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NCT03638375: ACTME
TIL and Anti-PD1 in Metastatic Melanoma
Phase 1, PHASE2 trial testing Nivolumab & Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes with/without Interferon-Alpha in Toxicity, Drug in 34 participants. Status unknown.
29 November 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Leiden University |
|---|---|
| Phase | Phase 1, PHASE2 |
| Status | Status unknown |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | non randomized |
| Design | sequential |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 34 |
| Start date | 31 July 2018 |
| Primary completion | 29 November 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 29 November 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across Netherlands |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Nivolumab & Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes with/without Interferon-Alpha — full drug profile →
Conditions studied
- Toxicity, Drug — all drugs for Toxicity, Drug →
- Adverse Drug Event — all drugs for Adverse Drug Event →
- Effects of Immunotherapy — all drugs for Effects of Immunotherapy →
Sponsor
Leiden University
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Toxicity, Drug or Adverse Drug Event. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The ACTME study is an investigator initiated, single center phase I/II clinical trial for patients with progressive unresectable stage III or stage IV melanoma. The trial consists of both a phase I part to determine safety and feasibility and a phase II part to evaluate first clinical activity of IFN-alpha, nivolumab and TIL. The treatment with IFN-alpha will be added after the combination of TIL and nivolumab has proven to be safe.
Publications & conference data
8 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Adoptive cell therapy in combination with checkpoint inhibitors in ovarian cancer.
Kverneland AH, Pedersen M, Westergaard MCW, Nielsen M, et al · · 2020 · cited 84× · PMID 32547707 · DOI 10.18632/oncotarget.27604 -
Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy in Melanoma: Facts to the Future.
Betof Warner A, Corrie PG, Hamid O. · · 2023 · cited 81× · PMID 36485001 · DOI 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-22-1922 -
The Current State of Treatment and Future Directions in Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma.
Ernst M, Giubellino A. · · 2022 · cited 49× · PMID 35453572 · DOI 10.3390/biomedicines10040822 -
Adoptive tumor infiltrating lymphocytes cell therapy for cervical cancer.
Zhu Y, Zhou J, Zhu L, Hu W, et al · · 2022 · cited 21× · PMID 35468048 · DOI 10.1080/21645515.2022.2060019 -
Emerging Novel Therapeutic Approaches for Treatment of Advanced Cutaneous Melanoma.
Comito F, Pagani R, Grilli G, Sperandi F, et al · · 2022 · cited 20× · PMID 35053435 · DOI 10.3390/cancers14020271 -
Low-dose interferon-alpha preconditioning and adoptive cell therapy in patients with metastatic melanoma refractory to standard (immune) therapies: a phase I/II study.
Verdegaal E, van der Kooij MK, Visser M, van der Minne C, et al · · 2020 · cited 19× · PMID 32238469 · DOI 10.1136/jitc-2019-000166 -
Emerging Approaches for Solid Tumor Treatment Using CAR-T Cell Therapy.
Chung H, Jung H, Noh JY. · · 2021 · cited 18× · PMID 34830003 · DOI 10.3390/ijms222212126 -
NF-κB Signaling in Targeting Tumor Cells by Oncolytic Viruses-Therapeutic Perspectives.
Struzik J, Szulc-Dąbrowska L. · · 2018 · cited 18× · PMID 30413032 · DOI 10.3390/cancers10110426
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03638375 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Leiden University
- Last refreshed: 12 December 2023
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