A Phase 1 interventional study of Elranatamab (Elra) in Plasmablastic Lymphoma, HIV and Consolidation, sponsored by University of Illinois Chicago. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-26.
Sponsored by University of Illinois Chicago · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a single-arm feasibility trial in which patients with histologically confirmed plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) with or without HIV, who have achieved a Complete Response or Partial Response after definitive frontline chemotherapy, will receive Elranatamab (Elra) consolidation.
Patients after definitive therapy will receive Elra subcutaneously for up to six 28-day cycles, beginning with a step-up dosing schedule (12 mg on day 1, 32 mg on day 4, followed by 76 mg weekly on days 8, 15, and 22 of Cycle 1). Patients will transition to 76 mg every 2 weeks (days 1 and 15) during Cycles 2 and 3, followed by an interim PET/CT assessment at the end of Cycle 3. During cycles 4 through 6, all patients will receive 76 mg every 4 weeks (on day 1 of each cycle).
Participants will undergo disease assessment with PET/CT at the end of Cycle 3, post-end of treatment (EOT) visit, and every 6 months thereafter (±2 weeks) for up to 2 years to assess recurrence and survival. Routine clinical follow-up will continue every 3 months, as per the standard of care (SOC).
18 studies on the registry are indexed under Plasmablastic Lymphoma; 11 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 17 is below the median of 28 across 16 interventional studies indexed under Plasmablastic Lymphoma.
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Adequate bone marrow function with recovery from prior therapy (without growth factor or transfusion support), defined as:
Adequate hepatic function characterized by the following:
If -positive:
Exclusion criteria:
Concurrent requiring active therapy within the last 3 years, except for the following:
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.
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.
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.
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
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.
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.
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
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.
The number of CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, in a given amount of blood. It is used to follow how well the immune system is doing in HIV.
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 that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
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.
Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Biopsy and archival tissue
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CD4 count
The number of CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, in a given amount of blood. It is used to follow how well the immune system is doing in HIV.
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.
Leptomeningeal disease
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
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.
Adjuvant and neoadjuvant
Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Live vaccines
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Patients will receive Elra subcutaneously for up to six 28-day cycles, beginning with a step-up dosing schedule (12 mg on day 1, 32 mg on day 4, followed by 76 mg weekly on days 8, 15, and 22 of Cycle 1). Patients will transition to 76 mg every 2 weeks (days 1 and 15) during Cycles 2 and 3, followed by an interim PET/CT assessment at the end of Cycle 3. During Cycles 4 through 6, all patients will receive 76 mg every 4 weeks (on day 1 of each cycle).
Drug: Elranatamab (Elra)
Elra will be administered subcutaneously on day 1, day 4, then weekly on day 8, 15 and day 22 completing 1 cycle. Up to 6 cycles may be given.
Feasibility of giving Elra in consolidation after therapy of PBL
Evaluation of feasibility of (Elra) consolidation following definitive therapy in patients with PBL, defined as the proportion of patients completing at least 3 cycles (12 weeks) of consolidation therapy.
Time frame: 12 weeks ( 3 cycles)
Estimate the complete response in HIV+/ HIV- patients
Estimate the complete response (CR) rate (per 2014 Lugano criteria)(1) for patients after 6 cycles of consolidation, stratified by HIV status.
Time frame: 6 months
Evaluate the safety and tolerability of Elra consolidation
To evaluate the safety and tolerability of Elra consolidation, including the incidence, severity, and management of cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS), assessed by ASTCT consensus criteria.
Time frame: 6 months
Assess event-free survival, progression-free and overall survival of Elra
Assess event-free survival (EFS), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) at 1- and 2-year post-completion of Elra consolidation
Time frame: 1 year and 2 year
Estimate the conversion rate of PR to CR after consolidation
Estimate the conversion rate from pre-consolidation partial response (PR) to CR at the end of Cycle 3 and Cycle 6.
Time frame: Cycle 3 and cycle 6 (12 weeks and 24 weeks)
Evaluate quality of life (QoL) outcomes as measured by changes from baseline
Evaluate quality of life (QoL) outcomes as measured by changes from baseline in European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (QLQ-C30) and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire - High-Grade Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 29 items (EORTC QLQ-NHL-HG29) scores.
Time frame: 6 months
Assess the effects of Elra on CD4 T-cell counts and HIV-1 viral load
Assess the effects of Elra on CD4 T-cell counts and HIV-1 viral load in people with HIV (PWH).
Time frame: 6 months
Plan to share: No
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