Study of ASN003 in Subjects With Advanced Solid Tumors

A Phase 1, Open-label, Dose-finding and Cohort Expansion Study of ASN003 in Subjects With Advanced Solid Tumors

The study is divided into two parts. The first part of the study will test various doses of ASN003 to find out the highest safe dose to test in three specific groups.

The second part of the study will test how well ASN003 can control cancer. Subjects will be enrolled into one of three groups.

Group 1: metastatic or recurrent melanoma with documented BRAFV600 mutation (n=20 evaluable patients) Group 2: metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC), or advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with documented BRAFV600 mutation (n=14 evaluable patients) Group 3: advanced solid tumors with documented PI3K pathway alterations (PIK3CA mutation or PTEN loss) (n=14 evaluable patients)

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Melanoma; Neoplasms; Colorectal Neoplasm; Carcinoma, Non-small Cell Lung
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: ASN003 ascending doses; Drug: ASN003 MTD

Detailed Description

The study will be conducted in two parts. Part A is a dose escalation study to determine a safe and tolerable dose of ASN003 for subjects with advanced solid tumors. Part A will also characterize the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ASN003 through blood sampling and optional biopsies.. Part B will only enroll subjects in three groups:

Group 1: subjects who have metastatic or recurrent melanoma with the BRAFv600 mutation.

Group 2: subjects who have advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, or colorectal cancer with the BRAFv600 mutation.

Group 3: subjects who have advanced or metastatic cancers with phosphatidylinositide 3-kinases (PI3K) mutations, or phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) loss mutation. Subjects will be treated with the highest safe and tolerable dose determined in Part A of the study to determine preliminary efficacy. Subjects may continue to receive ASN003 for up to 1 year in the absence of severe side effects or disease progression.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 24
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048
      • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Florida
    • Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
      • Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
      • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Michigan
    • Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, 49503
      • Start Midwest
  • Texas
    • San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229
      • South Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• written informed consent obtained prior to any study-related procedures.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status: 0-1
• Part A only: Histologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic and/or advanced solid tumors with documented progressive disease for whom no further standard therapy is indicated.

• Part B only: 5. Histologically or cytologically confirmed, molecularly selected (i.e. BRAFV600 positive and/or PI3K mutation positive) advanced solid tumors. Prior molecular characterization should be based using a regulatory approved assay or analytically validated assay.

  • Group 1: BRAFV600 positive metastatic or recurrent melanoma after failure of prior treatment with standard therapy such as a checkpoint inhibitor and an approved B-RAF inhibitor (vemurafenib or dabrafenib)
  • Group 2: BRAFV600 positive metastatic colorectal carcinoma (CRC), or advanced non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) after failure of at least two lines of prior standard therapy or for whom no further standard therapy is indicated.
  • Group 3: Advanced solid tumors with PI3K pathway alterations (PIK3CA mutation or PTEN loss) after failure of at least one line of prior standard therapy or for whom no further standard therapy is indicated. Prior treatment may not include inhibitors of the PI3K pathway.
• Screening hematology values of the following: absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1000/μL, platelets ≥ 100,000/μL, hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL (without transfusion support);
• Screening chemistry values of the following: alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) ≤ 3.0 × upper limit of the normal reference range (ULN), total bilirubin ≤ 2 × ULN, creatinine ≤ 1.5 × ULN, fasting blood glucose < 140 mg/dL, hemoglobin A1C ≤ ULN, albumin ≥ 2.8 g/dL.
• Screening fasting lipid panel: LDL cholesterol < 190 mg/dL, triglycerides < 300 mg/dL
• Subject is willing and able to comply with all protocol required visits and assessments, including biopsy if assigned to the MTD expansion cohort;

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have received prior chemotherapy, other investigational therapy, or major surgery within 4 weeks of Day 1;
• Have received oral anti-cancer therapy with oral tyrosine kinase inhibitors within 14 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer.
• Have received prior treatment with monoclonal antibodies within 6 weeks of first dose of Day 1;
• Subject has received a live virus vaccine within the previous 8 weeks.
• Have known central nervous system metastasis or primary tumor (Part A). Previously-treated, CNS metastasis is permitted in Part B. CNS metastasis must be small, discrete metastasis; stable for at least 30 days without the need for concomitant prednisone for symptom management. No leptomeningeal disease is allowed. Is receiving therapeutic doses of corticosteroids (>20 mg prednisone daily or equivalent);

• Has a serious concurrent medical condition such as:

  • history of Diabetes Mellitus, type 1 or type 2,
  • known autoimmune disease, known bleeding diathesis, history of congestive heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV;
  • uncontrolled hypertension (systolic BP ≥ 139 mmHg or diastolic BP ≥ 89 mmHg) at screening, despite optimal antihypertensive therapy,
  • clinically significant heart disease including but not limited to: myocardial infarction, or arterial thrombotic events in the past 6 months, severe or unstable angina, or known cardiac ejection fraction measurement of < 50 %;
  • history or family history of long QT syndrome; 12-Lead electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities considered by the investigator to be clinically significant or QTcF ≥ 450 milliseconds, regardless of clinical significance, at screening. Abnormal ECG may be confirmed with one repeat assessment. For subjects with QTcF ≥ 450 msec on initial ECG, the mean of the two QTcF assessments will determine eligibility;
  • uncontrolled psychiatric illness;
  • serious persistent infection within 14 days prior to the start of study medication;
  • known gastrointestinal disease or condition which may affect the absorption of ASN003;
  • known active or symptomatic viral hepatitis, chronic liver disease or liver cirrhosis;
  • known glaucoma or other pre-existing ocular conditions that may put the patient at risk for ocular toxicities.
  • any known condition or situation which may put the patient at significant risk, may confound the study results, or may interfere significantly with subject's participation in the study
• Female subjects who are pregnant or breast feeding

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

4

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: ASN003 Dose Escalation; Multiple ascending doses of ASN003 will be administered to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD).	Drug: ASN003 ascending doses
Experimental: ASN003 MTD - BRAFv600 melanoma; ASN003 administered at the MTD in subjects with BRAF v600 mutated metastatic melanoma	Drug: ASN003 MTD; The highest safe and well tolerated dose selected from the doses tested in Part A of the study.
Experimental: ASN003 MTD - BRAFv600 colon or lung cancer; ASN003 administered at the MTD in subjects with BRAFv600 mutated metastatic colorectal or non-small cell lung cancer.	Drug: ASN003 MTD; The highest safe and well tolerated dose selected from the doses tested in Part A of the study.
Experimental: ASN003 MTD - PIK3 pathway mutated cancers; ASN003 administered at the MTD in subjects who have mutations in PI3 kinase or loss of PTEN.	Drug: ASN003 MTD; The highest safe and well tolerated dose selected from the doses tested in Part A of the study.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Part A: Determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of ASN003	The MTD will be determined by evaluating the number of subjects with treatment related dose limiting toxicity. This is the primary endpoint of Part A	First 21 days
Part B: evaluates the preliminary efficacy of ASN003 in subjects with selected BRAF and PI3 kinase mutated cancers	Evaluation of the overall disease status using the RECIST 1.1 terms of complete response, partial response, stable disease, and progressive disease. This is the primary endpoint for Part B	Up to 1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Appearance of new tumor lesions	Number of subjects with new lesions	Up to 1 year
Calculate the Pharmacokinetic Area Under the Curve	A plot of the concentration of ASN003 in blood plasma over time.	First 22 days
Calculate the Pharmacokinetic Maximum Concentration	The peak plasma concentration of ASN003	First 22 days
Calculate the Pharmacokinetic Half-life	The time required for ASN003 to lose half of its pharmacologic activity.	First 22 days
Change from baseline in pharmacodynamic biomarkers	Pre-dose and post-dose pharmacodynamic biomarkers in plasma and tumor biopsy will be compared to assess signs of pharmacodynamic activity	Up to 1 year
Change in the size of measurable tumor lesions	Change from baseline in the sum of the longest dimension in centimeters of each measurable lesion, the presence/absence of lesions that cannot be measured in centimeters, or the presence of new lesions.	Up to 1 year
Change in the status of non-measurable tumor lesions	Number of subjects that have resolution of non-measurable tumor lesions.	Up to 1 year

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in tumor mutational status	Tumor biopsy samples will be tested to look for changes	Up to 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Asana BioSciences
• Investigators: Study Director: Asana BioSciences, Asana BioSciences, LLC

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: October 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 1, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): February 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 25, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 8, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): November 10, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 9, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 8, 2023
• Last Verified: May 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: BRAF Kinases; PIK3CA protein, human
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Digestive System Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Lung Diseases; Neoplasms by Site; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms; Digestive System Neoplasms; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Thoracic Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Bronchogenic; Bronchial Neoplasms; Colonic Diseases; Intestinal Diseases; Intestinal Neoplasms; Rectal Diseases; Lung Neoplasms; Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; Colorectal Neoplasms
• Other Study ID Numbers: ASN003-101

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO