An observational study in Solid Tumor, Adult, Colorectal Cancer and Non Small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by A2 Biotherapeutics Inc.. Recruiting at 16 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-26.
Sponsored by A2 Biotherapeutics Inc. · Observational
Objective:
To collect information on how often a solid tumor cancer might lose the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) by next generation sequencing and perform apheresis to collect and store an eligible participant's own T cells for future use to make CAR T-Cell therapy for their disease treatment.
Design:
This is a non-interventional, observational study to evaluate participants with solid tumors with a high risk of relapse for incurable disease. No interventional therapy will be administered on this study. Some of the information regarding the participant's tumor analysis may be beneficial to management of their disease. Participants that meet all criteria may be enrolled and leukapheresed (blood cells collected). The participant's cells will be processed and stored for potential manufacture of CAR T-cell therapy upon relapse of their cancer.
Background:
Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) is a protein on the outside of cells that allows the immune system to recognize it's own cells as normal and leave them alone or respond if infected with a virus or bacteria, or a tumor cell. HLA might not be expressed normally on cancer cells. This may be why cancer can grow undetected by the immune system and is referred to as a tumor escape mechanism. Tumor escape can occur for many reasons, but one reason is Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH). LOH is the loss of one of the genes that encodes HLA protein. A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. (A2 Bio) is developing therapies to recognize, target, and kill cancer cells that do not express HLA normally, and minimize any damage to normal cells that express normal HLA.
Once participants are identified as having LOH on their tumors, apheresis, a procedure to separate and collect white blood cells will be performed. It is the first required step in manufacturing CAR T-cell therapy. The collected T cells will be stored for patients that are likely to benefit from CAR T-cell therapy during their disease care.
Study Design:
Approximately 3000 participants will be screened for part 1 of the study, including HLA typing, approximately 1500 participants will have NGS testing on their tumor samples and be followed for up to 2 years on the study, and up to 500 participants will be screened for part 2 of the study and enrolled if eligible and apheresed and be followed for up to 2 years on the study.
Participants will be screened (Part 1) for HLA type, and based on results, participants will have archived tumor tissue tested by next generation sequencing (NGS) and be followed for up to 2 years. Based on the tumor NGS results, participants may be apheresed (Part 2) for Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell (PBMC) collection to store their T cells for a future interventional study upon relapse.
Each participant will proceed through the following study periods:
6,541 studies on the registry are indexed under Colorectal Neoplasms; 1,667 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 500 is above the median of 250 across 1,440 observational studies indexed under Colorectal Neoplasms.
Browse Colorectal Neoplasms studies →A2 Biotherapeutics Inc. is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.
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Participants with Colorectal Cancer (CRC), Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Pancreatic Cancer (PANC), mesothelioma, or Ovarian Cancer (OVAC) that is metastatic, unresectable locally advanced, or in the Investigator's opinion the subject is high risk for incurable relapse within two years, germline HLA-A*02 heterozygous, and have confirmed somatic LOH.
Key Eligibility Criteria (additional criteria may apply) Part 1 Key Inclusion Criteria
1. confirmed solid tumors, e.g., Colorectal Cancer (CRC), Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), or Pancreatic Cancer (PANC), that is , unresectable locally advanced, or in the Investigator's opinion the subject is high risk for incurable relapse within two years.
Part 1: Key Exclusion Criteria
Part 2 : Key Inclusion Criteria
Part 2: Key Exclusion Criteria
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
Histologically or cytologically confirmed
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Brain metastases
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Apheresis procedure performed for collection of PBMCs.
NGS on tumor tissue and a matched normal sample for loss of heterozygosity in tumor tissue and tumor tissue markers.
Long range NGS on whole blood to determine germline HLA type.
Percentage of participants who can enroll in an A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. CAR T-cell therapy study after undergoing apheresis
Participants will be followed for their status of enrollment on an A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. interventional study
Time frame: up to 2 years
Percentage of screened participants experiencing loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of HLA-A*02 identified by next generation sequencing
Percentage of participants experiencing LOH will be calculated based on NGS results
Time frame: Screening
Percentage of enrolled participants who experience an adverse event (AE) related to apheresis
Adverse events will be collected and monitored for relatedness to apheresis during the course of the study
Time frame: 7 days
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