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Administrative data

NCT number NCT03321123
Other study ID # SCMC CART 20170920
Secondary ID
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase Phase 2
First received September 20, 2017
Last updated October 22, 2017
Start date December 1, 2017
Est. completion date December 31, 2019

Study information

Verified date October 2017
Source Shanghai Children's Medical Center
Contact Jing Chen, MD, PhD
Phone 86 18930830632
Email chenjing@scmc.com.cn
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Precursor-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer in childhood. Despite major advances in ALL therapy, 20% of children and 40-50% of adults fail state-of-the art first-line treatment. But there is a strong need for alternative treatments to cure chemotherapy-refractory and relapsed B cell malignancies in pediatric patients. Relapsed and refractory B cell malignancies remain a therapeutic challenge, as these diseases are characterized by adverse survival. These cancers share a cell origin from the B-cell lineage and consequent surface expression of B-lineage markers such as CD19 and CD22. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) engineered T cell therapy has recently emerged as a new modality to target B cell malignancies. CARs couple a single-chain Fv (scFv) domain directed against a B-lineage-specific antigen to T-cell activating intracellular signaling domains. CAR gene-modified T cell interaction with target cells occurs in a HLA-independent fashion, so that a single vector can be used to treat all patients with cancers that express the target antigen. Miltenyi Biotec has established a semi-automated manufacturing process that can be made available to academic settings for systematic exploration of CAR strategies in advanced clinical studies. Closed-system operation, improved robustness, simplified work flows, and reduced labor intensity, while maintaining strict adherence to regulatory guidelines, allows for decentralized manufacturing. In the proposed phase II study, the investigator will explore autologous 2nd generation CD19 CAR T cell products in patients with relapsed and refractory disease incurable with standard therapies.


Description:

This is an open-label, non-randomized phase II paediatric study. In this study, eligible patients will receive autologous T cells transduced with the lentiviral vector pLTG1563 (MB-CART19.1) at a doesage of 2x10e6 ~2x10e7 CAR-transduced T cells/kg.

Upon enrollment, leukapheresis will be performed for MB-CART19.1 generation. Patients with high disease burden at screening (e.g. ALL with M3 marrow and 10.000/L blasts in peripheral blood) may receive bridging chemotherapy after leukapheresis, to avoid critical tumor lysis syndrome and cytokine release syndrome (CRS) by subsequent lymphodepleting chemotherapy and CAR transfer.

All patients will receive lymphodepleting chemotherapy with fludarabine 30 mg/m2/d intravenously (iv) on days -5,-4,-3 and -2 cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2/d iv on day -3,-2 before CAR T cell transfer to enhance the in vivo expansion of CAR T cells.

Patients will receive freshly prepared MB-CART19.1 on day 0, corresponding to day 12 (48 hours) of manufacturing, at a dose of 2x10e6 ~2x10e7/kg MB-CART19.1 T cells as defined in the study design section. The appropriate volume for the target cell dose will be drawn up and given as an IV injection over 30 minutes through a large vein peripherally or centrally.

The primary objectives are:

- To assess the safety and tolerability of MB-CART19.1.

- To evaluate the biological activity of adoptive transfer of autologous MB-CART19.1 in patients with R/R CD19-positive B cell lymphoblastic leukemia.

The primary endpoint is Overall response rate (ORR):ORR in ALL patients is defined as the rate of complete remission (CR, CRh) on day 28.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Not yet recruiting
Enrollment 10
Est. completion date December 31, 2019
Est. primary completion date July 1, 2019
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 2 Months to 18 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Age =18 years (if deemed fit by treating investigator)

- CD19 expression must be detected on the malignant cells by flow cytometry.

- Patients with relapsed disease with >5% blasts in BM (M2 or M3) after at least one standard chemotherapy and one salvage regimen who are ineligible for allogeneic stem cell transplant (alloSCT)

- Patients have refractory disease activity precluding alloSCT at this time, or patients who have relapsed post alloSCT at least 100 days post-transplant, with no evidence of active GVHD, and no longer taking immunosuppressive agents for at least 30 days prior to enrollment.

- Patients with combined extramedullary ALL are eligible if extramedullary disease has been successfully cleared by conventional therapy at the time of inclusion (e.g. intrathecal chemotherapy, orchiectomy). This includes patients with combined CNS-2 (<5 WBC/µl CSF, with blasts on cytospin) or CNS-3 (5WBC/µl CSF, with blasts on cytospin) disease and patients with combined testicular relapse.

- Patients and/or parents must give their written informed consent/assent.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Rapidly progressive disease that in the estimation of live less than 12 weeks

- Isolated extramedullary relapse (CNS and/or testicular) in ALL

- Current autoimmune disease, or history of autoimmune disease with potential CNS involvement

- Active clinically significant CNS dysfunction (including but not limited to uncontrolled seizure disorders, cerebrovascular ischemia or hemorrhage, dementia, paralysis)

- History of an additional malignancy other than non-melanoma skin cancer or carcinoma in situ unless disease free for =3 years.

- Pulmonary function: Patients with pre-existing severe lung disease (FEV1 or FVC < 65%) or an oxygen requirement of >28% O2 supplementation or active pulmonary infiltrates on chest X-ray at the time scheduled for T cell infusion

- Cardiac function: Fractional shortening <28% or left ventricular ejection fraction <50% by echocardiography

- Renal function: Creatinine clearance <50 mL/min/1.73 m2

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms

  • Burkitt Lymphoma
  • Leukemia
  • Precursor B-Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia Refractory
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

Intervention

Drug:
MB-CART19.1
Miltenyi Biotec has established a semi-automated manufacturing process that can be made available to academic settings for systematic exploration of CAR strategies in advanced clinical studies. Closed-system operation, improved robustness, simplified work flows, and reduced labor intensity, while maintaining strict adherence to regulatory guidelines, allows for decentralized manufacturing. In this study, we will explore autologous 2nd generation CD19 CAR T cell products in patients with relapsed and refractory disease incurable with standard therapies.

Locations

Country Name City State
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Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Shanghai Children's Medical Center Miltenyi Biotec GmbH

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Other Disease-free and overall survival at 1 year after adoptive immunotherapy with MB-CART19.1 in patients not receiving alloSCT CART treatment is an adoptive immunotherapy, and the CART cells will disaper after infusion. Then the patient relapsed. Allo-SCT can rebuild a new immune system to detec and destory cancer cell. 12 Months
Other Level of circulating CAR T cells CART treatment is an adoptive immunotherapy, and the CART cells will disaper after infusion. The investigator need to detec the circulating CAR-T cell after infusion regularly. 12 Months
Primary Overall response rate ORR in ALL patients is defined as the rate of complete remission (CR, CRh) on day 28 1 Month
Secondary Overall incidence and severity of adverse events. Overall incidence and severity of adverse events will measure in this trial. Including: 1,Risks related to targeting of CD19+ normal B-cells; 2,Allergic reactions to CAR T cell infusion; 3, Cytokine release syndrome (CRS); 4, neurological toxicities; 5,Risks related to transfer of donor T cells after previous alloSCT; 6, Risks related to lentiviral gene transfer into human cells. 1 Months
Secondary Rate of ALL patients achieving MRD negative CR The rate of ALL patients achieving MRD negative CR in D28; 3,6,12months. 12 Months
Secondary Relapse rate and time to relapse Overall rate of relapse and the time to relapse from CART cell transfused. 12 Months