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  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To compare overall survival (OS) in participants previously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy and immunotherapy for Stage IV or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) randomized to pembrolizumab and ramucirumab versus standard of care.

    Secondary Objective:

    • To summarize reports of serious and unexpected high-grade (≥ Grade 3) treatment-related adverse events determined by the treating physician within each treatment arm.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Lung
    Principal Investigator:
    • Mamdani, Hirva
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • S2302
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To assess whether participants with early stage TNBC randomized to receive
      anthracycline-free, taxane-platinum neoadjuvant chemotherapy with
      pembrolizumab have non-inferior breast cancer event-free survival (BC-EFS)
      compared to participants randomized to taxane-platinum-anthracycline
      neoadjuvant chemotherapy with pembrolizumab.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare pathological complete response (pCR) and residual cancer burden
      (RCB) rates by randomized arm.
    • To compare pCR and RCB rates between randomized arms by tumor infiltrating
      lymphocytes (TIL) status.
    • To compare BC-EFS between randomized arms in the TIL-enriched and non-TIL
      enriched subgroups.
    • To compare distant relapse-free survival and overall survival by randomized arm.
    • To compare invasive breast cancer-free survival after surgery between
      randomized arms in pCR and residual disease groups.
    • To compare the safety and tolerability by randomized arm among those that initiate
      therapy.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Breast
    Principal Investigator:
    • Arjyal, Lubina
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • S2212
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To determine if ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) shows better progression-free survival (PFS) when compared to docetaxel plus trastuzumab (TH) in recurrent and/or metastatic (R/M) HER2-positive salivary gland cancer (SGC) patients who have not previously received HER2 therapy for unresectable or recurrent and/or metastatic disease, as determined by local assessment.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare the overall response rate (ORR) by RECIST v1.1 criteria between arms;
    • To compare overall survival (OS) between arms;
    • To compare toxicity using CTCAE v5.0 criteria between arms;
    • To assess patient-reported toxicity, as measured by the PRO-CTCAE, between arms, and explore patient-reported symptomatic adverse events (AEs) for tolerability of each treatment arm as measured by the PRO-CTCAE.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Head and Neck
    Principal Investigator:
    • Sukari, Ammar
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • NRG-HN010
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Part 1 and Part 2

    Primary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the safety and tolerability of IMP1734 as monotherapy and in combination with anti-cancer agents
    • To determine the MTD (or MAD) and RDE as monotherapy and in combination with anti-cancer
      agents

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To characterize the plasma PK profile of single and multiple doses of IMP1734
    • To assess preliminary anti-tumor activity of IMP1734 as monotherapy and in combination with anti-cancer agents

    Part 3

    Primary Objectives:

    • To estimate the anti-tumor activity of IMP1734

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To further assess the anti-tumor activity of IMP1734
    • To further evaluate the safety and tolerability of IMP1734
    Cancer Categories:
    • Breast,Gastrointestinal (GI),Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Shao, Yusra
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • 2024-025
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase I/II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To compare the non-inferiority of bilateral salpingectomy (BLS) with delayed oophorectomy to bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer among women with deleterious BRCA1 germ-line mutations.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To prospectively assess estrogen deprivation symptoms in BLS patients as measured by the FACTES sub-scale compared to women in the BSO arm.
    • To determine if health-related QOL (FACT) is negatively impacted by menopausal symptoms (menopausal symptom checklist-MSCL), sexual dysfunction (FSFI), and cancer distress (IES) in women who have undergone BLS, in comparison to normative data (MSCL/FACT-ES) and data from BSO patients.
    • To assess medical decision making, as measured by the Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (SDM-Q-9) and Decision Regret Scale (DRS), and determine factors associated with the risk of reducing surgical treatment choice.
    • To assess adverse events, graded using CTCAE v5.0.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Winer, Ira
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • NRG-CC008
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • N/A
  • Objective:

    Dose-Escalation Phase

    Co-Primary Objectives:

    • To assess safety and tolerability, including dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs), maximum tolerated dose (MTD), or maximum administered dose (MAD; if no MTD is defined) of IMGN151 when administered intravenously
    • To determine recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) for IMGN151

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To characterize the pharmacokinetics (PK) and immunogenicity of IMGN151
    • To assess objective response rate (ORR) for IMGN151 using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST v1.1)
    • To assess duration of response (DOR) for IMGN151 using RECIST v1.1

    Expansion Phase

    Primary Objective:

    • To assess ORR for IMGN151 using RECIST v1.1

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To characterize safety and tolerability for IMGN151
    • To characterize the PK and immunogenicity of IMGN151
    • To assess DOR for IMGN151
    • To assess PFS for IMGN151
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Winer, Ira
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • 2024-029
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase I
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • The primary objectives of this study are to determine the MTD/RP2D and safety profile of
      AO-252 in patients with advanced TNBC, HGSOC, and endometrial cancer

    Secondary Objectives:

    • Determine antitumor activity of AO-252 as assessed by objective response rate (ORR),
      disease control rate (DCR), duration of response (DOR), time to progression (TTP), and
      time to response (TTR).
    • Determine the pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of AO-252 including maximum plasma
      concentration (Cmax), time to maximum plasma concentration (Tmax), and area under the
      plasma concentration-time curve (AUC) over the dosing interval.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Breast,Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Winer, Ira
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • 2024-017
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase I
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • To determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and the dose-limiting toxicities
      (DLTs) for combination of ATR inhibitor (M1774) and BET inhibitor (ZEN003694) in
      women with recurrent clear cell, endometrioid, and platinum resistant high grade serous
      ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) and clear cell and endometrioid endometrial carcinoma
      irrespective of ARID1A status (PART I).
    • To determine safety and tolerability in ARID1A pathogenic alteration (ARID1AMUT) and
      ARID1A wildtype (ARID1AWT) cohorts (ARID1A is an integral biomarker) in an
      expansion phase (PART II).
    • To determine change in pharmacodynamic biomarker expression of ƔH2AX (for ATR
      inhibition, integral biomarker) from pre-treatment and on-treatment tumor samples in
      ARID1AMUT and ARID1AWT expansion cohorts by immunohistochemistry (IHC) (PART
      II).

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate change in pharmacodynamic biomarker expression of cmyc (for BET inhibition,
      integrated biomarker) from pre-treatment and on-treatment tumor samples in ARID1AMUT
      and ARID1AWT expansion cohorts by Digital Spatial Profiling (DSP) (PART II).
    • To evaluate change in pharmacodynamic biomarker expression of ƔH2AX (for ATR
      inhibition, integrated biomarker) from pre-treatment and on-treatment tumor samples in
      ARID1AMUT and ARID1AWT expansion cohorts by DSP (PART II).
    • To investigate if ARID1A protein by IHC and DSP correlates with ARID1A pathogenic
      alteration in pre-treatment tumor biopsy samples (PART II).
    • To estimate objective response rate (ORR) and progression free survival (PFS) at 6 months in
      ARID1A pathogenic alteration and wildtype cohorts (PART II).
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gastrointestinal (GI),Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Winer, Ira
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • NRG-GY031
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase I
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the anti-tumor activity of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the safety and tolerability of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer
    • To further evaluate the anti-tumor activity of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer
    • To characterize the surrogates of treatment effect
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Morris, Robert
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • GOG-3084
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • To compare antitumor activity in ORR per
      Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor
      (RECIST) Guidelines version (v) 1.1 as assessed
      by blinded independent central review (BICR)
      in patients with incurable metastatic /
      recurrent HNSCC patients progressed on after
      anti-PD-1 and platinum containing therapy,
      treated with petosemtamab monotherapy vs
      investigator’s choice monotherapy
    • To compare OS in patients with incurable
      metastatic / recurrent HNSCC progressed on
      after anti-PD-1 and platinum-containing
      therapy, treated with petosemtamab
      monotherapy vs investigator’s choice
      monotherapy

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate antitumor activity in ORR per
      RECIST v1.1 as assessed by investigator review
    • To evaluate antitumor activity in DOR per
      RECIST v1.1 as assessed by BICR and
      investigator review
    • To evaluate antitumor activity in TTR per
      RECIST v1.1 as assessed by BICR and
      investigator review
    • To evaluate antitumor activity in PFS per
      RECIST v1.1 as assessed by BICR and by
      investigator review
    • To evaluate antitumor activity in CBR per
      RECIST v1.1 as assessed by BICR and by
      investigator review
    • To evaluate safety and tolerability of
      petosemtamab monotherapy
    • To evaluate patient health-related quality of
      life (HRQL) using the European Organisation
      for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
      validated Quality of Life of Cancer Patients
      Questionnaire (QLQ-C30)
    • To evaluate patient HRQL using the updated
      EORTC validated Quality of Life of Head and
      Neck Cancer Patients Questionnaire (QLQH&N43)
    • To characterize the PK of petosemtamab
    • To characterize the population PK of
      petosemtamab
    • To characterize the immunogenicity of
      petosemtamab
    Cancer Categories:
    • Head and Neck
    Principal Investigator:
    • Hadid, Tarik
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • 2024-023
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III