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NCT Number: NCT06521567

A Study of Cobolimab Plus Dostarlimab in Pediatric and Young Adult Participants With Cancer

The goal of this interventional study is to determine the strength of cobolimab and dostarlimab that is most tolerated in children and young adults who have advanced solid tumors. This study also aims: (a) to check if it is safe to use cobolimab and dostarlimab combination in children and young adults, (b) to see how to manage the side effects that may occur, and (c) the effect of this treatment in participants

Active, Not Recruiting

This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Age range

0 year–21 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1 / Phase 2

Primary location

GSK Investigational Site, Brno, Czechia

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Participants are eligible to be included in the study only if all of the following criteria apply:

  • Participants between the age of 0 to not more than 21 years at the time of signing informed consent form (ICF).
  • Disease characteristics:

Part 1: Participants with advanced or metastatic solid tumors who have had disease progression after treatment with available therapies that are known to confer clinical benefit and who have limited available treatment options as determined by the investigator. Additionally, exposure to prior immunotherapy or experimental therapies is acceptable:

  • Melanoma
  • Hodgkin Lymphoma
  • High and Low Grade Glioma: including Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), and ependymoma.
  • Osteosarcoma
  • Hepatic tumors [including Hepatoblastoma, Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and Fibrolamellar carcinoma]
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma

Part 2:

  • Participants with Melanoma who have not received prior systemic therapy:
  • Participants with BRAF gene, found on chromosome 7 (BRAF) mutations who are eligible for a BRAF-targeted therapy are eligible if they qualify for immunotherapy.
  • Participants with locally treated and controlled metastatic central nervous system (CNS) lesions without leptomeningeal spread are eligible
  • Relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) that has failed at least 2 prior lines of systemic therapy)
  • Participants must have performance status >=60 percent (%) on the Karnofsky scale for participants >16 years of age and >=60% on the Lansky scale for participants <=16 years of age.
  • Adequate organ function as demonstrated by a complete blood count at screening obtained without transfusion [platelets or red blood cells (RBC)] or receipt of Colony stimulating factor (CSF), Granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), Granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GMCSF) or rErythropoeitin (rEPO) within 2 weeks prior to screening.
  • Adolescent participants who have entered puberty must consent (be willing) to use of contraceptive measures, or refrain from sexual intercourse, if in line with their usual practice, as well as sperm/egg donation for the duration of treatment

Exclusion criteria

Participants are excluded from the study if any of the following criteria apply:

Medical conditions:

  • Participant has uncontrolled CNS involvement by any tumor pathology
  • Participant has a heart rate-corrected QT interval according to QT interval (corrected) (Friderecia's formula) (QTcF) prolongation at screening >470 millisecond (msec) or >480 msec for participants with bundle branch block.
  • Participant has clinically significant cardiovascular disease
  • Participant has chronic respiratory disease
  • Participant has known sensitivity to study intervention components or excipients or other allergy that, in the opinion of the investigator or medical monitor, contraindicates participation in the study.
  • Participants who have a history of immunodeficiency disease, including other acquired or congenital immunodeficiency diseases, or organ transplantation
  • Participants who have received plasma exchange within 7 days before the first dose of study intervention.
  • Participant has current active pneumonitis or any history of pneumonitis requiring steroids or immunomodulatory treatment within 90 days of planned enrollment or any history of drug-induced pneumonitis.
  • Participant has a history of autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatments in the 2 years prior to screening. Participants with prior history of autoimmune disease must be discussed with the medical monitor. Replacement therapy is not considered a form of systemic therapy (e.g., thyroid hormone for autoimmune thyroiditis or insulin is not exclusionary)
  • Participant has ongoing adverse reaction(s) from prior therapy that has (have) not recovered to ≤Grade 1 or to the Baseline status preceding prior therapy, excluding [e.g., alopecia, hearing loss, vitiligo, endocrinopathy managed with replacement therapy, and Grade 2 neuropathy], or that the investigator, with the agreement of the sponsor, considers to be not clinically relevant for the tolerability of study intervention in the current clinical study.
  • Participant has any active renal condition (e.g., infection, requirement for dialysis, or any other significant renal condition (that could affect the participant's safety).
  • Participant has any serious and/or unstable medical or psychiatric disorder or other condition(s) (including laboratory assessment abnormalities) that could interfere with the participant's safety, obtainment of informed consent, or compliance to the study procedures.

Prior/ Concomitant therapy:

  • Has received treatment with an investigational agent or any other anti-cancer therapy within 30 days, or <5 times the half-life of the most recent therapy prior to signing ICF, whichever is shorter.
  • Has received systemic steroid therapy within 3 days prior to the first dose of the study treatment or is receiving any other form of immunosuppressive medication. Replacement therapy is not considered a form of systemic therapy. Use of inhaled corticosteroids, local steroid injection, or steroid eye drops is allowed.
  • Has not met the following waiting/washout periods for X-ray therapy (XRT) including external beam radiation therapy/external beam irradiation including protons:
  • Participant has had major surgery within 28 days prior to the first dose of study treatment or has not adequately recovered from any AEs (Grade ≤1) and/or complications from any major surgery. Surgical implantation of a port catheter is not exclusionary.
  • Prior Bone Marrow Transplant <60 days of screening.
  • Participant has experienced Grade 3 or higher hypersensitivity to prior monoclonal antibody therapy.

Prior/Concurrent clinical study experience

  • Is currently enrolled or has participated in any other clinical study involving an investigational study or interventional medical research within 21 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter, of an investigational medicinal product before signing ICF Diagnostic assessments
  • Has documented presence of Hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg) at Screening or within 3 months prior to first dose of study intervention.
  • Has a positive Hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody test result at Screening or within 3 months prior to first dose of study intervention.
  • Has a positive HCV Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) test result at Screening or within 3 months prior to first dose of study intervention.
  • Has a known history of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or has a HIV-positive test result at Screening.
  • Is pregnant or breastfeeding.

Treatment and study plan

Cobolimab

Drug

Cobolimab will be administered

Dostarlimab

Drug

Dostarlimab will be administered

Primary outcomes

  1. Part 1- Number of participants with Dose Limiting Toxicities (DLTs)

    Time frame: Up to 42 days

  2. Part 1- Number of participants with treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), immune-mediated adverse events (imAEs) and adverse events (AEs) leading to discontinuation occurring during the study

    Time frame: Up to approximately 46 months

  3. Part 1- Serum concentration of Cobolimab

    Time frame: 1±0.5 hours (h) post-dose on Cycle 1 Day 1; 168±12 h post-dose Cycle 1Day 8; Pre-dose and 1±0.5 h post-dose on Cycle 2 Day 1; Cycle 4 Day 1 and Cycle 6 Day 1(Each cycle is of 21 days)

  4. Part 1- Serum concentration of Dostarlimab

    Time frame: 1±0.5 h post start of cobolimab infusion on Cycle 1 Day 1; Pre-dose on Cycle 2 Day 1; Cycle 4 Day 1 and Cycle 6 Day 1(Each cycle is of 21 days)

  5. Part 1- Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) of Cobolimab and Dostarlimab combination

    Time frame: Up to approximately 12 months

  6. Part 2- Confirmed Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    Time frame: Up to approximately 46 months

    Confirmed ORR is defined as the proportion of participants who have achieved confirmed complete response (CR) or confirmed partial response (PR), evaluated using disease-specific tumor assessment criteria based on Investigator assessment

  7. Part 2- Number of participants with TEAEs, SAEs, imAEs, TEAEs leading to death and AEs leading to discontinuation

    Time frame: Up to approximately 46 months

  8. Part 2-Number of participants with changes in laboratory parameters, vital signs and cardiac parameters

    Time frame: Up to approximately 46 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Part 1 and 2: Receptor occupancy (RO)

    Time frame: Pre-dose Cycle 1 Day 1, 5 h post-start of cobolimab administration Cycle 1 Day 1, anytime Cycle 1 Day 8, pre-dose Cycle 2 Day 1, and pre-dose Cycle 4 Day 1 (Each cycle is of 21 days)

    RO will be measured in whole blood and presented as normalized ratio [Fluorescence Minus One (FMO) subtracted values of free T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain containing protein 3 (TIM-3) to total TIM-3]

  2. Part 1- Confirmed ORR

    Time frame: Up to approximately 70 months

    Confirmed ORR is defined as the proportion of participants who have achieved confirmed CR or confirmed PR, evaluated using disease specific tumor assessment criteria based on Investigator assessment

  3. Part 1 and 2: Progression Free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: Up to approximately 70 months

    PFS is defined as the length of time until disease progression, from the date of first dose to the earliest date of assessment of disease progression based on disease-specific tumor assessment criteria by Investigator assessment, or death by any cause, whichever occurs first

  4. Part 1 and 2: Duration of response (DOR)

    Time frame: Up to approximately 70 months

    DOR is defined as the time from first documented response (CR/PR) until the time of first documentation of disease progression based on disease-specific tumor assessment criteria by Investigator assessment, or death, whichever occurs first

  5. Part 1 and 2: Overall Survival (OS)

    Time frame: Up to approximately 70 months

    OS is defined as the time from the date of first dose to the date of death by any cause

  6. Part 1 and 2: Number of participants with positive results in Anti-drug antibody (ADA) test against Cobolimab

    Time frame: Pre-dose on Cycle 1 Day 1; Cycle 2 Day 1; Cycle 4 Day 1 and Cycle 6 Day 1[Each cycle is of 21 days]; 30-Day and 90-Day safety follow up (FUP) Visit

  7. Part 1 and 2: Number of participants with positive results in Anti-drug antibody (ADA) test against Dostarlimab

    Time frame: Pre-dose on Cycle 1 Day 1; Cycle 2 Day 1; Cycle 4 Day 1 and Cycle 6 Day 1[Each cycle is of 21 days]; 30-Day and 90-Day safety follow up (FUP) Visit

  8. Part 1 and 2: Titers of ADA to Cobolimab

    Time frame: Pre-dose on Cycle 1 Day 1; Cycle 2 Day 1; Cycle 4 Day 1 and Cycle 6 Day 1[Each cycle is of 21 days]; 30-Day and 90-Day safety follow up (FUP) Visit

  9. Part 1 and 2: Titers of ADA to Dostarlimab

    Time frame: Pre-dose on Cycle 1 Day 1; Cycle 2 Day 1; Cycle 4 Day 1 and Cycle 6 Day 1[Each cycle is of 21 days]; 30-Day and 90-Day safety follow up (FUP) Visit

  10. Part 2- Serum concentration of Cobolimab

    Time frame: 1±0.5 hours(h) post-dose on Cycle1Day 1;168±12h post-dose Cycle1Day8; Pre-dose & 1±0.5h post-dose on Cycle2Day1; Cycle4Day1 & Cycle6Day1[Each cycle is of 21 days];End of Treatment(EOT; EOT is within 7days of last dose), 30Day safety follow up(FUP) Visit

  11. Part 2- Serum concentration of Dostarlimab

    Time frame: 1±0.5 h post start of cobolimab infusion on Cycle 1 Day 1; Pre-dose on Cycle 2 Day 1; Cycle 4 Day 1 and Cycle 6 Day 1 [Each cycle is of 21 days]; End of Treatment (EOT; EOT is within 7 days of last dose), 30-Day safety follow up (FUP) Visit

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

GlaxoSmithKline

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

Phase 1/2 Dose Determination and Dose Expansion Study of Cobolimab in Combination With Dostarlimab in Pediatric and Young Adult Participants With Newly Diagnosed and Relapsed/Refractory Tumors (POPSTAR)

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Jul 26, 2024
Registry last updated
Nov 12, 2025

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