Engineered immune cells take on Hard-to-Treat cancers
NCT ID NCT02869217
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This early-phase trial tests a personalized cell therapy called TBI-1301 for people with advanced solid tumors that express a protein called NY-ESO-1. Patients' own T cells are collected, genetically modified in a lab to better recognize and attack cancer cells, and then infused back. The main goal is to check safety and find the right dose, with a secondary look at whether the treatment shrinks tumors.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- TBI-1301 (genetically modified T cells)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a treatment for certain advanced solid tumors that express NY-ESO-1.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early phase 1 trial with only 22 participants, so it is primarily testing safety, not effectiveness. The approach is complex and may not work for all patients.
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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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About 22 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Start date
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Sep 2016
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
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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16 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: * Histologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic or recurrent unresectable solid tumor. * HLA-A\*02:01 or HLA-A\*02:06 positive. * Tumor NY-ESO-1 expression by immunohistochemistry. * No anti-cancer chemotherapy, radiation therapy or immunotherapy within 2 weeks or 5 half-lives of PBMC harvest. * The treating investigator should consider the patient to have disease that is incurable and that the patient would be a reasonable candidate for future treatment with TBI-1301. * Patients must have measurable disease, defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded for non-nodal lesions and short axis for nodal lesions) as \>10 mm with CT scan, MRI, or calipers by clinical exam. Patients must have radiographic evidence of disease progression following the most recent line of treatment. Areas of previous radiation may not serve as measurable disease unless there is evidence of progression post radiation. * ECOG Performance Status 0 or 1. * Age ≥16 years on consent. * Life expectancy greater than 4 months. * The following laboratory requirements must be met (within 14 days prior to phlebotomy for generation of TBI-1301): * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.5 x10\^9/L (1500/μL) without G-CSF support * WBC ≥ 2.5x10\^9/L (2,500/μl) * Lymphocytes ≥ 0.5x10\^9/L (500/μl) * Hemoglobin ≥ 80 g/L * Platelets ≥ 75x10\^9/L (75,000/μl) * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) (≤2.5X if Gilbert's disease) * AST(SGOT), ALT(SGPT) \< 3.0 x ULN (\< 5 x ULN with known liver metastases) * Creatinine ≥ 60 ml/min (calculated by Cockcroft and Gault) * Adequate renal function * Consent must be appropriately obtained in accordance with applicable local and regulatory requirements. Exclusion Criteria: * Uncontrolled intercurrent illnesses or medical conditions that may interfere with trial participation such as ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, severe active peptic ulcer disease or gastritis, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirement or compromise the ability of the subject to give written informed consent. * Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents. * Active or prior documented autoimmune disease within the past 2 years. NOTE: Subjects with vitiligo, Grave's disease, Hashimoto's disease, or psoriasis not requiring systemic treatment (within the past 2 years) are not excluded. * Active or prior documented inflammatory bowel disease (eg, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis). * No evidence of active uncontrolled infection (patients on antibiotics are eligible). * History of primary immunodeficiency. * History of organ transplant that requires use of immunosuppressives. * Known allergy or reaction to a known component of TBI-1301. * Untreated central nervous system metastases requiring concurrent treatment, inclusive of but not limited to surgery, radiation, and/or corticosteroids. If treated lesions are shown to be stable for 1 month the subject may be eligible. * Other invasive malignancy within 2 years except for noninvasive malignancies such as cervical carcinoma in situ, non-melanomatous carcinoma of the skin or ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast that has/have been surgically cured. * Current or prior use of immunosuppressive medication within 14 days before phlebotomy, with the exceptions of intranasal, topical, and inhaled corticosteroids or systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses not to exceed 10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent. Oral steroid use as premedication to prevent allergic reactions to radiologic contrast is allowed. * Any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with the evaluation of TBI-1301 or interpretation of subject safety or study results. * Known history of tuberculosis. * HIV positive. * Active HTLV or syphilis infection. * Active hepatitis B infection (hepatitis B surface antigen or HBV DNA positive). * Active hepatitis C infection (if hepatitis C antibody positive, HCV RNA positive). * Has no known active central nervous system metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. * Ongoing prior toxicities related to previous anti-cancer treatments (surgery, radiotherapy or adjuvant chemo-radiation) must be recovered to \< grade 1 or baseline * Pregnant women are excluded.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9, Canada
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