New cancer drug BR101 enters first human tests
NCT ID NCT06001580
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This early-phase trial tested a new drug called BR101 in 15 people with advanced solid tumors that had not responded to standard treatments. The main goals were to check the drug's safety, find the right dose, and see if it shows any signs of shrinking tumors. Participants received the drug weekly after an initial 28-day observation period.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- BR101 injection
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a new treatment option for people with advanced solid tumors who have run out of standard therapies.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very early, small Phase 1 trial with only 15 participants, focused on safety and dosing. It is too soon to know if BR101 will effectively shrink tumors or improve survival.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1
The first testing in people. Mainly checks safety and dose, usually in a small group.
- Participants
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15 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Aug 2021
- Finished
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Feb 2024
- 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.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- 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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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * 1\. Patients who voluntarily sign the informed consent form with an understanding of the nature, purpose and procedures of the trial, and can comply the protocol; * 2\. Males and females with an age of or above 18 years; * 3\. Patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors diagnosed by pathological histology and / or cytology (cell wax only) who are unable for radical surgical resection, or who have failed to standard treatment or who have been intolerant to standard treatment (disease progression, or intolerant to chemotherapy, targeted therapy, etc.), or who lack effective treatment; * 4\. At least one measurable lesion according to RECIST V1.1; * 5\. ECOG score ≤ 1; * 6\. A recovery of previous treatment releated toxic reactions (except for the residual hair loss effect) to or under Grade 1 (according to CTCAE v 5.0) and a complete recovery of the immune-related adverse effects if the patients received anti-tumor treatment before; * 7\. Sufficient organ and bone marrow function; * 8\. The expected survival above 12 weeks; * 9\. Blood HCG test of females with a reproductive potential should be negative; * 10\. Fertile men and women must use a highly effective contraceptive methods, and continue the birth control for six months after the last dose. Exclusion Criteria: * 1\. An current active autoimmune disease or history; * 2\. A history of primary immunodeficiency; * 3\. An current interstitial lung disease or history (except local interstitial lung disease induced by radiotherapy); * 4\. An active tuberculosis or history; * 5\. Any active infection that requires systemic treatment through intravenous infusion within 14 days before first dose; * 6\. Two or more primary tumors (excluding cured cervical in situ carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell skin cancer, and other tumors that have been treated and stable for more than 5 years); * 7\. Symptomatic or untreated metastasis in brain or other central nervous system. However, patients with CNS matastasis that has been completed removed and/or be stable or relieved after radiotherapy can be enrolled; * 8\. Uncontrollable pleural fluid, ascites, or pericardial effusion assesed by the investigator; * 9\. Patients with any of the following heart diseases: any grade of heart failure assesed by NYHA, severe cardiac arrhythmias requiring treatment, Unstable angina pectoris,myocardial infarction occurred within 3 months before the first dose, QTc≥480 ms, hypertension that cannot in good control, receiving PTCA or CABG within 6 months before the first dose; * 10\. Patients received anti-tumor therapy or participated in other clinical studies and used other test drugs 28 days before the first dose; Patients received the traditional Chinese medicine within 7 days before the first dose; * 11\. A history of psychopathy; * 12\. A history of major surgery or radiotherapy within 28 days before the first dose or expecting to operate a major surgery during the trial, a history of therapeutic radioactive agents within 56 days prior to the first dose; * 13\. A history of allogeneic organ transplantation or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; * 14\. Patients who have a bleeding tendency or are receiving thrombolytic or anticoagulant therapy; * 15\. Patients who had been vaccinated within 28 days before the first dose or intend to be vaccinated during the trial; * 16\. Patients who had a history of blood donation within 3 months before the first dose, or plan to donate blood during the trial; * 17\. Patients who need to receive corticosteroids for more than 7 days (methylprednisolone \> 10 mg/d or the equivalent dose) or other immunosuppressants within 14 days before the first dose, except for inhaled corticosteroids; * 18\. Patients with a positive presence in terms of antibody to human immunodeficiency virus should be excluded; patients with a positive treponema pallidum specific antibody test require a further testing of the treponema pallidum non-specific antibody, and if the result is also positive, the subject shoule be excluded; patients with a positive hepatitis C virus antibody test require a further testing of the hepatitis C virus RNA \[HCV RNA\], and if the result is also positive, the subject shoule be excluded; patients with a positive hepatitis B virus antibody test require a further testing of the hepatitis B virus DNA \[HBV DNA\], and if the result is also positive, the subject shoule be excluded; * 19\. Patients with diseases affecting intravenous injection and blood sample collection; * 20\. Pregnant or lactating women; * 21\. A plan to donate sperm from the signing of ICF to 6 months after the last dose; * 22\. A situation or a possibility that patients can't comply the protocal; * 23\. Other situations that are not suitable to attend this trial assesed by the investigator.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University Medical College
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310052, China
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