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. 2023 Jan 18;11:6. doi: 10.1186/s40364-023-00449-w

Table 2.

Clinical trials of mRNA vaccine against single tumor

Registration
number
Status Diseases Phase Encoding mRNA Adjuvants Delivery Tools Additional therapies Outcomes ref

Registration

number

Status Diseases Phase Encoding mRNA Adjuvants Delivery Tools Additional therapies Outcomes ref
NCT03394937 Terminated Melanoma I TAA: gp100, tyrosinase, MAGE-A3, MAGE-C2, PRAME TriMix

Synthetic

naked mRNA

- Immunologically active cells against cancer were activated and expected potential risks are non-serious and related to the local administration of the product [53]
NCT01066390 Completed Melanoma IB TAA: either gp100, MAGE-A3, MAGE-C2 or tyrosinase TriMix DCs-based - 15 patients tolerated administration of the vaccine well. Four durable objective tumor responses were observed during a follow-up over 2 years. Antigen-specific skin infiltrating lymphocytes were detected in 6/12 patients [154]
NCT01676779 Completed Melanoma II No exact details TriMix DCs-based - 71% of patients in TriMix cohort were alive and free of disease compared to 35% in the control cohort after 1 year into the group. 9/21 patients in TriMix cohort experienced a non-salvageable melanoma recurrence compared to 14/20 in the control cohort after a median follow-up of 53 months [181]
NCT01302496 Completed

Melanoma

Stage III/ IV

II TAA: tyrosinase, gp100, MAGE-A3, or MAGE-C2 TriMix DCs-based Ipilimumab T-cell responses against antigens were detected in 12/15 patients. Treated patients resulted in an OS of 28% and a PFS of 18% during follow-up over 5 years [155]
NCT02410733 Active, not recruiting advanced melanoma I

TAA: NY-ESO-1,

Tyrosinase, MAGE-A3, TPTE

- Cationic liposomes anti-PD1 therapy Exploratory interim analysis showed that long-lasting antigen-specific CD4/8 + T cell responses were induced and regression of lesions was observed in multiple patients within 300 days of initiation of treatment [156]
NCT02035956 Completed

Melanoma

Stage III/ IV

I

TSA:

poly-neoepitope;

RBL001/RBL002

- Naked mRNA - T cell response were detected in 60% selected neoepitopes. 75% of the patients had a progression-free survival of 27 months [159]
NCT01684241 Terminated Metastatic melanoma I

TAA:

MART, tyrosinase, gp100, MAGE-3

- DCs-based

GITR-L,

Anti-CTLA4 mAb

Antigen-specific immune responses against TAAs and survival were enhanced when vaccines combing with GITR-L and anti-CTLA-4 mAb [153]
NCT00978913 Completed Melanoma I

TAA:

hTERT, survivin, p53

- DCs-based Cyclophosphamide Immune responses were detected in 6/17 patients by IFNγ ELISpot and 4/17 patients by proliferation assay. 9/22 treated patients achieved disease stabilization, 3/18 evaluable patients experienced tumor shrinkage [182]
NCT00243529 Completed

Melanoma

Stage III/ IV

I/II

TAA:

Tyrosinase, gp100

- DCs-based - TAA-specific CD4/CD8 + T cell responses were detected in 17/26 stage III patients and 11/19 stage IV patients. Stage IV patients with TAA-specific CD8 + T cell responses had a median overall survival of about 12 months longer than those who without response [183]
NCT02285413 Completed

Melanoma

Stage III/ IV

II

TAA:

Tyrosinase, gp100

- DCs-based Cisplatinum 44% antigen-specific CD8 + T cells and 28% functional T cell responses were detected in skin infiltrating lymphocytes from vaccinated patients with cisplatin. The relevant data were 67% and 19% for those vaccinated alone [157]
NCT00204607 Completed

Melanoma

Stage III/ IV

I/II

TAA: gp100,

Melan-A, MageA3, survivin, MageA1, tyrosinase

GM-CSF Protamine - Vaccine-induced T cells were increased in 2/4 immunologically evaluable patients and a complete response was observed in 1/7 patients with measurable disease [184]
NCT00678119 Completed Renal cell carcinoma II TAA and immune modulators CD40L DCs-based sunitinib 62% patients experienced clinical benefit (9 partial responses, 4 with stable disease), and five patients (24%) survived for more than 5 years [185]
NCT01890213 Completed Colorectal Cancer I TAA: CEA - VRP - CEA-specific humoral immunity was observed in all involved patients. For patients with stage IV cancer, 5-year survival was 17%, (95% CI 6% to 33%). For patients with stage III cancer (n = 12), the 5-year RFS was 75%, (95%CI 40% to 91%) [186]
NCT00228189 Completed Colorectal Cancer I/II TAA: CEA - DCs-based - The median PFS after mRNA-loaded DCs treatment was 26 months and median PFS for patients with peptide-loaded DCs treatment was 18 months [187]

NCT02709616

NCT02808364

Completed GBM I

TAA:

containing 3–13 different TAAs

- DC-based low-dose cyclophosphamide, imiquimod poly I:C, and anti-PD-1 antibody TAA-specifc CD4 + or CD8 + T cell responses were detected in 2/5 GBM patients. The median survival time was 19 months for the GBM patients [188]
NCT00846456 Completed GBM I/II GSCs mRNA - DC-based - For vaccinated patients, the PFS was 694 days; for control group, the PFS was 236 days [189]
NCT01686334 Recruiting AML II TAA: WT1 - DC-based low-intensity chemotherapy 5/10 patients with high WT-1expression showed molecular remission after vaccination, of 2 patients achieved complete remission [190]
NCT01278940 Completed Melanoma I/II No exact details - DCs-based IL-2 Higher T cell proliferation to transferred DCs (tDC) than mockDC controls were observed in 10/19 patients. tDC-specific response was still detected over 10 weeks after last vaccination in 4/6 patients [191]
NCT03164772 Completed NSCLC I/II TAA: MAGE-C1、NY-ESO-1、MAGE-C2、survivin、5T4, MUC-1 - Protamine Durvalumab, Tremelimumab Vaccine was well-tolerated, and immune responses against TAAs were detected in majority of patients [53]
NCT00923312 Completed NSCLC I/II TAA: NY-ESO-1, 5T4, MAGE-C1, MAGE-C2, survivin, MUC-1 - LNP - CV9201 was well-tolerated. Median PFS and OS were 5.0 months (95% CI 1.8–6.3) and 10.8 months (8.1–16.7) since first administration. 2- and 3-year survival rates were 26.7% and 20.7%, respectively [192]
NCT01915524 Terminated NSCLC I TAA: NY-ESO-1, MAGE-C1, MAGE-C2, survivin, 5T4, MUC-1 - Protamine Pemetrexed 80% patients had elevated levels of antigen-specific antibodies and 40% had elevated levels of functional T cells. 46.2% patients achieved stable disease [193]
NCT01446731 Completed Prostate cancer II TAA: PSA, PAP, survivin, hTERT - DCs-based Docetaxel PFS and OS were 5.5 and 21.9 months, respectively, for patients receiving docetaxel monotherapy and 5.7 and 25.1 months, respectively, for patients receiving combination therapy [158]
EudraCT number:2008–003,967-37 Completed Prostate cancer I/II TAA: PSA, PSCA, PSMA, STEAP1 - protamine - A cellular immune response was observed in 25/33 of the patients. median OS was 31.4 months [95% CI: 21.2] for 36 treated patients with metastatic prostate cancer [194]

NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer, GBM glioblastoma, GSMs Glioma stem cells, AML acute myeloid leukemia, TAA tumor-associated antigen, TSA tumor specific antigen, LNP Liposome nanoparticles