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First-ever clinical trials

This Journal of Hematology & Oncology series calls for clinical studies on novel agents for cancers and blood disorders. Summaries and reviews on first-in-human or first-in-class studies are also welcome.

To submit, please visit the journal's editorial management system.
Articles published in the collection have already gone through the systematic peer review process of the journal.

  1. Myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS) define clonal hematopoietic malignancies characterized by heterogeneous mutational and clinical spectra typically seen in the elderly. Curative treatment entails allogeneic hema...

    Authors: Kriti Gera, Anjali Chauhan, Paul Castillo, Maryam Rahman, Akash Mathavan, Akshay Mathavan, Elizabeth Oganda-Rivas, Leighton Elliott, John R. Wingard and Elias J. Sayour
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2024 17:4
  2. In retrospective studies, metformin use has been associated with better clinical outcomes in diabetic patients with advanced, well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors (WDNETs). However, prospective evidence o...

    Authors: Sara Pusceddu, Francesca Corti, Natalie Prinzi, Federico Nichetti, Silva Ljevar, Adele Busico, Tommaso Cascella, Rita Leporati, Simone Oldani, Chiara Carlotta Pircher, Jorgelina Coppa, Veronica Resi, Massimo Milione, Marco Maccauro, Rosalba Miceli, Elena Tamborini…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:119
  3. About half of AML patients achieving complete remission (CR) display measurable residual disease (MRD) and eventually relapse. FLYSYN is an Fc-optimized antibody for eradication of MRD directed to FLT3/CD135, ...

    Authors: Jonas S. Heitmann, Richard F. Schlenk, Daniela Dörfel, Sabine Kayser, Konstanze Döhner, Michael Heuser, Felicitas Thol, Silke Kapp-Schwoerer, Jannik Labrenz, Dominic Edelmann, Melanie Märklin, Wichard Vogel, Wolfgang Bethge, Juliane S. Walz, Ludger Große-Hovest, Martin Steiner…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:96
  4. We developed a 13-mer locked nucleic acid (LNA) inhibitor of miR-221 (LNA-i-miR-221) with a full phosphorothioate (PS)-modified backbone. This agent downregulated miR-221, demonstrated anti-tumor activity agai...

    Authors: Pierfrancesco Tassone, Maria Teresa Di Martino, Mariamena Arbitrio, Lucia Fiorillo, Nicoletta Staropoli, Domenico Ciliberto, Alessia Cordua, Francesca Scionti, Bernardo Bertucci, Angela Salvino, Mariangela Lopreiato, Fredrik Thunarf, Onofrio Cuomo, Maria Cristina Zito, Maria Rosanna De Fina, Amelia Brescia…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:68
  5. Developments in investigational agents and novel regimens in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were reported in the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting. Encouraging efficacy data were presented...

    Authors: Katherine W. DiNardo, Thomas W. LeBlanc and Hui Chen
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:17
  6. T cell receptor (TCR)-T cells possess similar effector function, but milder and more durable signal activation compared with chimeric antigen receptor-T cells. TCR-T cell therapy is another active field of cel...

    Authors: Chenggong Li, Fen Zhou, Jing Wang, Qi Chang, Mengyi Du, Wenjing Luo, Yinqiang Zhang, Jia Xu, Lu Tang, Huiwen Jiang, Lin Liu, Haiming Kou, Cong Lu, Danying Liao, Jianghua Wu, Qiuzhe Wei…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:5
  7. No fully validated risk-stratification strategies have been established in China where colonoscopies resources are limited. We aimed to develop and validate a fecal immunochemical test (FIT)-based risk-stratif...

    Authors: Shengbing Zhao, Shuling Wang, Peng Pan, Tian Xia, Rundong Wang, Quancai Cai, Xin Chang, Fan Yang, Lun Gu, Zixuan He, Jiayi Wu, Qianqian Meng, Tongchang Wang, Qiwen Fang, Xiaomei Mou, Honggang Yu…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:162
  8. The discovery of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has now been universally acknowledged as a significant breakthrough in tumor therapy after the targeted treatment of checkpoint molecules: anti-programmed c...

    Authors: Yuchen Wang, Hao Zhang, Chao Liu, Zeyu Wang, Wantao Wu, Nan Zhang, Longbo Zhang, Jason Hu, Peng Luo, Jian Zhang, Zaoqu Liu, Yun Peng, Zhixiong Liu, Lanhua Tang and Quan Cheng
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:111
  9. Relapsed or refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has a poor prognosis. In this study, we evaluated chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy targeting CLL-1 in adults with R/R AML patients. Patie...

    Authors: Xin Jin, Meng Zhang, Rui Sun, Hairong Lyu, Xia Xiao, Xiaomei Zhang, Fan Li, Danni Xie, Xia Xiong, Jiaxi Wang, Wenyi Lu, Hongkai Zhang and Mingfeng Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:88
  10. BCMA-specific chimeric antigen receptor-T cells (CAR-Ts) have exhibited remarkable efficacy in refractory or relapsed multiple myeloma (RRMM); however, primary resistance and relapse exist with single-target i...

    Authors: Heng Mei, Chenggong Li, Huiwen Jiang, Xinying Zhao, Zhiping Huang, Dan Jin, Tao Guo, Haiming Kou, Lin Liu, Lu Tang, Ping Yin, Zhihui Wang, Lisha Ai, Sha Ke, Yimeng Xia, Jun Deng…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:161
  11. YY-20394, an oral phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) inhibitor, was investigated in a first-in-human study of patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies. During dose escalation, 25 patie...

    Authors: Bo Jiang, Junyuan Qi, Yuqin Song, Zengjun Li, Meifeng Tu, Lingyan Ping, Zongliang Liu, Hanying Bao, Zusheng Xu and Lugui Qiu
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:130
  12. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR (PAM) pathway is a key regulator of tumor therapy resistance. We investigated M2698, an oral p70S6K/AKT dual inhibitor, in patients with advanced cancer who failed standard therapies.

    Authors: Apostolia-Maria Tsimberidou, Jamie V. Shaw, Dejan Juric, Claire Verschraegen, Amy M. Weise, John Sarantopoulos, Gilberto Lopes, John Nemunaitis, Monica Mita, Haeseong Park, Barbara Ellers-Lenz, Hui Tian, Wenyuan Xiong, Remigiusz Kaleta and Razelle Kurzrock
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:127
  13. Monoclonal antibodies targeting programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) signaling currently approved for defective mismatch repair (dMMR)/microsatellite instability high (MSI-H) tumors must be delivered by intraveno...

    Authors: Jian Li, Yanhong Deng, Weijie Zhang, Ai-Ping Zhou, Weijian Guo, Jianwei Yang, Ying Yuan, Liangjun Zhu, Shukui Qin, Silong Xiang, Haolan Lu, John Gong, Ting Xu, David Liu and Lin Shen
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:95