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Non-Small Cell Lung CancerPhase 1NCT07619339

A Study of Tepotinib and Ivonescimab in People With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

A Phase 1 study testing Tepotinib and Ivonescimab in people with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, run by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at 7 sites in United States.

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Trial summary

The researchers are doing this study to find out whether the combination of tepotinib and ivonescimab is a safe and effective treatment for people with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that is positive for METex14 skipping. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
What is being tested?
Tepotinib and Ivonescimab
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
16 participants
Where
7 sitesUnited States
Study dates
27 May 2026to May 2029
Phase
Phase 1
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Criteria:

  • Documentation of Disease
  • Patients must have pathologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer. This includes, but is not limited, to histologies such as adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, sarcomatoid carcinoma, and poorly differentiated carcinoma.
  • Patients must have documentation of MET exon 14 skipping present in their cancer using an FDA-approved assay done within a laboratory with CLIA, ISO/IEC, CAP, or similar certification.
  • Definition of Disease
  • Patients must have advanced or recurrent disease.
  • Advanced disease is defined as stage IV disease or stage IIIB/C disease not amenable to local therapy such as radiation or surgery.
  • Patients must have measurable disease as defined by RECIST 1.1 criteria.
  • Must not have other known actionable oncogenic alterations, such as (but not limited to) EGFR sensitizing mutations, EGFR T790M mutation, ALK gene fusion, ROS1 gene rearrangement, RET gene rearrangement, NTRK rearrangement, HER2 mutation, KRAS activating mutations, and BRAF V600E mutation.
  • Must not have leptomeningeal disease or brain metastases unless: 1) metastases have been locally treated and have remained clinically controlled and asymptomatic for at least 3 days following the stereotactic radiation and/or 14 days following whole brain radiation, and prior to sub-study randomization, AND 2) participant has no residual neurological dysfunction and has been off corticosteroids for at least 24 hours prior to start of study therapy.
  • Small/asymptomatic brain metastasis for which stereotactic radiation is indicated must be treated.
  • Prior Treatment
  • No prior angiogenesis inhibitor therapy (i.e. bevacizumab or ramucirumab)
  • Patients can have received prior MET inhibitor therapy
  • Patients can have received prior ICI therapy.
  • If applicable, patients must have progressed on their most recent line of therapy.
  • Must have not had prior systemic therapy within 21 days of the start of protocol therapy
  • Must not have received radiation therapy within 7 days of starting protocol therapy
  • Age ≥ 18
  • ECOG Performance Status of ≤ 2
  • Not Pregnant and Not Nursing
  • Female patients of childbearing age must have negative serum pregnancy test results before randomization.
  • Female patient of childbearing potential having sex with an unsterilized male partner must agree to use a highly effective method of contraception from the beginning of screening until 90 days after the last dose of ivonescimab or until 1 week after last dose of tepotinib (whichever is longer).
  • Unsterilized male patient having sex with a female partner of childbearing potential must agree to use an effective method of contraception from the beginning of screening until Day 90 after the last dose of ivonescimab
  • Required Organ Function
  • Adequate hematologic function defined as follows:
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,500 cells/mm3
  • Platelets ≥ 100,000 cells/mm3
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/d
  • Adequate renal function defined as follows:
  • Creatinine clearance (CrCL) of ≥50 mL/min by the Cockcroft-Gault formula or estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) value ≥ 50 mL/min using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation (adjustment by BSA is not required for eGFR)
  • Urine protein < 2+ or 24-hour urine protein < 1.0g
  • Adequate hepatic function defined as follows:
  • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) (patients with known Gilbert's disease who have bilirubin level ≤ 3 x ULN may be enrolled)
  • AST and ALT ≤2.5x institutional ULN. For patients with liver metastases, AST and ALT ≤ 5 x ULN.
  • Coagulation: PT or INR ≤ 1.5 ULN, and PTT or aPTT ≤ 1.5 x ULN (unless abnormalities are unrelated to coagulopathy or prophylactic anticoagulation)
  • Comorbid Conditions No history of interstitial lung disease requiring steroid treatment
  • Prior history of Grade ≥3 irAE
  • Must not have evidence of major blood vessel invasion or tumor invading into organs or risk of esophagotracheal or esophagopleural fistula Must not have active autoimmune or lung disease requiring systemic therapy (prednisone ≤ 10mg allowed) within 2 years of treatment
  • Poorly controlled hypertension with repeated systolic blood pressure ≥ 150 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≤ 100 mmHg after oral antihypertensive therapy
  • Severe infection within 4 weeks prior to randomization, including but not limited to comorbidities requiring hospitalization, sepsis, or severe pneumonia; active infection (as determined by the investigator) requiring systemic anti-infective therapy within 2 weeks prior to randomization (excluding antiviral therapy for hepatitis B or C)
  • Active or prior history of inflammatory bowel disease (eg, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or chronic diarrhea)
  • Must not have a history of unstable angina, MI, CHF (NYHA grade ≥ 2) requiring hospitalization in the preceding 6 months
  • Must not have a history of gastric or esophageal varices, severe ulcers, or wounds that do not heal, or fistulas, or abscesses, or acute GI bleeding within 6 months of therapy
  • Must not have a history of arterial thromboembolic event, venous thromboembolic event grade ≥ 3, CVA/TIA, HTN crisis or HTN encephalopathy within 6 months of therapy
  • Must not have a history of bleeding tendencies or coagulopathy or clinically significant bleeding symptoms or risk within 4 weeks of therapy
  • Hemoptysis (defined as coughing up ≥ 0.5 teaspoon of fresh blood or small blood clots)
  • Note: transient hemoptysis associated with diagnostic bronchoscopy is allowed.
  • Nasal bleeding /epistaxis (bloody nasal discharge is allowed)
  • Current use of prophylactic or full-dose anticoagulants or anti-platelet agents for therapeutic purposes that is not stable prior to randomization is not allowed. The use of full-dose anticoagulants is permitted as long as the international normalized ratio (INR) or activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) is within therapeutic limits according to the medical standard of the enrolling institution.
  • Patients with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen are eligible for this trial.
  • For patients with known HIV, HBV, and/or HCV infection:
  • HIV-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible for this trial.
  • Patients with active hepatitis B are required to have stable or declining levels of hepatitis B DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on appropriate anti-viral therapy with acceptable tolerability for one month prior to randomization.
  • All patients with active hepatitis C (hepatitis C virus [HCV] antibody positive with HCV RNA levels above the lower limit of detection) are excluded.
  • Allergies o No history of allergic reaction to the study agent(s), compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to the study agent (s) (or any of its excipients).

Trial locations and contacts

7 sites in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Paul Paik, MD contact

646-608-3759

paikp@mskcc.org

Helena Yu, MD contact

646-608-3912

7 sites in 1 country

United States7 sites, 7 recruiting
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (All Protocol Activities)

    Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 07920

    Paul Paik, MD, 646-608-3759

    Recruiting
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk-Commack (All Protocol Activities )

    Commack, New York, 11725

    Paul Paik, MD, 646-608-3759

    Recruiting
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (All Protocol Activities)

    Harrison, New York, 10604

    Paul Paik, MD, 646-608-3759

    Recruiting
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (All Protocol Activities)

    Middletown, New Jersey, 07748

    Paul Paik, MD, 646-608-3759

    Recruiting
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (All Protocol Activities)

    Montvale, New Jersey, 07645

    Paul Paik, MD, 646-608-3759

    Recruiting
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)

    New York, New York, 10065

    Paul Paik, MD, 646-608-3759

    Recruiting
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (All Protocol Activities)

    Uniondale, New York, 11553

    Paul Paik, MD, 646-608-3759

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: A Pilot Study of Tepotinib + Ivonescimab in Patients With Advanced METex14 Skipping Positive NSCLC

The researchers are doing this study to find out whether the combination of tepotinib and ivonescimab is a safe and effective treatment for people with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that is positive for METex14 skipping. The researchers will test up to two different doses of tepotinib in combination with ivonescimab to find the best dose of tepotinib that causes few or mild side effects in participants.

Being tested
Tepotinib, Ivonescimab
Keywords
Tepotinib, Ivonescimab, 26-120
Medical subject headings
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • TepotinibDrug

    Tepotinib will be administered at 225mg or 450mg oral daily continuously in every 3 week cycles.

  • IvonescimabDrug

    Ivonescimab is administered IV Q3W on Day 1 of each cycle. The total duration of ivonescimab treatment is up to 24 months.

Study groups in NCT07619339
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Tepotinib and IvonescimabExperimentalThe study is divided into an initial dose finding phase and subsequent dose expansion phase. A total of 16 patients will be enrolled across these two phases. The sample size for this study was not based on formal power calculations for efficacy, instead focusing on the qualitative description of safety for the combination of tepotinib + ivonescimab.
Receives: Drug: Tepotinib; Drug: Ivonescimab

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Dose finding

    The primary objective of the dose finding phase is determination of the recommended dose expansion dose using a standard 3+3 design based on dose-limiting toxicities (DLT). DLT definition: any grade ≥ 3 immune-related adverse event attributable to synergistic combinatorial toxicity from tepotinib and ivonescimab.

    Measured: 2 years

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Overall Survival (OS)

    defined as the duration of time from the start of treatment to time of death

    Measured: 5 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted2 Jun 2026
  2. Study start27 May 2026
  3. Primary completionMay 2029 (estimated)
  4. Study completionMay 2029 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
16 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT07619339
Sponsor's protocol ID
26-120
Status last verified
Sep 2026
First submitted
27 May 2026
Last updated
16 Sep 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing Tepotinib and Ivonescimab in people with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, run by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at 7 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 16 Sep 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 7 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Paul Paik, MD (646-608-3759, paikp@mskcc.org), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Dose finding (time frame: 2 years). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 16 Sep 2026.

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