This is a monocenter, single-arm, prospective phase Ib trial, designed to evaluate the safety, clinical toxicity and in vivo immunological effects of a patient-individualized peptide vaccination added to standard of care checkpoint blockade (nivolumab) in adult patients with metastatic/advanced renal cell carcinoma who experienced at least stable disease after four cycles of standard of care immune therapy (ipilimumab/nivolumab).
The aim of this clinical study is to evaluate the feasibility and safety of an individualized peptide vaccination approach in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who experienced at least stable disease after four cycles of standard of care immune therapy (ipilimumab/nivolumab). For this purpose, tumor-specific mutations are analyzed by comparative exome sequencing of tumor and healthy reference tissue. In a second step, HLA-binding (human leukocyte antigen-binding) peptides derived from mutated protein sequences are selected for vaccination. The peptides are administered as a vaccination cocktail with adjuvant GM-CSF and Imiquimod over a course of 9 months and a total of 16 vaccinations. Primary objective is the de novo induction of a specific T cell response without unacceptable toxicity.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1
IVAC is a personalized peptide vaccine
SLK Kliniken Heilbronn, Klinik für Innere Medizin III: Hämatologie, Onkologie, Palliativmedizin
Heilbronn, Germany
Primary endpoint is "success of treatment" defined as a patient without unacceptable toxicity and showing a vaccination-induced T-cell response.
Treatment success is defined as a patient without 1. unacceptable toxicities (grade 4 according to NCI-CTC) and in whom 2. a vaccine-specific response of CD4+ and/or CD8+ T cells could be induced. The primary endpoint will be analyzed after 10 patients have reached visit 10
Time frame: 120 days
To evaluate CD4+ and/or CD8+ T-cell responses over the vaccination period.
T-cell responses will be measured after completion of the study and will be analyzed with regard to the T-cell responses after 10 vaccinatuions /at day 120.
Time frame: 246 days
To evaluate the event-free survival (EFS) during and after treatment.
EFS will be assessed on days 120 and 246.
Time frame: 246 days
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