Third-Generation CAR-T-cell Therapy in Individuals With HIV-1 Infection

HIV-1 Clinical Trial

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Official title:

A Phase I Trial Using Third-Generation CAR-T-cell Therapy in Individuals With HIV-1 Infection

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04863066
• Other study ID #: 2020-HIV-001
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• Start date: May 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: October 1, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: Beijing 302 Hospital
• Contact: Jinfang Zhao, MD
• Phone: 010-93332866
• Email: zhaojinfang13[@]163.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To evaluate the safety of autologous CAR-T-cell therapy in individuals lived with HIV-1 infection, CAR T cells are infused after ex vivo expansion and transduction with lentiviral vectors encoding a broadly neutralizing HIV-1 scFv antibody.

Description:

This study is a prospective, single-center, single-arm, open-label and phase I clinical trial. Subjects with CD4+T cell counts greater than 350/μl and viral loads of <50 copies/ml over 1 year by antiviral treatment are enrolled. T cells are stimulated with CD3 and CD28, transduced with lentiviral vectors encoding a broadly neutralizing HIV-1 scFv antibody and expanded for approximately 2 weeks. Then, patients are infused with CAR T cells at a dosage of 1×10^5 CAR-T cells/kg body weight. If this dose is well tolerated, dosing will be increased to 5×10^5 CAR T cells/kg body weight. After infusion, adverse events, and HIV-1 latent reservoir size and CAR levels in peripheral blood will be monitored to assess the safety of CAR-T-cell treatment, potential therapeutic efficacy and kinetics of CAR T cells.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 8
• Est. completion date: October 1, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 15, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Aged 18 to 70 years

2. HIV-1 infection by confirmed test;

3. Receiving antiviral treatment = 1 years;

4. Current CD4+ T cell count > 350 cells/µl;

5. HIV-1 RNA levels of < 50 copies/ml for at least a year;

6. Patients who agrees to use two effective methods of contraception to avoid pregnancy during the study period.

7. Patients who sign the informed consent form prior to inclusion in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with concomitant HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, HEV, EBV, CMV or syphilis infection;

2. A history of AIDS-related opportunistic infections and tumors within 1 year prior to enrollment;

3. A History of corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs for autoimmune diseases by physicians within the last 2 years;

4. Participants with clinically significant laboratory abnormalities as follows:

• Hemoglobin = 10 gm/dl (female), <11g/dl (male)
• Absolute neutrophil count = 1×10^9/L
• Platelet count =100×10^9/L
• Alanine aminotransferase (ALT)= 2.5 x ULN
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) = 2.5 x ULN
• Total bilirubin > 1.5 ULN
• Serum creatinine >110 µmol/L
• International normalized ratio (INR) >1.5 or activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) >45 s

5. Patients with severe psychiatric illness, drugs or alcohol abuse;

6. A woman who is in pregnancy or lactation;

7. A history of central nervous system disease, such as cerebral hemorrhage, dementia, epilepsy and autoimmune diseases;

8. Patients with a non-AIDS-related serious underlying disease;

9. Patients who participate in another clinical study currently which may affect the results of this study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV-1
• Infection

Intervention

Biological:
• CAR-T cells
The presence of latent infected cells remains a key barrier to HIV-1 functional cure. Current approach to reducing the latent HIV reservoir is to reactivate virus-containing cells to make them be detected and eliminated by host defense. Endogenous cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) may not be adequate because of cellular exhaustion and immune escape of virus. We have designed a kind of CAR-T cell based on CTL engineered to express a scFv of a broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibody. According to our preclinical studies, CAR-T cells strongly eradicated HIV-1-infected target cells making them a particularly suitable candidate to reach a functional HIV cure. In this clinical trial, we mainly intend to evaluate the safety of CAR-T-Cell therapy on HIV patients whose plasma HIV has been successfully suppressed after antiviral therapy.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	302 Hospital	Beijing

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Beijing 302 Hospital	Tsinghua University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

References & Publications (5)

Abdel-Mohsen M, Richman D, Siliciano RF, Nussenzweig MC, Howell BJ, Martinez-Picado J, Chomont N, Bar KJ, Yu XG, Lichterfeld M, Alcami J, Hazuda D, Bushman F, Siliciano JD, Betts MR, Spivak AM, Planelles V, Hahn BH, Smith DM, Ho YC, Buzon MJ, Gaebler C, Paiardini M, Li Q, Estes JD, Hope TJ, Kostman J, Mounzer K, Caskey M, Fox L, Frank I, Riley JL, Tebas P, Montaner LJ; BEAT-HIV Delaney Collaboratory to Cure HIV-1 infection. Recommendations for measuring HIV reservoir size in cure-directed clinical trials. Nat Med. 2020 Sep;26(9):1339-1350. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-1022-1. Epub 2020 Sep 7. Review. — View Citation

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Mitsuyasu RT, Anton PA, Deeks SG, Scadden DT, Connick E, Downs MT, Bakker A, Roberts MR, June CH, Jalali S, Lin AA, Pennathur-Das R, Hege KM. Prolonged survival and tissue trafficking following adoptive transfer of CD4zeta gene-modified autologous CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in human immunodeficiency virus-infected subjects. Blood. 2000 Aug 1;96(3):785-93. — View Citation

Walker RE, Bechtel CM, Natarajan V, Baseler M, Hege KM, Metcalf JA, Stevens R, Hazen A, Blaese RM, Chen CC, Leitman SF, Palensky J, Wittes J, Davey RT Jr, Falloon J, Polis MA, Kovacs JA, Broad DF, Levine BL, Roberts MR, Masur H, Lane HC. Long-term in vivo survival of receptor-modified syngeneic T cells in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Blood. 2000 Jul 15;96(2):467-74. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Cellular kinetics of CAR-T cells	To measure the cellular kinetics of CAR-T cells after infusion by RT-PCR and flow cytometry	3 months
Primary	Evaluation the safety of CAR-T-cell treatment	To assess the adverse events of CAR-T-cell therapy in HIV-1 infected individuals by measuring liver function, blood routine, and cytokine and so on in this clinical trial	3 months
Secondary	Assessment the potential therapeutic efficacy of CAR-T cell therapy	To evaluate the change of HIV-1 latent reservoir in peripheral blood after CAR-T-cell therapy by RT-PCR	3 months