PLUG-IN: Pembrolizumab Combined With Enfortumab Vedotin for Advanced Melanoma Patients

There is a lack of strategies for patients who progress after responding to PD-1/l-1 in melanoma. High expression of Nectin4 in skin and melanomas may serve as a new target in advanced melanomas. The combination of enfortumab/vedotin (EV) and pembrolizumab has shown synergistic effect in various solid tumors. Enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab may have a dual effect on clinical outcomes.

PLUGIN is a multicenter, non-randomized open-label, 2-cohort, phase 2 study to evaluate the ORR of pembrolizumab in combination with enfortumab vedotin (EV) in previously treated participants with unresectable stage III or IV melanoma and disease progression on standard therapy.

The primary objective is evaluate the efficacy of enfortumab/vedotin and pembrolizumabplus pembrolizumab in advanced melanoma.

Hypothesis: 1) High expression of Nectin4 in skin and melanomas may serve as a new target in advanced melanomas; 2)EV+Pembrolizumab has shown synergistic effect in various solid tumors; 3) There is a lack of strategies for patients who respond to PD1-mAbs in melanoma.

Primary Endpoint: Objective Response Rate (ORR) as assessed by the investigator according RECIST 1.1

A total of 60 patients will be enrolled in this study to evaluate efficacy and outcomes in two different cohorts:

Cohort 1: patients who did not have BRAF mutation V600E and had disease progression on immune (IO) therapy.

Cohort 2, patients with activating BRAF mutations, must have progressed on IO therapy and BRAF/MEKi