12 trials tracked · 11 active · last refreshed 2026-08-10
mRNA-4157 — now generally called intismeran autogene (V940) in newer trial listings — is a personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccine built from a patient's own tumor mutations, designed to be given alongside pembrolizumab rather than replace it. Of its 12 active trials, most are Phase II/III combination studies in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer, plus newer trials extending into bladder cancer alongside BCG.
The furthest along is adjuvant use after surgery in high-risk resected melanoma (Phase III), building on earlier randomized data that showed roughly halving the recurrence-or-death rate versus pembrolizumab alone. One earlier melanoma trial was terminated — worth noting given how many of the newer trials are still recruiting rather than reporting results.
Click a row for what it's testing, where, and how many participants.
| NCT ID | Title | Phase | Status | Started | |
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| ▸ | NCT07513376 | A Clinical Trial of Adjuvant Intismeran (V940) With or Without Pembrolizumab Coformulated With Berahyaluronidase Alfa (MK-3475A) in High-Risk Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (V940-014) | Phase III | Recruiting | 2026-05-04 |
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat high-risk, localized non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that has been removed with surgery. People with high-risk, localized NSCLC are often treated with surgery. Researchers want to learn if participants can receive 1 or 2 trial treatments to help prevent NSCLC from coming back after surgery. One trial medicine is intismeran (also called V940/mRNA-4157) and the other is subcutaneous pembrolizumab (also called SC pembrolizumab and MK-3475A). Intismeran is designed to help a person's immune system attack their specific cancer. SC pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy treatment which helps the immune system fight cancer. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate whether adjuvant intismeran autogene (V940) in combination with SC pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa (MK-3475A) or intismeran monotherapy improves disease-free survival (DFS) compared with placebo in participants with completely resected high-risk Stage I NSCLC. Enrollment 876 (estimated) Sites 56 across 14 countries Countries Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hungary +9 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Disease-Free Survival (DFS) as Assessed by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR) in Participants With Nonsquamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) in Arm A and Arm C | |||||
| ▸ | NCT07221474 | A Study of Intismeran Autogene (V940)/Placebo + Pembrolizumab and Chemotherapy in Metastatic Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (V940-013) | Phase II | Recruiting | 2025-12-12 |
Researchers want to know if intismeran autogene (the study treatment) given with pembrolizumab and chemotherapy can treat metastatic treatment-naive squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Intismeran autogene is designed to help a person's immune system attack their specific cancer. The goal of this study is to learn if people who receive intismeran autogene with pembrolizumab and chemotherapy live longer overall and without the cancer growing or spreading compared to people who receive placebo with pembrolizumab and chemotherapy. A placebo looks like the study treatment but has no study treatment in it. Using a placebo helps researchers better understand the effects of the study treatment. Enrollment 180 (estimated) Sites 54 across 11 countries Countries Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, Italy +6 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Progression Free Survival (PFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT06961006 | A Clinical Study of Intismeran Autogene (V940) and Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in People With Melanoma (V940-012/INTerpath-012) | Phase II | Recruiting | 2025-05-29 |
Researchers want to learn if intismeran autogene with pembrolizumab can stop advanced melanoma from growing or spreading. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer. Advanced means the cancer has spread to other parts of the body and cannot be removed with surgery. A standard (or usual) treatment for advanced melanoma is immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. Intismeran autogene is a study treatment designed to help a person's immune system attack their specific cancer. Pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy. The goal of this study is to learn if people who receive intismeran autogene with pembrolizumab live longer without the cancer growing or spreading than people who receive placebo with pembrolizumab. A placebo looks like the study treatment but has no study treatment in it. Using a placebo helps researchers better understand the effects of a study treatment. Enrollment 160 (estimated) Sites 38 across 12 countries Countries Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece +7 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Progression-free Survival (PFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT06833073 | A Clinical Study of Intismeran Autogene (V940) and BCG in People With Bladder Cancer (V940-011/INTerpath-011) | Phase II | Recruiting | 2025-03-11 |
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat people with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (HR NMIBC). NMIBC is cancer in the tissue that lines the inside of the bladder but has not spread to the bladder muscle or outside of the bladder. High-risk means NMIBC may have a high chance of getting worse or coming back after treatment. HR NMIBC can also include carcinoma in situ (CIS). CIS is bladder cancer that appears flat and is only in the inner layer (surface) of the bladder. CIS is not raised and is not growing toward the center of the bladder. The standard treatment for HR NMIBC is a procedure to remove the tumor called transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT) followed by Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). Standard treatment is something that is considered the first line of treatment for a condition. BCG is an immunotherapy, which is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. However, BCG may not work to treat HR NMIBC in some people. Researchers want to learn if adding intismeran autogene, the study treatment, to standard treatment can help treat HR NMIBC. Intismeran autogene is designed to help a person's immune system attack their specific cancer. The goal of this study are to learn if people who receive V940 with BCG live longer and without the cancer growing, spreading, or coming back compared to people who receive BCG alone. Enrollment 308 (estimated) Sites 89 across 19 countries Countries Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile +14 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Cohort A: Event-free Survival (EFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT06623422 | A Study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) With or Without Intismeran Autogene (V940) in Participants With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (V940-009/INTerpath-009) | Phase III | Recruiting | 2024-10-21 |
The goal of this study is to learn if people who receive intismeran autogene and pembrolizumab after surgery are cancer-free longer than people who receive placebo and pembrolizumab. Researchers want to know if giving intismeran autogene and pembrolizumab after surgery can help prevent the cancer from coming back in people with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors did not respond completely to treatment before surgery (neoadjuvant treatment). Enrollment 680 (estimated) Sites 241 across 31 countries Countries Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria +26 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Disease-Free Survival (DFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT06295809 | A Study of (Neo)Adjuvant Intismeran Autogene (V940) and Pembrolizumab in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (V940-007) | Phase II, Phase III | Terminated | 2024-04-18 |
This is a two-part (Phase 2/Phase 3) study of intismeran autogene, an individualized neoantigen therapy (INT), plus pembrolizumab in participants with locally resectable advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (LA cSCC). Phase 2 has three arms intismeran autogene plus pembrolizumab given as neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment with standard of care (SOC), standard of care (surgical resection with/without adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) only at investigator's discretion) and pembrolizumab monotherapy given as neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment with SOC. This phase will assess the safety and efficacy of intismeran autogene in combination with pembrolizumab as neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy in participants with resectable LA cSCC as compared to standard of care SOC only. The primary hypothesis is that intismeran autogene plus pembrolizumab with SOC is superior to SOC only with respect to event free survival (EFS) as assessed by the investigator. Phase 3 expansion will be determined by prespecified Go-No-Go decision in which 412 additional participants will be randomized to intismeran autogene plus pembrolizumab with SOC and SOC only, without changing the inclusion/exclusion criteria for the additional enrollment or study endpoints. As of Amendment 04, enrollment was stopped and there will be no Phase 3 expansion. Enrollment 46 (actual) Sites 106 across 20 countries Countries Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada +15 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Event Free Survival (EFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT06307431 | A Study of Adjuvant Intismeran Autogene (V940) and Pembrolizumab in Renal Cell Carcinoma (V940-004). | Phase II | Active, not recruiting | 2024-04-10 |
The primary objective of the study is to compare intismeran autogene plus pembrolizumab to placebo plus pembrolizumab in participants with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with respect to disease-free survival (DFS) as assessed by the investigator. The primary hypothesis is that intismeran autogene plus pembrolizumab is superior to placebo plus pembrolizumab with respect to DFS. Enrollment 272 (estimated) Sites 63 across 14 countries Countries Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, France +9 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Disease-Free Survival (DFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT06305767 | A Clinical Study of Intismeran Autogene (V940) Treatment and Pembrolizumab in People With Bladder Cancer (V940-005/INTerpath-005) | Phase I, Phase II | Active, not recruiting | 2024-03-28 |
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat people with high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma (MIUC). Urothelial carcinoma is a type of bladder cancer that begins in cells that line the inside of the bladder and other parts of the urinary tract, such as part of the kidneys, ureters, and urethra. People with MIUC usually have chemotherapy before surgery, then surgery to remove the cancer. Chemotherapy is a type of medicine to destroy cancer cells or stop them from growing. After surgery, some people receive more treatment to prevent cancer from returning. Pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy, which is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. Enfortumab vedotin (EV) is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC). An ADC attaches to a protein on cancer cells and delivers treatment to destroy those cells. Researchers want to learn if giving intismeran autogene (the study treatment) with pembrolizumab can prevent MIUC from returning after surgery. Intismeran autogene (also called mRNA-4157) is designed to treat each person's cancer by helping the person's immune system identify and kill cancer cells based on certain proteins found on those cancer cells. The goals of this study are to learn if people who receive intismeran autogene and pembrolizumab are alive and cancer free longer than those who receive placebo and pembrolizumab, and to learn about the safety of intismeran autogene, pembrolizumab, and EV, and if people tolerate them. Enrollment 230 (estimated) Sites 74 across 16 countries Countries Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France +11 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Adjuvant Cohort: Disease Free Survival (DFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT06077760 | A Study of Intismeran Autogene (V940) Plus Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Versus Placebo Plus Pembrolizumab in Participants With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (V940-002) | Phase III | Recruiting | 2023-12-06 |
The goal of this study is to evaluate intismeran autogene plus pembrolizumab versus placebo plus pembrolizumab for the adjuvant treatment of margin negative, completely resected Stage II, IIIA, IIIB (with nodal involvement \[N2\]) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The primary hypothesis is that intismeran autogene plus pembrolizumab is superior to placebo plus pembrolizumab with respect to disease-free survival (DFS) as assessed by the investigator. Enrollment 868 (estimated) Sites 229 across 33 countries Countries Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada +28 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Disease- Free Survival (DFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT05933577 | A Clinical Study of Intismeran Autogene (V940) Plus Pembrolizumab in People With High-Risk Melanoma (V940-001) | Phase III | Active, not recruiting | 2023-07-19 |
The purpose of this study is to learn if intismeran autogene which is an individualized neoantigen therapy (INT; formerly, called messenger ribonucleic acid \[mRNA\]-4157) with pembrolizumab (MK-3475) is safe and prevents cancer from returning in people with high-risk melanoma. Researchers want to know if intismeran autogene with pembrolizumab is better than receiving pembrolizumab alone at preventing the cancer from returning. Enrollment 1,089 (estimated) Sites 165 across 26 countries Countries Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada +21 more Sponsor Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Primary outcome: Recurrence-Free Survival (RFS) | |||||
| ▸ | NCT03897881 | An Efficacy Study of Adjuvant Treatment With the Personalized Cancer Vaccine mRNA-4157 and Pembrolizumab in Participants With High-Risk Melanoma (KEYNOTE-942) | Phase II | Active, not recruiting | 2019-07-18 |
The purpose of this study is to assess whether postoperative adjuvant therapy with mRNA-4157 and pembrolizumab improves recurrence free survival (RFS) compared to pembrolizumab alone in participants with complete resection of cutaneous melanoma and a high risk of recurrence. Enrollment 267 (actual) Sites 23 across 2 countries Countries Australia, United States Sponsor ModernaTX, Inc. Primary outcome: Recurrence-Free Survival (RFS), Assessed Using Radiological Imaging | |||||
| ▸ | NCT03313778 | Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of mRNA-4157 Alone and in Combination in Participants With Solid Tumors | Phase I | Active, not recruiting | 2017-08-14 |
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of mRNA-4157 alone and in combination in participants with solid tumors. Enrollment 161 (actual) Sites 20 across 4 countries Countries Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, United States Sponsor ModernaTX, Inc. Primary outcome: Number of Participants with Adverse Events | |||||
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