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Solid Tumor, AdultBASECAMP-1NCT04981119

Solid Tumor Analysis for HLA Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH) and Apheresis for CAR T- Cell Manufacturing

An observational study of Solid Tumor, Adult and Colorectal Cancer, run by A2 Biotherapeutics Inc. at 16 sites in United States.

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Trial summary

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. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Apheresis, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Long Range NGS HLA typing
How many people
500 participants
Where
16 sitesUnited States
Study dates
29 Oct 2021to Apr 2029
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: 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. Pathologically confirmed solid tumors, e.g., Colorectal Cancer (CRC), Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), or Pancreatic Cancer (PANC), that is metastatic, 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

  1. History of any of other malignancy in the past 5 years other than non-melanoma skin carcinoma, low grade localized prostate cancer, superficial bladder cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ (CIS) of the breast, CIS of the Cervix, or Stage I uterine cancer.
  2. Prior allogeneic stem cell transplant.
  3. Prior solid organ transplant.

Part 2 : Key Inclusion Criteria

  1. Pathologically confirmed solid tumors, e.g., 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.
  2. Participants are germline HLA-A*02 heterozygous confirmed by HLA typing.
  3. Primary tumor tissue showing LOH of HLA-A*02 by NGS testing.
  4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0 or 1 performance status.

Part 2: Key Exclusion Criteria

  1. History of any of other malignancy in the past 5 years other than non-melanoma skin carcinoma, low grade localized prostate cancer, superficial bladder cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ (CIS) of the breast, CIS of the Cervix, or Stage I uterine cancer.
  2. Prior allogeneic stem cell transplant.
  3. Prior solid organ transplant.
  4. Participants who have received any cancer therapy on any investigational therapy for any indication, including but not limited to chemotherapy, small molecules, monoclonal antibodies, or radiotherapy (with bone marrow impact) within 2 weeks of planned apheresis or 3 half-lives, whichever is shorter.
  5. Known active bacterial, viral, fungal, mycobacterial, parasitic, or other infection (excluding fungal infections of nail beds) at study enrollment necessitating specific treatment, or any major episode of infection requiring treatment with Intravenous (IV) antimicrobials (e.g., IV antibiotics) or hospitalization (relating to completion of antibiotic course).
  6. Has known active central nervous system metastases. Subjects with previously treated brain metastases may participate upon medical monitor agreement.
  7. In the Investigator's judgement, any other condition or reason the subject would not complete the required study visits and procedures, and follow up visits, or comply with the study requirements for participation.

Trial locations and contacts

16 sites in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

16 sites in 1 country

United States16 sites, 13 recruiting
  • Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02114

    Completed
  • The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Columbus, Ohio, 43210

    Dudbeth Brown, 614-685-7034, Dudbeth.Brown@osumc.edu

    Jinesh Gheeya, MD, PhD

    Recruiting
  • City of Hope

    Duarte, California, 90101

    Completed
  • Banner Health

    Gilbert, Arizona, 85234

    Jace Luzania, 480-256-5483, Jace.Luzania@bannerhealth.com

    Matthew Ulrickson, MD

    Recruiting
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030

    Completed
  • Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

    Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

    Rhoda Romain, Romain.Rhoda@mayo.edu

    Yanyan Lou, MD, PhD

    Recruiting
  • University of California San Diego

    La Jolla, California, 92093

    Anthony Oshmago, aoshmago@health.ucsd.edu

    Sandip Patel, MD

    Recruiting
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37232

    Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office (CTO), 1-800-811-8480, CTIP@VUMC.ORG

    Cathy Eng, M.D., FACP, FASCO

    Recruiting
  • NYU Langone Medical Center

    New York, New York, 10016

    Phase 1 Screening, DL_NTPH1@nyulangone.org

    Kristen Spencer, DO

    Recruiting
  • Stanford University

    Palo Alto, California, 94304

    Vivian Leung, vivian0@stanford.edu

    Wen-Kai Weng, MD

    Recruiting
  • Mayo Clinic Hospital

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85054

    Clinical Trials Referral Office, 855-776-0015

    Antonious Hazim, MD

    Recruiting
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester

    Rochester, Minnesota, 55905

    Ethan Sundsvold, Sundsvold.Ethan@mayo.edu

    Julian Molina, MD, PhD

    Recruiting
  • UCLA Medical Center

    Santa Monica, California, 90404

    Karla Largaespada, KLargaespada@mednet.ucla.edu

    J. Randolph Hecht, MD

    Recruiting
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    Seattle, Washington, 98109

    Shelby Colden

    scolden2@fredhutch.org

    Recruiting
  • Washington University

    St Louis, Missouri, 63110

    Hussain Hassan, hahassan@wustl.edu

    Patrick Grierson, MD, PhD

    Recruiting
  • Moffitt Cancer Center

    Tampa, Florida, 33136

    Katie Ehm, Katie.Ehm@moffitt.org

    Kedar Kirtane, MD

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: An Observational Study Obtaining Solid Tumor Tissue From Participants and Apheresis for CAR T-Cell Therapy Manufacturing

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.

Read more

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.

Read the detailed description

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:

  • Screening (Part 1 and 2)
  • Enrollment (Apheresis)
  • Post Apheresis safety follow-up (Day 7)
  • Two-year long term follow-up
Being tested
Apheresis, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), Long Range NGS HLA typing
Keywords
CAR T Cell Therapy, Next Generation Sequencing, Leukapheresis, Apheresis, Immunotherapy
Medical subject headings
Colorectal Neoplasms, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Mesothelioma, Ovarian Neoplasms, Mesothelioma, Malignant, Neoplasms, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • ApheresisOther

    Apheresis procedure performed for collection of PBMCs.

  • Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)Diagnostic test

    NGS on tumor tissue and a matched normal sample for loss of heterozygosity in tumor tissue and tumor tissue markers.

  • Long Range NGS HLA typingDiagnostic test

    Long range NGS on whole blood to determine germline HLA type.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. 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

    Measured: up to 2 years

  2. 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

    Measured: Screening

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. 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

    Measured: 7 days

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted28 Jul 2021
  2. Study start29 Oct 2021
  3. Primary completionDec 2028 (estimated)
  4. Study completionApr 2029 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
500 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04981119
Sponsor's protocol ID
A2B101-101
Acronym
BASECAMP-1
Status last verified
Sep 2026
First submitted
19 Jul 2021
Last updated
26 Oct 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Viale PH. The American Cancer Society's Facts & Figures: 2020 Edition. J Adv Pract Oncol. 2020 Mar;11(2):135-136. doi: 10.6004/jadpro.2020.11.2.1. Epub 2020 Mar 1. No abstract available.

    PubMed 33532112
  • Hamburger AE, DiAndreth B, Cui J, Daris ME, Munguia ML, Deshmukh K, Mock JY, Asuelime GE, Lim ED, Kreke MR, Tokatlian T, Kamb A. Engineered T cells directed at tumors with defined allelic loss. Mol Immunol. 2020 Dec;128:298-310. doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2020.09.012. Epub 2020 Oct 1.

    PubMed 33012527
  • Hwang MS, Mog BJ, Douglass J, Pearlman AH, Hsiue EH, Paul S, DiNapoli SR, Konig MF, Pardoll DM, Gabelli SB, Bettegowda C, Papadopoulos N, Vogelstein B, Zhou S, Kinzler KW. Targeting loss of heterozygosity for cancer-specific immunotherapy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Mar 23;118(12):e2022410118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2022410118.

    PubMed 33731480
  • Perera J, Mapes B, Lau D, et al. Detection of human leukocyte antigen class I loss of heterozygosity in solid tumor types by next-generation DNA sequencing. J Immunother Cancer. 2019, 7(Suppl 1):P103

  • Beroukhim R, Mermel CH, Porter D, Wei G, Raychaudhuri S, Donovan J, Barretina J, Boehm JS, Dobson J, Urashima M, Mc Henry KT, Pinchback RM, Ligon AH, Cho YJ, Haery L, Greulich H, Reich M, Winckler W, Lawrence MS, Weir BA, Tanaka KE, Chiang DY, Bass AJ, Loo A, Hoffman C, Prensner J, Liefeld T, Gao Q, Yecies D, Signoretti S, Maher E, Kaye FJ, Sasaki H, Tepper JE, Fletcher JA, Tabernero J, Baselga J, Tsao MS, Demichelis F, Rubin MA, Janne PA, Daly MJ, Nucera C, Levine RL, Ebert BL, Gabriel S, Rustgi AK, Antonescu CR, Ladanyi M, Letai A, Garraway LA, Loda M, Beer DG, True LD, Okamoto A, Pomeroy SL, Singer S, Golub TR, Lander ES, Getz G, Sellers WR, Meyerson M. The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers. Nature. 2010 Feb 18;463(7283):899-905. doi: 10.1038/nature08822.

    PubMed 20164920
  • McGranahan N, Rosenthal R, Hiley CT, Rowan AJ, Watkins TBK, Wilson GA, Birkbak NJ, Veeriah S, Van Loo P, Herrero J, Swanton C; TRACERx Consortium. Allele-Specific HLA Loss and Immune Escape in Lung Cancer Evolution. Cell. 2017 Nov 30;171(6):1259-1271.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.10.001. Epub 2017 Oct 26.

    PubMed 29107330
  • Priestley P, Baber J, Lolkema MP, Steeghs N, de Bruijn E, Shale C, Duyvesteyn K, Haidari S, van Hoeck A, Onstenk W, Roepman P, Voda M, Bloemendal HJ, Tjan-Heijnen VCG, van Herpen CML, Labots M, Witteveen PO, Smit EF, Sleijfer S, Voest EE, Cuppen E. Pan-cancer whole-genome analyses of metastatic solid tumours. Nature. 2019 Nov;575(7781):210-216. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1689-y. Epub 2019 Oct 23.

    PubMed 31645765
  • Hecht JR, Molina JR, Liechty K, Welling TH, Grierson PM, Patel SP, Kirtane K, Morelli MP, Locke FL, Maloney DG, Punekar SR, Nikiforow S, Lin Y, Ulrickson M, Specht JM, Lozac'hmeur A, Osterman CK, Garde RJ, Rangel GA, Ng EW, Welch JS, Tebbets JC, Go WY, Simeone DM. BASECAMP-1 screening study: a model for efficient enrolment in precision oncology clinical trials. BMJ Oncol. 2026 Mar 27;5(1):e001033. doi: 10.1136/bmjonc-2025-001033. eCollection 2026.

    PubMed 41918932

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Solid Tumor, Adult and Colorectal Cancer, run by A2 Biotherapeutics Inc. at 16 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Oct 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 16 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Clinical Trials ((310)431-9180, ClinicalTrials@a2bio.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Percentage of participants who can enroll in an A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. CAR T-cell therapy study after undergoing apheresis (time frame: up to 2 years). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04981119, which also lists 8 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Oct 2026.

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