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Relapsed or Refractory B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic LeukemiaPhase 1UHKT-CAR19-01NCT05054257

CART19 Cells Effects in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

A Phase 1 study testing Autologous CAR19 T lymphocytes in people with Relapsed or Refractory B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Refractory, run by Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Czech Republic at 1 site in Czechia.

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Trial summary

Phase I Dose Escalation Study of CART19 Cells for Adult Patients With Relapsed / Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 80 years
What is being tested?
Autologous CAR19 T lymphocytes
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
10 participants
Where
1 siteCzechia
Study dates
2 Jun 2021to 12 Dec 2025
Phase
Phase 1
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 to 80 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patient with refractory or relapsing CD19 positive B-ALL or B-NHL defined as:
  • B-ALL refractory to treatment or in the second or subsequent relapse (hematological OR molecular), OR
  • B-NHL refractory to treatment or in first relapse ineligible for autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) or in second to fourth relapse, OR
  • B-ALL or B-NHL relapsing after autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).
  • CD19 expression on malignant cells confirmed by flow cytometry or by immunohistochemistry.
  • Age ≥18 years and ≤ 80 yearss.
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  • Patient able to understand and sign informed consent.
  • Women of child-bearing potential: negative pregnancy test at enrolment (PSV) and at Visit 1.
  • General Exclusion Criteria:
  • Known hypersensitivity to any component of the Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP).
  • Autologous or allogeneic HCT in 3 months prior to IMP administration.
  • Severe, uncontrolled active infection.
  • Life expectancy < 6 weeks.
  • Parenchymal central nervous system involvement.
  • Respiratory insufficiency (need for oxygen therapy).
  • Significant liver impairment: bilirubin > 50 µmol/L, AST or ALT > 4times normal upper limit.
  • Acute kidney injury with serum creatinine > 180 µmol/L, oliguria or need for acute dialysis.
  • Heart failure with EF < 30% by echocardiography.
  • Presence of active grade 3-4 acute GvHD.
  • Serious uncontrolled neurological comorbidity.
  • Vaccination with live virus vaccines in the 4 weeks before IMP administration and within 90 days after the IMP dose.
  • Women: pregnancy or breast-feeding.
  • Subjects of fertile age, unless permanent sexual abstinence is their lifestyle choice:
  • female patients of childbearing potential not willing to use a highly effective method of contraception during the study,
  • male patients whose sexual partner(s) are women of childbearing potential who are not willing to use a highly effective method of contraception during the study.
  • Exclusion criteria to Procurement of IMP manufacture starting material
  • Severe uncontrolled active infection.
  • Positive test results for HIV1/2, Hepatitis B/C and lues.
  • Concurrent or recent prior therapies before apheresis:
  • Autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation within 12 weeks.
  • Clofarabine, Fludarabine, Alemtuzumab within 8 weeks.
  • Donor lymphocyte infusions within 4 weeks.
  • Pegylated asparaginase within 4 weeks.
  • Maintenance chemotherapy within 2 weeks.
  • Long-acting Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) within 2 weeks.
  • Vincristine within 2 weeks.
  • Intrathecal methotrexate within 1 week.
  • Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) within 5 days.
  • Therapeutic dose of corticosteroids within 3 days.
  • Short-acting cytostatics within 3 days

Who cannot join

  • Severe, uncontrolled active infections.
  • Life expectancy < 6 weeks.
  • Parenchymal central nervous system involvement
  • Respiratory insufficiency (need for oxygen therapy).
  • Significant liver impairment: bilirubin > 50 µmol/L, Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) > 4times normal upper limit.
  • Acute kidney injury with serum creatinine > 180 µg/L, oliguria or need for acute dialysis.
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  • Heart failure with Ejection Fraction (EF) < 30% by echocardiography.
  • Presence of active grade 3 - 4 acute GvHD
  • Serious uncontrolled neurological comorbidity.

Trial locations and contacts

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

Czechia1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Czech Republic

    Prague, 12800

    Jan Vydra, MD, +420 221977182, jan.vydra@uhkt.cz

    Petr Lesny, MD, +420221977629, petr.lesny@uhkt.cz

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: Safety and Efficacy of Anti-CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor-modified Autologous T Cells (CART19) in Patients with Relapsed/refractory CD19+ Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. a Dose Escalation, Open-label, Phase I Study.

Phase I Dose Escalation Study of CART19 Cells for Adult Patients With Relapsed / Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

Read the detailed description

This is an open-label, single arm study on up to 24 adult subjects with refractory or relapsed CD19+ Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma or B-ALL. Following lymphodepleting conditioning regimen, the patients will receive a single dose of autologous CAR19 T lymphocytes provided by the sponsor´s manufacturing facility. CART19 dose will be escalated in consecutive patients using accelerated titration design in order to establish recommended CART19 dose for further study, which will be either Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) or Maximum Feasible Dose (MFD), whichever is reached first.

Being tested
Autologous CAR19 T lymphocytes
Keywords
B Cell, ALL, Relapsed or Refractory, B-NHL, Leukemia, Chimeric antigen receptor, CAR, CAR T cell
Medical subject headings
Recurrence, Burkitt Lymphoma, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin, Leukemia

What participants receive

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

  • Autologous CAR19 T lymphocytesDrug

    First-in-human trial examining the safety and efficacy of CART19 in r/r B-ALL and B-NHL

Study groups in NCT05054257
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Autologous CAR19 T lymphocytesExperimentalHuman Autologous T Lymphocytes Expressing the Chimeric Antigen Receptor Specific to CD19
Receives: Drug: Autologous CAR19 T lymphocytes

What is being measured

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

  1. Incidence of adverse events

    Cumulative incidence of IMP-related adverse events (AEs) graded by ASTCT consensus grading criteria for Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS) and Immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) and by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v 5.0 for other AEs. Toxicities will be followed from the start of Blood Collection or Apheresis until the end of the study.

    Measured: Up to 2 years post treatment

  2. Assessment of Dose-Limiting Toxicities (DLTs)

    Incidence of Dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) during the first 28 days after IMP administration

    Measured: Up to 28 days after IMP administration

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Complete remission ( CR) rate

    Assessment of the efficacy of IMP cells administration in patients with refractory or relapsed CD19+ NHL and B-ALL evaluated by Complete Remission rate

    Measured: CR rate at 100 days and 6 months after IMP administration

  2. Overall Survival

    Assessment of the efficacy of IMP cells administration in patients with refractory or relapsed CD19+ NHL and B-ALL evaluated by Overall Survival

    Measured: OS at 1 year after IMP administration

  3. Quality of life using the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer 30 item questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30).

    EORTC-QLQ-C30 is a 30-item subject self-report questionnaire composed of both multi-item and single scales, including a global health status/quality of life (GHS/QoL) scale. Participants rate items on a four-point scale, with 1 as "not at all" and 4 as "very much." A change of 5 - 10 points is considered a small. A change of 10 - 20 points is considered a moderate change.

    Measured: At 6 months and 1 year following IMP administration

Timeline

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

  1. First posted23 Sep 2021
  2. Study start2 Jun 2021
  3. Primary completion1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
  4. Study completion12 Dec 2025 (estimated)

Resources

More details

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

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
10 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05054257
Sponsor's protocol ID
UHKT-CAR19-01
Other IDs
2018-004789-32, 2018
Acronym
UHKT-CAR19-01
Status last verified
Jan 2025
First submitted
19 Jul 2021
Last updated
6 Jan 2025
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Maude SL, Frey N, Shaw PA, Aplenc R, Barrett DM, Bunin NJ, Chew A, Gonzalez VE, Zheng Z, Lacey SF, Mahnke YD, Melenhorst JJ, Rheingold SR, Shen A, Teachey DT, Levine BL, June CH, Porter DL, Grupp SA. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells for sustained remissions in leukemia. N Engl J Med. 2014 Oct 16;371(16):1507-17. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1407222.

    PubMed 25317870
  • Porter DL, Hwang WT, Frey NV, Lacey SF, Shaw PA, Loren AW, Bagg A, Marcucci KT, Shen A, Gonzalez V, Ambrose D, Grupp SA, Chew A, Zheng Z, Milone MC, Levine BL, Melenhorst JJ, June CH. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells persist and induce sustained remissions in relapsed refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Sci Transl Med. 2015 Sep 2;7(303):303ra139. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aac5415.

    PubMed 26333935
  • Hartmann J, Schussler-Lenz M, Bondanza A, Buchholz CJ. Clinical development of CAR T cells-challenges and opportunities in translating innovative treatment concepts. EMBO Mol Med. 2017 Sep;9(9):1183-1197. doi: 10.15252/emmm.201607485.

    PubMed 28765140
  • Hamada M, Nishio N, Okuno Y, Suzuki S, Kawashima N, Muramatsu H, Tsubota S, Wilson MH, Morita D, Kataoka S, Ichikawa D, Murakami N, Taniguchi R, Suzuki K, Kojima D, Sekiya Y, Nishikawa E, Narita A, Hama A, Kojima S, Nakazawa Y, Takahashi Y. Integration Mapping of piggyBac-Mediated CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Analyzed by Novel Tagmentation-Assisted PCR. EBioMedicine. 2018 Aug;34:18-26. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.07.008. Epub 2018 Aug 3.

    PubMed 30082227
  • Tipanee J, VandenDriessche T, Chuah MK. Transposons: Moving Forward from Preclinical Studies to Clinical Trials. Hum Gene Ther. 2017 Nov;28(11):1087-1104. doi: 10.1089/hum.2017.128. Epub 2017 Aug 22.

    PubMed 28920716
  • Kebriaei P, Singh H, Huls MH, Figliola MJ, Bassett R, Olivares S, Jena B, Dawson MJ, Kumaresan PR, Su S, Maiti S, Dai J, Moriarity B, Forget MA, Senyukov V, Orozco A, Liu T, McCarty J, Jackson RN, Moyes JS, Rondon G, Qazilbash M, Ciurea S, Alousi A, Nieto Y, Rezvani K, Marin D, Popat U, Hosing C, Shpall EJ, Kantarjian H, Keating M, Wierda W, Do KA, Largaespada DA, Lee DA, Hackett PB, Champlin RE, Cooper LJ. Phase I trials using Sleeping Beauty to generate CD19-specific CAR T cells. J Clin Invest. 2016 Sep 1;126(9):3363-76. doi: 10.1172/JCI86721. Epub 2016 Aug 2.

    PubMed 27482888
  • Otahal P, Prukova D, Kral V, Fabry M, Vockova P, Lateckova L, Trneny M, Klener P. Lenalidomide enhances antitumor functions of chimeric antigen receptor modified T cells. Oncoimmunology. 2015 Dec 3;5(4):e1115940. doi: 10.1080/2162402X.2015.1115940. eCollection 2016 Apr.

    PubMed 27141398
  • Yusa K, Zhou L, Li MA, Bradley A, Craig NL. A hyperactive piggyBac transposase for mammalian applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jan 25;108(4):1531-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1008322108. Epub 2011 Jan 4.

    PubMed 21205896
  • Ptackova P, Musil J, Stach M, Lesny P, Nemeckova S, Kral V, Fabry M, Otahal P. A new approach to CAR T-cell gene engineering and cultivation using piggyBac transposon in the presence of IL-4, IL-7 and IL-21. Cytotherapy. 2018 Apr;20(4):507-520. doi: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2017.10.001. Epub 2018 Feb 21.

    PubMed 29475789
  • Milone MC, Fish JD, Carpenito C, Carroll RG, Binder GK, Teachey D, Samanta M, Lakhal M, Gloss B, Danet-Desnoyers G, Campana D, Riley JL, Grupp SA, June CH. Chimeric receptors containing CD137 signal transduction domains mediate enhanced survival of T cells and increased antileukemic efficacy in vivo. Mol Ther. 2009 Aug;17(8):1453-64. doi: 10.1038/mt.2009.83. Epub 2009 Apr 21.

    PubMed 19384291
  • Riviere I, Sadelain M. Chimeric Antigen Receptors: A Cell and Gene Therapy Perspective. Mol Ther. 2017 May 3;25(5):1117-1124. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2017.03.034. Epub 2017 Apr 26.

    PubMed 28456379
  • Norelli M, Casucci M, Bonini C, Bondanza A. Clinical pharmacology of CAR-T cells: Linking cellular pharmacodynamics to pharmacokinetics and antitumor effects. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 Jan;1865(1):90-100. doi: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2015.12.001. Epub 2015 Dec 31.

    PubMed 26748354
  • Lamers CH, Sleijfer S, van Steenbergen S, van Elzakker P, van Krimpen B, Groot C, Vulto A, den Bakker M, Oosterwijk E, Debets R, Gratama JW. Treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma with CAIX CAR-engineered T cells: clinical evaluation and management of on-target toxicity. Mol Ther. 2013 Apr;21(4):904-12. doi: 10.1038/mt.2013.17. Epub 2013 Feb 19.

    PubMed 23423337
  • Till BG, Jensen MC, Wang J, Chen EY, Wood BL, Greisman HA, Qian X, James SE, Raubitschek A, Forman SJ, Gopal AK, Pagel JM, Lindgren CG, Greenberg PD, Riddell SR, Press OW. Adoptive immunotherapy for indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma using genetically modified autologous CD20-specific T cells. Blood. 2008 Sep 15;112(6):2261-71. doi: 10.1182/blood-2007-12-128843. Epub 2008 May 28.

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Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing Autologous CAR19 T lymphocytes in people with Relapsed or Refractory B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Refractory, run by Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Czech Republic at 1 site in Czechia.

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

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 40 inclusion and 9 exclusion criteria. 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 6 Jan 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Czechia. 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.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

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 Jan Vydra (+420221977182, jan.vydra@uhk.cz), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Incidence of adverse events (time frame: Up to 2 years post treatment). 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 NCT05054257, which also lists 42 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 6 Jan 2025.

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