Advanced Solid Tumor Malignancies

This study is a dose-escalation, prospective clinical trial to assess the safety, tolerability, and preliminary therapeutic efficacy of engineered mitochondria expressing specific tumor antigen in patients with advanced solid tumors.

This is a Phase I, open-label, multicenter, first-in-human study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, PK/pharmacodynamic (PD) characteristics, and anti-tumor activity of JSKN016HC in subjects with advanced malignant solid tumors.

Several studies have shown that the presence and levels of IFN-γ may correlate with better responses to immunotherapy. Higher baseline levels of IFN-γ and an increase in its production during treatment have been associated with better clinical outcomes in patients receiving immunotherapy such as anti-PD-1/PD-L1 or anti-CTLA4. To date, there is no simple, rapid, automated, and standardized test to assess T-cell functionality and quantify the level of immunosuppression in individual patients. To address this medical need, bioMérieux has developed the VIDAS® STIMM™ T RUO automated functional immune test, which can determine a patient's immune status by measuring IFN-γ production by T lymphocytes after stimulation by a mitogen in approximately four hours without human intervention. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the amount of IFN-γ produced by T lymphocytes, as measured by an automated VIDAS® STIMM™ T functional immune test, correlates with disease progression in patients with advanced/metastatic solid tumors treated with standard immunotherapy.

The study will consist of a dose-escalation and dose-expansion component to establish the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D), and to evaluate the preliminary antitumor activity of HX044. HX044 is an investigational drug that has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or any other regulatory authorities for commercial purposes. This is the first study in which HX044 will be given to humans. The study drug has been tested in animals and was found to be well-tolerated with minimal side effects.