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Personalized Cancer Stem Cell High-Throughput Drug Screening for Glioblastoma

A Phase 1 Study of Combination Drug Therapy Based on Personalized Cancer Stem Cell (CSC) High-Throughput Drug Screening (HTS) With Standard of Care for Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Early Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05380349
Enrollment
10
Registered
2022-05-18
Start date
2024-04-19
Completion date
2027-12-31
Last updated
2025-05-16

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma

Brief summary

Proposed treatment of subjects with newly diagnosed glioblastoma with novel personalized drug regimens identified to be effective in vitro using cancer stem cells derived from their individual tumors, alongside standard of care radiation and TMZ.

Detailed description

A panel of FDA approved drugs will be tested by high throughput screening, which is CLIA certified allowing for clinical decisions based on the results, to identify a combination of up to 3 drug candidates for treating individual patients. Lead candidates will be evaluated by pharmacists and a team of physicians, to confirm that prescribed drugs do not utilize pharmacological/ metabolic pathways that are known to increase the likelihood of toxicity, prior to initiating treatment. Investigational drug therapy, targeting CSCs, will be initiated alongside standard of care chemoradiation with TMZ.

Interventions

DRUGcombinations of up to 3 FDA approved drugs from a panel of compounds

personalized drug combinations

Sponsors

Swedish Medical Center
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SEQUENTIAL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Intervention model description

single-center Phase 1 open-label study

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Histological diagnosis of GBM (WHO grade 4) * Subjects ≥18 years of age * Patients must have a life expectancy of \>6 months * Patients must have a surgically accessible tumor with the intent for a gross or near total resection of the tumor mass (GBM, WHO grade 4) * Patients must have a KPS rating of ≥70 * Patients should not have received any prior systemic anti-cancer therapy * Patients must be negative for HIV, Hepatitis B and C * Baseline hematologic studies and chemistry and coagulation profiles must meet the following criteria: * Hemoglobin (Hgb)\> 8 g/dL * Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) \> 1,000/mm3 * Platelet count \> 100,000/mm3 * Creatinine \< 2 mg/dL * Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP), Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) and Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) \< 3x upper limit of normal (ULN)

Exclusion criteria

* Metastatic disease * Diseases or conditions that obscure toxicity or dangerously alter drug metabolism * Serious intercurrent medical illness * Inadequately controlled hypertension * History of myocardial infarction or unstable angina within 6 months * History of stroke or transient ischemic attack within 6 months

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
determine safety of CSC/HTS-based combination drug therapyFrom date of first dose of investigational drug regimen until date of first documented progression or death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 24 months.incidence of treatment-related AEs, laboratory abnormalities, and SAEs as assessed by CTCAE version 5.0

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Efficacy of CSC/HTS-based combination drug therapyFrom inclusion in the study up to approximately 36 monthsResponse assessment per Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) criteria

Countries

United States

Contacts

Primary ContactCharles S Cobbs, M.D.
charles.cobbs@swedish.org206-320-2300
Backup ContactParvinder Hothi, Ph.D.
parvinder.hothi@swedish.org206-320-3145

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 6, 2026