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Acute Myeloid LeukemiaPhase 3Orca-TNCT05316701

Precision-T: A Randomized Study of Orca-T in Recipients Undergoing Allogeneic Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies

A Phase 3 study testing Orca-T and Standard-of-Care in people with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Acute Lymphoid Leukemia, run by Orca Biosystems, Inc. at 19 sites in United States.

Active, not recruiting

Under way, not looking for participants. Everyone needed has enrolled. The study is still running.

Official record
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Trial summary

This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of Orca-T, an allogeneic stem cell and T-cell immunotherapy biologic manufactured for each patient (transplant recipient) from the mobilized peripheral blood of a specific, unique donor. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 65 years
What is being tested?
Orca-T and Standard-of-Care
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
187 participants
Where
19 sitesUnited States
Study dates
21 Jun 2022to Jul 2026
Phase
Phase 3
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

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 65 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Matched to a related or unrelated donor who is an 8/8 match for HLA-A, -B, -C, and DRB1
  • Diagnosed with one of the following diseases:
  • Acute myeloid, lymphoid or mixed phenotype leukemia in complete remission (CR) or CR with incomplete hematologic recovery (CRi), with or without the presence of known minimal residual disease
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) that are indicated for alloHSCT per 2017 International Expert Panel recommendations and/or have therapy-related/secondary MDS, with ≤ 10% blast burden in the bone marrow
  • Planned to undergo MA-alloHCT including one of the following myeloablative conditioning regimens:
  • TBI/Cy
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  • TBI/Etoposide
  • BFT
  • Cardiac ejection fraction at rest ≥ 45% or shortening fraction of ≥ 27% by echocardiogram or radionuclide scan (MUGA)
  • Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) (adjusted for hemoglobin) ≥ 50%
  • Negative serum or urine beta-HCG test in females of childbearing potential
  • ALT/AST < 3 times ULN
  • Recipients in screening must screen negative for SARS-CoV-2 RNA using a PCR-based test
  • Disease Risk Index (DRI) overall risk categorization of intermediate or high
  • Total bilirubin ≤ upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≥ 60 mL/minute

Who cannot join

  • Prior allogeneic HCT
  • Currently receiving corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive therapy. Topical corticosteroids or oral systemic corticosteroid doses less than or equal to 10 mg/day are allowed.
  • Planned donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI)
  • Planned pharmaceutical in vivo or ex vivo T cell depletion
  • Recipient positive anti-donor HLA antibodies against a mismatched allele in the selected donor
  • Karnofsky performance score < 70%
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  • Hematopoietic cell transplantation-specific Comorbidity Index (HCT-CI) > 4
  • Uncontrolled bacterial, viral or fungal infections at time of enrollment
  • Seropositive for HIV-1 or -2, HTLV-1 or -2, Hepatitis B sAg, Hepatitis C antibody
  • Known allergy or hypersensitivity to, or intolerance of, tacrolimus
  • Documented allergy or hypersensitivity to iron dextran or bovine, murine, algal or Streptomyces avidinii proteins
  • Any uncontrolled autoimmune disease requiring active immunosuppressive treatment
  • Concurrent malignancies or active disease within 1 year, except non-melanoma skin cancers that have been curatively resected
  • Psychosocial circumstances that preclude the patient being able to go through transplant or participate responsibly in follow up care
  • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) or men who have sexual contact with WOCBP unwilling to use effective forms of birth control or abstinence for one year after transplantation

Trial locations and contacts

19 sites in 1 country.

19 sites in 1 country

United States19 sites
  • University of Michigan Health System - Michigan Medicine

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109

  • Winship Cancer Institute - Emory University

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30322

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02114

  • University of Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, 60637

  • Cleveland Clinic

    Cleveland, Ohio, 44195

  • Colorado Blood Cancer Institute

    Denver, Colorado, 80218

  • City of Hope

    Duarte, California, 91010

  • Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

    Los Angeles, California, 90095

  • University of Miami Hospital and Clinics - Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Miami, Florida, 33136

  • Vanderbilt University

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37232

  • Sarah Cannon Research Institute

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37239

  • Weill Cornell Medicine - New York-Presbyterian Hospital

    New York, New York, 10021

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, New York, 10065

  • OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73104

  • Oregon Health & Sciences University - Knight Cancer Institute

    Portland, Oregon, 97239

  • UC Davis

    Sacramento, California, 95817

  • University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112

  • Stanford Health Care

    Stanford, California, 94305

  • Moffitt Cancer Center

    Tampa, Florida, 33612

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About this study

Official title: A Randomized Phase III Trial of Patients With Advanced Hematologic Malignancies Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation With Either Orca-T, a T-cell-Depleted Graft With Additional Infusion of Conventional T Cells and Regulatory T Cells, or Standard-of-Care Allogeneic Graft

This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of Orca-T, an allogeneic stem cell and T-cell immunotherapy biologic manufactured for each patient (transplant recipient) from the mobilized peripheral blood of a specific, unique donor. It is composed of purified hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), purified regulatory T cells (Tregs), and conventional T cells (Tcons) in participants undergoing myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant transplantation for hematologic malignancies.

This posting represents the Phase III component of Precision-T. The Precision-T Ph1b component is described under NCT04013685.

Read the detailed description

Cross reference NCT04013685

Being tested
Orca-T, Standard-of-Care
Keywords
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, acute leukemia, Myelodysplastic syndromes, matched related donor, matched unrelated donor, myelodysplastic syndrome
Medical subject headings
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Leukemia, Biphenotypic, Acute, Myelodysplastic Syndromes

What participants receive

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

  • Orca-TBiological

    an allogeneic stem cell and T-cell immunotherapy biologic

  • Standard-of-CareBiological

    Also called SOC

    unmanipulated donor allograft

Study groups in NCT05316701
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Orca-TExperimentalFor patients randomized to the Orca-T arm, Orca-T will be administered after myeloablative conditioning regimen. Single-agent GVHD prophylaxis with tacrolimus will be administered following Tcon infusion (generally Day +3).
Receives: Biological: Orca-T
Standard of Care alloHCT ControlActive comparatorFor patients randomized to the standard-of-care control arm, an unmanipulated allograft derived from the peripheral blood of a matched donor will be administered after a myeloablative conditioning regimen. Dual-agent prophylaxis consisting of tacrolimus plus methotrexate will be administered starting on Day -3.
Receives: Biological: Standard-of-Care

What is being measured

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

  1. Event-free at 12 Months for Moderate or Severe Chronic Graft-versus-Host-Disease-free Survival (cGFS) Per Endpoint Adjudication Committee (EAC)

    Event-free rate estimated at 12 months for cGFS per EAC, which is defined as the time from date of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) (ie, day 0) to date of death from any cause or first onset of moderate or severe chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) (graded per NIH consensus criteria), whichever was earliest, within 2 years after day 0. cGVHD was assessed and graded by EAC blinded to treatment assignment.

    Each participant in the study is followed for up to 730 days after transplant. Primary analysis was event driven (ie, when 56 participants had died or had moderate or severe cGVHD) and was not based on duration of follow-up. The analysis was conducted using all available data at the time that the 56th event occurred, and event-free rate at 12 months was estimated regardless of length of follow-up for individual participants. At the time of analysis, not all participants have reached 730 days of follow-up because they enrolled at different times.

    Measured: Day 0 through 730 days after transplantation

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Event Rate at 12 Months for Time to Moderate or Severe cGVHD Per EAC

    Event rate estimated at 12 months for time from alloHCT to first onset of moderate or severe cGVHD defined by NIH consensus criteria within 2 years after day 0. Death within 2 years after day 0 without prior moderate or severe cGVHD was considered a competing event. cGVHD was assessed and graded by an independent EAC.

    Each participant in the study is followed for up to 730 days after transplant. The primary analysis was triggered by the 56th cGFS event (ie, when 56 participants had died or had moderate or severe chronic GVHD) and was not based on the duration of follow-up. Therefore, the analysis was conducted using all available data at the time that the 56th cGFS event occurred, and the event rate of moderate or severe cGVHD at 12 months was estimated regardless of the length of follow-up for individual participants. At the time of analysis, not all participants have reached 730 days of follow-up because they enrolled at different times.

    Measured: Day 0 through 730 days after transplantation

  2. Event-free at 12 Months for Overall Survival (OS)

    Event-free rate estimated at 12 months for OS, which is defined as time from randomization to death from any cause.

    Each participant in the study is followed for up to 730 days after transplant. The analysis was triggered by the 56th cGFS event (ie, when 56 participants had died or had moderate or severe chronic GVHD) and was not based on the duration of follow-up. Therefore, the analysis was conducted using all available data at the time that the 56th cGFS event occurred, and the event-free rate of OS at 12 months was estimated regardless of the length of follow-up for individual participants. At the time of analysis, not all participants have reached 730 days of follow-up because they enrolled at different times.

    Measured: Up to 730 days after end of enrollment

  3. Event-free Rate at 12 Months for Graft-versus-host Disease-free and Relapse-free Survival (GRFS) Per EAC

    Event-free rate estimated at 12 months for GRFS, which is defined as time from alloHCT to death from any cause, relapse, the first onset of grade 3 or 4 acute GVHD (graded per Mount Sinai aGVHD International Consortium [MAGIC] criteria), or the first onset of moderate or severe cGVHD (graded per NIH consensus criteria), whichever is earliest, within 2 years from day 0 as assessed by independent EAC.

    Each participant in the study is followed for up to 730 days after transplant. The analysis was triggered by the 56th cGFS event (ie, when 56 participants had died or had moderate or severe cGVHD) and not based on duration of follow-up. Therefore, analysis was conducted using all available data at the time that the 56th cGFS event occurred, and event-free rate of GRFS at 12 months was estimated regardless of length of follow-up for individual participants. At time of analysis, not all participants have reached 730 days of follow-up because they enrolled at different times.

    Measured: Day 0 through 730 days after transplantation

Timeline

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

  1. First posted7 Apr 2022
  2. Study start21 Jun 2022
  3. Primary completion15 Jul 2024
  4. Study completionJul 2026 (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 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
The Phase III is a randomized, open-label, multicenter study comparing outcomes between patients receiving Orca-T followed by single-agent tacrolimus or standard-of-care (SOC) control followed by dual agent, tacrolimus-based Graft-versus-Host-Disease (GVHD) prophylaxis regimen
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
187 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05316701
Sponsor's protocol ID
Precision-T (PhIII component)
Acronym
Orca-T
Status last verified
Feb 2026
First submitted
30 Mar 2022
Last updated
4 Mar 2026
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Meyer EH, Salhotra A, Gandhi AP, Pantin J, Patel SS, Hoeg RT, Gomez-Arteaga A, Faramand R, Tamari R, Waller EK, Kosuri S, Jimenez Jimenez AM, Holter-Chakrabarty J, Dholaria B, Chen YB, Hamilton BK, Magenau J, Eghtedar A, Murray JM, Pavlova A, Fernhoff NB, McClellan JS, Killian MS, Li A, Negrin RS, Oliai C. Orca-T vs allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Precision-T): a multicenter, randomized phase 3 trial. Blood. 2026 Mar 12;147(11):1168-1177. doi: 10.1182/blood.2025031313.

    PubMed 41385341
  • Faramand R, McClellan JS, Pavlova A, Manghani R, Blank A, Saeedian M, Yadav S, Perales MA. Cost-effectiveness of Orca-T vs allo-HCT with conventional GVHD prophylaxis for the treatment of advanced hematologic malignancies in the United States. J Med Econ. 2026 Dec;29(1):2386-2405. doi: 10.1080/13696998.2026.2732644. Epub 2026 Sep 29.

    PubMed 42806776

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing Orca-T and Standard-of-Care in people with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Acute Lymphoid Leukemia, run by Orca Biosystems, Inc. at 19 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?

The sponsor lists 16 inclusion and 16 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: under way, not looking for participants, as of the sponsor's last update on 4 Mar 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 19 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.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

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

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 26 Sep 2025). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Event-free at 12 Months for Moderate or Severe Chronic Graft-versus-Host-Disease-free Survival (cGFS) Per Endpoint Adjudication Committee (EAC) (time frame: Day 0 through 730 days after transplantation). 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 NCT05316701, which also lists 2 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 4 Mar 2026.

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