New 'Bispecific' antibody takes aim at Hard-to-Treat blood cancers

NCT ID NCT02290951

First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This early-phase trial tested a drug called odronextamab in 200 people with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia that had stopped responding to prior treatments. The drug is a bispecific antibody designed to bring immune cells close to cancer cells to kill them. The main goals were to check safety and find the right dose, while also looking at whether tumors shrank.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only — not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance

Odronextamab (a bispecific antibody that targets both CD20 on cancer cells and CD3 on immune cells)

What this could lead to

If successful, this could lead to a new treatment option for patients with B-cell cancers who have run out of standard therapies.

What could go wrong

This is an early Phase 1 trial focused on safety, so it is not yet proven to work. Side effects may occur, and the drug may not shrink tumors in most patients.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma diffuse large B-cell lymphoma follicular lymphoma non-Hodgkin lymphoma

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Assuta Ashdod University Hospital

    Ashdod, Southern District, 7747629, Israel

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

  • CHU Hôpital Lyon Sud

    Lyon, 69495, France

  • Centre Henri Becquerel

    Rouen, Haute-Normandie, 76038, France

  • Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel)

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

  • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

    Tampa, Florida, 33612, United States

  • Hadassah Medical Center

    Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112001, Israel

  • Institut Gustave Roussy

    Villejuif, Île-de-France Region, 94800, France

  • Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center

    Haifa, 3436212, Israel

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, United States

  • Mayo Clinic

    Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States

  • Meir Medical Center

    Kfar Saba, Central District, 44281, Israel

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, New York, 10065, United States

  • Rambam Health Care Campus - Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Institute

    Haifa, 3109601, Israel

  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

    Truro, Cornwall, tr1 3lq, United Kingdom

  • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901, United States

  • Stanford University

    Stanford, California, 94305, United States

  • The Chaim Sheba Medical Center

    Tel-Hashomer, Central District, 5265601, Israel

  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

    Manchester, M20 4BX, United Kingdom

  • Universitatsklinikum Wurzburg

    Würzburg, Bavaria, 97080, Germany

  • University of California, Irvine

    Orange, California, 92868, United States

  • Weill Cornell Medical College

    New York, New York, 10065, United States