from treatment for antecedent myeloid neoplasms (including chemotherapy, kinase inhibitors, immunotherapy, experimental agents, immunosuppressive therapy, radiation, or surgery). * Study participant has meningeal or central nervous system (CNS) involvement with leukemia or other CNS disease related to underlying and secondary effects of malignancy. * Study participant has disseminated intravascular coagulation abnormality (DIC). * Study participant has had major surgery within 4 weeks prior to the first study dose. * Study participant has had radiation therapy within 4 weeks prior to the first study dose. * Study participant has congestive heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 3 or 4, or study participant with a history of congestive heart failure NYHA class 3 or 4 in the past, unless a screening echocardiogram or multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan performed within 3 months prior to study entry results in a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) that is ≥ 45%. * Study participant has any of the following cardiac abnormalities of history: 1. Study participant has any clinically important abnormalities in rhythm, conduction or morphology of resting ECG, e.g., complete left bundle branch block, third-degree heart block, second-degree heart block, or PR interval \> 250 milliseconds (ms). 2. Study participant has a mean QT interval (QTc) by Friderica's method (QTcF) \> 450 ms in three successive screening measurements. 3. Study participant has any factors that increase the risk of QTc prolongation or risk of arrhythmic events, such as congenital long QT, syndrome, family history of long QT syndrome. * Study participant is known to have active infection, including any identified active COVID-19 infection. * Study participant is known to have human immunodeficiency virus infection. * Study participant has known active hepatitis B or C, or other active hepatic disorder. * Study participant has any condition which, in the Investigator's opinion, makes the study participant unsuitable for study participation, including a chronic respiratory disease that requires continuous oxygen, or a significant history of renal, neurologic, psychiatric, endocrinologic, metabolic, immunologic, hepatic, or cardiovascular disease, or any other medical condition or known hypersensitivity to any of the study medications including excipients of VEN and AZA that in the opinion of the Investigator would adversely affect participating in this study. * Study participant exhibits evidence of other clinically significant uncontrolled systemic infection requiring therapy (viral, bacterial, or fungal) or other medical conditions (e.g., infection, heart failure, COPD flare, etc.). * Study participant has a white blood cell count \> 25 × 10\^9/L. (Treatment with hydroxyurea or use of leukapheresis are permitted to meet this criterion.)

Interventions

DRUG

Tuspetinib

DRUG

Venetoclax Oral Tablet

DRUG

Azacitidine for Intravenous Infusion

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Conditions

Leukemia, Myeloid, AcuteRefractory AMLRelapsed Adult AMLMyelodysplastic Syndrome With Excess Blasts-2Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia

Locations

The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital

Birmingham, Alabama 35233

United States

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

Duarte, California 91010

United States

University of California Irvine

Irvine, California 92697

United States

UCSD Moores Cancer Center

La Jolla, California 92093

United States

USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Los Angeles, California 90033

United States

Stanford Cancer Center

Palo Alto, California 94304

United States

University of California, Davis

Sacramento, California 95817

United States

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut 06520

United States

University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine

Miami, Florida 33136

United States

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia 30322

United States

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts 02114

United States

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina 27705

United States

Cleveland Clinic - Taussig Cancer Center

Cleveland, Ohio 44106

United States

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Columbus, Ohio 43210

United States

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Huston, Texas 77030

United States

Border Medical Oncology

Albury, New South Wales 2640

Australia

Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital

Herston, Queensland 4006

Australia

Townsville University Hospital

Townsville, Queensland 4812

Australia

St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne

Fitzroy, Victoria 3065

Australia

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

Nedlands, Western Australia 6009

Australia

Universitätsklinikum Leipzig

Leipzig, Saxony 04103

Germany

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Berlin, State of Berlin 13353

Germany

Auckland City Hospital

Grafton, Auckland 1023

New Zealand

Seoul National University Hospital

Seoul, Seoul 03080

South Korea

Asan Medical Center

Seoul, Seoul 05505

South Korea

Samsung Medical Center

Seoul, Seoul 06351

South Korea

Kyungpook National University Hospital

Daegu, 41944

South Korea

Pusan National University Hospital

Pusan, 49241

South Korea

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital

Seongnam, 13620

South Korea

Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron

Barcelona, Barcelona 08035

Spain

Hospital Quirón Madrid

Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid 28223

Spain

Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias

Oviedo, Principality of Asturias 33011

Spain

Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valencia

Valencia, Valencia 46010

Spain

Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe

Valencia, Valencia 46026

Spain