Ropidoxuridine as a Radiosensitizer in Newly Diagnosed IDH-Wildtype Glioblastoma With Unmethylated MGMT Promoter

Last updated: July 21, 2025
Sponsor: Shuttle Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Gliomas

Astrocytoma

Treatment

Ropidoxuridine

Clinical Study ID

NCT06359379
S22-11168
  • Ages > 18
  • All Genders

Study Summary

This is a randomized, open-label, phase 2 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of oral ropidoxuridine as a radiation-sensitizing agent in patients with newly diagnosed wild-type isocitrate dehydrogenase glioblastoma with an unmethylated O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase promoter, undergoing standard 60 Gy radiotherapy.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Written informed consent form signed and dated by patient or legally authorizedrepresentative according to local guidelines, prior to the performance of anystudy-specific procedures, sampling, or analyses. Participants with impaireddecision-making capacity must have a close caregiver or legally authorizedrepresentative present.

  • Histologically confirmed supratentorial glioblastoma isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)wild-type classification (2021 World Health Organization Classification of Tumours, 5th Edition, Volume 6) with unmethylated O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter (defined as MGMT methylation status ≤20% by pyrosequencing, and noprior radiation, electric field, or systemic therapy. Glucocorticoid therapy forsymptom control is allowed.

  • Patients should, in the opinion of the investigator, be candidates for 60 Gyradiotherapy in 2 Gy fractions over 6 weeks, per standard of care. Hypofractionatedradiotherapy schedules (e.g., 36 Gy in 3 Gy fractions) are not allowed.

  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0, 1 or 2.

  • Adequate renal, liver and bone marrow function:

  • Hemoglobin >9.0 g/dL

  • Absolute neutrophil count >1.5 × 10^9/L

  • Platelet count >100 × 10^9/L

  • Total bilirubin ≤1.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN), unless due to documentedGilbert's disease (≤3 × ULN)

  • Aspartate aminotransferase / alanine aminotransferase ≤4×ULN

  • Creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min calculated as per Cockcroft-Gault equation.

  • Life expectancy ≥12 weeks.

  • Have recovered from the immediate post-operative period and is maintained on astable corticosteroid regimen (no increase for 5 days) prior to initiation of studytreatment.

  • Female patients, of childbearing potential, must have a negative serum pregnancytest within 7 days prior to taking study medication and agree to use at least onehighly effective form of contraception during study treatment and for at least 120days after the last dose of study treatment.

  • Male patients must agree to use an adequate method of contraception from enrollmentthrough 120 days after the last dose of study treatment.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any prior treatment for glioblastoma, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy,targeted therapy or therapy with biologic agent (including immunotoxins,immunoconjugates, antisense, peptide receptor antagonists, interferons,interleukins, lymphokine-activated killer cell therapy or gene therapy), orradiotherapy. Glucocorticoid therapy is permitted.

  • Second primary malignancy expected to require active treatment within a 6-monthperiod (except basal cell or early-stage squamous cell carcinoma of the skin thatmay be excised). Patients who had another malignancy in the past but have been freeof active disease for more than 1 year, are eligible even if under activesurveillance, at the discretion of the Investigator. Adjuvant anti hormonaltreatment for prior breast or prostate cancer is allowed, but no other concomitantanticancer treatment.

  • Any investigational therapy (for any concomitant condition) within 28 days or within 5 half-lives of study entry (whichever is shorter).

  • Use of acid-reducing agents including proton pump inhibitors and histamine-2blockers.

  • Inability to comply with protocol or study procedures.

  • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.

  • Inability to swallow oral medication or gastrointestinal disorder expected toseverely affect drug absorption (e.g., short bowel syndrome).

  • Ongoing bacterial, viral, or fungal infection requiring systemic therapy.Prophylactic therapy is allowed. Patients with a history of Human ImmunodeficiencyVirus, Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis C virus infection are allowed if treated witheffective anti-viral therapy that results in undetectable viral load.

  • Any medical condition, which in the opinion of the Investigator, places the patientat an unacceptably high risk for toxicities, or makes the patient unsuitable forstudy participation.

Study Design

Total Participants: 54
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: Ropidoxuridine
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
September 02, 2024
Estimated Completion Date:
February 28, 2027

Study Description

This is a randomized, open-label phase 2 study to assess the safety and efficacy of oral ropidoxuridine as a radiation sensitizing agent in patients with newly diagnosed wildtype isocitrate dehydrogenase glioblastoma with unmethylated O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase promoter, receiving standard 60 Gy radiotherapy.

In the dose optimization phase, a group of 40 patients will be evenly divided, with a 1:1 randomization, to receive ropidoxuridine for a duration of 7 weeks. They will be administered daily ropidoxuridine at two dose levels: either 960 mg or 1200 mg. This administration will occur 5 days a week, from Monday to Friday. Treatment with ropidoxuridine will start one week before radiotherapy (induction period) and continue concomitantly with 60 Gy standard radiotherapy fractionated in 2 Gy daily doses (Monday through Friday weeks 2 to 7, treatment period)), followed by a 4-week rest period. Following completion of this 11-week active study period, maintenance therapy, including temozolomide, tumor treating field device (Optune®), or other available treatment modalities, may be initiated at the discretion of the Investigator.

Analysis of the pharmacokinetic, safety and tolerability data for the two cohorts will determine the optimal dose of ropidoxuridine, to be administered to the next cohort of 14 patients for determination of efficacy, compared to historical controls.

A magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) will be performed at the end of the active study period (Week 11). This MRI should not be used for disease assessment due to increased contrast enhancement in the acute radiation reaction phase, unless there is evidence of progression outside the radiotherapy fields. Radiographic disease assessment will be performed in accordance with community standard of care guidelines, every 3 months until disease progression. After the confirmed disease progression, survival monitoring follow-ups will occur every three months.

Connect with a study center

  • Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Washington, District of Columbia 20007
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

    Washington, District of Columbia 20007
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Miami Cancer Institute

    Miami, Florida 33176
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Miami, Florida 33136
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • John Theurer Cancer Center at the Hackensack University Medical Center

    Hackensack, New Jersey 07601
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, New York 10065
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Allegheny General Hospital

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University of Virginia

    Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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