A Phase 1a/b Study of IK-175 as a Single Agent and in Combination With Nivolumab in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors and Urothelial Carcinoma

A Phase 1a/b, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation and Expansion Study of IK-175, an Oral Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR) Inhibitor, as a Single Agent and in Combination With Nivolumab, a PD-1 Checkpoint Inhibitor in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors and Urothelial Carcinoma

This study will be conducted in adult subjects diagnosed with any form of an advanced or metastatic solid tumors including urothelial carcinoma for which standard therapy is no longer effective or is intolerable. This is a phase 1, multi-center, open label study designed to assess safety and tolerability of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab, to determine the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D). Disease response, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics, and response biomarkers will also be assessed.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Neoplasms; Neoplasm Metastasis; Solid Tumor; Metastatic Cancer; Bladder Cancer; Advanced Solid Tumor; Advanced Cancer; Urothelial Carcinoma Bladder; Urothelial Carcinoma; Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma; Solid Tumor, Adult; Bladder Disease; Solid Carcinoma; Neoplasm Malignant; Neoplasm, Bladder; Locally Advanced Solid Tumor; Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma; Bladder Neoplasm; Metastatic Bladder Cancer; Urothelial Neoplasm; Neoplasm, Urinary Bladder
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: IK-175; Drug: IK-175 and nivolumab

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 78
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Marissa Timothy, MS; Phone Number: 6033618939; Email: mtimothy@ikenaoncology.com
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Jennifer Schroeder; Phone Number: 8574196991; Email: jschroeder@ikenaoncology.com

Study Locations

• United States
  • Arizona
    • Gilbert, Arizona, United States, 85234
      • Banner Health- MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Florida
    • Sarasota, Florida, United States, 85234
      • Florida Cancer Specialists - Sarasota
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
      • Rush University Medical Center
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
      • Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
  • Michigan
    • Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, 49546
      • Start Midwest
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10065
      • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
      • Sydney Kimmel Cancer Center Thomas Jefferson University
    • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15232
      • UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
  • Tennessee
    • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
      • The Sarah Cannon Research Institute
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
      • MD Anderson Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adult patients ≥18 years of age.
2. Patients with confirmed solid tumors (including urothelial carcinoma) who have locally recurrent or metastatic disease that has progressed on or following all standard of care therapies or who is not a candidate for standard treatment.
3. For patients with urothelial carcinoma to be enrolled in the Combination Treatment arm, patients must have confirmation of urothelial carcinoma and have unresectable locally recurrent or metastatic disease that has progressed on or following all standard of care therapies, or who is not a candidate for standard treatment. Checkpoint inhibitor therapy with anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 does not necessarily need to directly precede the study, but patients must have progressed on or within 3 months of receiving the last infusion/dose anti-PD-(L)1 therapy for inclusion in the Combination Treatment arm only.
4. Have measurable disease.
5. Accessible tumor that can be safely accessed for multiple core biopsies and patient is willing to provide tissue from newly obtain biopsies before and during treatment.
6. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1.
7. Adequate organ function.
8. Highly effective birth control.
9. Time since the last dose of prior therapy to treat underlying malignancy (including other investigational therapy): 9a. Systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy: ≥ the duration of the most recent cycle of the previous regimen (with a minimum of 2 weeks for all, except 6 weeks for systemic nitrosourea or systemic mitomycin-C). 9b. Biologic therapy (eg, antibodies): ≥ 3 weeks or their dosing interval if shorter than 3 weeks (e.g. q2w therapy would require a 2-week washout). 9c. Small molecule therapies: ≥ 5 × half-life. 9d. Investigational Agent: ≥4 weeks or ≥5 × half-life, whichever is shorter

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Untreated symptomatic central nervous system (CNS) tumors or brain metastasis. Patients are eligible if CNS metastases are asymptomatic and do not require immediate treatment or have been treated and patients have neurologically returned to baseline (residual signs or symptoms related to the CNS treatment are permitted). In addition, patients must have been either off corticosteroids, or on a stable or decreasing dose of ≤10 mg daily prednisone (or equivalent) for at least 2 weeks prior to entering the Treatment period (Day 1).
2. Patients who have not recovered to ≤ Grade 1 or baseline from all adverse events (AEs) due to previous therapies
3. Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years with the use of disease-modifying agents, corticosteroids, or immunosuppressive drugs; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are permitted. Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism only requiring hormone replacement, skin disorders (such as vitiligo, psoriasis, or alopecia) not requiring systemic treatment, or conditions not expected to recur in the absence of an external trigger are permitted to enroll.
4. Any condition requiring continuous systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (>10mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 2 weeks prior to first dose of study treatment (Inhaled or topical steroids and physiological replacement doses of up to 10 mg daily prednisone equivalent are permitted in the absence of active clinically significant [ie, severe] autoimmune disease.).
5. Any other concurrent antineoplastic treatment or investigational agent except for allowed local radiation of lesions for palliation and hormone ablation.
6. Uncontrolled or life-threatening symptomatic concomitant disease (including known symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive with an AIDS defining opportunistic infection within the last year, or a current CD4 count <350 cells/uL, symptomatic active hepatitis B or C checked at screening, or active tuberculosis). Patients with HIV are eligible if: 6a. they have received antiretroviral therapy (ART) for at least 4 weeks prior to entering the Treatment period as clinical indicated while enrolled on study; 6b. they continue on ART as clinically indicated while enrolled on study; 6c. CD4 counts and viral load are monitored per standard of care by a local health care provider.
7. Patients that have undergone a major surgery within 3 weeks of starting trial treatment or has inadequate healing or recovery from complications of surgery prior to starting trial treatment.
8. Prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study treatment. Subjects must have recovered from all radiation-related toxicities, not require corticosteroids, and not have had severe radiation pneumonitis. A 1-week washout is permitted for palliative radiation [≤ 2 weeks of radiotherapy] to non-CNS disease.
9. Prior AHR inhibitor treatment without Sponsor permission.
10. Potentially life-threatening second malignancy requiring systemic treatment within the last 3 years or which would impede evaluation of treatment response. Hormone ablation therapy is allowed within the last 3 years. Patients with history of prior early stage basal/squamous cell skin cancer or non-invasive or in situ cancers that have undergone definitive treatment at any time are eligible.
11. Recent or current significant cardiovascular disease (e.g. stroke, heart attack, heart failure, or arrhythmia).
12. Medical issue that limits oral ingestion or impairment of gastrointestinal function that is expected to significantly reduce the absorption of IK-175.
13. Clinically significant (ie, active) cardiovascular disease: cerebral vascular accident/stroke (<6 months prior to enrollment), myocardial infarction (<6 months prior to enrollment), unstable angina, congestive heart failure (≥ New York Heart Association Classification Class II), or the presence of any condition that can increase proarrhythmic risk (eg, hypokalemia, bradycardia, heart block) including any new, unstable, or serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication, or other baseline arrhythmia that might interfere with interpretation of ECGs on study (eg, bundle branch block). Patients with QTcF >450 msec for males and >470 msec for females on screening ECG are excluded. Any patients with a bundle branch block will be excluded with QTcF >450 msec. Males who are on stable doses of concomitant medication with known prolongation of QTcF (eg, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants) will only be excluded for QTcF >470 msec.
14. History of life-threatening toxicity related to prior immune therapy (eg. anti-CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1/PD-L1 treatment or any other antibody or drug specifically targeting T-cell co-stimulation or immune checkpoint pathways) except those that are unlikely to re-occur with standard countermeasures (eg. hormone replacement after adrenal crisis).
15. Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy.
16. Treatment with any live/attenuated vaccine within 30 days of first study treatment.
17. A woman of child-bearing potential (WOCBP) who has a positive pregnancy test or is breastfeeding prior to treatment.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

4

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: IK-175 Single Agent Dose Escalation; Approximately 5 dose escalation steps are planned during the Single Agent Treatment dose escalation phase of the study. (COMPLETE)	Drug: IK-175; Subjects will be administered IK-175 PO daily for every 21-day treatment cycle during the Single Agent Treatment dose escalation or for every 28-day treatment cycle during the Single Agent dose expansion.; Other Names: KYN-175
Experimental: IK-175 Single Agent Dose Expansion; A Single Agent Treatment dose expansion phase will be performed in patients with urothelial carcinoma with IK-175 after completion of the dose escalation to confirm the RP2D. (COMPLETE)	Drug: IK-175; Subjects will be administered IK-175 PO daily for every 21-day treatment cycle during the Single Agent Treatment dose escalation or for every 28-day treatment cycle during the Single Agent dose expansion.; Other Names: KYN-175
Experimental: IK-175 and nivolumab Combination Dose Escalation; Approximately 2 dose escalation steps are planned during the Combination Treatment dose escalation phase of the study. (COMPLETE)	Drug: IK-175 and nivolumab; Subjects will be administered IK-175 PO daily and administered a single dose of nivolumab IV on Day 1 for every 28-day treatment cycle during the Combination Treatment dose escalation and expansion.; Other Names: KYN-175 and nivolumab
Experimental: IK-175 and nivolumab Combination Dose Expansion; A Combination Treatment dose expansion phase will be performed in patients with urothelial carcinoma with IK-175 after completion of the dose escalation to confirm the RP2D. (COMPLETE)	Drug: IK-175 and nivolumab; Subjects will be administered IK-175 PO daily and administered a single dose of nivolumab IV on Day 1 for every 28-day treatment cycle during the Combination Treatment dose escalation and expansion.; Other Names: KYN-175 and nivolumab

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
To determine the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) or Maximum Administered Dose (MAD), and to characterize the dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab.	Proportion of adverse events (AEs) meeting protocol-defined DLT criteria	Approximately 6 months
Safety and tolerability of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab including acute and chronic toxicities, in determining a recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of IK- 175.	Frequency of AEs overall, by grade, relationship to study treatment, time-of-onset, duration of the event, duration of resolution, and concomitant medications administered.	Up to 100 days after the end of study treatment.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pharmacokinetics of IK-175: half-life (t1/2)	Determine IK-175 half-life (t1/2).	Days 1 and 2 of first 2 cycles (every 21 days), followed by Day 1 of every even cycle beginning with cycle 4 (every 42 days) through end of treatment (average of 4 months)
Pharmacokinetics of IK-175: Maximum Serum Concentration (Cmax)	Determine IK-175 Cmax	Days 1 and 2 of first 2 cycles (every 21 days), followed by Day 1 of every even cycle beginning with cycle 4 (every 42 days) through end of treatment (average of 4 months)
Pharmacokinetics of IK-175: Area Under the Curve (AUC)	Determine IK-175 AUC	Days 1 and 2 of first 2 cycles (every 21 days), followed by Day 1 of every even cycle beginning with cycle 4 (every 42 days) through end of treatment (average of 4 months)
Objective response rate (ORR) of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab	Preliminary antitumor activity per RECIST 1.1 and assessment per immune Response Evaluation Criteria Solid Tumors (iRECIST) for subjects with urothelial carcinoma.	12 months
Progression-free survival (PFS) of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab	Preliminary antitumor activity per RECIST 1.1and assessment per immune Response Evaluation Criteria Solid Tumors (iRECIST) for subjects with urothelial carcinoma.	12 months
Duration of treatment (DOT) of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab	Preliminary antitumor activity per RECIST 1.1 and assessment per immune Response Evaluation Criteria Solid Tumors (iRECIST) for subjects with urothelial carcinoma.	12 months
Duration of response (DOR) of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab	Preliminary antitumor activity per RECIST 1.1 and assessment per immune Response Evaluation Criteria Solid Tumors (iRECIST) for subjects with urothelial carcinoma.	12 months
Disease control rate (DCR) of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab	Preliminary antitumor activity per RECIST 1.1 and assessment per immune Response Evaluation Criteria Solid Tumors (iRECIST) for subjects with urothelial carcinoma.	12 months
Pharmacodynamic immune effects of IK-175 as a single agent and in combination with nivolumab on tumor-infiltrating cytotoxic T cells	Characterization of tumor-infiltrating cytotoxic T cells in tumor biopsies collected before and during IK-175 treatment	Prior to Cycle 1 Day 1, and anytime between the end of Cycle 1 and end of Cycle 2. Each cycle is 21 days.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ikena Oncology
• Collaborators: Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Investigators: Study Director: Karim Malek, MD, Ikena Oncology

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 18, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 18, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): July 18, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 11, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 13, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): December 16, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 15, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 14, 2024
• Last Verified: March 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: nivolumab; checkpoint inhibitor; Inhibitor; IK-175; Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Antagonist; AHRi; Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Inhibitor; Antagonist; anti-PD1; CPI; KYN-175; Immunoncology; aPDI
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Urologic Neoplasms; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Urologic Diseases; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Neoplastic Processes; Female Urogenital Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications; Urogenital Diseases; Male Urogenital Diseases; Neoplasms; Carcinoma; Neoplasm Metastasis; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Transitional Cell; Urinary Bladder Diseases; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Antineoplastic Agents; Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological; Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors; Nivolumab
• Other Study ID Numbers: IK175-001; KYN-175 (Other Identifier: Ikena Oncology)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No