New combo therapy aims to shrink advanced kidney tumors
NCT ID NCT06962787
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a new drug (BL-B01D1) combined with a standard targeted therapy (TKI), with or without an immunotherapy (pembrolizumab), in 260 adults with advanced kidney cancer that has spread. The goal is to see if these combinations shrink tumors and are safe. Participants must be 18-75, in good general health, and have a tumor sample available.
Why investors are watching
Sichuan Baili Pharmaceutical is running a Phase II trial of its drug BL-B01D1, combined with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor and possibly pembrolizumab, in patients with advanced kidney cancer. For a small company, this readout matters because it tests whether BL-B01D1 can control disease in a common cancer type, which could broaden the drug's use beyond earlier settings. A clear result would give investors a concrete signal about the drug's potential in a competitive field.
If it works: If the trial shows that BL-B01D1 plus the other drugs controls advanced kidney cancer safely, the company could have a new treatment option to advance toward later-stage testing. That outcome would validate the drug's value and could attract partnership interest from larger drugmakers.
If it fails: Phase II trials often fail to meet their disease-control goals, and this one combines multiple drugs, which raises the risk of side effects or unclear results. A negative or delayed readout could set the program back and hurt the company's prospects, since it relies on this drug's success.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 260 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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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.
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Inclusion Criteria: 1. Subject volunteered to participate in the study and signed an informed consent; 2. Male or female aged ≥18 years and ≤75 years; 3. Expected survival time ≥3 months; 4. ECOG score 0 or 1; 5. Patients with locally advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma confirmed by histopathology and/or cytology; 6. Agree to provide archived tumor tissue samples or fresh tissue samples of primary or metastatic lesions within 3 years; 7. At least one measurable lesion meeting the RECIST v1.1 definition was required; 8. Organ function level must meet the requirements; 9. The toxicity of previous antineoplastic therapy has returned to ≤ grade 1 as defined by NCI-CTCAE v5.0; 10. Fertile female subjects, or male subjects with fertile partners, must use highly effective contraception from 7 days before the first dose until 7 months after the first dose. Female subjects of childbearing potential had to have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days before the first dose. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Chemotherapy, biological therapy and other anti-tumor therapies have been used within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives before the first dose; Mitomycin and nitrosoureas were administered within 6 weeks before the first dose; Oral drugs such as fluorouracil; 2. Prior treatment with an ADC drug containing a camptothecin derivative (topoisomerase I inhibitor) as a toxin; 3. Use of immunomodulatory drugs within 14 days before the first dose of study drug; 4. The history of severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases within six months before screening; 5. Prolonged QT interval, complete left bundle branch block, III degree atrioventricular block, frequent and uncontrollable arrhythmia; 6. Active autoimmune and inflammatory diseases; 7. Systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive agents are required within 2 weeks before the first dose; 8. Other malignant tumors within 5 years before the first dose; 9. A history of non-infectious ILD requiring steroid treatment, or current ILD/interstitial pneumonia or suspected ILD; 10. Poorly controlled diabetes before starting study treatment; Severe complications of diabetes mellitus; 11. Unstable thrombotic events requiring therapeutic intervention within 6 months before screening; 12. Complicated with pulmonary diseases leading to clinically severe respiratory function impairment; 13. Patients with active central nervous system metastasis; 14. Patients with massive or symptomatic effusions or poorly controlled effusions; 15. Patients with a history of allergy to recombinant humanized antibody or human-mouse chimeric antibody or to BL-B01D1 or any excipients of pembrolizumab; 16. Previous history of allogeneic stem cell, bone marrow or organ transplantation; 17. Human immunodeficiency virus antibody positive, active tuberculosis, active hepatitis B virus infection or active hepatitis C virus infection; 18. Had a serious infection within 4 weeks before the first dose of study drug; There was pulmonary infection or active pulmonary inflammation at the time of screening; 19. Had participated in another clinical trial within 4 weeks before the first dose (calculated from the time of the last dose); 20. With a history of psychotropic drug abuse and inability to quit or a history of severe neurological or psychiatric illness; 21. Imaging examination showed that the tumor had invaded or wrapped the large thoracic vessels; 22. Serious unhealed wound, ulcer, or fracture within 4 weeks before signing the informed consent; 23. Subjects with clinically significant bleeding or obvious bleeding tendency within 4 weeks before signing the informed consent; 24. Subjects scheduled to receive live vaccine or within 28 days before the first dose; 25. Patients with other serious physical and laboratory abnormalities or poor compliance that may increase the risk of participating in the study, or interfere with the results of the study, and patients who were deemed by the investigators to be unsuitable for participation in the study.
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Locations
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Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
RECRUITINGShanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
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