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TerminatedNCT04849910Updated Jul 29, 2025

Allogeneic Engineered Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HCT) Lacking the CD33 Protein, and Post-HCT Treatment With Mylotarg, for Patients With CD33+ AML or MDS

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of VOR33 and Mylotarg in Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute and Myelodysplastic Syndromes, sponsored by Vor Biopharma. Terminated at 15 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-07-29.

Sponsored by Vor Biopharma · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Lack of Funding

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was May 2025, 1 year 5 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
67
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a Phase 1/2a, multicenter, open-label, first-in-human (FIH) study of VOR33 in participants with AML or MDS who are undergoing human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT).

Read the detailed description

High risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) frequently relapses despite hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT). Post-HCT targeted therapy to reduce relapse is limited by toxicity to the engrafted cells. VOR33, an allogeneic CRISPR/Cas9 genome-edited hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) therapy product, lacking the CD33 protein, is being investigated for participants with CD33+ AML or MDS at high risk for relapse after HCT to allow post-HCT targeting of residual CD33+ acute AML cells using Mylotarg™ without toxicity to engrafted VOR33 cells. Participants will undergo a myeloablative HCT with matched related or unrelated donor CD34+-selected hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) engineered to remove CD33 expression (VOR33 product). Mylotarg™ will be given after engraftment for up to 4 cycles. The primary endpoint assessing safety of VOR33 will be the incidence of successful engraftment at 28 days. Part 1 of this study will evaluate the safety of escalating Mylotarg™ dose levels to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D). Part 2 will expand the number of participants to evaluate the Mylotarg™ RP2D.

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Conditions studied

  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Keywords

  • Leukemia
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia
  • AML
  • Hematopoietic stem cell transplant
  • HCT
  • CD33
  • Allogeneic
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes with excess blasts
  • MDS
  • MDS-EB
  • Cell therapy
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In context

Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute

3,667 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; 816 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 67 is above the median of 40 across 3,005 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute.

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Lead sponsor

Vor Biopharma is the lead sponsor of 7 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Must be ≥18 and ≤70 years of age.
  2. Patients with AML must have one of the following groups of features that are known to be a risk factor for leukemia relapse:

    • BM in morphological remission (\<5% blasts) with adverse-risk disease related genetics at presentation (according to European Leukemia-Net guidelines [ELN, Döhner 2017]), or
    • Intermediate risk genetics in morphologic remission (\<5% blasts) with other recognized high risk criteria such as MRD+ following therapy, or
    • BM with evidence of persistent leukemia 5-10% blasts post induction/salvage therapy. Patients with BM Blast count >10% may participate with Sponsor Medical Monitor approval. (Note: these patients may have disease-related genetics of any risk criteria at presentation), or
    • Any patient in second or greater remission.
  3. Patients with MDS must have all of the following:

    • Previous or current IPSS-R score of High or Very High risk; AND
    • Previous or current MDS-IB1 or MDS-IB2 per the 2022 WHO criteria (Khoury 2022)
  4. AML sample from the patient must have evidence of CD33 expression (>0%)
  5. Candidate for HLA-matched HCT using a myeloablative conditioning regimen.
  6. Must have a related or unrelated stem cell donor that is a 8/8 match for HLA-A, -B, -C, and -DRB1.
  7. Must have adequate performance status and organ function as defined below:

    1. Performance Status: score of ≥70.
    2. Cardiac: (LVEF) ≥50%
    3. Pulmonary: diffusing capacity of lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO), forced vital capacity (FVC), and (FEV1) ≥66%.
    4. Renal: estimated (GFR) >60 mL/min
    5. Hepatic: total \<1.5 × , or if ≥1.5 × ULN direct bilirubin \<ULN and /AST \<1.5 × ULN (per institutional criteria).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Prior or allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
  2. Presence of the following disease-related genetics: t(15; 17)(q22; q21), or t(9; 22)(q34; q11), or other evidence of acute promyelocytic leukemia or chronic myeloid leukemia.
  3. Prior treatment with Mylotarg™ (gemtuzumab ozogamicin) in the past 3.5 months.
  4. Active central nervous system (CNS) leukemia.
  5. Patients diagnosed with Gilbert's syndrome.
  6. Uncontrolled bacterial, viral, or fungal infections; or known (HIV), , or infection.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(11)

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Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

FEV1

From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
67 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1

    VOR33 infusion followed by Mylotarg Dose Level 1

    Biological: VOR33 · Drug: Mylotarg

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2

    VOR33 infusion followed by Mylotarg Dose Level 2

    Biological: VOR33 · Drug: Mylotarg

  • Experimental
    Cohort 3

    VOR33 infusion followed by Mylotarg Dose Level 3

    Biological: VOR33 · Drug: Mylotarg

Interventions

  • BiologicalVOR33

    Allogeneic, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matched, genome edited hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) therapy product lacking the CD33 myeloid protein

  • Infusion of Mylotarg

    Also known as: gemtuzumab ozogamicin

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of neutrophil engraftment

    Cumulative incidence of patients who achieve neutrophil engraftment (first day of 3 consecutive days of absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥500 cells/mm3) by Day 28.

    Time frame: Day 28

Secondary outcomes

  1. Time to neutrophil engraftment

    Time to neutrophil engraftment after HCT from Day 0; calculated as the first day of 3 consecutive laboratory values obtained on separate days where the ANC is ≥500 cells/mm3.

    Time frame: Up to approximately 28 days

  2. Time to platelet recovery

    Time to platelet recovery defined as first day of a sustained platelet count \>20,000/ μL with no platelet transfusion in the preceding seven days.

    Time frame: Up to approximately 60 days

  3. Incidence of acute GVHD Grade (G) G2-G4 and G3-G4

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  4. Incidence of chronic GVHD (all and moderate-severe)

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  5. Incidence of primary and secondary graft failure

    Incidence of primary and secondary graft failure measured by day 28 post HCT. Secondary graft failure is defined as initial neutrophil engraftment by Day 28 followed by subsequent decline.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  6. Incidence of toxicities to determine the MTD and RP2D of Mylotarg™

    Time frame: Approximately day 60 until 24 months

  7. Incidence of transplant-related mortality (TRM) post HCT

    Time frame: Day 100, 12 months, 24 months

  8. Percentage of CD33-negative myeloid cells

    Percent donor myeloid chimerism and CD33-negative myeloid cells in peripheral blood.

    Time frame: Day 28, 60, 100, 180, and Months 12 and 24

  9. Relapse-free Survival (RFS)

    Cumulative incidence of RFS

    Time frame: Months 12 and 24

  10. Overall Survival (OS)

    OS defined as the time from HCT to the date of death from any cause

    Time frame: Months 12 and 24

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Study locations

15 sites
  • University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center
    La Jolla, California 92037, United States
  • Stanford Cancer Institute
    Stanford, California 94305, United States
  • Miami Cancer Institute
    Miami, Florida 33176, United States
  • Winship Cancer Institute Emory University
    Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
  • The University of Kansas Cancer Center
    Fairway, Kansas 66205, United States
  • National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center
    Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
  • Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
    Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
  • Washington University School of Medicine Siteman Cancer Center
    St Louis, Missouri 63110, United States
  • John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center
    Hackensack, New Jersey 07601, United States
  • Columbia University Medical Center - Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
    New York, New York 10032, United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    New York, New York 10065, United States
  • University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center
    Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
  • University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
  • Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont
    Montreal, Quebec H1T2M4, Canada
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References and documents

Publications

  • DiPersio JF, Koehne G, Shah NN, Bernard L, Suh HC, Koura D, Tamari R, Mushtaq MU, Maakaron J, Rimando J, Kennedy VE, Patel SS, Hudson C, Loken MR, Slapak CA, Lloyd DM, Stanizzi DA, Lee-Sundlov MM, Thosar S, Mundelboim G, Guo G, Ge HG, Li BE, Xavier-Ferrucio J, Hyzy SL, Lin MI, Raffel GD, Cooper BW. CRISPR-Cas9 CD33-deleted allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation with gemtuzumab ozogamicin maintenance in AML: a phase 1/2 trial. Nat Med. 2026 May;32(5):1763-1772. doi: 10.1038/s41591-026-04362-1. Epub 2026 May 12. PubMed 42120728 ↗
  • Lydeard JR, Lin MI, Ge HG, Halfond A, Wang S, Jones MB, Etchin J, Angelini G, Xavier-Ferrucio J, Lisle J, Salvadore K, Keschner Y, Mager H, Scherer J, Hu J, Mukherjee S, Chakraborty T. Development of a gene edited next-generation hematopoietic cell transplant to enable acute myeloid leukemia treatment by solving off-tumor toxicity. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2023 Oct 13;31:101135. doi: 10.1016/j.omtm.2023.101135. eCollection 2023 Dec 14. PubMed 38027064 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 29, 2025, 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
NCT04849910
Lead sponsor
Vor Biopharma
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 19, 2021
Start date
Dec 16, 2021
Primary completion
May 28, 2025
Completion
May 28, 2025
Last update
Jul 29, 2025

Oversight

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