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NST-628: Targeted therapy (called NST-628) in adults with MAPK pathway mutated/dependent advanced solid cancers who have exhausted standard treatment optionsA Phase I, Open Label Single-arm Two-part Study to Investigate Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Preliminary Efficacy of Pan-RAF/MEK Glue NST-628 Oral Tablets in Subject with Solid Tumors Harboring Genetic Alterations in the MAPK Pathway and with Other Solid Tumors

Trial purpose

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Tumor type

Multi-Cancer Multi-Cancer

Age

People18+

Trial acronym

NST-628

Clinical summary

Summary

This is an early-phase (Phase 1) trial testing a targeted oral medicine called NST-628 in adults with advanced solid cancers that have specific genetic changes in the MAPK pathway.

This study has two parts.

Part A (dose escalation)
This part aims to find the safest and most appropriate dose of NST-628. Participants will be enrolled in cohorts (groups), and each cohort will receive an escalated dose of NST-628, taken by mouth once daily in 28-day cycles.

Once the safest dose (maximum tolerated dose or MTD) or a recommended dose (RDE) is identified, that dose will be used in the next stage.

Part B (dose expansion)
This part looks at how well NST-628 works and continues to assess its safety in specific cancer groups. Participants receive the selected dose from Part A. These groups include people with the following cancer types and specific genetic mutations:

  • Melanoma Cohorts:
    • Activating NRAS mutations
    • Select BRAF mutations
  • Non-melanoma cohorts:
    • Solid tumours with NRAS activating mutations
    • Solid tumours with KRAS activating mutations
    • Solid tumours with select BRAF alterations
    • Glioma with BRAF alterations

Conditions

This trial is treating people with locally advanced or metastatic solid cancers for which standard of care treatment doesn't exist, no longer provides benefit, or isn't tolerated

Eligibility

Inclusion

Subjects are eligible to be included in the study only if all of the following criteria apply:

  1. Subjects must be ≥18 years old (or of legal age of consent in the country in which the study is taking place) at the time of signing the informed consent.
  2. Subjects who have a histologically or cytologically documented metastatic or locally advanced solid tumor, for which standard of care (SoC) therapy does not exist, no longer provides benefit, or is not tolerated by the subject, or the subject has been assessed by the Investigator as not being suitable for SoC therapy.

    1. Part A: Subjects with any solid tumor with genetic alteration of or evidence of tumor dependence upon the RAS/MAPK pathway (subject to additional restrictions specified in the study protocol)
    2. Part B: Subjects must be diagnosed with one of the following solid tumors harboring specified genetic alterations based on a validated local test:

    i. Melanoma Cohorts:

    1. Activating NRAS mutations
    2. Select BRAF alterations

    ii. Non-Melanoma Cohorts:

    1. Solid tumors with NRAS activating mutations
    2. Solid tumors with KRAS activating mutations
    3. Solid tumors with select BRAF alterations
    4. Glioma with BRAF alterations
  3. Newly obtained or archived tumor tissue is required
  4. Part B: measurable disease as defined by RECIST Version 1.1 or by other disease assessment tool standard for a given tumor type (if RECIST v. 1.1 is not standard)
  5. Performance status

    1. Solid tumors other than glioma: ECOG 0 or 1
    2. Glioma: Karnofsky ≥ 70 and ECOG 0 or 1
  6. Have adequate organ function
  7. Understand and voluntarily sign an Institutional Review Board/Independent Ethics Committee-approved informed consent form prior to any study-specific evaluation.
  8. Life expectancy ≥ 12 weeks

Exclusion

Subjects are excluded from the study if any of the following criteria apply:

  1. Conditions interfering with oral intake of NST-628
  2. Conditions interfering with intestinal absorption of an orally administered drug
  3. A history or current evidence of significant retinal pathology leading to increased risk of RVO
  4. A history or evidence of cardiovascular risk
  5. Current or history within 6 months of planned Cycle 1 Day 1 of pneumonitis or interstitial lung disease (ILD)
  6. Part B: prior treatment with any MEK or BRAF inhibitor
  7. Untreated or symptomatic central nervous system (CNS) metastases
  8. Chemotherapy, radiation, gene therapy, vaccine therapy, or anti-cancer antibodies / ADCs within 28 days of Cycle 1 Day 1
  9. Targeted small molecule agents within 14 days or 5 half-lives of Cycle 1 Day 1
  10. Females who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
  11. For fertile patients (female able to become pregnant or male able to father a child), refusal to use effective contraception during the period of the trial and for 6 months after the last dose of NST-628
  12. Presence of any serious or unstable concomitant systemic disorder incompatible with the clinical study

Inclusion

  • Your cancer has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic) or has grown into nearby parts of the body (locally advanced).
  • You have had treatment but your cancer has gotten worse or has not responded to the treatment you have been given.
  • You are able to swallow medication by mouth.

Exclusion

  • You have certain types of non-cancer medical conditions.
  • You have had certain treatments, surgical procedures or drugs.
Message

Clinical trials have complex eligibility criteria, and other criteria may apply for this trial. Ask your doctor about whether this trial could be right for you.

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Trial sponsor

Nested Therapeutics, Inc

Scientific Title

A Phase I, Open Label Single-arm Two-part Study to Investigate Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Preliminary Efficacy of Pan-RAF/MEK Glue NST-628 Oral Tablets in Subject with Solid Tumors Harboring Genetic Alterations in the MAPK Pathway and with Other Solid Tumors

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