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Clinical Trials in the USA / NCT06961006
Recruiting Phase 2

A Clinical Study of Intismeran Autogene (V940) and Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in People With Melanoma (V940-012/INTerpath-012)

NCT06961006 · tracked via the Priya Life Science USA tracker
Sponsor
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Phase
Phase 2
Started
2025-05-29
Last updated
2026-07-02

Condition(s) studied

Malignant Melanoma

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Intismeran autogenePembrolizumabPlacebo

Intismeran autogene: IM injection

Pembrolizumab: IV infusion

Placebo: IM injection

Study summary

Researchers want to learn if intismeran autogene with pembrolizumab can stop advanced melanoma from growing or spreading. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer. Advanced means the cancer has spread to other parts of the body and cannot be removed with surgery. A standard (or usual) treatment for advanced melanoma is immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. Intismeran autogene is a study treatment designed to help a person's immune system attack their specific cancer. Pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy.

The goal of this study is to learn if people who receive intismeran autogene with pembrolizumab live longer without the cancer growing or spreading than people who receive placebo with pembrolizumab. A placebo looks like the study treatment but has no study treatment in it. Using a placebo helps researchers better understand the effects of a study treatment.

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Min age
18 Years
Max age
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria: The main inclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following: * Has unresectable and histologically confirmed Stage III or IV cutaneous melanoma per American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Eighth Edition guidelines. * Has been untreated for melanoma except if participant received prior adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy with targeted therapy or immunotherapy (such as anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein \[CTLA-4\], anti-programmed cell death 1 protein \[PD-1\] therapy or interferon), and only if relapse did not occur within 12 months after treatment discontinuation. * Have documentation of serine/threonine-protein kinase B-raf (BRAF) V600-activating mutation status or had BRAF V600 mutation testing per local institutional standards during the screening period (participants with BRAF mutation positive melanoma as well as BRAF wild-type or unknown are eligible). * Have the presence of at least 1 measurable lesion by computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) per Response Criteria in Solid Tumors Version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1) as determined by the local site investigator/radiology assessment. * Provides tumor tissue (preferably from a metastatic site and, if not available, from the primary tumor) that is suitable for next generation sequencing and biomarker analysis as required for this study. * Participants with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) must have well controlled HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART). * Participants who are hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive are eligible if they have received hepatitis B virus (HBV) antiviral therapy for at least 4 weeks, and have undetectable HBV viral load prior to randomization. * Participants with history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are eligible if HCV viral load is undetectable at screening. Exclusion Criteria: The main exclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following: * Has clinically significant heart failure, defined as New York Heart Association class III or IV, within the past 6 months, unless the disease is well controlled in the opinion of the investigator. * HIV-infected participants with a history of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or Multicentric Castleman's Disease. * Has ocular or mucosal melanoma. * Received transfusion of blood products (including platelets or red blood cells) or administration of colony-stimulating factors (including granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor, or recombinant erythropoietin) within 2 weeks of the Screening blood sample (including the blood sample for V940 generation). * Received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti-PD-L2 agent, or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or coinhibitory T-cell receptor (eg, CTLA-4, lymphocyte activation gene 3 \[LAG-3\], tumor necrosis factor receptors \[OX-40 or CD137\]), with some exceptions. * Received prior systemic anticancer therapy for melanoma before randomization, with some exceptions. * Received prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study intervention or has ongoing radiation related toxicities. * Received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention. * Received prior treatment with another universal or personalized cancer vaccine.

Primary outcome measure(s)

Trial sites (38)

FacilityCityRegionStatus
Highlands Oncology Group ( Site 4042) Springdale Arkansas Recruiting
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay ( Site 4044) San Francisco California Recruiting
John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center ( Site 4047) Hackensack New Jersey Recruiting
Inova Schar Cancer Institute ( Site 4046) Fairfax Virginia Recruiting
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ( Site 4041) Seattle Washington Recruiting
Blacktown Hospital ( Site 2001) Blacktown New South Wales Recruiting
Melanoma Institute Australia ( Site 2000) Wollstonecraft New South Wales Recruiting
One Clinical Research ( Site 2002) Nedlands Western Australia Recruiting
William Osler Health System (Brampton Civic Hospital) ( Site 2023) Brampton Ontario Recruiting
Sunnybrook Research Institute ( Site 2022) Toronto Ontario Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice - Hôpital l'Archet-Dermatology Department ( Site 2042) Nice Alpes-Maritimes Recruiting
Hôpital Saint-Louis ( Site 2041) Paris Île-de-France Region Recruiting
Gustave Roussy ( Site 2040) Villejuif Île-de-France Region Recruiting
NCT ( Site 2065) Heidelberg Baden-Wurttemberg Recruiting
Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt Goethe-Universität ( Site 2063) Frankfurt am Main Hesse Recruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Koeln ( Site 2064) Cologne North Rhine-Westphalia Recruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Essen ( Site 2061) Essen North Rhine-Westphalia Recruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf ( Site 2060) Hamburg Germany Recruiting
General Hospital of Athens "Laiko" ( Site 2080) Athens Attica Recruiting
Metropolitan Hospital ( Site 2082) Athens Attica Recruiting
European Interbalkan Medical Center ( Site 2081) Thessaloniki Greece Recruiting
HaEmek Medical Center ( Site 3003) Afula Israel Recruiting
Hadassah Medical Center ( Site 3001) Jerusalem Israel Recruiting
Rabin Medical Center ( Site 3002) Petah Tikva Israel Recruiting
Sheba Medical Center ( Site 3000) Ramat Gan Israel Recruiting
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano ( Site 3021) Milan Milano Recruiting
Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione Pascale ( Site 3020) Naples Italy Recruiting
Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS ( Site 3022) Padova Italy Recruiting
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore ( Site 3023) Roma Italy Recruiting
Harbour Cancer & Wellness ( Site 3040) Auckland New Zealand Recruiting
Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny w Poznaniu ( Site 3061) Poznan Greater Poland Voivodeship Recruiting
Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie ( Site 3060) Warsaw Masovian Voivodeship Recruiting
Unidade Local de Saude Lisboa Ocidental - Hospital de São Francisco Xavier ( Site 4002) Lisbon Lisbon District Recruiting
Unidade Local de Saude de Santa Maria - Hospital de Santa Maria ( Site 4001) Lisbon Portugal Recruiting
Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil, EPE ( Site 4000) Porto Portugal Recruiting
Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron ( Site 3081) Barcelona Spain Recruiting
Hospital Clínic Barcelona ( Site 3080) Barcelona Spain Recruiting
Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-Medical Oncology ( Site 3082) Madrid Spain Recruiting

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