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NCT Number: NCT07335497

CR-001 in Adult Participants With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and tolerability of monotherapy CR-001 and identify the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), and/or optimal biologic dose and Recommended Phase 2 Dose(s) (RP2D) in participants with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1 / Phase 2

Primary location

Clinical Study Site, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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About this study

The study will initially comprise 3 parts: dose escalation, backfill, and dose optimization cohorts. The study will follow a stepwise approach, beginning with a typical dose escalation in participants with selected indications of advanced solid tumors. Additional participants will enroll in the backfill part at select dose levels that have been previously cleared for safety by the safety review committee. In dose optimization, participants will be randomized to one of two CR-001 dose levels.

All participants will undergo a screening period, a treatment period of up to 2 years, a safety follow-up period, and long-term efficacy and survival follow-up. During the treatment period, participants will undergo clinical and safety assessments including disease assessment scans and blood laboratory safety, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamic assessments. After treatment ends, disease scans will continue until disease progression, and long-term follow-up visits will be conducted by telephone every 3 months.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Key Inclusion Criteria

  • Life expectancy ≥ 3 months
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score of 0 - 1
  • Adequate organ function and hematologic reserve based on laboratory parameters
  • Have measurable disease defined by RECIST v1.1
  • For Backfill and Dose Optimization: Willingness to provide recent archival tumor tissue sample or willingness to undergo biopsy
  • Tumor Indication specific inclusion criteria:
  • For dose escalation or backfill: progressing from, intolerant to, or ineligible for (due to unavailability or contraindication) local standard of care therapies and have one of the following locally advanced or metastatic tumor types:
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma
  • Biliary tract cancer
  • Endometrial carcinoma
  • Cervical cancer
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Gastric or gastroesophageal cancer
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Non-small cell lung cancer

Key Exclusion Criteria

  • Has malignancies other than disease under study within the past 3 years
  • Has conditions requiring treatment with clinically significant or increasing doses of systemic steroid therapy
  • Has not adequately recovered from recent major surgery
  • Has ongoing clinically significant toxicity related to prior therapy
  • Has active central nervous system (CNS) metastases
  • Has active autoimmune disease requiring systemic therapy in the past 2 years (replacement therapy is permitted)
  • Has a history of serious Grade ≥ 3 immune-related adverse event (irAE)
  • Has a history of noninfectious pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease
  • Has an active severe infection
  • Has received a live or attenuated vaccine within 30 days of the first dose
  • Has undergone prior allogeneic stem cell or solid organ transplantation
  • Has protocol-specified events related to gastrointestinal perforation, surgery, wound healing complications, and bleeding
  • Has clinically significant cardiovascular disease NOTE: Other protocol defined Inclusion and Exclusion criteria may apply.

Treatment and study plan

CR-001

Drug

Intravenous Infusion

Primary outcomes

  1. Dose Escalation - Incidence and nature of dose-limiting toxicities

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug up until approximately 1 month

    Per cohort

  2. Dose Escalation - Characterization of the maximum tolerated dose, if applicable

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug up until approximately 1 month

    Per Cohort

  3. All parts - Incidence, nature, and severity of treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs) and treatment - emergent serious adverse events

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until 90 days after the last dose of study drug

    Events graded according to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE)

  4. All parts - Incidence and severity of TEAEs leading to dose modifications

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until 90 days after the last dose of study drug

  5. All parts - Incidence and severity of TEAEs leading to treatment discontinuation

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until 90 days after the last dose of study drug

Secondary outcomes

  1. All parts - Determination of recommended Phase 2 dose(s)

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until 90 days after the last dose of study drug

  2. All parts - Serum CR-001 pharmacokinetic parameters

    Time frame: Predose until up to approximately 36 months

    AUC0--inf after a single dose and steady state parameters, as appropriate

  3. All parts - Serum CR-001 pharmacokinetic parameters

    Time frame: Predose until up to approximately 36 months

    AUClast after a single dose and steady state parameters, as appropriate

  4. All parts - Serum CR-001 pharmacokinetic parameters

    Time frame: Predose until up to approximately 36 months

    Cmax after a single dose and steady state parameters, as appropriate

  5. All parts - Serum CR-001 pharmacokinetic parameters

    Time frame: Predose until up to approximately 36 months

    Tmax after a single dose and steady state parameters, as appropriate

  6. All parts - Serum CR-001 pharmacokinetic parameters

    Time frame: Predose until up to approximately 36 months

    Vd after a single dose and steady state parameters, as appropriate

  7. All parts - Serum CR-001 pharmacokinetic parameters

    Time frame: Predose until up to approximately 36 months

    CL after a single dose and steady state parameters, as appropriate

  8. All parts - Serum CR-001 pharmacokinetic parameters

    Time frame: Predose until up to approximately 36 months

    t½ after a single dose and steady state parameters, as appropriate

  9. All parts - Incidence of participants with detectable antidrug antibodies

    Time frame: Predose until up to approximately 36 months

  10. All parts - Overall response rate

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until up to approximately 36 months

  11. All parts - Duration of response

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until up to approximately 36 months

  12. All parts - Time to response

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until up to approximately 36 months

  13. All parts - Progression free survival

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until up to approximately 36 months

  14. All parts - Overall survival

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until up to approximately 36 months

  15. All parts - Best percent change in target lesions

    Time frame: From the first dose of study drug until up to approximately 36 months

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Crescent Clinical Trials

CONTACT

[email protected]

617-430-5595

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Crescent Biopharma, Inc.

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Phase 1/2, Multicenter, Open-label, Dose Escalation and Dose Expansion Study to Evaluate the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Antitumor Activity of CR-001 in Adult Participants With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

Acronym: ASCEND

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2029
Study completion
2029
First posted
Jan 13, 2026
Registry last updated
Jul 21, 2026

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