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NCT06551272
PHASE2

Microbiota Modification for Immuno-oncology in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Sponsor: Center Eugene Marquis

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Summary

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common liver primary cancer with a high rate of mortality. Since the results of IMbrave150, immunotherapy have emerged as a standard of care for HCC patients advanced and/or unresectable in first line of treatment. The objective response rate was about 30%, but half of patients would present only stable disease and about 20% progressive disease. Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is one of the most abundant bacterial in human gut microbiota, around 5% of total bacteria in feces. For patients with metastatic melanoma, treated with ipilimumab, an antibody targeting CTLA-4 (Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4), patients with a baseline gut microbiota enriched with Faecalibacterium had a significantly better clinical outcomes. In patients with metastatic melanoma, the level of Faecalibacterium prausnitzi at baseline was predictive of response to anti-PD-1 (programmed death-1) or anti-CTLA-4 therapy. EXL01 is a pharmacological preparation of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii strains. Preclinical murine study suggests that the administration of EXL01 could reverse the resistance to ICI induced by antibiotics (unpublished data). We thus plan to test the concept of microbiota modification in patients treated with standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy for advanced HCC. We would include patients refractory to first-line treatment, and test the addition of EXL01 to standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy in order to reverse resistance.

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

18 Years - Any

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

34

Start Date

2025-03-12

Completion Date

2026-12-12

Last Updated

2025-08-05

Healthy Volunteers

No

Interventions

DRUG

EXL01

EXL01 contains an unmodified single strain of F. prausnitzii

Locations (6)

hôpital Avicenne

Bobigny, France

CHU de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, France

Hôpital Beaujon

Clichy, France

CHU de Nantes Hotel Dieu

Nantes, France

Centre de luttre contre le cancer Eugène Marquis

Rennes, France

Gustave ROUSSY

Villejuif, France