Table of contents
- Trial overview
- Study purposes and endpoints
- Who could participate
- Study design and trial parts
- What the trial tracked
- Key patient terms
Trial overview
The clinical trial NCT06669117 studied VERT-002 in patients with advanced solid tumors, including lung cancer with MET alterations. The study was interventional, which means patients received a study treatment so researchers could observe its effects.[1]
The trial status was completed, and it enrolled 48 patients.[1]
Study purposes and endpoints
The main goal in Part 1 was to describe the overall safety and tolerability of VERT-002.[1]
Part 1 also aimed to find the dose range for Part 2 by identifying the optimal biologically active dose (OBD), the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), or the maximum administered dose (MAD) if the MTD could not be reached, along with the dosing schedule.[1]
Part 2a was designed to look for preliminary activity, which means early signs that the treatment may help against the cancer.[1]
Part 2b aimed to determine the Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) and further describe safety and tolerability.[1]
Who could participate
The study targeted patients with advanced solid tumors, and it specifically included people with lung cancer harboring MET alterations.[1]
This means the trial was not for all cancer types. It focused on a cancer group defined by tumor type and a specific genetic change, which can help researchers study whether the treatment may work in that population.[1]
Study design and trial parts
The trial was divided into multiple parts: Part 1, Part 2a, and Part 2b.[1]
Part 1 focused on finding the best dose range and understanding early safety. Part 2a focused on early activity, and Part 2b focused on the dose that should be used in later studies.[1]
The study data does not name a standard phase such as Phase 1 or Phase 2, but the structure shows an early clinical development program with dose-finding and expansion goals.[1]
What the trial tracked
The trial tracked several important outcomes, including overall safety, tolerability, dose selection, early activity, and the final recommended dose for future study.[1]
- Safety: whether VERT-002 could be given without unacceptable harm.[1]
- Tolerability: how well patients could handle the study treatment.[1]
- Dose finding: choosing the OBD, MTD, or MAD and the schedule for giving the treatment.[1]
- Preliminary activity: early evidence that the treatment may have anti-cancer effects.[1]
- RP2D: the dose selected for later-stage research.[1]
Key patient terms
Solid tumors are cancers that form a mass or lump, unlike blood cancers that affect the blood or bone marrow.[1]
MET alterations are changes in a gene-related pathway that can define a specific cancer subgroup in research studies.[1]
Interventional study means the researchers gave a treatment and then measured what happened.[1]
Recommended Phase 2 Dose is the dose chosen to move forward into later testing.[1]



