Clinical Trials

Numerous clinical trials spanning Early Phase 1 through Phase 4 evaluate vipivotide tetraxetan, predominantly targeting prostate cancer—including metastatic castration-resistant and hormone-sensitive subtypes—and select solid malignancies such as adenoid cystic carcinoma. Sponsored by major academic institutions like Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and UCSF alongside pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis and Janssen, these studies assess topics including combination therapies and biodistribution. Trial recruitment statuses across these investigations encompass actively recruiting, not yet recruiting, active not recruiting, completed, and withdrawn protocols.

NCT Number Recruitment Conditions Sponsor/Collaborators Start Date Phases
NCT07200830 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
2026-03-31 PHASE3
NCT06600802 RECRUITING
Castration-resistant Metastatic Prostate Cancer; Treated by 177Lutetium-PSMA-617 (Lu-PSMA)
Centre Jean Perrin
2024-10-08
NCT05803941 RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2023-08-14 PHASE4
NCT06496581 RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer Metastatic
UNICANCER
2024-09-12 PHASE3
NCT07550517 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
2026-08 PHASE2
NCT06320067 RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer Metastatic
University College, London
2024-06-11 PHASE3
NCT07650240 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Recurrent Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8; Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Hormone-sensitive Prostate Cancer (mHSPC); Prostate Cancer; Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate; Localized Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Advanced Prostate Cancer; Advanced Prostate Adenocarcinoma
Mayo Clinic
2026-07-01 PHASE2
NCT06449781 RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer
Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
2025-01-09 PHASE2
NCT07150715 RECRUITING
Oligometastatic Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Recurrent Prostate Adenocarcinoma
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
2025-12-12 PHASE2
NCT07737925 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer
Thomas Jefferson University
2026-10 PHASE2
NCT06632977 RECRUITING
Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
2025-02-06 PHASE2
NCT06200103 SUSPENDED
Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
Mayo Clinic
2024-05-03 PHASE2
NCT07698535 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
University of Washington
2026-10-01 PHASE2
NCT06943495 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
Jean-Mathieu Beauregard
2025-08-15 PHASE1
NCT06798558 RECRUITING
Prostate Adenocarcinoma
Hackensack Meridian Health
2025-03-05 PHASE2
NCT06531499 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2024-11-11 PHASE1
NCT07145177 RECRUITING
Metastatic Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer
University of California, San Francisco
2026-03-16 PHASE1
NCT06039371 RECRUITING
Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
University of Washington
2024-05-21 PHASE2
NCT07587814 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Carcinoma; Castration Resistant Prostatic Neoplasms
Centre Henri Becquerel
2026-09
NCT07219147 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
City of Hope Medical Center
2026-03-06 PHASE1
NCT07226986 RECRUITING
PSMA-positive Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) With Prior Exposure to One Prior ARPI Who Are Candidates for Taxane-based Chemotherapy
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2025-12-05 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT05939414 RECRUITING
Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer (OMPC)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2024-03-12 PHASE3
NCT06959433 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Metastatic Renal Cancer
Ankara University
2026-05-01 PHASE3
NCT06783348 RECRUITING
Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
2026-04-07 PHASE2
NCT06216249 RECRUITING
Prostate Carcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) v8
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
2024-08-01 PHASE2
NCT06526299 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
University of Washington
2025-04-29 PHASE2
NCT04886986 RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
2021-06-30 PHASE1
NCT06706921 RECRUITING
Prostatic Neoplasms; Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant; Metastatic Prostate Cancer; Male Urogenital Diseases; Prostatic Diseases; Urogenital Diseases, Male; Genital Diseases, Male; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Urogenital Neoplasms; Genital Neoplasms, Male
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
2024-12-15 PHASE4
NCT06199453 WITHDRAWN
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
2024-01 PHASE2
NCT07223034 RECRUITING
Glioma; Diffuse Astrocytoma, IDH-Wildtype (Grade 2-4); Glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype; Diffuse Midline Glioma, H3 K27-Altered; Diffuse Hemispheric Glioma, H3 G34-mutant; Diffuse Pediatric-type High-grade Glioma, H3-wildtype and IDH-wildtype
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2025-10-27 PHASE1
NCT05079698 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2021-10-01 PHASE1
NCT07476001 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
2026-03-03 PHASE2
NCT05818683 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Neoplasms; Metastatic Hormone-sensitive Prostate Cancer
Janssen Research & Development, LLC
2023-04-26 PHASE1
NCT07682649 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
2026-08-01 PHASE1
NCT07047118 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostatic Cancer, Castration-Resistant
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2025-07-03 PHASE2
NCT07677566 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer Patients
The Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School
2026-07-01 PHASE4
NCT06095089 RECRUITING
Prostatic Neoplasms
Janssen Research & Development, LLC
2023-11-01 PHASE1
NCT05766371 RECRUITING
Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Prostate Carcinoma
University of California, San Francisco
2023-12-15 PHASE2
NCT05113537 RECRUITING
Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Stage IV Prostate Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IVA Prostate Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8; Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Vadim S Koshkin
2022-07-08 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT07054346 RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer (Diagnosis); High-risk Prostate Cancer; Localized Prostate Carcinoma; Very High Risk Prostate Carcinoma
Thomas Hope
2025-07-08 PHASE1
NCT06972628 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer Patients With Bone Metastasis; Prostate Cancer (CRPC); Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer Metastatic
Ebrahim S Delpassand
2025-05-23 PHASE2
NCT06866938 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Hospices Civils de Lyon
2025-04-11 PHASE2
NCT06136377 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Patients With Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Centre Georges Francois Leclerc
2024-01-31
NCT06288113 RECRUITING
Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
2024-08-01 PHASE2
NCT04597411 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant
Endocyte
2021-04-01 PHASE1
NCT07639801 NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer; Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Ovarian Cancer; Solid Tumors; Endometrial Cancer; FAPI; PSMA
Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute
2026-06
NCT06145633 RECRUITING
Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
2024-09-18 PHASE2
NCT05849298 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostatic Neoplasm
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2024-01-03 PHASE2
NCT06004661 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2024-04-04 PHASE2
NCT06099093 RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Carcinoma
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2024-04-01 PHASE4
NCT06964958 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Renal Cell Carcinoma; Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma; Kidney Cancer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2025-07-31 PHASE2
NCT06852820 RECRUITING
Liver Cancer; Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Metastatic Liver Cancer
Melissa Lumish
2026-06 PHASE2
NCT05613894 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
University of Utah
2023-07-14 PHASE1
NCT06738303 RECRUITING
Metastatic Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
2025-07-14 PHASE2
NCT06568562 RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
University of Utah
2024-12-09 PHASE2
NCT05682443 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
OncoC4, Inc.
2023-12-11 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT06303713 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2024-05-22 PHASE1
NCT06894511 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2025-09-11 PHASE2
NCT06329830 WITHDRAWN
Metastatic Prostate Cancer; Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer; Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Baptist Health South Florida
2024-10 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT06574880 RECRUITING
Malignant Neoplasm of Prostate; Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
Angela Y. Jia, MD PhD
2025-05-13 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT06379217 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Metastatic Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2024-07-29 PHASE1
NCT05340374 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer; mCRPC
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
2022-07-14 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT07025512 WITHDRAWN
Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer; Cytopenia; Anemia; Thrombocytopenia
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
2025-08-03 PHASE2
NCT06388369 TERMINATED
Very High Risk Prostate Carcinoma
University Hospital, Essen
2025-08-25 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT04343885 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Metastatic Hormone Naive Prostate Cancer
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
2020-04-21 PHASE2
NCT05162573 COMPLETED
Prostatic Neoplasm
The Netherlands Cancer Institute
2021-12-20 PHASE1
NCT04663997 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer
Canadian Cancer Trials Group
2021-08-11 PHASE2
NCT06516510 TERMINATED
Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Blue Earth Therapeutics Ltd
2024-10-31 EARLY_PHASE1
NCT03874884 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
2019-07-09 PHASE1
NCT05633160 TERMINATED
Prostatic Neoplasms; Castration-Resistant
Clarity Pharmaceuticals Ltd
2023-06-15 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT04443062 COMPLETED
Prostate Cancer
Radboud University Medical Center
2020-07-20 PHASE2
NCT04720157 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostatic Neoplasms
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2021-06-09 PHASE3
NCT05658003 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2023-05-05 PHASE2
NCT05150236 UNKNOWN
Prostatic Neoplasms; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Urogenital Neoplasms; Prostate Cancer; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Prostatic Disease
Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group
2022-04-29 PHASE2
NCT06437496 UNKNOWN
Malignant Neoplasm of Prostate
First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University
2024-04-01 EARLY_PHASE1
NCT03454750 COMPLETED
Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer; 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT Positive
Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS
2022-10-25 PHASE2
NCT05670106 COMPLETED
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2023-05-16 PHASE2
NCT06303713 Not yet recruiting
Prostate Cancer|Metastatic Prostate Cancer|Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute|Novartis
2024-05 Phase 1
NCT06004661 Recruiting
Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals|Novartis
2024-04-04 Phase 2
NCT03805594 COMPLETED
Castration Levels of Testosterone; Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma; Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Stage IV Prostate Cancer; Stage IVA Prostate Cancer; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer
University of California, San Francisco
2019-05-10 PHASE1
NCT05547386 COMPLETED
Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
Mayo Clinic
2022-05-09 PHASE3
NCT05114746 COMPLETED
Prostate Cancer
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2022-01-25 PHASE2
NCT05766371 Recruiting
Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer|Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer|Prostate Cancer|Prostate Carcinoma
University of California San Francisco|Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC|Prostate Cancer Foundation
2023-12-15 Phase 2
NCT03606837 COMPLETED
Prostate Cancer
University Hospital, Bordeaux
2019-07-11 PHASE2
NCT05841992 UNKNOWN
Prostate Cancer
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
2021-07-01 PHASE2; PHASE3
NCT04430192 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostatic Neoplasms
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
2020-08-06 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT03658447 COMPLETED
Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
2019-07-12 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT04689828 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostatic Neoplasms
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2021-06-15 PHASE3
NCT05170555 UNKNOWN
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
2021-12-01
NCT04801264 UNKNOWN
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
2020-09-01 EARLY_PHASE1
NCT05228106 Recruiting
Solid Cancers
Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke
2022-01-21 --
NCT03042468 ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Prostate Cancer
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
2016-12 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT04796467 UNKNOWN
Prostate Cancer
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
2020-10-01 PHASE2; PHASE3
NCT03511664 COMPLETED
Prostate Cancer
Endocyte
2018-05-29 PHASE3
NCT03780075 UNKNOWN
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
2018-04-15 PHASE1
NCT03545165 TERMINATED
Prostate Cancer
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
2018-04-18 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT03042312 TERMINATED
Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer
Endocyte
2017-07-12 PHASE2
NCT03392428 COMPLETED
Cancer of the Prostate; Metastatic Cancer
Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group
2018-01-29 PHASE2
NCT03604757 COMPLETED
Prostate Cancer
University Hospital, Bordeaux
2018-04-25 PHASE2
NCT03828838 COMPLETED
Prostate Neoplasm
Radboud University Medical Center
2018-07-01 PHASE1; PHASE2
NCT03403595 UNKNOWN
Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
2017-12-01 PHASE1

(data from https://clinicaltrials.gov, updated on 2026-09-02)

Check the Vipivotide tetraxetan (PSMA-617) product page for in-depth specifications, including solubility, stock solutions, MOA, and working concentrations.

Compliance for Clinical Use

Mechanism and Biochemical Profile

Vipivotide tetraxetan (PSMA-617) selectively binds to prostate-specific membrane antigen with high affinity (Ki = 0.37 nM), internalizing into target cells to disrupt PSMA-mediated enzymatic activity. By specifically targeting PSMA-expressing tumor cells, it inhibits neoplastic cellular pathways to suppress proliferation, providing clinical relevance in the management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Appendix RUO and cGMP Quality Standards

Quality Dimension RUO (Research Use Only) cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice)
Clinical Applicability Prohibited in human clinical trials or medical diagnostics. Mandatory for human clinical trials (Phase I–III) and therapies.
Regulatory Status Non-regulated grade; exempt from drug manufacturing laws. Legally enforced by health authorities (e.g., FDA, EMA, NMPA).
Facility Environment Unclassified analytical or research laboratories. Validated Cleanrooms (ISO Class 5–8) with continuous monitoring.
Quality Control Basic purity and activity testing. Rigorous safety release testing (Sterility, Endotoxin, Mycoplasma).
Process Validation Basic equipment calibration; no process validation required. Full qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ) and complete batch records.
Quality Assurance Vendor self-declared without required formal QMS. Mandatory QA/QC unit, Change Control, CAPA, and vendor audits.
Regulatory Impact High risk of IND rejection if used as a critical raw material. Required for IND/NDA filings, supported by Drug Master Files (DMF).

Footnotes

Regulatory Note: Governed by FDA (21 CFR Parts 210/211/312), EMA (EudraLex Vol 4), ICH Guidelines (E6/Q7/Q9/Q10), and compendial standards (USP <71>/<85>/<1043>).

Note: Technical data last updated: Sep 1, 2026.