New pill takes aim at Cancer's DNA repair: first human trial begins
NCT ID NCT05055609
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This early-stage trial tests an experimental oral drug called TRE-515 in adults with advanced solid tumors that no longer respond to standard treatments. The drug works by blocking a protein cancer cells need to make DNA, potentially slowing their growth. The main goals are to check safety, find the best dose, and get a first look at whether the drug can control the disease.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- TRE-515 (an oral drug that targets a protein involved in DNA replication in cancer cells)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could lead to a new oral treatment option for people with advanced solid tumors that have stopped responding to other therapies.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very early (Phase 1) study with only 94 participants, so it is primarily testing safety and dosing. The drug may not shrink tumors or may cause side effects that limit its use.
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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 94 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Sep 2021
- Expected to finish
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Jun 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.
- 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. Have a histologically or cytologically confirmed solid tumor. Subjects with tumors that have known biomarkers, such as PSA or CA-125, will have status recorded. 2. Subjects with advanced refractory cancer for which standard curative or palliative measures do not exist or are no longer effective. There is no limitation on the number or types of prior therapy. 3. Measurable disease, per RECIST v1.1, with the exception of patients without measurable disease but with a known biomarker of progression, such as prostate cancer (PSA) or ovarian cancer (CA-125), with a positive status. 4. Male or female 18 years of age or older 5. Capable of giving signed informed consent 6. Able to swallow oral capsules and tolerate intravenous blood sampling for PK, has no known intolerance or hypersensitivity to TRE-515 or excipients, and able to comply with study requirements 7. Able to receive the positron emission tomography (PET) isotope and undergo PET scans, with the exception if the site lacks access to the PET diagnostic machine. 8. Recovered from prior treatment-related toxicity based on Investigator and Medical Monitor assessment. 9. ECOG performance status of 0 to 2. 10. Adequate laboratory parameters including: 1. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤2.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN) and ≤5 × ULN if liver metastatic disease is present 2. Total bilirubin ≤1.5 × ULN unless considered due to Gilbert's syndrome in which case, ≤3 × ULN 3. Calculated creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min from a blood sample 4. Platelet count ≥75,000/mm3 5. Neutrophil count ≥1500/mm3 6. Hemoglobin ≥9 g/dL 7. Albumin \>2.8 g/dL 11. Willingness to use adequate contraception throughout study and for a period of 3 months after last dose of TRE-515. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Candidate for potentially curative therapy. 2. Subjects receiving anticancer therapy or adjuvant therapy for other cancers or subjects with other known active cancer(s), with the exception of limited stage surgically curable non-melatomatous skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, Stage 1 prostate cancer, or Stage 1 bladder cancer. Subjects who have completed therapy for cancers other than the solid tumor that qualifies the subject for inclusion in the study should be disease-free for ≥ 5 years following completion of treatment for the secondary cancer. An exception may be made if treatment for the secondary cancer was completed between 1 and 5 years prior to enrollment and the PI and study Medical Monitor, upon review of all relevant medical records, jointly determine that the treatment was curative and the secondary cancer is unlikely to relapse during study participation. 3. Subjects with a prior organ transplant. 4. Subjects with QTc corrected by Bazett's (QTcB) prolongation of \>470 msec (confirmed on triplicate ECGs performed at least 2 minutes apart) at screening and confirmed prior to dose administration on Day 1 5. Active, uncontrolled bacterial, viral, or fungal infection(s) requiring systemic therapy. 6. Fewer than 28 days (or fewer than 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter) from prior anticancer therapy such as chemotherapy, hormonal therapy (hormonal therapy for control of prostate cancer allowed), investigational therapies, and biological therapies. 7. Major surgery other than diagnostic surgery within 28 days of Study Day 1, radiation therapy within 28 days of Study Day 1, or palliative radiation therapy within 14 days of Study Day 1. 8. Pregnant or currently breast-feeding. 9. Known HIV-positive or active Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C infection. 10. Psychiatric illness/social situations that would interfere with compliance with study requirements. 11. History of clinically significant cardiovascular abnormalities such as uncontrolled hypertension, congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association classification ≥2), unstable angina, poorly controlled arrhythmias, myocardial infarction within 6 months of study entry. 12. Other severe acute or chronic medical or psychiatric conditions or laboratory abnormalities that would impart, in the judgement of the PI and/or Sponsor, excess risk associated with study participation or study drug administration, which would make the subject inappropriate for entry into this study. 13. Cerebrovascular accident (transient ischemic attack/stroke) in the 6 months prior to study entry.TRE515-T-02 14. Known hypersensitivity to the drug or excipients contained within the drug formulation. 15. Use of or requirement for any of the prohibited medications 16. For subjects enrolled into the gastric ARA substudy only, history within the past 12 months, or presence of, Stage 3 or 4 gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or history of gastric reduction surgery, including a Whipple procedure or gastric bypass. Prior use of gastric ARA drugs is acceptable.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The study's own enquiry address
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Study contacts
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Contact
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Locations
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Carolina BioOncology Institute
RECRUITINGHuntersville, North Carolina, 28078, United States
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UCLA
RECRUITINGSanta Monica, California, 90404, United States
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