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RecruitingNCT04825496Updated Sep 21, 2023

Clinical Study of ssCART-19 Cells in Patients With CD19 Positive Relapsed or Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

A Phase 1 interventional study of ssCART-19 Cells and Fludarabine in Relapsed or Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, sponsored by Shanghai Unicar-Therapy Bio-medicine Technology Co.,Ltd. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-09-21.

Sponsored by Shanghai Unicar-Therapy Bio-medicine Technology Co.,Ltd · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2023, 2 years 9 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Apr 2021; still recruiting 5 years 5 months later.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
18
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a single arm, open-label, non-randomized, dose-escalation, phase I study to determine the safety and efficacy of ssCART-19 in the treatment of patients with CD19 positive relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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This is a single arm, open-label, non-randomized, dose-escalation, phase I study to determine the safety and efficacy of ssCART-19 in the treatment of patients with CD19 positive relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Primary objectives:

Determine the safety and tolerability of ssCART-19 cells in patients with refractory or relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Secondary objectives:

  1. Observe the anti-tumor response of ssCART-19 cells to refractory or relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

    • Overall remission rate (ORR) assessment during the 3 months after ssCART-19 administration,ORR includes CR and CRi
    • Duration of response (DOR)
    • Progression-free survival (PFS)
    • Overall survival (OS)
  2. To characterize the in vivo cellular pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of ssCART-19 cells.
  3. To characterize the pharmacodynamic (PD) profile of ssCART-19 cells.
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Conditions studied

  • Relapsed or Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
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In context

Leukemia

5,441 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia; 636 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 18 is below the median of 38 across 4,247 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai Unicar-Therapy Bio-medicine Technology Co.,Ltd is the lead sponsor of 14 studies on the registry; 11 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL):(1)Any Relaps after first remission OR (2)Any BM relapse after allogeneic SCT and must be ≥ 3 months from SCT at the time of ssCART-19 infusion OR (3)failed to reach CR after 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy regimen OR (4)Patients with Ph+ ALL are eligible if they are intolerant to or have failed two lines of TKI therapy, or if TKI therapy is contraindicated
  2. CD19 tumor expression demonstrated in bone marrow or peripheral blood by flow cytometry
  3. Bone marrow with ≥ 5% lymphoblasts by morphologic assessment
  4. Adequate organ function defined as:(1)left ventricular ejection fraction ≥ 50% by echocardiogram;(2)creatinine ≤ 1.6mg/dl;(3)ALT and AST≤3 times the ULN for age, total bilirubin ≤ 2.0mg/dl;(4)Must have a minimum level of pulmonary reserve defined as ≤ Grade 1 dyspnea and pulse oxygenation > 91% on room air
  5. Informed consent is signed by the subject
  6. Age 18 to 65
  7. Fertility of men, to ensure that sexual partners can effectively contraception; Women with fertility use effective contraceptive measures and agree to use contraceptive measures throughout the study period
  8. Qualified T cell amplification
  9. Eastern cooperative oncology group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1
  10. Vascular conditions for apheresis
  11. The estimated survival time is more than 3 months

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Isolated extra-medullary disease relapse
  2. Combined with other malignant tumors
  3. Has had treatment with any prior anti-CD19/anti-CD3 therapy, or any other antiCD19 therapy
  4. Has had immunosuppressants or hormones within 2 weeks before signing informed consent, or plan to use immunosuppressants or hormones after signing informed consent
  5. Patients complying with any of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and/or hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) positive, hepatitis B e antibody (HBe-Ab) and/or hepatitis B core antibody (HBc-Ab) positive and HBV-DNA copies being more than the lower limit of detection, hepatitis C antibody (HCV-Ab) positive, anti-treponemia pallidum antibody (TP-Ab) positive, EBV-DNA, and CMV-DNA copies being more than the lower limit of detection
  6. Has uncontrolled bacteria, fungi, viruses, mycoplasma or other types of infections
  7. Infected with HIV, syphilis or COVID-19
  8. Has a history of severe immediate hypersensitivity to aminoglycosides
  9. Has past or present CNS diseases, such as epilepsy, cerebrovascular ischemia/hemorrhage, dementia, cerebellar diseases or any CNS-related autoimmune diseases
  10. Has undergone cardiac angioplasty or stent implantation within 12 months before signing informed consent, or having a history of myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris or other clinically significant heart diseases
  11. With primary immunodeficiency
  12. Has had severe immediate hypersensitivity reaction to any drug to be used in this study
  13. Has had treat with live vaccine within 6 weeks prior to screening
  14. Pregnant or lactating women
  15. Has active autoimmune diseases
  16. Has active acute or chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) before signing informed consent
  17. Patient has an investigational medicinal product within 3 months before signing informed consent
  18. Patients with other conditions making the patients unsuitable for receiving cell therapy as judged by the investigator
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    ssCART-19 Cells

    Route of administration: Intravenous injection. Lymphodepletion conditioning: Lymphodepletion will be conducted several days prior to ssCART-19 cells infusion. A combination of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide will be used for lymphodepletion.

    Genetic: ssCART-19 Cells · Drug: Fludarabine · Drug: Cyclophosphamide

Interventions

  • GeneticssCART-19 Cells

    Split-Dose of ssCART-19 cells will be infused, and classic "3+3" dose escalation will be applied.

  • DrugFludarabine

    Fludarabine is used for lymphodepletion.

    Also known as: FA

  • DrugCyclophosphamide

    Cyclophosphamide is used for lymphodepletion.

    Also known as: CTX

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT)

    Determine the safety and tolerability of ssCART-19 in patients with refractory or relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Safety measures include adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v5.0.

    Time frame: 28 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Remission Rate (ORR), which includes Complete Remission (CR) and Complete Remission with Incomplete Blood Count Recovery (CRi)

    Efficacy of ssCART-19 as measured by ORR during the 3 months after ssCART-19 infusion, which includes CR and CRi.

    Time frame: 3 months

  2. Duration of remission (DOR)

    Statistical parameter:Duration of remission (DOR)

    Time frame: 24 months

  3. Progression-free Survival (PFS)

    Statistical parameter:Progression-free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: 24 months

  4. Overall survival (OS)

    Statistical parameter:Overall survival (OS)

    Time frame: 24 months

Other outcomes

  1. cellular pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of ssCART-19 cells

    Number of DNA copies of ssCART-19 cells

    Time frame: 24 months

  2. Anti-drug antibody

    Detect titer of anti-drug antibody (ADA)

    Time frame: 24 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 21, 2023, 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
NCT04825496
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Unicar-Therapy Bio-medicine Technology Co.,Ltd
Collaborators
The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 1, 2021
Start date
Apr 9, 2021
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 21, 2023

Study contacts

Xiaoyan Lou, Dr.
Contact
xiaoyan.lou@unicar-therapy.com
18721281671
Liqing Kang, Dr.
Contact
liqing.kang@unicar-therapy.com
13162512992

Oversight

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