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Trial reportCell reports. Medicine2025

A phase 1/2a dose-finding study and biomarker assessment of oral lisavanbulin in patients with high-grade glioma or glioblastoma.

Juanita Suzanne Lopez, Simon Haefliger, Ruth Plummer, Paul M Clement, Thomas R Jeffry Evans, Heinz Läubli, Patrick Roth, Rebecca Kristeleit, Lucy Brazil, Ghazaleh Tabatabai and 10 more

Registry-linked trialAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IClinical Trial, Phase II
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Trial report in Cell reports. Medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02490800 (An Open-label Phase 1/2a Study of Oral BAL101553 in Adult Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors and in Adult Patients With Recurrent or Progressive Glioblastoma or High-grade Glioma), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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NCT02490800 phase1 / phase2completednot on this map

An Open-label Phase 1/2a Study of Oral BAL101553 in Adult Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors and in Adult Patients With Recurrent or Progressive Glioblastoma or High-grade Glioma

TypeinterventionalSponsorBasilea PharmaceuticaRan2015 to 2022Enrolled72ConditionsNeoplasmsArmsLisavanbulin Phase 1 dose escalation portion, Lisavanbulin Phase 2a expansion portion
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Juanita Suzanne LopezDrug Development Unit at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK. Electronic address: juanita.lopez@icr.ac.uk.
Simon HaefligerInselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Department of Medical Oncology, Bern, Switzerland.
Ruth PlummerNewcastle University and Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Paul M ClementUZ Leuven - Department of Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute - KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Thomas R Jeffry EvansUniversity of Glasgow, Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, UK.
Heinz LäubliDepartment of Oncology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Patrick RothDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Rebecca KristeleitGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK.
Lucy BrazilGuy's Hospital, Cancer Centre, London, UK.
Ghazaleh TabatabaiDepartment of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls Uninversity Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Antje WickNeurology Department, University Clinic Universitätsklinikum, Heidelberg, Germany.
Benjamin WunderlichDiscovery Life Sciences Biomarker Services GmbH, Kassel, Germany.
Kirk BeebeGeneCentric Therapeutics Inc., Durham, NC, USA.
Joel Robert EisnerGeneCentric Therapeutics Inc., Durham, NC, USA.
Heidi LaneBasilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Switzerland.
Marc EngelhardtBasilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Switzerland.
Thomas KaindlBasilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Switzerland. Electronic address: thomas.kaindl@basilea.com.
Peter HauWilhelm Sander NeuroOncology Unit and Department of Neurology - Neurooncology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Thomas HundsbergerDepartment of Neurology and Medical Oncology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
Joachim SteinbachDr. Senckenberg Institute of Neurooncology, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lisavanbulin is a prodrug of the microtubule-targeting agent avanbulin. Both avanbulin and lisavanbulin have demonstrated significant antitumor activity in several preclinical tumor models including glioblastoma. Previous human studies demonstrated that 48-h infusions of intravenous lisavanbulin were well tolerated with preliminary activity in recurrent glioblastoma. The current phase 1/2a study evaluates the safety and tolerability of once-daily oral lisavanbulin in patients with solid tumors or recurrent glioblastoma or high-grade glioma. Lisavanbulin is associated with profound, durable responses in a subset of patients with recurrent refractory grade 4 astrocytoma or glioblastoma. We present here the clinical and translational results from this trial, including a description of a response-predictive molecular signature that warrants further exploration in these tumor types of significant unmet need. The study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02490800).

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsBiomarkers, TumorBrain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaGliomaAdministration, OralAdultAgedDose-Response Relationship, DrugFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm GradingAntineoplastic AgentsBiomarkers, Tumorastrocytomaglioblastomagliomalisavanbulin

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PMID40532659
PMCPMC12208313

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