Study to Assess the Tolerability of a Bispecific Targeted Biologic IMCgp100 in Malignant Melanoma

Inclusion Criteria

• Pathologically documented Stage IV malignant melanoma or unresectable Stage III melanoma for which no standard effective therapy exists or for which an appropriate window exists between alternative therapeutic options. Participants for whom early treatment with vemurafenib is indicated, e.g. rapidly progressing or symptomatic disease, are excluded from this trial.
• Previous surgery (other than resection of skin metastases), radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy or experimental therapy completed > 4 weeks before and all adverse events resolved to ≤ grade 1. In cases where localized radiotherapy has been applied, treatment with IMCgp100 can be commenced after a two week period.
• Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) A2 positive.
• ≥ 18 years old.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 1.
• Measurable disease according to Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 criteria. Participants participating in the dose escalation part of Arm 2 only require assessable disease.
• Life expectancy > 3 months.
• Blood tests within the following parameters:
• Platelet count ≥ 100 x10⁹/L
• Hemoglobin ≥ 9g/dL (blood transfusion to achieve this level is permitted)
• Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min using the modified Cockroft-Gault equation
• Neutrophil count ≥1x10⁹/L
• Lymphocyte count ≥ 0.5x10⁹/L
• Female participants of childbearing potential must use maximally effective birth control during the period of therapy, must be willing to use contraception for 6 months following the last study drug infusion and must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test upon entry into this study. Otherwise, female participants must be postmenopausal (no menstrual period for a minimum of 12 months) or surgically sterile.
• Male participants must be surgically sterile or willing to use a double barrier contraception method upon enrollment, during the course of the study, and for 6 months following the last study drug infusion.
• Participants with a history of adrenal insufficiency, maintained on stable replacement dose corticosteroid ( Class II), unstable angina or unstable cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication.
• Has an ejection fraction 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
• Alanine aminotransferase > 2.5 x ULN
• Bilirubin > 2.0 x ULN
• Prothrombin time or partial thromboplastin time > 1.5 x ULN
• Bleeding diathesis
• Immunosuppressive condition or treatment including previous transplantation, splenectomy or known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
• Has a history of adult seizures.
• Participants with evidence of a raised intracranial pressure in Arm 2 of the study who will have a cerebrospinal fluid sample taken.
• Participants receiving chronic corticosteroid treatment (longer than 8 weeks duration) for management of pre-existing adverse events at any dose, or participants with a history of chronic corticosteroid treatment longer than 8 weeks duration for adverse events within 6 months.