To provide OKN-007 for compassionate use in patients with diffuse midline glioma, H3K27-altered (DMG), including diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), pediatric and youngadult patients with high-grade diffuse midline glioma will be treated under thisIntermediate-sized expanded access treatment protocol.
Drug: OKN-007
OKN-007 is an intravenously administrated drug being developed as a novel anti-cancer
therapy against gliomas.
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Age from > 12 months to ≤ 18 years of age at the time of enrollment.
2. Diagnosis of diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27-altered according to the WHO 2021
Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System diagnostic criteria including
diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). In the absence of a pathologically
confirmed diagnosis, a grade IV glioma involving the thalamus, hypothalamus,
brainstem, cerebellum, midbrain, or spinal cord, or with a pontine epicenter and
diffuse involvement of the pons.
3. Patient has completed definitive radiation therapy as part of standard-of-care
treatment or was unable to undergo radiation.
4. Karnofsky performance status ≥ 50 for patients ≥ 16 years of age and Lansky
performance status ≥ 50 for patients < 16 years of age; patients who are unable to
walk because of paralysis, but who are upright in a wheelchair, will be considered
ambulatory for the purpose of assessing the performance score.
5. Patients must have adequate bone marrow, liver, and renal function:
6. For females of childbearing potential, negative urinary or serum pregnancy test.
7. Patients must be willing to highly effective contraception for both male and female
patients throughout the treatment and for at least 4 months after last treatment
administration.
8. Toxicities related to any prior treatments are either stable, stable on supportive
therapy, resolved, or in the opinion of the treating physician, clinically
non-significant
9. Ability to understand a written informed consent document, and the willingness to
sign it. Assent will be obtained when appropriate based on the patient's age.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Patient is already participating in or qualifies for and is able to enroll in a
clinical trial of OKN-007 and other ongoing clinical trials.
2. Patient has received systemic therapy with an investigational agent within 5
half-lives or 14 days prior to starting OKN-007 treatment, whichever is shorter.
3. Patients completing radiotherapy treatment less than 14 days prior to planned study
treatment initiation.
4. Current evidence of uncontrolled, significant intercurrent illness that would, in
the treating physician's judgment, contraindicate the patient's treatment with
OKN-007 due to safety concerns.
5. Patients who, in the opinion of the treating physician, have not fully recovered
from recent major surgery to a sufficient extent to tolerate treatment with OKN-007.
6. Known hypersensitivity to OKN-007 or any component in its formulation.
7. Patients taking prohibited medications as described in the current Investigator's
Brochure.
8. Patient is pregnant or actively breastfeeding.
Arkansas Children's Research Institute
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Miami, Florida, United States
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
Orlando, Florida, United States
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Children's Hospital and Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Prisma Health Midlands Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Children's Health
Dallas, Texas, United States
Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital
Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Shinwook Kang
+1-609-734-4329
swkang@oblatoinc.com