Study of R289 in Patients With Lower-risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (LR MDS)

An Open-label, Phase 1b Study of R289, an IRAK1/4 Inhibitor, in Patients With Lower-risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (LR MDS) Who Are Relapsed/Refractory/Resistant to Prior Therapies

Phase 1b Study of R289 in Patients with Lower-risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (LR MDS)

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Low Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: R906289 Monosodium (R289 Na)

Detailed Description

An open-label, Phase 1b study of R289, an IRAK 1/4 Inhibitor, to determine tolerability and preliminary efficacy in patients with LR MDS who are relapsed/refractory/resistant, intolerant, or have inadequate response to prior therapies such as erythropoietin (EPO), luspatercept, or hypomethylating agents (HMAs) for MDS.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 86
• Phase: Phase 2; Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Strait Hicklin; Phone Number: (650) 624-1100; Email: shicklin@rigel.com

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
      • Recruiting
      • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Orange, California, United States, 92868
      • Recruiting
      • University of California, Irvine
    • Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304
      • Not yet recruiting
      • Stanford Cancer Institute
  • Florida
    • Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
      • Recruiting
      • University of Miami
    • Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 33140
      • Withdrawn
      • Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Missouri
    • St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
      • Not yet recruiting
      • WashU Medicine
  • New Jersey
    • Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, 07601
      • Recruiting
      • Oncology Clinical Research Referral Office
    • New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 09083
      • Withdrawn
      • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10029
      • Recruiting
      • Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • North Carolina
    • Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
      • Not yet recruiting
      • Duke Cancer Institute
  • Ohio
    • Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
      • Recruiting
      • Cleveland Clinic
    • Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
      • Not yet recruiting
      • The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Texas
    • Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
      • Recruiting
      • University of Texas, Southwestern
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
      • Recruiting
      • MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Utah
    • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84009
      • Recruiting
      • Intermountain Healthcare

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient must be ≥ 18 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent.
• Must have definitive diagnosis of MDS with very low, low, or intermediate-1 risk (International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS)-R ≤ 3.5) and ≤5% bone marrow myeloblasts.
• Must be relapsed, refractory/resistant, intolerant, or have inadequate response to therapies with known clinical benefits for MDS, such as EPOs, luspatercept, and HMAs(i.e., azacytidine or decitabine). Patients with del (5q) must have failed prior lenalidomide therapy.

• DOSE ESCALATION PHASE:

  a. Must meet at least one of the following criteria prior to initial administration of study treatment: 1) Symptomatic anemia with hemoglobin < 9.0 g/dL and no RBC transfusion within 16 of registration or 2) RBC transfusion dependent defined as receiving ≥ 2 units of packed red blood cells (PRBCs) within 8 weeks in the preceding 16 weeks for a hemoglobin <9.0 g/dL.

• DOSE EXPANSION PHASE:

  1. Relapsed, refractory to or ineligible for ESAs and has previously received one or more approved therapies for LR-MDS
  2. Must be RBC transfusion dependent defined as receiving ≥ 2 units of packed red blood cells (PRBCs) within 8 weeks in the preceding 16 weeks for a hemoglobin <9.0 g/dL.

• EXPLORATORY PHASE 1b COHORT:

  1. Transfusion-dependent LR-MDS who are refractory or intolerant to, or are ineligible for ESAs.
  2. No prior therapy with any approved or investigational therapies for MDS
  3. No del 5q cytogenetic abnormality
  4. RBC transfusion dependent defined as receiving ≥ 2 units of PRBCs within 8 weeks in the preceding 16 weeks for a hemoglobin <9.0 g/dL
• All patients must have documented marrow iron stores. If marrow iron stain is not available, the transferrin saturation must be >20% or a serum ferritin > 100ng/100mL
• Must have Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 to 2 at screening.

• Must have adequate organ function, defined as:

  1. Hepatic function:

     • aspartate amino transferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 1.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN)
     • total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN
  2. Renal function defined as creatinine clearance > 60 mL/min (using Cockcroft-Gault), or blood creatine < 1.5 mg/dL

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior treatment for MDS (i.e., TPOs, EPOs, luspatercept, HMAs) concluded < 4 weeks prior to study treatment
• Clinically significant anemia resulting from iron, B12 or folate deficiencies, autoimmune or hereditary hemolysis, or GI bleeding.
• MDS secondary to treatment with radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and/or immunotherapy for malignant or autoimmune diseases.
• Diagnosis of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
• History of uncontrolled seizures.
• Uncontrolled bacterial or viral infection (i.e., documented HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C).

• History of other malignancy that could affect compliance or interpretation of results. Patients with an malignancy other than leukemia appropriately treated with curative intent and the malignancy has been in remission without treatment for ≥ 2 years prior to study entry are eligible as are:

  1. Adequately treated in situ carcinoma of the cervix uteri
  2. Adequately treated basal cell carcinoma or localized squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or
  3. Low grade, early-stage prostate cancer (Gleason score 6 or below, stage 1 or 2) with no requirement for therapy at any time prior to the study, or previously resected.
• History of or active, clinically significant, cardiovascular, respiratory, GI, renal, hepatic, neurological, psychiatric, musculoskeletal, genitourinary, dermatological, or other disorder that, in the Investigator's opinion (or following review by the Sponsor), could affect the conduct of the study or the absorption, metabolism or excretion of the study treatment.
• Prior history of autologous or allogeneic stem cell transplantation
• Marked baseline prolongation of QT/QTc interval (e.g., repeated demonstration of a QTc interval > 480 milliseconds [msec]) (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events [CTCAE] Grade 1) using Fridericia's QT correction formula.
• History of additional risk factors for TdP (e.g., symptomatic heart failure with left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF] <40%, hypokalemia, family history of Long QT Syndrome).
• Receiving any other concurrent chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or immunotherapy (within 2 weeks of initiating study treatment), or the toxicity of the relevant prior treatment has not been resolved yet. For any long-acting systemic agent such as a monoclonal antibody, study treatment should not begin within two half-lives of the agent.
• Use of concomitant medications that prolong the QT/QTc interval during study treatment
• Use of concomitant medications that are strong CYP3A or CYP2B6 inhibitors or inducers during study treatment

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Sequential Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental; ESCALATION PHASE: Dose Level 1: 250mg PO qd Dose Level 2: 500mg PO qd Dose Level 3: 750 mg PO qd Dose Level 4: 250 mg PO bid Dose Level 5: 500 mg PO AM/250 mg PO PM Dose Level 6: 500 mg PO bid EXPANSION PHASE (randomized 1:1): Dose Level 1: 250 mg PO qd Dose Level 2: 250 mg PO bid	Drug: R906289 Monosodium (R289 Na); Drug: R906289 Monosodium (R289 Na) R906289 Monosodium (250mg PO qd, 250mg PO bid, 500 mg PO qd, 500 mg PO bid, 750 mg PO qd, split dose - 500 mg PO AM/250 mg PO PM); Other Names: R906289 Monosodium

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Safety and Tolerability	Incidence of adverse events (AEs); Incidence of discontinuation or interruptions of R289 due to AEs; Incidence of dose limiting toxicities (DLTs)	2 Year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Characterize pharmacokinetics (PK)	Maximum plasma concentration (Cmax)	8 Weeks
Outcome Measure: Preliminary Efficacy	Measure Description Primary Efficacy: Proportion of patients achieving red blood cell transfusions independence by ≥ 8 weeks, ≥ 16 weeks, and ≥ 24 weeks Proportion of patients with overall response per IWG 2006 Proportion of patients with hematologic improvement per IWG 2018 Time Frame: 24 Weeks Measure Description Characterized PK Maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) Time Frame: 8 Weeks	24 Weeks for Primary Efficacy; 8 Weeks for Characterized PK

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Characterize pharmacodynamic (PD)	Change from baseline biomarker expression levels in plasma and bone marrow (including but not limited to, C-reactive protein [CRP] and tumor necrosis factor [TNF]-a)	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Rigel Pharmaceuticals

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 12, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): August 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 2, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 25, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): April 4, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): October 21, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 17, 2025
• Last Verified: October 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: MDS; Myelodysplastic Syndromes; Hematology Oncology; LR MDS; Hem/ Onc
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Hematologic Diseases; Bone Marrow Diseases; Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases; Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Other Study ID Numbers: C-906289-002

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
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No