Clinical trial • Phase II • Oncology|Dermatology

ONFEKAFUSP ALFA for Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Phase II trial of ONFEKAFUSP ALFA for Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. open-label. 48 participants.

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology|Dermatology
Trial Disease
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Trial Stage
Phase II
Drug Modality
Peptide/protein/enzyme

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
03-10-2025
First CTIS Authorization Date
10-02-2026

Trial design

open-label Phase II trial in Germany, Greece, Italy and others.

Open Label
Yes
Target Sample Size
48

Eligibility

Recruits 48 No vulnerable population selected. Participants are adults (age 18-100). Informed consent required from participants; subject information and informed consent forms are provided (ICF/PI documents listed). No paediatric assent procedures described..

Pregnancy Exclusion
Pregnancy or breast-feeding.
Vulnerable Population
No vulnerable population selected. Participants are adults (age 18-100). Informed consent required from participants; subject information and informed consent forms are provided (ICF/PI documents listed). No paediatric assent procedures described.

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Patients must have histologically documented, locally advanced cSCC.\n- Patients must have at least one injectable and measurable cutaneous or subcutaneous lesion.\n- Patients must have locally advanced cSCC that has progressed on or cannot tolerate ICI treatment (adjuvant or first line) as assessed by a local multidisciplinary tumor board.\n- Patients with nodal, regional or in transit injectable cSCC lesions.\n- Patients must be willing to provide tissue from a core or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion at screening and for confirmation of Objective Response or Stable Disease.\n- Male or female patients, age 18 - 100 years.\n- ECOG Performance Status/WHO Performance Status ≤ 2.\n- Hemoglobin > 10.0 g/dL.\n- Platelets > 100 x 109/L.\n- ALT and AST, GGT and Lipase ≤ 1.5 x the upper limit of normal (ULN).\n- All acute toxic effects (excluding alopecia) of any prior therapy must have resolved to National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v. 5.0) Grade ≤ 1 unless otherwise specified.\n- Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have negative pregnancy test results at screening.\n- Male patients with WOCBP partners must agree to use simultaneously two acceptable methods of contraception.\n- Willingness and ability to comply with the scheduled visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests and other study procedures."}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Presence of concomitant malignancies, with the exception of any cancer curatively treated more than 3 years prior to study entry and of tumors with a negligible risk for metastasis or death, such as adequately treated basal cell carcinoma of the skin (surgically removed at least 4 weeks prior to study entry), ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast, or carcinoma in situ of the cervix, early-stage asymptomatic CLL and not under active treatment (Rai 0, Binet A) will be eligible for the study.\n- Radiation therapy on the tumor sites in the 4 weeks prior to study drug administration.\n- Current topical or systemic chemotherapy, immunotherapy.\n- Presence of visceral metastasis.\n- Presence of active severe bacterial or viral infections or other severe concurrent disease/infection requiring therapy, including positive tests for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 or HIV-2 serum antibody, hepatitis B virus (HBV), or hepatitis C virus (HCV). For HBV serology, the determination of HBsAg and anti-HBcAg Ab is required. In patients with serology documenting previous exposure to HBV, negative serum HBV-DNA is required. For HCV, HCV-RNA or HCV antibody test is required. Subjects with a positive test for HCV antibody but no detection of HCV-RNA indicating no current infection are eligible.\n- History within the last year of acute or subacute coronary syndromes including myocardial infarction, unstable or severe stable angina pectoris,inadequately treated cardiac arrhythmias and heart insufficiency (any grade, New York Heart Association (NYHA) criteria).\n- Any abnormalities observed during baseline ECG investigations that are considered clinically significant by the investigator.\n- Chronically impaired renal function as indicated by creatinine clearance < 60 mL/min/1.73m2 or for patients older than 65 years without albuminuria or proteinuria, creatinine clearance < 45 mL/min/1.73m2.\n- Known arterial aneurysms.\n- INR > 3.\n- Uncontrolled hypertension.\n- Known uncontrolled coagulopathy or bleeding disorder.\n- Known hepatic cirrhosis or severe pre-existing hepatic impairment.\n- Moderate to severe respiratory failure.\n- Active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years.\n- Patients have a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or are receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior the first dose of study drug. Limited use of corticosteroids to treat or prevent acute hypersensitivity reactions and asthma/COPD is not considered an exclusion criterion.\n- Known history of allergy to IL2, TNF, or other human proteins/peptides/antibodies.\n- Pregnancy or breast-feeding.\n- Ischemic peripheral vascular disease (Grade IIb-IV).\n- Severe diabetic retinopathy.\n- Recovery from major trauma including surgery within 4 weeks prior to enrollment.\n- Solid organ transplant recipient or patient with iatrogenic or pathologic severe immune suppression.\n- Patients with a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the participant's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the participant to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator."}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Best Overall Response Rate (BORR) as defined by the RECIST 1.1. criteria according to an Independent Central Review (ICR).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as Best Overall Response Rate (BORR) according to RECIST 1.1 criteria assessed by an Independent Central Review (ICR)."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
48
Recruitment Window Months
56
Consent Approach
Informed consent required from adult participants (age 18-100). Subject information and informed consent forms are provided and country/language-specific ICFs are listed in the documents (English, Greek, Italian, Spanish versions referenced). No pediatric assent described.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
13
Total Number Of Participants
54

Germany

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
13-01-2026
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
11-02-2026
Processing Time Days
29
Number Of Sites
7
Number Of Participants
17

Sites

Site Name
Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR
Department Name
Dermatology
Principal Investigator Name
Thomas eigentler
Principal Investigator Email
thomas.eigentler@charite.de
Contact Person Name
Thomas eigentler
Contact Person Email
thomas.eigentler@charite.de
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Halle (Saale) AöR
Department Name
Dermatology
Principal Investigator Name
Johannes Wohlrab
Principal Investigator Email
johannes.wohlrab@medizin.uni-halle.de
Contact Person Name
Johannes Wohlrab
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen AöR
Department Name
Dermatology
Principal Investigator Name
Lukas Flatz
Principal Investigator Email
lukas.flatz@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Contact Person Name
Lukas Flatz
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg AöR
Department Name
DermatoOncology
Principal Investigator Name
Jessica Hassel
Principal Investigator Email
jessica.hassel@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Contact Person Name
Jessica Hassel
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Essen AöR
Department Name
Dermatology
Principal Investigator Name
Dirk Schadendorf
Principal Investigator Email
dirk.schadendorf@uk-essen.de
Contact Person Name
Dirk Schadendorf
Contact Person Email
dirk.schadendorf@uk-essen.de
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Augsburg
Department Name
Dermatology
Principal Investigator Name
Julia Welzel
Principal Investigator Email
dermatologie@uk-augsburg.de
Contact Person Name
Julia Welzel
Contact Person Email
dermatologie@uk-augsburg.de
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein AöR
Department Name
DermatoOncology
Principal Investigator Name
Katharina Kahler
Principal Investigator Email
kkaehler@dermatology.uni-kiel.de
Contact Person Name
Katharina Kahler

Greece

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
14-11-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
11-02-2026
Processing Time Days
89
Number Of Sites
1
Number Of Participants
9

Sites

Site Name
Andreas Syngros Hospital Of Venereal And Dermatological Diseases
Department Name
Dermatology-Venereology
Principal Investigator Name
Alexandros Stratigos
Principal Investigator Email
alstrat2@gmail.com
Contact Person Name
Alexandros Stratigos
Contact Person Email
alstrat2@gmail.com

Italy

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
28-01-2026
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
10-02-2026
Processing Time Days
13
Number Of Sites
4
Number Of Participants
17

Sites

Site Name
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Senese
Department Name
Dermatology
Principal Investigator Name
Annamaria digiamoco
Principal Investigator Email
annamaria.digiacomo@unisi.it
Contact Person Name
Annamaria digiamoco
Contact Person Email
annamaria.digiacomo@unisi.it
Site Name
IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Pascale
Department Name
SC Oncologia clinica sperimentale del melanoma
Principal Investigator Name
Ascierto Paolo
Principal Investigator Email
p.ascierto@istitutotumori.na.it
Contact Person Name
Ascierto Paolo
Site Name
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Department Name
UOC Dermatologia
Principal Investigator Name
Ketty Peris
Principal Investigator Email
ketty.peris@unicatt.it
Contact Person Name
Ketty Peris
Contact Person Email
ketty.peris@unicatt.it
Site Name
Humanitas Mirasole S.p.A.
Department Name
oncology and hematology
Principal Investigator Name
paolo bossi
Principal Investigator Email
paolo.bossi@hunimed.eu
Contact Person Name
paolo bossi
Contact Person Email
paolo.bossi@hunimed.eu

Spain

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
30-01-2026
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
16-02-2026
Processing Time Days
17
Number Of Sites
1
Number Of Participants
11

Sites

Site Name
Hospital Clinic De Barcelona
Department Name
Dermatology
Principal Investigator Name
Augustin Toll Abello
Principal Investigator Email
atoll@clinic.cat
Contact Person Name
Augustin Toll Abello
Contact Person Email
atoll@clinic.cat

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Philogen S.p.A.
Organisation Type
Pharmaceutical company
Country Of Registered Address
Italy

Contract research organisations

Name
Pharmassist Ltd.
Responsibilities
sponsorDuties code 1

Third parties

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Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
Fibromun
Active Substance
ONFEKAFUSP ALFA
Modality
Peptide/protein/enzyme
Routes Of Administration
INTRALESIONAL USE
Route
INTRALESIONAL USE
Authorisation Status
Authorised (prodAuthStatus=1)
Maximum Dose
0.4 mg
Investigational Product Name
Darleukin
Active Substance
BIFIKAFUSP ALFA
Modality
Peptide/protein/enzyme
Routes Of Administration
INTRALESIONAL USE
Route
INTRALESIONAL USE
Authorisation Status
Authorised (prodAuthStatus=1)
Maximum Dose
2.17 mg
Combination Treatment
Yes

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