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New hope for rare blood cancers: experimental drug ELA026 enters human testing

NCT ID NCT07465835

Disease control Sponsor: Electra Therapeutics Inc. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jul 09, 2026 · Updated 2 times

Summary

This early-stage study tests an experimental drug called ELA026 in adults with T/NK cell blood cancers that have come back or not responded to prior treatments. The main goals are to check the drug's safety and find the right dose. About 84 participants will be enrolled across multiple centers.

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Study facts

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Phase

Phase 1

The first testing in people. Mainly checks safety and dose, usually in a small group.

Participants

About 84 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Feb 2026

Expected to finish

Dec 2028

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

A company

The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

18 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥18 years Participants with a confirmed histologic diagnosis of a TCM who are R/R following any line of prior therapy (participants with CTCLs should have received at least 2 prior lines of systemic therapy for R/R CTCL) and eligible for investigational therapies * Presence of measurable disease by clinical examination, radiologic imaging (computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or whole body FDG-PET scans), and/or in bone marrow aspirate/biopsy * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance score of ≤2 * Anticipated life expectancy \>6 months per investigator judgment Exclusion Criteria: * Participants who are eligible for standard of care or approved therapeutic options for R/R TCMs with established clinical benefit * Organ dysfunction as defined in the protocol * Participants with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) based on HLH2004 diagnostic criteria * Participants receiving or planning to start immunotherapy or immune effector cell therapy (such as chimeric antigen receptor \[CAR\] T-cell therapy, T-cell engagers, or programmed cell death protein 1 \[PD1\]/programmed cell death ligand 1 \[PD-L1\] inhibitors) * Allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplant within 100 days prior to the first dose of ELA026 and currently receiving systemic immunosuppressive therapy * Women of childbearing potential who are planning to become pregnant or are breastfeeding during the conduct of the study, including 60 days after last dose of study drug * Male participants whose partners are women of childbearing potential and who are planning to become pregnant during the conduct of this trial by the male partner, including within 60 days after the last dose of study drug

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

lymphoma mature T-cell and NK-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma T-cell and NK-cell neoplasm

As listed by the trial registrant

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T cell malignancies

How to take part

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  1. The places running it

    6 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.

  2. The official record

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Emory University Hospital

    RECRUITING

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30322, United States

  • MD Anderson

    RECRUITING

    Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering

    RECRUITING

    New York, New York, 10065, United States

  • START, Midwest

    RECRUITING

    Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49546, United States

  • University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

    RECRUITING

    Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, United States

  • Yale New Haven Hospital

    RECRUITING

    New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, United States

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