This proposed UM1 phase 2 supplement brings together teams from NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers at Mayo Clinic, University of Maryland, Columbia University, and the University of Iowa to collectively perform early phase clinical trials. Members of this proposed ETCTN team have accrued 3939 patients to phase 2 clinical trials from 2010 through 2014, demonstrated expertise in translational science, and established specialized facilities to develop biomarkers for clinical trials, including the Mayo Clinic Pathology Research Core and CLIA-certified University of Maryland Translational Genomic Laboratory. We now propose to conduct phase 2 clinical trials of NCI-sponsored anti-cancer agents to evaluate the clinical activity and biological impact of these agents on their molecular targets, elucidate other relevant biologic effects, and determine the correlation between clinical outcomes and relevant biomarkers and/or imaging endpoints. The goal of these studies is to not only determine, as efficiently as is compatible with patient safety, the effectiveness of new anticancer agents selected by the NCI or promising combination therapies and high- priority agents that are pivotal for drug development, but also facilitate the correlativ science needed to understand and properly develop these agents. The intent is to seamlessly move studies from phase 1 into phase 2 and to bring forward therapeutic approaches that can be incorporated into phase 3 clinical trials sponsored by other mechanisms. Studies will be designed using clinical endpoints that are appropriate for the therapeutic mechanism of the specific agent under study such as response, time to progression, progression- free rate at a point in time or survival. Importantly, alternative or secondary endpoints for the studies to be performed under this supplement may include changes in biomarker endpoints or imaging endpoints, including changes in blood flow and/or alterations in tumor metabolic activity. Accordingly, the specific aims of this proposal are to: i) determine the clinical activity, efficac and safety of novel anticancer agents and combinations selected by NCI for evaluation of therapeutic activity across a range of malignancies, whether chosen by histological subtype or molecular profile; ii) efficiently and seamlessly take promising therapies from phase 1 into phase 2 trials; iii) evaluate translational endpoints such as levels of expression and/or activity of molecular targets and/or downstream effectors pertinent to a given agent or pathway modulated by the agent under study; iv) identify and test potential biomarkers (with particular emphasis where possible on genomics and imaging) that may serve as predictors of efficacy or toxicity; and v) translate preclinical science and new discoveries from R01, SPORE or other peer reviewed mechanisms into clinical trials that leverage the expertise of the scientific community using a team science approach.

Public Health Relevance

The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, along with the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center, the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa, will collaborate to conduct early phase cancer treatment clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute using promising, new agents. These novel treatments will be tested in a number of different types of cancer with the goal of discovering new, effective cancer treatments that will become the standard therapies of the future. Laboratory studies will be performed in tumor biopsies to identify which tumors will respond and which will not. This program will allow for a better understanding of the biology of cancer and testing of new treatments as well as making these treatments available to a broad range of people with cancer.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Project with Complex Structure Cooperative Agreement (UM1)
Project #
3UM1CA186686-03S1
Application #
9094959
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel ()
Program Officer
Ivy, S Percy
Project Start
2014-04-07
Project End
2019-02-28
Budget Start
2016-03-01
Budget End
2017-02-28
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2016
Total Cost
$912,510
Indirect Cost
$282,106
Name
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Department
Type
DUNS #
006471700
City
Rochester
State
MN
Country
United States
Zip Code
55905
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