NCT07634471RecruitingPhase 2/3
A Clinical Trial of MK-1045 and Rituximab in People With Follicular Lymphoma (MK-1045-007)
A Phase 2/3 Randomized, Open-label Study of MK-1045 in Combination With Rituximab in Participants With 1L Follicular Lymphoma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat follicular lymphoma (FL). A standard (usual) treatment for FL includes a targeted therapy called rituximab and chemotherapy. In this study, researchers want to learn if giving a study medicine called MK-1045 and rituximab can treat FL. MK-1045 is a type of treatment called immunotherapy. The goals of this study are to learn: * About the safety of MK-1045 and rituximab, and if people tolerate them when given together * If people who receive MK-1045 and rituximab have the cancer go away * If people who receive MK-1045 and rituximab live longer without their cancer getting worse compared to those who receive standard treatment (rituximab and chemotherapy)
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2/3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 960 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 4 Jun 2026
- Start date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Primary completion date
- 23 Jul 2032
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Follicular lymphoma
- NCT number
- NCT07634471
- EU CT number
- 2025-522777-10-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2/3
- Planned participants: 960
- From 22 Jun 2026 to the primary completion date, 23 Jul 2032
- 39 sites in 15 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Has received prior systemic anticancer therapy or radiotherapy for FL.
- Has received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention.
- Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy.
- Has not adequately recovered from major surgery or has ongoing surgical complications.
Other illness
- History or presence of clinically relevant central nervous system (CNS) diseases.
- Has history of serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
- Is HIV-infected with a history of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or Multicentric Castleman's Disease.
- Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years.
- Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years.
- Has active infection requiring systemic therapy.
- Has chronic liver disease, including liver cirrhosis of Child-Pugh class B or C.
Other
- Has follicular large B-cell lymphoma or any other subtype of FL other than classical FL.
- Has FL that has transformed into a more aggressive type of lymphoma.
- Has known active CNS lymphoma or involvement.
Who the study is looking for
- Has biopsy-proven, previously untreated, histologically confirmed cluster of differentiation (CD)19-positive and CD20-positive classical follicular lymphoma (FL), with Ann Arbor Stage II-IV disease and a Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index (FLIPI) score of 2-5.
- Has radiographically measurable disease per the Lugano Response Criteria.
- Has provided a newly obtained core or excisional biopsy or archival tissue of a tumor lesion not previously irradiated.
- If human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive, has well-controlled HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART).
- If hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive, has undetectable hepatitis B virus (HBV) viral load and has received HBV antiviral therapy for at least 4 weeks and will continue it.
- If history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, has undetectable HCV viral load.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (39)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital Aleman ( Site 0101) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Instituto Alexander Fleming ( Site 0105) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba ( Site 0102) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Córdoba | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Sanatorio Nuestra Senora del Rosario ( Site 0104) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rosario | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Box Hill Hospital ( Site 0201) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Box Hill | Australia | Recruiting |
| Biocenter ( Site 0402) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Concepción | Chile | Recruiting |
| Fundacion Arturo Lopez Perez FALP ( Site 0404) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Recruiting |
| Beijing Cancer hospital ( Site 0501) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Beijing | China | Recruiting |
| Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center ( Site 0504) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shanghai | China | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Wuerzburg AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wuerzburg | Germany | Not yet recruiting |
| Institut Catala d'Oncologia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Badalona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Málaga | Spain | Recruiting |
| Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Salamanca Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Salamanca | Spain | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dijon | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire De Tours Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tours Cedex 9 | 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 |
| Hadassah Medical Center ( Site 0701) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jerusalem | Israel | Recruiting |
| Sheba Medical Center ( Site 0702) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Recruiting |
| Sourasky Medical Center ( Site 0704) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tel Aviv | Israel | Recruiting |
| Istituto di Candiolo Fondazione del Piemonte per l'oncologia IRCCS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Candiolo | Italy | Recruiting |
| Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Recruiting |
| Samsung Medical Center ( Site 0801) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Pratia S.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cracow | Poland | Recruiting |
| Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Recruiting |
| National Taiwan University Hospital ( Site 1001) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| Chang Gung Medical Foundation-Linkou Branch ( Site 1002) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taoyuan | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| University Hospitals of Cleveland ( Site 1321) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cleveland | United States | Recruiting |
| City of Hope - Duarte Cancer Center ( Site 1301) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Duarte | United States | Recruiting |
| Duke Cancer Center Clinic 1B/C Onc/Heme ( Site 1307) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durham | United States | Recruiting |
| John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center ( Site 1311) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hackensack | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Kentucky ( Site 1303) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lexington | United States | Recruiting |
| SCRI Oncology Partners ( Site 7000) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Recruiting |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ( Site 1325) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| Hacettepe Universite Hastaneleri ( Site 1110) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
| Sisli Florence Nightingale Hastanesi ( Site 1112) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Istanbul | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
| Ondokuz Mayıs Universitesi ( Site 1113) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Samsun | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
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