Phase 1a/1b Study of TPST-1495 as a Single Agent and in Combination With Pembrolizumab in Subjects With Solid Tumors

Phase 1a/1b Open Label Dose-escalation and Expansion Study of TPST-1495 as a Single Agent and in Combination With Pembrolizumab in Subjects With Solid Tumors

This is a first-in-human Phase 1a/1b, multicenter, open-label, dose-escalation, dose and schedule optimization, and expansion study of TPST-1495 as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab to determine its maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and or recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D), safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and preliminary anti-tumor activity in subjects with advanced solid tumors. Subjects with all histologic types of solid tumors are eligible for the escalation and dose-finding portions of the study. However, the preferred tumor types for enrollment are colorectal cancer (CRC), non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN), urothelial cancer, endometrial cancer, and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) or gastric adenocarcinoma. Enrollment in the expansion cohorts is limited to the following tumor types: endometrial, SCCHN, CRC, and a basket cohort in subjects selected for an activating mutation in PIK3Ca.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Colorectal Cancer; Solid Tumor; Gastric Adenocarcinoma; Non Small Cell Lung Cancer; Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck; Endometrial Cancer; Urothelial Carcinoma; Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma; Solid Tumors With PIK3Ca Mutation
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: TPST-1495 twice daily; Drug: TPST-1495 once daily or on intermittent schedule; Drug: Pembrolizumab

Detailed Description

This is a first-in-human Phase 1a/1b, multicenter, open-label, dose-escalation, dose and schedule optimization, and expansion study of TPST-1495 as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab to determine its MTD, safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PD), pharmacodynamics (PK) and preliminary anti-tumor activity in subjects with advanced solid tumors. Subjects with all histologic types of solid tumors are eligible for the study. However, the preferred tumor types for enrollment are colorectal cancer (CRC), non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN), urothelial cancer, endometrial cancer, and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) or gastric adenocarcinoma. Tumor prostaglandin production and downstream signaling in both tumor cells and other cell types, including immune suppressive cell population in the tumor microenvironment, is thought to be a principal driver of progression in each of these selected malignancies. To be eligible, subjects must have no remaining standard therapy known to confer clinical benefit.

The study is composed of 3 stages. The Dose-Escalation stage will determine the MTD of single-agent TPST-1495 administered twice a day (BID). The Schedule and Dose Optimization stage will evaluate alternative TPST-1495 single-agent administration schedules and determine an RP2D for the selected schedule. This arm will also evaluate TPST-1495 in combination with pembrolizumab. The Expansion stage will evaluate the activity of TPST-1495 as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab at the selected schedule and dose in disease-specific cohorts and in a basket cohort in subjects selected for an activating mutation in PIK3Ca.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 175
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Tempest Clinical Trial Support; Phone Number: 122 415-798-8589; Email: 1495-Inquiries@tempesttx.com

Study Locations

• United States
  • Colorado
    • Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
      • University of Colorado
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
      • Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Massachusetts
    • Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, 01107
      • Baystate Gynecologic Oncology
  • Michigan
    • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109
      • University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
    • Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, 49546
      • START Midwest
  • North Carolina
    • Huntersville, North Carolina, United States, 28078
      • Carolina BioOncology Institute
  • Oklahoma
    • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73104
      • SCRI-OK Stephenson Cancer Center
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
      • University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
      • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • Tennessee
    • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
      • Tennessee Oncology
  • Texas
    • San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229
      • South Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics (START)

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Subjects must meet all the following inclusion criteria to be eligible:

1. Subjects must have a histologically-confirmed malignancy that is metastatic or unresectable for which there is no remaining standard therapy known to confer clinical benefit. While all solid tumor types are eligible for the dose-escalation and dose-finding portions of the study, there is a preference to enroll patients with colorectal cancer, squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, urothelial cancer, endometrial cancer, NSCLC, and gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. The expansion cohorts are limited to the following tumor types: endometrial, SCCHN, CRC, and tumors with an activating mutation in PIK3Ca.
2. Subjects must have a tumor that is at least 1 cm in a single dimension and is radiographically apparent on CT or MRI.
3. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1 at treatment initiation.
4. Life expectancy estimated to be ≥ 12 weeks

5. Adequate organ and marrow function (subjects must not have received transfusions or growth factor support within 1 month prior to first dose of investigational product) as defined below:

   • Albumin ≥ 3.0 g/dL
   • Hemoglobin ≥ 10.0 g/dL
   • Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm3
   • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm3
   • Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × institutional upper limit of normal (ULN); for subjects with documented/suspected Gilbert's disease, bilirubin should be ≤ 2 × ULN.
   • Aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 × ULN; for subjects with liver metastases, AST or ALT ≤ 5 × ULN
   • Creatinine ≤ 1.5×ULN OR calculated creatinine clearance (CrCl) ≥ 60 mL/min for subjects with creatinine levels > 1.5× ULN.

Subjects who meet any of the following exclusion criteria will not be eligible to receive investigational product:

1. Concurrent enrollment in another clinical study, unless it is an observational (non interventional) clinical study, a specimen-collection study or the follow-up period of an interventional study.
2. Received more than 4 doses of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or COX-2 inhibitors within 2 weeks prior to study treatment initiation.
3. History of allergy or hypersensitivity, GI bleed, or ulceration secondary to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or COX-2 inhibitors.
4. History of GI ulcer within 1 year of treatment initiation or history of untreated helicobacter pylori infection. Subjects with history of treated helicobacter pylori infection with confirmation of eradication are eligible
5. History of diverticulitis or any GI bleed within 2 years of treatment initiation.

6. Receipt of any anticancer therapy within the following windows:

   • Small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy (including investigational) within 2 weeks or 5 half-lives prior to treatment initiation, whichever is longer
   • Any type of anti-cancer antibody or cytotoxic chemotherapy within 4 weeks prior to treatment initiation
   • Radiation therapy for bone metastasis within 2 weeks, any other external radiation therapy within 4 weeks before treatment initiation. Patients with clinically relevant ongoing complications from prior radiation therapy are not eligible
   • Other investigational therapy within 2 weeks or 5 half-lives prior to dosing, whichever is longer
7. Subjects with active or untreated central nervous system (CNS) metastases
8. New York Heart Association Classification II, III or IV.
9. Baseline QTcF > 470 milliseconds
10. Receipt of live attenuated vaccines within 30 days prior to the first dose of investigational product. (Killed virus or other non-live vaccines are allowed (including most seasonal influenza vaccines, streptococcus pneumonia vaccines, and newly approved COVID-19 vaccines).
11. Active autoimmune disease or inflammatory disorders including inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) requiring systemic treatment (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents, systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drug) within 2 years prior to treatment initiation.
12. Known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, active Hepatitis B (HBV), or hepatitis C (HCV). Active HBV is defined as a known positive HBsAg result. Active HCV is defined by a known positive HCV antibody result and known quantitative HCV RNA results greater than the lower limits of detection of the assay. Patients receiving antiviral therapy for Hepatitis B or C also are not eligible
13. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness, including but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, serious chronic gastrointestinal conditions associated with diarrhea, or psychiatric illness/social situations including a history of substance abuse that would limit compliance with study requirement, substantially increase risk of incurring AEs or compromise the ability of the patient to give written informed consent.
14. Subjects who are receiving anti-coagulant therapy or who are considered to be at increased risk of bleeding (i.e bleeding disorder or coagulopathy).

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

5

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: TPST-1495 monotherapy dose escalation; Subjects will receive escalating doses of TPST-1495 administered orally twice daily until maximum tolerated dose is reached or until disease progression	Drug: TPST-1495 twice daily; TPST-1495 administered orally twice daily
Experimental: TPST-1495 monotherapy dose and schedule optimization; Subjects will receive alternative TPST-1495 administration schedules until RP2D for the selected schedule is determined or until disease progression.	Drug: TPST-1495 once daily or on intermittent schedule; TPST-1495 administered orally once daily or on intermittent schedule
Experimental: TPST-1495 monotherapy dose expansion; Subjects will receive selected dose regimen from dose and schedule optimization stage until disease progression	Drug: TPST-1495 once daily or on intermittent schedule; TPST-1495 administered orally once daily or on intermittent schedule
Experimental: TPST-1495 in combination with pembrolizumab dose and schedule optimization; Subjects will receive alternative TPST-1495 administration schedules in combination with pembrolizumab until RP2D for the selected schedule is determined or until disease progression.	Drug: TPST-1495 once daily or on intermittent schedule; TPST-1495 administered orally once daily or on intermittent schedule; Drug: Pembrolizumab; Pembrolizumab dosed per label recommendations; Other Names: Keytruda
Experimental: TPST-1495 in combination with pembrolizumab dose expansion; Subjects will receive selected dose regimen from dose and schedule optimization stage until disease progression	Drug: TPST-1495 once daily or on intermittent schedule; TPST-1495 administered orally once daily or on intermittent schedule; Drug: Pembrolizumab; Pembrolizumab dosed per label recommendations; Other Names: Keytruda

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Determination of maximum tolerated dose and/or recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) and optimum dose schedule for TPST-1495 as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab	Determination of maximum tolerated dose and/or recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) and optimum dose schedule for TPST-1495 as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab based on dose limiting toxicities	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Incidence of adverse events and serious adverse events as assessed by NCI-CTCAE v.5.0	Incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events and serious adverse events for TPST-1495	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months
Assess pharmacokinetics: maximum serum concentration (Cmax)	Maximum serum concentration (Cmax) of TPST-1495	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months
Assess pharmacokinetics: area under the serum concentration-time curve (AUC)	Area under the serum concentration-time curve (AUC) of TPST-1495	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months
Assess pharmacokinetics: Clearance (CL)	Clearance (CL) of TPST-1495	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months
Assess pharmacokinetics: terminal elimination half-life (t 1/2)	Terminal elimination half-life (t 1/2) of TPST-1495	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months
Overall response rate (ORR) using RECIST version 1.1	Preliminary efficacy of TPST-1495 as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab as assessed by overall response rate (ORR) using RECIST version 1.1	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months
Progression free survival (PFS)	Preliminary efficacy of TPST-1495 as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab as assessed by progression free survival (PFS)	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months
Duration of response (DoR)	Preliminary efficacy of TPST-1495 as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab as assessed by duration of response (DoR)	From start of treatment to treatment termination visit, up to 24 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Tempest Therapeutics
• Investigators: Study Director: Samuel Whiting, MD PhD, Tempest Therapeutics

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Wang D, Cabalag CS, Clemons NJ, DuBois RN. Cyclooxygenases and Prostaglandins in Tumor Immunology and Microenvironment of Gastrointestinal Cancer. Gastroenterology. 2021 Dec;161(6):1813-1829. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.09.059. Epub 2021 Oct 2.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 6, 2020
• Primary Completion (Estimated): September 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): October 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 7, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 9, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): April 14, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 18, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 17, 2024
• Last Verified: April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: pembrolizumab; TPST-1495; EP2 antagonist; EP4 antagonist; prostaglandin E2 (PGE2); PIK3Ca mutation
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Uterine Neoplasms; Genital Neoplasms, Female; Uterine Diseases; Head and Neck Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell; Female Urogenital Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications; Urogenital Diseases; Genital Diseases; Genital Diseases, Female; Neoplasms; Carcinoma; Adenocarcinoma; Endometrial Neoplasms; Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Antineoplastic Agents; Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological; Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors; Pembrolizumab
• Other Study ID Numbers: TPST-1495-001

Drug and device information, study documents

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