We are conducting a research study on the effect of high insulin levels on the buildup of excessive liver fat ("fatty liver disease") in people at risk for type 2 diabetes. We are seeking adult volunteers, ages 18-65, who have obesity with a body mass index of 30-45, and have been diagnosed with, or are at risk for, prediabetes and metabolic…
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease and the best hope for improving the chances of survival is to find it early. Some patients, called "high risk", have an inherited predisposition to pancreatic cancer. Certain medical centers have started programs where "high risk patients" undergo testing, such as receiving imaging scans, to look for…
Seeking participants for a study about how individuals prefer to receive nutrition recommendations to support health management and preferences for visualizing health data. Participants may be invited to complete a 60-minute session to answer questionnaires and evaluate different styles of nutritional recommendations. In addition, they may be invited to…
We are conducting an academic study to understand how people solve problems related to health. In the study, participants will be presented with a hypothetical problem related to diabetes self-management and asked to use an online health application to explore information and propose a solution. We invite all participants between 18 and 65 years old, who…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how safe and effective the NanoKnife System is at treating Stage 3 pancreatic adenocarcinoma. This is registry study and therefore, the NanoKnife System is not being used for study purposes. The safety and efficacy of this system will be evaluated by comparing survival rates, pain ratings, and number of adverse…
The purpose of the study is to test the following: 1) The safety and tolerability (how you feel when you take the drug) of the study drug, 2) The pharmacokinetics (PK) (how the study drug is absorbed within your body, spread throughout your body, and eliminated from your body) of the study drug, 3) The pharmacodynamics (PD) (how the study drug affects…
The primary purposes of this research study are to learn the safety and tolerability of the investigational drug, XmAb23104, for up to eight dose levels; to see if XmAb23104 works in treating tumors like the one that you have, and to see if side effects from XmAb23104 occur in order to find the maximum tolerated dose or recommended dose for treating your…
The purpose of the study is to test the safety of an investigational study drug called BMS-986218 (also known as Anti-CTLA4-NF monoclonal antibody) administered alone and in combination with nivolumab, and in comparison to Ipilimumab. This study will investigate how research subjects with advanced solid tumors tolerate these drugs and identify the highest…
The purpose of this study is to test what dose of BPX-601 can be given safely with rimiducid to patients with certain types of cancer. The study will look for side effects (good and bad) and how your body responds to the treatment. The study will also see if the treatment helps to stop your cancer from growing or spreading. BPX-601 is a treatment made from…
The purpose of this study is to learn which treatment works best in patients with pancreatic cancer. The study explores multiple treatment combinations. A study drug called atezolizumab may be combined with other drugs such as cobimetinib, PEGPH20, and BL-8040. Patients may also be assigned to receive standard chemotherapy treatment.
The purpose of this study is to determine the highest dose of the study drug that can be given safely to people with certain cancers. The study will also look at how effective the study drug is in treating certain cancers. The study drug is PLX2853. The participants in this study will be the first people to receive PLX2853.
The purpose of the study is to test the safety of an investigational study drug called BMS-986249. BMS-986249 will be given alone and in combination with nivolumab. This study will investigate how patients with advanced solid tumors tolerate these drugs. The study will identify the highest dose or most suitable dose of BMS-986249 alone and in combination…
The primary purpose of this research study is to learn the safety and tolerability of the investigational drug, XmAb 22841 when given alone or in combination with another drug called pembrolizumab. You will be assigned to either receive XmAb22841 alone or in combination with pembrolizumab and you will know what treatment you are receiving. This study will…
The experimental drug being investigated in this study is called rucaparib. Rucaparib is being developed by Clovis Oncology, Inc. (the Sponsor), a biopharmaceutical company with headquarters in the United States (US). Rucaparib (trade name: Rubraca) is a medicine that is approved in the European Union (EU) and the US for use in certain types of ovarian…
The main purpose of the study is to determine at what dose the study drug (ASP1951) is safe and tolerated and how it is processed in the blood of subjects with tumors that cannot be removed (unresectable) or has spread (metastasized) to a different part of the body. When the safe dose is identified, it will be used to evaluate if the study drug treatment…
BioAtla (the sponsor of the clinical trial) is studying BA3021 as a potential treatment for varieties of cancers including but not limited to lung, triple negative breast cancer and soft tissue sarcoma. The purpose of this research study is to test the safety of different doses of BA3021 and to find out what effects, good and/or bad, it has on the body and…
The primary purpose of this research study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and maximum tolerated dose of BAY 1143572. Moreover, concentrations of BAY 1143572 as well as of biomarker proteins may provide information about the effects of BAY 1143572, will be determined in blood and tumor tissue.
SY-1365 is an investigational drug that stops the function of a protein known as CDK7. Previous workhas shown that CDK7 is necessary for some cancers to grow. Therefore, SY-1365 could be used to slow down the growth of cancer. This research study is being done to understand the highest tolerated dose of SY-1365, and to assess the safety of SY-1365 in…
This study is for subjects with either cancer of the head and neck, lung cancer or colorectal cancer. The aim of this research study is to identify the best dose of an experimental drug called MEDI1873 and to see if it is safe and tolerable in subjects with advanced solid tumor types. The study will occur in two parts: Part 1 (dose escalation) and Part 2 (…
The purpose of this study is to find out which doses of talimogene laherparepvec (T-Vec) can be given safely to patients with pancreatic cancer that is either too big to be taken out by surgery or has spread to other parts of the body. The study will also see if T-Vec can cause tumor shrinkage or prevent its growth. To find out which doses are safe, all…
The purpose of this research study is to learn about the safety and effectiveness of the study drug, PF-06650808, when given as a single agent and to find the best dose for treating cancer. Prior to this study, PF-06650808 has never been given to people. PF-06650808 is known as an antibody drug conjugate. A toxic agent is chemically linked to an antibody.…
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects nivolumab or nivolumab given in combination with ipilimumab have on you and your cancer given the presence of genetic biomarkers (POLE and POLD1). This study will also look at the side effects of these two new immunotherapy drugs.
The purpose of this study is to see if IMC-CS4 (LY3022855) is safe to give to patients. We want to see how you feel when you are receiving treatment, what effects, good and/or bad, the study drug has on you and your tumor and which may be the best dose.
The main purpose of this study is to learn more about the study drug called LY3321367. The study wants to know more about the following: The safety of LY3321367 alone and in combination with another drug called LY3300054 and any side effects you might have Whether LY3321367 is tolerable when taken alone and in combination with LY3300054. How much…
The purpose of this study is to learn whether IDH305 is safe and can have possible benefits for people diagnosed with glioma, cholangiocarcinoma, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chondrosarcoma or other types of solid tumors and have IDH1R132-mutant tumors cancers that have the IDH1R132 mutation and are not getting better after treatment with currently…
We will enroll and randomly assign 30 sedentary, healthy overweight men and women to two groups. Participants will either start by consuming peanuts for 4 weeks, and then go on to exercise at high intensity intervals (HIIT) for 4 weeks, or the reverse order. We will test and compare the effect of peanuts and exercise on inflammation and heart rate…
The purpose of this study is to test the safety, tolerability, and effectiveness (how well these drugs work together) of NKTR-214 given in combination with KEYTRUDA or TECENTRIQ. We want to find out what effects, good or bad, the study drug has on the body and cancer when combined with KEYTRUDA or TECENTRIQ. The study will recruit participants at least 18…
This is a Phase 2-3 study evaluating the effects of selinexor in patients with advanced unresectable dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLS). This study drug selinexor works by trapping tumor suppressing proteins within the nucleus of the cells and thus causing the cancer cells to die or stop growing. Selinexor has previously been tested in humans to define a…
The purpose of this study is to find a safe dose of JNJ-63898081 that can be used for further studies in subjects with advanced cancers such as metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) or metastatic kidney cancer, also referred to as renal cell carcinoma. This is a Phase 1 study and the first time JNJ-63898081 is being given to humans.
The primary purpose of this study is to determine a safe dose for the combinations of LY3022855 with durvalumab or LY3022855 with tremelimumab. This study will help answer the following research questions- What side effects may be experienced when taking LY3022885 with durvalumab ortremelimumab and how much LY302255, in combination with durvalumab or…
This is a Phase 1 multiple dose, dose escalation trial in patients with advanced solid tumors who have failed or cannot tolerate standard therapies. Your study doctor has determined that you have an advanced cancer (solid tumor). You are invited to take part in this research study. This study has two parts. In Part 1, the dose escalation portion, the…
The purpose of this research study is to test the effectiveness (how well the drug works), safety, and tolerability varlilumab and nivolumab (investigational drugs) together in patients with advanced solid tumors. Varlilumab and nivolumab are antibodies (types of human protein) that are manufactured in a laboratory and are being tested to see if they will…
This research study is being conducted to see if a new treatment using a study drug called Olaparib given after platinum based chemotherapy treatments can reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer from growing back. Participants will receive either Olaparib or placebo (no contains active medication) and will stay on the research study for as long as they are not…
This is a Phase 1/2 multicenter study of VX15/2503 in pediatric patients and young adults with solid tumors which have come back or have not responded to standard therapy. The study treatment is considered experimental because VX15/2503 is not approved by the United States (US) Food and drug Administration (FDA) for treating pediatric patients and young…
The main purpose of this study is to determine the best dose of MEDI0562 that is safe and tolerable in subjects with advanced solid tumors. This study will also evaluate hows much MEDI0562 is in your blood at various times (which is called pharmacokinetics), whether your immune system becomes activated following administration of MEDI0562, whether your body…
The purpose of the study is to test the safety, anti-tumor activity, and the ability of a new investigational drug called BMS-986179 (also known as anti-CD73) plus nivolumab (also known as BMS-936558) to block the protein CD73 from producing high amounts of a product known as adenosine which blocks your immune system from killing your cancer cells.…
This study is for patients with the following types of cancer: Triple negative breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, mesothelioma, renal cell carcinoma, melanoma, head and and neck squamous cell carcinoma, colorectal cancer, sarcoma and pancreatic cancer. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the study drug CB-839 in helping…
The purpose of this study is to test whether GVAX pancreas vaccine and CRS-207 together are safe and work better than chemotherapy to treat individuals with advanced pancreatic cancer who have received at least one prior chemotherapy treatment for metastatic cancer. This study will also look at whether CRS-207 alone is safe and works better than…
The study drug (TSR-042) in this study is designed to stop cancer from growing by helping your immune system recognize and fight the cancer. The Study Drug is designed to help your immune system by attaching to a protein called PD-1 and stopping one of the signals that keeps your immune system from recognizing the cancer. This may help your immune system…
The purpose of this research study is to confirm the safety of ASP5878. It is also intended to assess how the body reacts to ASP5878 after administration, how ASP5878 functions in the body, and the antitumor effect of the ASP5878. Participants in this study will have been diagnosed with urothelial carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, or squamous cell lung…
We are currently looking for overweight (body mass index 25 kg/m2) men and women, age 18-65 y, to participate in a sleep study. To participate you must have been diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea within the past year, and have been prescribed continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) but not have not yet started treatment. This is a 2-phase,…
The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy and safety of an experimental drug, demcizumab, when given in combination with pembrolizumab (Arm A of the study). Demcizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody and was developed to target cancer stem cells. Demcizumab may block the growth of cancer stem cells, in addition to the remaining cancer cells, and…
Four different treatment regimens will be evaluated simultaneously in groups of patients who have advanced solid tumors that has progressed following administration of standard of care treatment, or for whom no standard therapy exists, or for whom therapies that will convey clinical benefit are not available, and in whom a trial of targeted therapy is…
GSK3359609 is a drug that is a type of antibody. It is a kind of immunotherapy that targets the ICOS (anti-Inducible T cell Co-Stimulator) protein present on specific immune cells. ICOS is a cell receptor that enhances the immune response to foreign bodies, and which is expected to help your immune system find and fight cancer cells. It will also be called…
This study is an open-label, multicenter phase 1/2 study. The study is designed in two parts, the first is designed to evaluate the safety of the study drug ulocuplumab in combination with nivolumab in subjects with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAC). Subjects will receive a low dose of ulocuplumab in combination with…
The main purpose of this study is to determine the best dose of MEDI0562 in combination with durvalumab, and MEDI0562 in combination with tremelimumab, that is safe and tolerable in subjects with advanced solid tumors.
The purpose of this study is to find the highest dose and the best schedule of the study drug, DS-3032b, that can be given safely in subjects with advanced solid tumors and for subjects that did not respond or no longer respond to standard therapy. DS-3032b works against cancer by blocking the activity of a protein called MDM2. DS-3032b works against…