A Phase 2, Single Arm Multicenter, Study Testing Mezigdomide, Carfilzomib, and Dexamethasone (480Kd) in Participants With Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma (RRMM)

Despite advances in multiple myeloma (MM) therapy, patients continue to suffer from frequent relapses and treatment-resistant disease. Therefore, additional novel, safe, and effective therapies are needed to drive deeper and more prolonged responses for patients with RRMM. Mezigdomide (also known as CC-92480 or BMS-986348) is a novel, highly potent cereblon (CRBN)-E3 ligase modulating drug (CELMoD) and represents a new generation of CRBN-modulating (CM) agents optimized to induce rapid and robust degradation of the transcription factors Aiolos and Ikaros, which are important regulators for lymphocyte development and differentiation. CC-92480 was discovered via characterization of structure-activity relationships and exhibits enhanced autonomous cell killing activity in MM cells compared to lenalidomide and pomalidomide due to its increased efficiency at inducing Aiolos and Ikaros degradation. The increased potency of Mezigdomide (also overcomes lenalidomide and pomalidomide resistance in preclinical models inducing potent antiproliferative activity and apoptosis in MM cells with acquired resistance to lenalidomide or pomalidomide. Carfilzomib is a selective PI that irreversibly binds the proteasome, eliciting antimyeloma activity through unfolded protein stress response and other mechanisms. Carfilzomib is indicated for the treatment of RRMM in combination with dexamethasone (Kd), lenalidomide plus dexamethasone (KRd), and with anti-CD38 monoclonal antibodies daratumumab and isatuximab plus dexamethasone (DKd and IsaKd). However, as lenalidomide has become the foundation for a wide range of regimens used in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) and early in the therapeutic course of MM, KRd is not always a relevant therapeutic option in RRMM. In addition, given the increasing use of anti-CD38 mAb therapy in NDMM and early lines of therapy, DKd and IsaKd will also become less attractive therapeutic options in RRMM. This study will explore mezigdomide with carfilz