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Feasibility Study of MET-4: Evaluating Fecal Microbiome Effects in Immunotherapy Patients
Sponsor: University Health Network, Toronto
Summary
This study is designed to assess the safety, tolerability and engraftment (cumulative relative abundance) of MET-4 strains when given in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). There will be a safety cohort (group A) of 5 subjects which will receive MET-4 in addition to standard of care (SOC) ICI. After the safety cohort, 40 patients will be enrolled in group B which will be randomized to MET4 with SOC ICI vs. control group with SOC ICI only. Group C will enroll 20 patients who have already started on SOC ICI and have had first unconfirmed progression of disease and expected to continue with standard ICI treatment. These patients will be randomized to continue receiving standard ICI alone, or SOC ICI with MET4.
Official title: Feasibility Study of Microbial Ecosystem Therapeutics (MET-4) to Evaluate Effects of Fecal Microbiome in Patients on ImmunOtherapy (MET4-IO)
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
65
Start Date
2018-11-30
Completion Date
2026-12-01
Last Updated
2026-02-09
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
MET-4
Microbial Ecosystem Therapeutics (MET) is a new treatment approach developed as an alternative to fecal transplantation. Unlike donor stool used in fecal transplants, which are incompletely characterised complex communities of microbes and associated metabolites and fecal material, MET consists of a defined mixture of pure live cultures of intestinal bacteria isolated from a stool sample of a healthy donor.
Locations (1)
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada