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Status unknownNCT04796675Updated Apr 8, 2021

Cord Blood Derived Anti-CD19 CAR-Engineered NK Cells for B Lymphoid Malignancies

A Phase 1 interventional study of Fludarabine + Cyclophosphamide + CAR-NK-CD19 Cells in Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma, sponsored by Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-04-08.

Sponsored by Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Apr 2021), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
27
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a single-center, open-label, single-arm study to evaluate the primary safety and efficacy of anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor(CAR)-modified NK cells(CAR-NK-CD19) in patients with relapsed or refractory hematological malignancies.

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Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has shown remarkable clinical efficacy in B-cell cancers. However, CAR T cells can induce substantial toxic effects, and the manufacture of the cells is complex. Natural killer (NK) cells that have been modified to express an anti-CD19 CAR have the potential to overcome these limitations.

Cord blood(CB) derived NK cells from healthy donor are the source for production of CAR-NK-CD19 cells. CB derived NK cells are purified and transduced with a retroviral vector encoding the anti-CD19 CAR and interleukin-15.

This is an investigational study. The objectives are to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CAR-NK-CD19 cells in patients with CD19+ B-cell malignancies.

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Conditions studied

  • Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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In context

Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

2,121 studies on the registry are indexed under Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma; 492 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 27 is below the median of 40 across 1,691 interventional studies indexed under Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma.

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Lead sponsor

Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology is the lead sponsor of 172 studies on the registry; 136 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Aged ≥ 18 years;
  2. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group score≤ 3;
  3. Diagnosed as CD19+ B-cell hematological malignancies, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and Non Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  4. Patients must relapse or be refractory after at least two lines of therapy.
  5. Patient's main organs functioning well:

    A. Liver function: alanine aminotransferase/aspartate aminotransferase \< 2.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) and total bilirubin≤ 1.5 times ULN; B. Renal function: Creatinine clearance rate ≥ 60ml/min. C. Pulmonary function: Indoor oxygen saturation ≥ 95%. D. Cardiac Function: Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥50%, no clinically-significant ECG findings.

  6. Negativity of blood pregnancy test for woman, and participants use effective methods of contraception until last follow-up.
  7. Patient or his or her legal guardian voluntarily participates in and signs an informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Investigators judge the patients with gastrointestinal lymph node and/or central nervous system involvement who may be at high-risk of receiving CAR-NK-CD19 cell treatment.
  2. Patients with graft-versus-host reaction and need immunosuppressive agents, or patients with autoimmune diseases.
  3. Systemic steroids are used within 5 days before apheresis.
  4. Drugs to stimulate the production of bone marrow hematopoietic cells are used within 5 days before apheresis.
  5. Patients receive cytotoxic chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 21 days before enrollment(Tyrosine kinase inhibitors or other targeted therapies can be used two weeks before lymphodepleting chemotherapy).
  6. History of epilepsy or other central nervous system diseases.
  7. Participants with other active malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancer and cervical cancer) within five years.
  8. Known HIV positive patients.
  9. Patients with active infections, including active replication of hepatitis B or active hepatitis C.
  10. Patients receive any antitumor treatments within 4 weeks before enrollment, and the toxicity related to previous treatments don't return to \< 1 level at enrollment (except for low grade toxicity such as alopecia).
  11. Major surgery in the past 4 weeks.
  12. Non-compliant patients.
  13. Anticoagulants are being used.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
27 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Fludarabine + Cyclophosphamide + CAR-NK-CD19 Cells

    Patients will received lymphodepletion with fludarabine (30 mg/kg) and cyclophosphamide (300 mg/kg) on day -5, -4, and -3, followed by one infusion of CAR-NK-CD19 cells on day 0. The study will be divided into three groups: Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, and Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Doses of 0.01×10\^7, 0.1×10\^7, 1.0×10\^7 CAR+ T cells (with an allowance of ±20%) will be tested in each group in the 3+3 dose-escalation study. Each dose group has 3 patients. If no dose-limited toxicity (DLT) emerges in the group, then the subsequent higher dose will be used in the next group. If DLT emerges in a single subject in any dose level, 3 more subjects will be enrolled to the same dose level. The maximum dose could be extended.

    Drug: Fludarabine + Cyclophosphamide + CAR-NK-CD19 Cells

Interventions

  • DrugFludarabine + Cyclophosphamide + CAR-NK-CD19 Cells

    fludarabine 30 mg/kg on day -5, -4, and -3; cyclophosphamide 300 mg/kg on day -5, -4, and -3; CAR-NK-CD19 Cells on day 0.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Treatment-related Adverse Events

    Therapy-related adverse events will be recorded and assessed according to the National Cancer Institute's Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE, Version 5.0).

    Time frame: within 2 years after infusion

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall response rate(ORR) of administering CAR-NK-CD19 cells in Relapsed/Refractory CD19+ B-cell hematological malignancies.

    ORR will be assessed from CAR T cell infusion to death or last follow-up (censored).

    Time frame: within 2 years after infusion

  2. Complete response rate(CRR) of administering CAR-NK-CD19 cells in Relapsed/Refractory CD19+ B-cell hematological malignancies.

    CRR will be assessed from CAR T cell infusion to death or last follow-up (censored).

    Time frame: within 2 years after infusion

  3. Progress-free survival(PFS) of administering CAR-NK-CD19 cells in Relapsed/Refractory CD19+ B-cell hematological malignancies.

    PFS will be assessed from CAR T cell infusion to death or last follow-up (censored).

    Time frame: within 2 years after infusion

  4. Duration of Response(DOR) of administering CAR-NK-CD19 cells in Relapsed/Refractory CD19+ B-cell hematological malignancies.

    DOR will be assessed from CAR T cell infusion to death or last follow-up (censored).

    Time frame: within 2 years after infusion

  5. Overall survival(OS) of administering CAR-NK-CD19 cells in Relapsed/Refractory CD19+ B-cell hematological malignancies.

    OS will be assessed from CAR T cell infusion to death or last follow-up (censored).

    Time frame: within 2 years after infusion

Other outcomes

  1. In vivo expansion and survival of CAR-NK-CD19 cells

    Quantity of CAR-NK-CD19 CAR copies in bone marrow and peripheral blood will be determined by using quantitative polymerase chain reaction.

    Time frame: within 2 years after infusion

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Union Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Wuhan, Hubei 430022, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Liu E, Marin D, Banerjee P, Macapinlac HA, Thompson P, Basar R, Nassif Kerbauy L, Overman B, Thall P, Kaplan M, Nandivada V, Kaur I, Nunez Cortes A, Cao K, Daher M, Hosing C, Cohen EN, Kebriaei P, Mehta R, Neelapu S, Nieto Y, Wang M, Wierda W, Keating M, Champlin R, Shpall EJ, Rezvani K. Use of CAR-Transduced Natural Killer Cells in CD19-Positive Lymphoid Tumors. N Engl J Med. 2020 Feb 6;382(6):545-553. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1910607. PubMed 32023374 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Start is estimated for Apr 2021; primary completion for Mar 2023, 23 months later.

Of 167 non-industry phase 1 interventional studies under Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, half reached primary completion within 57 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 38 and three quarters within 90. This study's planned 23 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 234 studies reached it within 55 months; a quarter within 34 and three quarters within 89.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Mar 10, 2021
First posted
Mar 15, 2021
StartEst.
Apr 10, 2021
Primary completionEst.
Mar 10, 2023
CompletionEst.
Mar 10, 2024
Last update
Apr 8, 2021
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 8, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04796675
Collaborators
Shanghai Simnova Biotechnology Co.,Ltd.
Responsible party
MEI HENG (Proferssor, Cheif Doctor, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 15, 2021
Start date
Apr 10, 2021 (estimated)
Primary completion
Mar 10, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 10, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 8, 2021

Study contacts

Heng Mei
Contact
hmei@hust.edu.cn
027-8572600
Chenggong Li
Contact
chenggongli@hust.edu.cn
18868112136
Yu Hu
principal investigator · Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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