HLX301 (TIGIT×PDL1 Bispecific) in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

A Phase 1/2 Study of HLX301, A Recombinant Humanized Anti-PDL1 and Anti-TIGIT Bispecific Antibody, in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

This Phase 1/2, multicenter, first-in-human, open-label, dose-escalation, dose expansion, and clinical expansion study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary anti-tumor efficacy of HLX301 administered as a single-agent by IV infusion every 2 weeks to patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid malignancies, who have failed or are intolerant to standard therapy, or for whom no standard therapy is available. This study has three parts: phase 1a dose escalation, phase 1b dose expansion, and phase 2 clinical expansion.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Non-small Cell Lung Cancer; Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: HLX301

Detailed Description

Up to 150 patients will be included in this study. Up to 30 DLT evaluable patients will be enrolled in phase 1a (dose escalation), 40 per-protocol treated patients in phase 1b (dose expansion), and 80 per-protocol treated patients in phase 2.

Phase 1a uses the Bayesian optimal interval (BOIN) design, to investigate the safety and determine the MTD of HLX301. BOIN design combines rule-based and model-based design, allowing for flexibility of dose escalation and de-escalation, and high patient enrollment in doses closest to the target toxicity rate (pre-defined as 30% in this study). This study will also evaluate safety profiles at different dose levels, PK parameters, pharmacodynamic markers, immunogenicity, and the preliminary efficacy of the drug.

Following dose escalation and determination of the MTD, additional patients with NSCLC will be enrolled in phase 1b dose expansion to further evaluate PK and pharmacodynamic characteristics, and preliminary efficacy in order to determine the RP2D.

The phase 2 clinical expansion will include patients with various cancer types, including:

20 per-protocol treated patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) 20 per-protocol treated patients with gastric/esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma (GC/EGJ) 20 per-protocol treated patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) 20 per-protocol treated patients with urothelial carcinoma (UC)

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 150
• Phase: Phase 2; Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Zhan Zhang, PhD; Phone Number: 86-021-33395788; Email: zhan_zhang@henlius.com
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Sicong Geng, Master; Email: sicong_geng@henlius.com

Study Locations

• Australia
  • New South Wales
    • Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
      • Not yet recruiting
      • Blacktown Hospital
      • Contact: Ines Silva
    • Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
      • Not yet recruiting
      • Chris O'Brien Lifehouse
      • Contact: Steven Kao
  • Queensland
    • Birtinya, Queensland, Australia, 4575
      • Recruiting
      • Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital
      • Principal Investigator: Michelle Morris
      • Contact: Vishwajeet Kumar; Phone Number: 07 5390 6057; Email: kumarvishwa@ramsayhealth.com.au
      • Sub-Investigator: Jeremy Long
      • Sub-Investigator: Andrew Schmidt
  • South Australia
    • Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
      • Not yet recruiting
      • Southern Oncology Clinical Research Unit
      • Contact: Ganessan Kichenadasse
  • Victoria
    • Brighton, Victoria, Australia
      • Not yet recruiting
      • Cabrini Hospital
      • Contact: Gary Richardson

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 1. Patients who meet the following criteria will be enrolled:

  1. Phase 1a dose escalation: patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed malignant solid tumors which are advanced or metastatic, have failed prior standard treatment, and be intolerant or ineligible for standard therapy (with the exception of hepatocellular carcinoma, which meets diagnostic criteria by dynamic CT/MRI).
  2. Phase 1b dose expansion: patients must have a histological or cytological diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer which is advanced or metastatic, have failed prior standard treatment, and be intolerant or ineligible for standard therapy.
  3. Phase 2 clinical expansion: patients must have histological confirmed or cytological diagnosis of PD-L1 expressing, i.e., TPS ≥1% non-small cell lung cancer, CPS ≥1 gastric/esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma, CPS ≥1 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, or CPS ≥10 urothelial carcinoma, have failed at least one or two prior systemic anti-tumor regimens, and be intolerant or ineligible for standard therapy.
• 2. Age ≥ 18 years, or legally an adult as per local regulations.
• 3. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 or 1.
• 4. Measurable disease according to RECIST Version 1.1
• 5. Able to provide informed consent.
• 6. A life expectancy longer than three months.
• 7. Adequate hematologic parameters, defined as white blood cell count ≥ 3000/mm3 and absolute neutrophil counts ≥ 1500/mm3; hemoglobin≥ 10 gm/dL; platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm3 without platelet transfusion within 14 days.
• 8. Adequate hepatic function, defined as serum albumin ≥ 3.0 g/dL; serum total bilirubin ≤ 1.5x upper limit of normal (ULN); serum aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT) ≤ 3.0 x ULN (AST and ALT ≤ 5 × ULN for patients with known liver metastasis or primary hepatocellular carcinoma); Child-Pugh score A in HCC.
• 9. Adequate renal function, defined as serum creatinine ≤ 1.5x upper limit of normal (ULN).
• 10. Adequate cardiac function defined as left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50% measured by cardiac ultrasound or MUGA scan; normal ECG or ECG without any clinically significant findings.

Exclusion Criteria:

• 1. Received prior anti-TIGIT therapy.
• 2. Patients who still have persistent ≥ grade 2 toxicities from prior therapies.

• 3. Concurrent unstable or uncontrolled medical conditions including, but not limited to, the following:

  1. Ongoing or active systemic infections requiring antibiotic treatment
  2. Clinically significant arrhythmia, unstable angina pectoris, class III or IV congestive heart failure as per the New York Heart Association, or acute myocardial infarction in the past 6 months
  3. Unhealed wound or ulcers persisting ≥ 3 months
  4. Psychiatric illness or a social situation that would preclude study compliance
  5. Any other diseases, metabolic dysfunction, physical examination findings, or laboratory results raising reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that contraindicates use of the investigational drug, that may affect interpretation of results, or that may place the patient at high risk of treatment complications.
• 4. Active CNS metastasis indicated by clinical symptoms, cerebral edema, steroid requirements (not including maintenance low dose steroids), or progressive growth.
• 5. History of any secondary malignancy in the past 3 years with the exception of curatively treated non-melanoma skin cancer or treated cervical carcinoma in situ.
• 6. Active or a history of (in the past 2 years) of autoimmune disease or syndrome requiring systemic steroid or immunosuppressive agents.
• 7. History of interstitial lung disease.
• 8. Hepatitis B virus infection (HBsAg or anti-HBc positive, and HBV-DNA positive), hepatitis C virus infection (anti-HCV positive, and HCV-RNA positive), or co-infection with hepatitis B and hepatitis C (positive HBsAg or anti-HBc, and positive anti-HCV).
• 9. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
• 10. Major surgery, treatment with anti-cancer or investigational agents, or radiotherapy in the 28 days prior to the first study dosing.
• 11. Treatment with immune check point inhibitors (anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1) in the 42 days prior to the first study dosing.
• 12. Pregnancy or breast-feeding.
• 13. Patients of reproductive age who are unable to use effective contraceptive measures in the period from the first dose of study drug to 180 days following the last dose of study drug. Female patients who have been amenorrheic for at least 12 months, have had a hysterectomy or oophorectomy, or have been surgically sterilized do not require contraception.

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

6

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Phase 1a dose-escalation stage; Phase 1a uses the Bayesian optimal interval (BOIN) design, to investigate the safety and determine the MTD of HLX301. Six dose levels of 0.25 mg/kg, 1 mg/kg, 2.5 mg/kg, 5 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, and 15 mg/kg are planned for dose finding. Intra-patient dose escalation is not permitted. Enrollment will continue until a maximum of 30 patients are enrolled.	Drug: HLX301; A Recombinant Humanized Anti-PDL1 and Anti-TIGIT Bispecific Antibody, HLX301 will be administered as a single intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 in each 14-day cycle
Experimental: Phase 1b dose-expansion stage; Patients with NSCLC will be enrolled in two expansion cohorts, at doses equal to or lower than the MTD, to better characterize the safety, tolerability, PK variability, and preliminary efficacy of single-agent HLX301. Phase 1b dose expansion will include 20 per-protocol treated patients, as defined above, in each of the two expansion cohorts.	Drug: HLX301; A Recombinant Humanized Anti-PDL1 and Anti-TIGIT Bispecific Antibody, HLX301 will be administered as a single intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 in each 14-day cycle
Experimental: Phase 2 clinical expansion stage: Cohort A; 20 per-protocol treated patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with PD-L1 expression, progression after one or two prior systemic anti-tumor regimens, and who have failed or are intolerant to standard therapy, or for whom no standard therapy is available, will be enrolled and treated in phase 2 at RP2D.	Drug: HLX301; A Recombinant Humanized Anti-PDL1 and Anti-TIGIT Bispecific Antibody, HLX301 will be administered as a single intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 in each 14-day cycle
Experimental: Phase 2 clinical expansion stage: Cohort B; 20 per-protocol treated patients with gastric/esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma (GC/EGJ), with PD-L1 expression, progression after one or two prior systemic anti-tumor regimens, and who have failed or are intolerant to standard therapy, or for whom no standard therapy is available, will be enrolled and treated in phase 2 at RP2D.	Drug: HLX301; A Recombinant Humanized Anti-PDL1 and Anti-TIGIT Bispecific Antibody, HLX301 will be administered as a single intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 in each 14-day cycle
Experimental: Phase 2 clinical expansion stage: Cohort C; 20 per-protocol treated patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), with PD-L1 expression, progression after one or two prior systemic anti-tumor regimens, and who have failed or are intolerant to standard therapy, or for whom no standard therapy is available, will be enrolled and treated in phase 2 at RP2D.	Drug: HLX301; A Recombinant Humanized Anti-PDL1 and Anti-TIGIT Bispecific Antibody, HLX301 will be administered as a single intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 in each 14-day cycle
Experimental: Phase 2 clinical expansion stage: Cohort D; 20 per-protocol treated patients with urothelial carcinoma (UC), with PD-L1 expression, progression after one or two prior systemic anti-tumor regimens, and who have failed or are intolerant to standard therapy, or for whom no standard therapy is available, will be enrolled and treated in phase 2 at RP2D.	Drug: HLX301; A Recombinant Humanized Anti-PDL1 and Anti-TIGIT Bispecific Antibody, HLX301 will be administered as a single intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 in each 14-day cycle

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Phase 1a: Safety assessments in patients receiving the trial drug	including incidence, nature, and severity of adverse events graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) v5.0	2 years
Phase 1a: The proportion of patients experiencing dose limiting toxicity (DLT) events		From baseline to the end of cycle 2 (28 days)
Phase 1a: The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of HLX301		From baseline to the end of cycle 2 (28 days)
Phase 1b: Recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D)	One of the two doses in phase 1b with a more favorable safety profile, a favorable PK/PD/ADA profile, and potential clinical efficacy will be selected as the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D)	From baseline to 48 weeks after first infusion
Phase 2: Objective response rate (ORR) defined as achieving a complete response or partial response as determined by the investigator according to RECIST v1.1	Objective response rate (ORR) defined as achieving a complete response or partial response as determined by the investigator according to RECIST v1.1 • Disease control rate (DCR) defined as achieving the complete response, partial response, or stable disease as determined by the investigator according to RECIST v1.1	2 years
Phase 2: Disease control rate (DCR) defined as achieving the complete response, partial response, or stable disease as determined by the investigator according to RECIST v1.1		2 years
Phase 2: Duration of response (DOR) defined as the time from the first occurrence of a documented ORR to disease progression, as determined by the investigator according to RECIST v1.1		2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Phase 1a: The pharmacokinetic parameters of HLX301: Peak concentration (Cmax, Cmax,ss)		2 years
Phase 1a: The pharmacokinetic parameters of HLX301: Time to peak (Tmax, Tmax,ss)		2 years
Phase 1a: The pharmacokinetic parameters of HLX301: Area under the concentration-time curve (AUC0-inf, AUC0-t, AUCss)		2 years
Phase 1a: The pharmacokinetic parameters of HLX301: Elimination half-life (t1/2)		2 years
Phase 1a: The pharmacokinetic parameters of HLX301: Clearance (CL, CLss)		2 years
Phase 1a: The pharmacokinetic parameters of HLX301: Volume of distribution (Vz, Vss)		2 years
Phase 1a: The pharmacodynamic profiles of HLX301 as determined by receptor occupancy of HLX301 on circulating T cells		2 years
Phase 1a: The incidence of treatment-emergent anti-drug antibodies (ADA) of HLX301		2 years
Phase 1b: The preliminary efficacy as determined by ORR		2 years
Phase 1b: The preliminary efficacy as determined by DCR		2 years
Phase 1b: The preliminary efficacy as determined by DOR		2 years
Phase 2: The safety profile	assessing incidence, nature, and severity of adverse events according to NCI CTCAE v5.0	2 years
Phase 2: To investigate the correlation between PD-L1 expression levels and anti-tumor activity of HLX301 in patients with NSCLC, GC/EJC, HNSCC and UC		2 years

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Exploratory biomarkers: To evaluate the correlation between biomarker expression levels in baseline tumor samples using IHC staining (including, not limited to, CD8, CD4, Ki67, CD56, PD-1, TIGIT, FoxP3, CD209, PD-L1(CPS and TPS)) and tumor response		2 years
Exploratory biomarkers	To evaluate CD4 T cells, CD8 T cells, NK cells and T regulatory cells, as well as expression levels of CD3, CD4, CD8, CD56, CD25, FoxP3, Ki67, CCR7, PD-L1, TIGIT, CD226 and CD45RA on these cells, in serial blood samples using FACS analysis	2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Shanghai Henlius Biotech

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Mu S, Liang Z, Wang Y, Chu W, Chen YL, Wang Q, Wang G, Wang C. PD-L1/TIGIT bispecific antibody showed survival advantage in animal model. Clin Transl Med. 2022 May;12(5):e754. doi: 10.1002/ctm2.754. No abstract available.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 3, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): September 15, 2023
• Study Completion (Estimated): February 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 29, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 20, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): November 1, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 8, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 7, 2023
• Last Verified: April 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Respiratory Tract Diseases; Neoplasms; Lung Diseases; Neoplasms by Site; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Thoracic Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Bronchogenic; Bronchial Neoplasms; Lung Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
• Other Study ID Numbers: HLX301-001

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

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