Talquetamab combined with iberdomide and dexamethasone for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma

A Phase Ib, Multi-center, Study of Talquetamab in Combination With Iberdomide and Dexamethasone for the Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

This phase 1 trial will test whether adding iberdomide and dexamethasone to talquetamab helps people with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have already received proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulatory drugs, and CD38 antibodies.

Quick facts

• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (estimated)
• Ages: 18 Years and up
• Sex: All
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco (Academic / other)
• Drugs / interventions: CAR-T, chimeric antigen receptor, radiation, prednisone, talquetamab
• Locations: 1 site (San Francisco, California)
• Trial ID: NCT06348108 on ClinicalTrials.gov

What this trial studies

This Phase 1, open-label study uses a dose-escalation then dose-expansion design to find the safest and most effective dose (RP2D) of talquetamab combined with iberdomide and dexamethasone given in 28-day cycles. The dose-escalation cohort will determine dose-limiting toxicities and RP2D, and the expansion cohort will further assess safety and response in triple-class exposed, lenalidomide-refractory patients with at least two prior lines of therapy. Key outcomes include safety measures, overall response rate, minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity among deep responders, and health-related quality of life. Procedures include study drug administration and serial assessments such as laboratory tests and bone marrow biopsies.

Who should consider this trial

Good fit: Adults (≥18 years) with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who are triple-class exposed (PI, IMiD, and CD38 antibody), have received prior lines of therapy (typically ≥2–3), and meet protocol safety requirements are the intended participants.

Not a fit: Patients with newly diagnosed disease, those who have not received the required prior therapies, or those with uncontrolled medical conditions or contraindications to immunotherapy are unlikely to benefit from this study.

Why it matters

Potential benefit: If successful, the combination could increase response rates and offer a new treatment option for heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

How similar studies have performed: Talquetamab has shown single-agent activity and is FDA approved, but combining it with iberdomide is an investigational approach with encouraging early data rather than long-established proof of benefit.

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Male or female ≥ 18 years of age.
2. Has a prior history of (h/o) MM (based on International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) criteria) and now has evidence of relapsed or refractory MM. RRMM of progressive disease as defined by the IMWG 2006 and 2016 criteria (Kumar at al).
3. Specific criteria for dose escalation and dose expansion:

   1. Phase 1 dose escalation: patients will be required to have TCE RRMM (including a proteasome inhibitor (PI) (≥ 2 cycles or 2 months of treatment), an immunomodulatory drug (IMiD)) (≥ 2 cycles or 2 months of treatment) and a CD38 antibody (≥ 2 cycles or 2 months of treatment) after receiving ≥ 3 prior lines of therapy. Prior BCMA exposure is allowed. (Subjects with discontinued PI/IMiD/Cluster of differentiation 38 (CD38) therapy due to severe adverse event after \< 2 months are allowed)
   2. Dose expansion cohort: RRMM patients will be lenalidomide refractory, TCE (exposed to IMiD, PI and CD38 antibody therapy (≥ 2 cycles or 2 months of treatment for each) and have received ≥ 2 prior lines of therapy. Prior BCMA targeted therapy is allowed, not required. (Subjects with discontinued PI/IMiD/CD38 therapy due to severe adverse event after \< 2 months are allowed. Lenalidomide refractory is defined as having evidence of progressive disease on lenalidomide (≥ 10 mg or greater, ≥ 21 days/28) or within 60 days of stopping lenalidomide therapy.)
4. Has measurable disease defined as at least 1 of the following:

   1. Serum M-protein ≥ 0.5 g/dL (dose escalation) and 1.0 g/dL (dose expansion cohorts)
   2. Urine M-protein ≥ 200 mg/24 hours
   3. Serum free light chain (FLC) assay: involved FLC assay ≥ 10 mg/dL (≥ 100 mg/L) AND an abnormal serum FLC ratio (\< 0.26 or \> 1.65). (Can be used to fulfill the inclusion criteria of measurable disease in patients who do not have measurable disease by M-protein).
5. Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.
6. Has adequate baseline organ function, as demonstrated by the following:

   1. Calculated creatinine clearance \> 30 mL/min as assessed by the Cockcroft-Gault equation, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), 2015) or as assessed by 24-hour urine collection.
   2. Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL, excluding Gilbert's.
   3. Aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 × institutional upper limit normal (ULN).
   4. Total serum calcium (corrected for serum albumin) or ionized calcium within normal limits (WNL) (treatment of hypercalcemia is allowed and patients may enroll if hypercalcemia returns to WNL with standard treatment).
7. Has adequate baseline hematologic function, as demonstrated by the following:

   1. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.0 x 10\^9/L (myeloid growth factors must not have been administered within 7 days (14 days for extended 1/2-life products).
   2. Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/dL (red blood cell transfusions permitted provided the anemia is disease-related).
   3. Platelet count ≥ 100 x 10\^9/L and no platelet transfusions during the 7 days before first dose (without transfusions). (Dose expansion cohorts will be allowed to have platelets counts ≥ 75 x 10\^9/L with no platelet transfusions during the prior 7 days).
8. Must have at least 2 negative serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) pregnancy test result obtained prior to initiating therapy. The first test should be performed within 10-14 days and the second within 24 hours prior to initiating therapy if the patient is a female of childbearing potential (FCBP; defined as a sexually mature woman who has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy or has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months).
9. Men and women of childbearing potential must agree to not donate sperm and eggs (ova and oocytes) throughout study therapy and for 3 months after the last treatment.
10. Men and women agree to use acceptable contraceptive methods for the duration of time on the study, and continue to use acceptable contraceptive methods for 3 months after the last treatment with study treatment.

    1. Women of childbearing potential must agree to 2 methods of reliable birth control simultaneously while receiving study treatment and until 100 days after last dose of study treatment: one highly effective form of contraception (tubal ligation, intrauterine device, hormonal \[oral, injectable, transdermal patches, vaginal rings or implants\] or partner's vasectomy, and 1 additional effective contraceptive method (male latex or synthetic condom, diaphragm or cervical cap).
    2. Males must agree to always use a latex or synthetic condom during any sexual contact with females of reproductive potential.
11. All patients should be encouraged to be fully vaccinated prior to initiation of therapy including being up-to-date on vaccines against pneumococcus, yearly influenza, Coronavirus disease (COVID) booster(s), and any age appropriate vaccine. Live attenuated vaccines are not allowed while on study treatment or within 4 weeks of starting treatment.
12. Has provided signed informed consent before initiation of any study-specific procedures or treatment.
13. Must agree to, and be capable of, adhering to the study visit schedule and other protocol requirements, including follow-up for overall survival.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Has persistent clinically significant toxicities (grade ≥ 2; per National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0) from previous anticancer therapy (excluding alopecia which is permitted and excluding grades 2 and 3 laboratory abnormalities (including hematologic abnormalities) if participants are not associated with symptoms, are not considered clinically significant by the investigator, and can be managed with available medical therapies.
2. Has NCI CTCAE grade ≥ 3 peripheral neuropathy from any etiology or grade ≥ 2 peripheral neuropathy with pain.
3. Has received treatment with cytotoxic (alkylators) within 3 weeks, biologic (IMiDs/PIs) within 2 weeks, targeted therapies (monoclonal antibodies) within 4 weeks, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell (CAR-T)or autologous stem cell transplant therapy within 3 months or any novel therapy within 5- 1/2 lives of therapy.
4. Has had radiation therapy within 14 days of first dose of study therapy, unless less than 5% marrow exposure, then no limit.
5. Has had any prior GPRC5D targeted bispecific antibody therapy or GPRC5D CAR-T therapy or has had previous treatment with Iber.
6. Has any active or uncontrolled infection including any viral, bacterial or fungal infection; and/or HIV, active hepatitis (Hep) C and active Hep B (hepatitis B (HB) surface antigen (HBsAg) (+), HB core antigen (HBcAb) (+) or (+) Hep B deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) by polymerase chain reaction (pcr), Hep C ribonucleic acid (RNA) (+) by pcr. Patients who have received Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy (IVIG) replacement therapy may have (+) HBcAb results from the IVIG therapy. These patients can enroll if Hep B DNA by pcr test is negative. These patients need to be on antiviral therapy and be monitored for hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA throughout study therapy per local guidelines and as clinically indicated.
7. Has an additional active malignancy that may confound the assessment of the study endpoints. If the patient has a past cancer history (active malignancy within 2 years before study entry) with substantial potential for recurrence, this must be discussed with the sponsor/investigator before study entry. Patients with the following concomitant neoplastic diagnoses are eligible: nonmelanoma skin cancer and carcinoma in situ (including transitional cell carcinoma, cervical cancer, anal carcinoma, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and melanoma in situ), any cancer resected with curative intent, low-grade cancer not requiring therapy.
8. Is pregnant or breast feeding.
9. Has clinically significant cardiovascular disease including, albeit not limited to:

   1. Uncontrolled or any New York Heart Association Class 3 or 4 congestive heart failure
   2. Uncontrolled angina, history of myocardial infarction, unstable angina or stroke within 6 months before study entry
   3. Uncontrolled hypertension or clinically significant arrhythmias not controlled by medication.
10. Has active POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy/edema, monoclonal-protein, skin syndrome), amyloid light (AL) amyloidosis, primary plasma cell leukemia or active central nervous system (CNS) or parenchymal/leptomeningeal myeloma.
11. Has uncontrolled, clinically significant organ dysfunction that in the opinion of the investigator would put the patient at significant risk for toxicity from study therapy.
12. Has recent major surgery within 4 weeks or significant gastrointestinal (GI) disease that would interfere with GI absorption of oral medications.
13. Has a condition, including autoimmune disease, requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days before study therapy administration. Inhaled or topical steroids and adrenal replacement doses \<10 mg daily prednisone equivalents are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease.
14. Has received treatment with allogeneic stem cell transplant within 6 months before the first dose of study treatment and if \> 6 months from allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) must be off all immunosuppression and without evidence of active graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
15. Uncontrolled epilepsy or new/recent seizure activity within 6 months of study entry.
16. Live vaccine administered within 4 weeks prior to study therapy.

Where this trial is running

San Francisco, California

• University of Calfornia, San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States (Recruiting)

Study contacts

• Principal investigator: Alfred Chung, MD — University of California, San Francisco
• Study coordinator: UCSF Hematopoietic Malignancies Clinical Trial Recruitment

Conditions Multiple Myeloma; Refractory Multiple Myeloma; Relapsed Multiple Myeloma