NCT07570173RecruitingPhase 2/3
A Clinical Trial of MK-1045 in People With B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (MK-1045-005)
A Phase 2/3, Randomized, Open-Label, Comparison Study of MK-1045 Versus Blinatumomab in Participants With Relapsed or Refractory CD19+ B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat people with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R B-ALL) that is CD19 positive using a medicine called MK-1045. MK-1045 is an immunotherapy, which is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. This trial will compare MK-1045 to a standard immunotherapy called blinatumomab. The goals of this trial are to learn if more people who receive MK-1045 have no cancer cells in their bone marrow compared to people who receive blinatumomab and if people who receive MK-1045 live longer compared to people who receive blinatumomab.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2/3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 340 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 29 Apr 2026
- Start date
- 18 May 2026
- Primary completion date
- 18 Oct 2033
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- NCT number
- NCT07570173
- EU CT number
- 2025-522267-15-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2/3
- Planned participants: 340
- From 18 May 2026 to the primary completion date, 18 Oct 2033
- 35 sites in 10 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Has active acute graft versus host disease (GvHD) or chronic GvHD. NOTE: Participants who have received CNI for GvHD within 4 weeks before the first dose of study intervention are also excluded
- Received prior treatment with blinatumomab within 12 weeks for Part 1 and 24 weeks for Part 2 before the first dose of study intervention (individuals known to be refractory or intolerant to blinatumomab are to be excluded). Refractory to blinatumomab is defined as failure to achieve a response after at least 2 cycles of previous blinatumomab treatment
- Diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is 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 to the first dose of study intervention
- Has not adequately recovered from major surgery or have ongoing surgical complications
Other illness
- History or presence of clinically relevant central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as epilepsy, hemorrhagic/ischemic stroke, severe brain injuries, dementia, Parkinson's disease, cerebellar disease, organic brain syndrome, and psychosis
- History of serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
- HIV-infection with a history of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or Multicentric Castleman's Disease
- Known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 2 years
- Isolated extramedullary disease (EMD)
- Active autoimmune disease unrelated to ALL that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years or history of autoimmune disease with potential CNS involvement
- Active infection requiring systemic therapy
Other
- Has Burkitt's leukemia
Who the study is looking for
- Has a confirmed diagnosis of relapsed/refractory (R/R) B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with 5% or more lymphoblasts in the bone marrow
- Has CD19+ disease, confirmed by local flow cytometry and/or immunohistochemistry testing at the time of enrollment
- Has Philadelphia-negative disease, confirmed by testing, at the time of enrollment
- Participants who have AEs due to previous anticancer therapies must have recovered to Grade ≤1 or baseline
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants must have well controlled HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART)
Age in the registry: 12 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (35)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princess Margaret Cancer Center ( Site 0102) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Recruiting |
| Aalborg University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aalborg | Denmark | Recruiting |
| Region Midtjylland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aarhus N | Denmark | Recruiting |
| Rigshospitalet Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Copenhagen Oe | Denmark | Recruiting |
| Odense University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Odense C | Denmark | Recruiting |
| Institut Catala d'Oncologia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Badalona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Clinica Universidad de Navarra Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Central De Asturias Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oviedo | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Quironsalud Madrid Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pozuelo de Alarcón | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario De Salamanca Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Salamanca | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valencia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hopital Saint Louis Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pessac | France | Recruiting |
| Evangelismos S A Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Athens | Greece | Recruiting |
| Laiko General Hospital of Athens Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Athens | Greece | Recruiting |
| University General Hospital "ATTIKON" - General Hospital of West Attica "H AGIA VARVARA" Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chaïdári | Greece | Recruiting |
| University General Hospital of Ioannina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ioannina | Greece | Recruiting |
| Rambam Health Care Campus ( Site 0903) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Haifa | Israel | Recruiting |
| Haddasah Medical Center ( Site 0900) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jerusalem | Israel | Recruiting |
| Sheba Medical Center ( Site 0902) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Recruiting |
| Sourasky Medical Center. ( Site 0904) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tel Aviv | Israel | Recruiting |
| Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Papa Giovanni XXIII Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bergamo | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna IRCCS Istituto Di Ricerca E Di Cura A Carattere Scientifico Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bologna | Italy | Recruiting |
| IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Metropolitana Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Genoa | Italy | Recruiting |
| Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera Ordine Mauriziano di Torino Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Turin | Italy | Recruiting |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital ( Site 2106) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bunkyo | Japan | Recruiting |
| Toranomon Hospital ( Site 2101) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Minato | Japan | Recruiting |
| Amsterdam UMC Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Sint Antonius Ziekenhuis Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nieuwegein | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Radboud universitair medisch centrum Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nijmegen | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Erasmus Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam (Erasmus MC) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Prinses Maxima Centrum voor Kinderoncologie B.V. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Utrecht | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Karolinska University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Solna | Sweden | Recruiting |
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