About this trial
This is a Phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study evaluating the efficacy and safety of AK117 or placebo, combined with azacitidine in patients with newly diagnosed higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (HR-MDS).
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Age ≥ 18 years old at the time of enrolment.
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score of 0 to 2.
Expected life expectancy ≥ 3 months.
Newly diagnosed HR-MDS, according to the 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) classification with the presence of < 20% blasts in bone marrow or peripheral blood; Overall IPSS-R score ≥ 3.5.
Disqualifiers
MDS evolving from a pre-existing myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN).
Prior treatment with Cluster of Differentiation (CD) 47 or Signal-regulatory protein alpha (SIRPα)-targeting agents.
Concurrently participating in another interventional clinical study, unless it is an observational (non-interventional) clinical study or during the follow-up period of an interventional study.
Patients who previously diagnosed with another malignancy and have any evidence of residual disease.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- AK117
- Placebo
- Azacitidine