Phase 1/2 study of elraglusib (9-ING-41), a small molecule selective glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β) inhibitor, alone or with irinotecan, temozolomide/irinotecan or cyclophosphamide/topotecan in pediatric patients with refractory malignancies: Interim results.

Authors

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Bradley DeNardo

Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI

Bradley DeNardo , Jennie Foster , Navin R. Pinto , Giselle Linda Saulnier Sholler , Kieuhoa Tran Vo , Ami Vijay Desai , Jessica Sun , Lars M. Wagner , Margaret E Macy , Rajen Mody , Javier E. Oesterheld , Thomas Cash , Roma Bhuta , Eveline Barbieri , Andrew DJ Pearson , Ludimila Cavalcante , Francis J. Giles , Rishi Ramesh Lulla

Organizations

Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, Levine Children's Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, University of California, San Francisco, CA, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, The Royal Marsden Hospital and The Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey, United Kingdom, Actuate Therapeutics Inc, Fort Worth, TX

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company

Background: GSK-3β overexpression is associated with aggressive malignancies, treatment resistance and poor prognosis. The GSK-3β inhibitor Elraglusib induces apoptosis via NFΚB and p53 pathways and has potent anti-fibrotic and immunomodulatory activity. Adult studies of elraglusib demonstrate clinical activity in pancreatic cancer, melanoma, lymphoma and sarcoma as a single agent or in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy. Elraglusib is active in in vivo models of neuroblastoma (NBL) and malignant glioma. This first-in-pediatrics study (NCT04239092) is evaluating the safety, pharmacokinetics (PK), and efficacy of elraglusib monotherapy and in combination with chemotherapy in patients with refractory malignancies. Methods: Elraglusib is given intravenously (IV) twice-weekly at 3 dose levels (DL) (9.3, 12.4 and 15 mg/kg) as a single agent or in combination with irinotecan, cyclophosphamide/topotecan or temozolomide/irinotecan in 21-day cycles. A cohort of pts with refractory NBL will be treated at the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of elraglusib with temozolomide/irinotecan. Results: As of January 2022, 23 pts (n = 7 female, median age 14.2 years) have received at least one dose of elraglusib. Tumor types: 5 NBL, 3 diffuse midline glioma (DMG), 3 osteosarcoma (OS), 3 ependymoma (EP), 2 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (aRMS), 1 angiosarcoma (AS), 1 Ewing sarcoma (ES), 1 glioblastoma (GBM), 1 hepatoblastoma (HB), 1 embryonal CNS tumor NOS, 1 NUT midline carcinoma, 1 pineoblastoma (PB). Median time from diagnosis is 26 months (range: 6.7 – 156.3) and median number of lines of prior systemic therapy is 2 (range 0-14). Two DLs of single agent (6 pts) have been completed (9.3 and 12.4 mg/kg) without elraglusib-attributable severe adverse events (SAEs). Of the 15 patients on the combination arm with irinotecan or cyclophosphamide/topotecan, a single adverse event (Grade 4 hypotension/infusion reaction) was reported. Grade 1/2 elraglusib attributable-AEs include: transient visual change (n = 10), nausea (n = 7), vomiting (n = 6), fatigue (n = 2), hypotension (n = 2) and infusion reaction (n = 1). One pt with recurrent ES had a radiographic and pathologic CR after 3 cycles of elraglusib/cyclophosphamide/topotecan. 6 pts (26.1%) had SD (2 NBL, 1 aRMS, 1 EP, 1 OS, 1 GBM). 8 pts (35%) remained on study treatment ≥ 3 months (2 NBL, 2 EP, 1 OS, 1 aRMS, 1 ES, 1 PB). Median treatment duration was 40 days (range 1 - 126). 4 pts remain on therapy. Conclusions: Elraglusib is well tolerated as a single agent and with several chemotherapy regimens in this heavily pretreated pediatric population with refractory cancers. It has encouraging antitumor activity, with 1 CR in a patient with recurrent ES. Enrollment is ongoing; a RPD2 has not been reached. Clinical trial information: NCT04239092.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Pediatric Oncology

Track

Pediatric Oncology

Sub Track

Pediatric Solid Tumors

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT04239092

Citation

J Clin Oncol 40, 2022 (suppl 16; abstr e22015)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.e22015

Abstract #

e22015

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