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TerminatedNCT03349255Updated Jul 1, 2019

Clinical Study of ET1402L1-CAR T Cells in AFP Expressing Hepatocellular Carcinoma

A Phase 1 interventional study of autologous ET1402L1-CART cells in Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Liver Cancer and Liver Neoplasms, sponsored by Aeon Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.. Terminated at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-07-01.

Sponsored by Aeon Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Will study new T-cell construct for the same indication
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
3
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Clinical study to evaluate safety and pharmacokinetics (primary objectives) and efficacy (secondary objective) of ET1402L1-CART-cells in patients with AFP+ HCC

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The molecular target for ET1402L1-CART is alpha fetoprotein (AFP), which is expressed on 60-80 percent of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). ET1402L1-CART is a second generation (CD28/CD3ζ) chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) engineered with a human single-chain variable antibody fragments (scFv) against the anti-HLA-A02/AFP complex. This clinical study evaluates the safety and pharmacokinetics of ET1402L1-CART-cells in patients with HCC who have no available curative therapeutic options and a poor overall prognosis.

Patients with lesion(s) localized in liver will be enrolled in the IA arm, with the ET1402L1-CART-cells administered via intrahepatic artery catheter. Patients with extrahepatic metastasis will be enrolled in the IV arm, with the ET1402L1-CART-cells administered through intravenous infusion.

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Conditions studied

  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  • Liver Cancer
  • Liver Neoplasms
  • Metastatic Liver Cancer

Keywords

  • alpha-fetoprotein
  • AFP
  • HCC
  • CAR T cell therapy
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • AFP-expressing HCC and serum AFP >100 ng/mL.
  • Measurable disease as defined by: at least 1 liver lesion that can be accurately and serially measured in at least 1 dimension and for which the longest diameter is ≥ 20 mm.
  • Molecular HLA class I typing confirms participant carries at least one HLA-A02 allele
  • Child-Pugh score of A or B
  • Life expectancy > 4 months
  • Age at time of enrollment is ≥18 years of age.
  • KPS ≥70%
  • Adequate organ function as defined below:

    • A pretreatment measured creatinine clearance (absolute value) of ≥50 ml/minute.
    • Patients must have a serum direct bilirubin ≤2 x ULN, ALT and AST ≤5 times the institutional upper limits of normal.
    • Ejection Fraction measured by echocardiogram or MUGA >45% (evaluation done within 6 weeks of screening does not need to be repeated)
    • DLCO or FEV1 >45% predicted
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500/mm3 (10\^9/L)
  • Platelet count ≥ 50,000/mm3 (10\^9/L)
  • Negative serum pregnancy test for women with childbearing potential
  • Informed Consent/Assent: All subjects must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria:

  • Patients with decompensated cirrhosis: Child-Pugh Score C
  • Patients with an organ transplantation history
  • Patients with tumor infiltration in the portal vein, hepatic veins or inferior vena cava that completely blocks circulation in liver.
  • Patients with dependence on corticosteroids
  • Patients with active autoimmune diseases requiring systemic immunosuppressive therapy
  • Patients who are currently receiving or received within past 30 days anti-cancer therapy, local treatments for liver tumors (radiotherapy, embolism, ablation) or liver surgery
  • Patients currently receiving other investigational treatments (biotherapy, chemotherapy, or radiotherapy)
  • Patients undergoing current treatment known to interfere with lymphodepleting chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, etc.).
  • Participants with other active malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancer and cervical cancer) within two years. Patients with a history of successfully-treated tumors with no sign of recurrence in the last two years may be enrolled.
  • Patients with other uncontrolled diseases, such as active infections:

    • Acute or chronic active hepatitis B or hepatitis C.
    • HIV-infection
  • Women who are pregnant
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
3 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    intravenous (i.v.) arm

    autologous ET1402L1-CART cells administered by intravenous (IV) infusion

    Biological: autologous ET1402L1-CART cells

  • Experimental
    intra-hepatic artery (i.a.) arm

    autologous ET1402L1-CART cells administered by intra-hepatic artery (IA) infusion

    Biological: autologous ET1402L1-CART cells

Interventions

  • Biologicalautologous ET1402L1-CART cells

    Autologous T cells transduced with lentivirus encoding an anti-AFP (ET1402L1)-CAR expression construct

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of patients with dose-limiting toxicity

    A dose limiting toxicity is defined as any toxicity that is considered to be primarily related to the ET1402L1-CART-cells, which is irreversible, or life threatening or CTCAE Grade 3-5. Assessed at all visits.

    Time frame: 28 days up to 2 years

  2. Toxicity profile of ET1402L1-CART-cell treatment

    Frequency of treatment-related adverse events that occurred at any time from the first day of infusion that are "possibly", "likely", or "definitely" related to the study, including infusion related toxicity and ET1402L1-CART T cells related toxicity. Include but not limited to: Fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, jaundice and other gastrointestinal symptoms; Fatigue, hypotension, respiratory distress; Tumor lysis syndrome; Cytokine release syndrome; Neutropenia, thrombocytopenia; Liver and kidney dysfunction. Assessed at all visits.

    Time frame: 28 days up to 2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Rate of disease response by RECIST in the liver

    Response rates will be estimated as the percent of patients with objective response (OR), complete remission (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), no response (NR), overall survival (OS).

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. Rate of disease response by RECIST at non-liver sites

    Response rates will be estimated as the percent of patients with objective response (OR), complete remission (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), no response (NR), overall survival (OS).

    Time frame: 2 years

  3. Anti-tumor responses

    Progression free survival (PFS) and Median survival (MS) at 4 months, 1 year, 2 years

    Time frame: 4 months, 1 year, 2 years

  4. AFP serum levels

    Percent change compared to the baseline

    Time frame: 2 years

  5. CART cell engraftment

    Number and % of ET1402L1-CART cells in peripheral blood will be presented as Time to peak, Time to baseline level and the overall exposure will be presented as area under curve (AUC).

    Time frame: 2 years

  6. AFP expression in tumors

    Percent of AFP-positive cells in randomly selected fields in tumor biopsies

    Time frame: 4-8 weeks

  7. Tmax of serum cytokine levels

    Increases or decreases in the amount of cytokine produced compared to baseline at time points measured up to 24 weeks since dosing. Cytokines as measured by Bio-Plex Multiplex Immuoassays will be presented as time to peak level.

    Time frame: 24 weeks

  8. Time to baseline for serum cytokine levels

    Increases or decreases in the amount of cytokine produced compared to baseline at time points measured up to 24 weeks since dosing. Cytokines as measured by Bio-Plex Multiplex Immuoassays will be presented as Time to baseline.

    Time frame: 24 weeks

  9. AUC of serum cytokine levels

    Increases or decreases in the amount of cytokine produced compared to baseline at time points measured up to 24 weeks since dosing. Cytokines as measured by Bio-Plex Multiplex Immuoassays will be presented as area under curve (AUC).

    Time frame: 24 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University
    Wuhan, Hubei 430060, China
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03349255
Lead sponsor
Aeon Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Collaborators
Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Eureka Therapeutics Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 21, 2017
Start date
Oct 6, 2017
Primary completion
Jan 10, 2019
Completion
Jan 10, 2019
Last update
Jul 1, 2019

Study contacts

Qibin Song, M.D./Ph.D.
principal investigator · Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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