🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2026-07-06

ALLG AMLM26 INTERCEPT (Investigating Novel Therapy to Target Early Relapse and Clonal Evolution as Pre-emptive Therapy in AML): A Multi-arm, Precision-based, Recursive, Platform Trial (NCT06664879)

🔵 Active, Not Recruiting Phase1 / Phase2 💊 Investigational Drug / Biologic Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)

To demonstrate the efficacy of targeted and tailored sequential therapy in patients with AML.

Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (10 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (6 items).

Location: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas

Age range: 18 Years to 55 Years

🧪 Interventions in This Study

📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener

Instant Checklist

Check every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).

Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:

  • Exclusion Criteria: Presence of any general exclusion criteria outlined in the AMLM26 INTERCEPT Master Protocol 2. Prior allogeneic stem cell transplantation within 3 months of post-conditioning or on
  • 10mg/day prednisolone for graft vs host disease 3. Subject is HIV positive 4. Patients with .5% myeloblasts in bone marrow on morphologic assessment 5. Evidence of other clinically significant uncontrolled condition(s) including, but not limited to:
  • Uncontrolled and/or active systemic infection (viral, bacterial or fungal)
  • Acute/Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) requiring treatment. Note: subjects with serologic evidence of prior vaccination to HBV (i.e. hepatitis B surface (HBs) antigen negative-, anti-HBs antibody positive and anti-hepatitis B core (HBc) antibody negative) or positive anti-HBc antibody from intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) or resolved HBV infection may participate. 6. Systemic chronic corticosteroid therapy (≥10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent) or any immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days of first dose of study treatment. Topical, inhaled, nasal and ophthalmic steroids are allowed. 7. For initial enrolment to INTERCEPT therapy, patients who have received previous TIM3 inhibitor treatment are excluded. This exclusion criteria does not apply to patients crossing-over from MBG453 arm to the combination MBG453 + azacitidine arm, unless MBG453 was ceased due to MBG453-related toxicity. 8. Patients with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease. Patients with vitiligo, type I diabetes, residual hypothyroidism only requiring hormone replacement, psoriasis not requiring systemic treatment or conditions not expected to recur should not be excluded 9. History of or current drug-induced interstitial lung disease or pneumonitis grade .2 10. Subject has been diagnosed with another malignancy, unless disease-free for at least 2 years and not needing active treatment. Patients with fully excised BCC/SCC/CIN or other minor malignancy are not excluded 11. Subject has clinically significant abnormality of coagulation profile, such as disseminated intravascular coagulation 12. Use of any live vaccines against infectious diseases (i.e. Influenza, varicella, pneumococcus) within 4 weeks of initiation of study treatment 13. Impaired cardiac function or clinically significant cardiac disease, including any of the following:
  • Clinically significant and/or uncontrolled heart disease such as congestive heart failure requiring treatment (NYHA Grade . 2) with an LVEF of \<40%, uncontrolled hypertension or clinically significant arrhythmia
  • Acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris . 3 months prior to study entry 14. Known hypersensitivity to azacitidine or mannitol.

🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.

📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)

  • The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas

📞 Contact the Study Coordinator

Phone: (877) 632-6789

Coordinator details come directly from the registered NIH protocol. Confirm the study is still recruiting before traveling.

💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights

  • 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
  • Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
  • Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.

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💡 How to Participate

  1. Check the checklist above to see if you may qualify.
  2. Contact the study coordinator using the phone/email above.
  3. Ask about the visit schedule, what is covered at no cost, and any travel support.
  4. Confirm with your own doctor before making a decision.
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