Experimental cancer drug GEN1078 tested in just 3 people – trial halted early

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

Key Inclusion Criteria: * Must have at least 1 measurable lesion per RECIST v1.1 assessed by the investigator. * Must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG PS) score of 0 to 1. Dose Escalation Only * Participant must have histologically or cytologically confirmed solid tumor(s) for which there is no further available standard therapy likely to confer clinical benefit (or participant is not a candidate or has previously refused such earlier available therapy), and for whom, in the opinion of the investigator, experimental therapy with GEN1078 may be beneficial. * Must have either recurrence after, or progression on available relevant standard of care (SoC) anticancer therapies; or are deemed intolerant to or ineligible for, standard curative therapy in the recurrent setting. Expansion Only * Participant must have advanced (unresectable) or metastatic, histologically confirmed diagnosis of selected solid cancers. Key Exclusion Criteria: * Has significant cardiovascular impairment within 6 months prior to the first dose of trial drug, including presence of unstable angina, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association \[NYHA\] class III and IV), or clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia (other than stable atrial fibrillation) requiring anti-arrhythmia therapy. * Known unstable central nervous system (CNS) metastases or any active or history of carcinomatous meningitis. * Has been exposed to any of the following prior therapies within the specified timeframes: * Prior therapy with a compound targeting the same targets as GEN1078 or any cell-based therapies. * Radiotherapy within 14 days prior to C1D1. Palliative radiotherapy of bone metastases up to 7 days prior to C1D1 will be allowed. * Treatment with any investigational or non-investigational anticancer agent (including investigational vaccines) or used an invasive investigational medical device within 28 days or 5 half-lives of the drug, whichever is shorter, prior to the first dose of GEN1078. * Chemotherapy within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of GEN1078. * Prophylaxis with live, attenuated vaccines within 28 days prior to first dose of GEN1078; or prophylaxis with the first and/or subsequent injection(s) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleic acid vaccine within 14 days prior to first dose of GEN1078. * Chronic systemic immunosuppressive treatment, including corticosteroids, ie, prednisone \>10 milligrams (mg) daily (or equivalent) or a cumulative dose \>140 mg prednisone within 14 days (or equivalent) before the first dose of GEN1078. Replacement therapy (eg, physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is permitted. * Has received granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) or granulocyte/macrophage colony stimulating factor support within 2 weeks prior to the first dose GEN1078 or being chronically transfusion dependent. * Has received other T-cell activating surface marker. Note: Prior treatment with anti-T-cell Ig and ITIM domain (aTIGIT), anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (aPD1), anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (aPDL1), anti-lymphocyte activation gene 3 protein (aLAG3), anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (aCTLA-4) is allowed. * The initiation of growth factors and bisphosphonates is not allowed during the first 4 weeks of GEN1078 administration, unless agreed upon by the investigator and sponsor medical monitor. However, the use of receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-Β ligand (RANK-L) inhibitors and bisphosphonates (if on stable dose for at least 4 weeks) is permitted while participating in this trial. NOTE: Other protocol-defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply.