About this trial
This is a Phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study evaluating the efficacy and safety of AK117 or placebo, combined with azacitidine in patients with newly diagnosed higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (HR-MDS).
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Age ≥ 18 years old at the time of enrolment.
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score of 0 to 2.
Expected life expectancy ≥ 3 months.
Newly diagnosed HR-MDS, according to the 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) classification with the presence of < 20% blasts in bone marrow or peripheral blood; Overall IPSS-R score ≥ 3.5.
Disqualifiers
MDS evolving from a pre-existing myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN).
Prior treatment with Cluster of Differentiation (CD) 47 or Signal-regulatory protein alpha (SIRPα)-targeting agents.
Concurrently participating in another interventional clinical study, unless it is an observational (non-interventional) clinical study or during the follow-up period of an interventional study.
Patients who previously diagnosed with another malignancy and have any evidence of residual disease.
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
AK117
DrugAK117 IV injection
Placebo
DrugPlacebo IV injection
Azacitidine
DrugAzacitidine SC injection
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Complete remission rate (CRR)
CRR is defined as the proportion of subjects with complete remission (CR) per International Working Group (IWG) 2023 criteria
Secondary outcomes
Overall response rate (ORR)
The proportion of subjects with recorded response per IWG 2023
Time to response (TTR)
Time from the randomization to the first recorded response
Time to CR (TTCR)
Time from the randomization to the first recorded CR
Duration of response (DoR)
Time from the first recorded response until disease relapse or progression or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first