Tag: ACP-196

New Clinical Trial: A Phase 1 Open Label Study of ACP-196 in Patients with Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia

The Weill Cornell Lymphoma Program has recently opened a new clinical trial for men and women with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The study sponsor is Acerta Pharma BV, and the principal investigator at Weill Cornell is Dr. Richard Furman. For more information about the study, please call Amelyn Rodgriguez, RN at (212) 746-1362 or e-mail Amelyn at amr2017@med.cornell.edu.

Key Eligibility

  • Men and women age 18 and older with a confirmed diagnosis of Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia
  • Previously treated with at least one prior therapy
  • Cannot have received prior therapy with a BTK inhibitor
  • Must be disease free from a former malignancy for at least two years
  • Detailed eligibility reviewed when you contact the study team. 

Study Details

This clinical trial is for men and woman with a form of cancer called Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia (WM) who have relapsed or not responded to at least one prior therapy. Inhibition of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) has been established as an effective means for treating WM.  ACP-196 is an oral, novel inhibitor of BTK with increased specificity for the target and fewer drug interactions than other BTK inhibitors being studied.  Subjects will receive different doses ACP-196 (depending upon when they enter the trial) in order to determine the side effects and effective dose of ACP-196.

Treatment Plans

Subjects will be assigned to one of two treatment groups:

Cohort 1: ACP-196 100 mg twice a day (BID) for 28 days
Cohort 2: ACP-196 200 mg once a day (QD) for 28 days

New Clinical Trial: Efficacy of ACP-196 in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory de Novo Activated B-cell (ABC) Subtype of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)

The Weill Cornell Lymphoma Program has recently opened a new clinical trial for men and women with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The study sponsor is Acerta Pharma BV, and the principal investigator at Weill Cornell is Dr. Jia Ruan. For more information about the study, please call Amelyn Rodgriguez, RN at (212) 746-1362 or e-mail Amelyn at amr2017@med.cornell.edu.

Key Eligibility

  • Men and women greater than or equal to 18 years of age
  • Confirmed de novo ABC DLBCL, and subjects must have archival tissue available for central pathology review
  • Recurrence of disease after a complete response or progressive disease at the completion of the treatment regimen preceding entry to the study
  • Detailed eligibility will be reviewed when you contact the study team

Study Details

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), safety, and efficacy of ACP-196 in treating subjects relapsed or refractory de novo ABC diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

Clinical Studies have shown that targeting the B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling pathway by inhibiting Bruton tyrosine kinase (Btk) produces significant clinical benefit in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Acerta Pharma BV has developed a novel second generation Btk inhibitor, ACP-196, that achieves significant oral bioavailability and potency.

Treatment Plans

This study is a multi-center, open-label, randomized, parallel group study. No placebo will be administered during this study. Twenty subjects, 10 refractory and 10 relapsed, will be enrolled and will take 100 mg of ACP-196 twice per day.

Treatment will occur for 5 cycles with a 30 day follow-up period following the last dose. Treatment with ACP-196 may be continued for more than 28 days until disease progression or an unacceptable drug-related toxicity occurs. Subjects with disease progression will be removed from the study. All subjects who discontinue study drug will have a safety follow-up visit 30 (±7) days after the last dose of study drug unless they have started another cancer therapy within that time frame.