Trial of Newly Diagnosed High Grade Glioma Treated With Concurrent Radiation Therapy, Temozolomide and BMX-001

BMX-001 consists of a porphyrin ring with pyridyl groups attached at each of the four methane bridge carbons. The nitrogen in the pyridyl ring is at the 2 position and has a side chain consisting of six carbons with an ether linkage. A manganese atom is chelated into the porphyrin ring and is the active center of the molecule. This molecule is an enzymatic scavenger of free radical species operating at close to diffusion-limited rates.

RT will be delivered in daily fractions of 1.8-2 Gy given 5 days a week for 6 weeks for a total of 59.4-60 Gy.

Initially, temozolomide (TMZ) will be dosed at 75 mg/m2 orally daily for 42 days. Two weeks after the completion of chemoradiation, patients will transition to adjuvant chemotherapy with TMZ dosed at 150-200 mg/m2 orally for 5 days of a 28-day cycle for a total of 12 cycles.