PD-1 mRNA LNP Vaccine for Advanced Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Launched by WEST CHINA HOSPITAL · Jun 30, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is testing a new vaccine called the PD-1 mRNA LNP vaccine for people with advanced liver cancer (specifically primary hepatocellular carcinoma) who have not had success with standard treatments. The goal is to see if this vaccine is safe and if it can help control the cancer.

Adults aged 18 to 70 with liver cancer that has come back or spread, and who have already tried at least two other treatments without success, might be eligible to join. Participants need to have at least one tumor that can be measured on scans, be in reasonably good health with an expected life of at least three months, and have good organ function. People with certain other health issues, such as active infections, heart problems, autoimmune diseases, or those who are pregnant, will not be able to participate. If you join, you can expect to receive the vaccine through a shot and be closely monitored for safety and how well the treatment works. This study is not yet open for enrollment, but it offers a new option for patients who have limited treatment choices.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Male or female patients: ≥18 years of age; ≤70 years of age;
• • 2. Recurrent or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma that has failed second-line standard therapy.
• • 3. Patients with at least one target lesion with a measurable diameter according to the RECIST criteria (CT scan of tumor lesions with a long diameter of ≥10mm, CT scan of lymph node lesions with a short diameter of ≥10mm and a layer thickness of no more than 5mm);
• • 4. ECOG physical condition score: 0 to 1;
• • 5. Expected survival ≥ 3 months;
• 6. Good function of major organs, i.e., relevant examination indexes within 14 days prior to randomization meet the following requirements:
• • Routine blood tests: hemoglobin ≥80g/L (no blood transfusion within 14 days); neutrophil count \>1.5×109 /L; platelet count ≥80×109 /L;
• • Biochemical tests: total bilirubin ≤1.5 × ULN (upper limit of normal); blood alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or blood alanine transaminase (AST) ≤ 2.5 × ULN; if liver metastases, ALT or AST ≤ 5 × ULN; endogenous creatinine clearance ≥ 60 ml/min (Cockcroft-Gault formula);
• • cardiac Doppler ultrasound: left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) (LVEF) ≥50%.
• • 7. Good compliance and family agreement to cooperate in receiving survival follow-up.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Participation in a clinical trial of another drug within 4 weeks;
• • 2. Patients with a prior history of other neoplasms, unless cervical cancer in situ, treated squamous skin cancer or epithelial tumor of the bladder or other malignancies that have undergone radical therapy (at least 5 years prior to enrollment);
• • 3. Patients with uncontrolled cardiac clinical symptoms or disease, such as NYHA class 2 or higher heart failure, unstable angina pectoris , myocardial infarction within 1 year, clinically significant Supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmias requiring treatment or intervention.
• • 4. For female subjects: women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
• • 5. Patients with active tuberculosis, bacterial or fungal infection (≥ grade 2 of NCI-CTCAE 5.0); HIV infection; active HBV infection; HCV infection.
• • 6. Those with a history of psychotropic substance abuse that they are unable to abstain from or those with mental disorders;
• • 7. Subjects with any active autoimmune disease or history of autoimmune disease (e.g., the following, but not limited to : uveitis, enteritis, pituitary gland inflammation, nephritis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism; subjects with vitiligo or asthma that has resolved completely in childhood and does not require any intervention in adulthood may be enrolled; subjects with asthma requiring medical intervention with bronchodilators may not be enrolled).
• • 8. Patients who have been inoculated with mRNA drugs.
• • 9. Participation in clinical trials involving lipid nanoparticles, a component of the study vaccine.
• • 10. Contraindications to intramuscular injection.
• • 11. History of substance abuse or known medical, psychological or social conditions such as alcohol or drug abuse.
• • 12. Known allergy, hypersensitivity or intolerance to the investigational vaccine (including any excipients). Previous history of severe allergy to any drug, food, or vaccination, such as anaphylaxis, allergic laryngeal edema, allergic dyspnea, anaphylactic purpura, thrombocytopenic purpura, localized anaphylactic necrotic reaction (Arthus reaction).
• • 13. The female subject is planning to become pregnant or the male subject's partner is planning to become pregnant during the Screening Period and up to 12 months after the full course of drug administration.
• • 14. In the judgment of the investigator, there is a serious concomitant disease that jeopardizes the patient's safety or interferes with the patient's ability to complete the study.