Phase 1/2b Trial of Autologous Humanized CD19-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cells Manufactured Using the CliniMACS Prodigy Platform for the Treatment of Pediatric B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL)
Summary
This study will determine the safety and efficacy of moving to a second-generation manufacturing process using the CliniMACS Prodigy platform to manufacture huCART19 cells for patients with B cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL).
Detailed description
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cells (CAR T) cell therapy has shifted the treatment landscape for pediatric and young adult patients with multiply relapsed and refractory B-ALL (B cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia), however, the manufacturing process remains in its first generation: laborious, time-intensive, and not automated. The time and significant personnel resources in this process can result in patient safety issues - with patients growing sicker, with harder to control leukemias - in the waiting period between T cell collection and completed CAR T cell product manufacture. Use of the CliniMACS Prodigy platform, that allows for semi-automated clinical-scale processing of huCART19 cell products in a functionally closed, sterile system, rapidly, without many of the logistical burdens encountered in the first-generation manufacturing method, can help to surmount these issues. This study will determine the safety and efficacy of moving to a second-generation manufacturing process using the CliniMACS Prodigy platform to manufacture huCART19 cells.
Arms & interventions
- BiologicalAutologous Humanized CD19-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cells (huCART19)
The investigational agent in this protocol is humanized CART19 cells (huCART19). Autologous T cells will be engineered to express an extracellular single chain antibody (scFv) with specificity for CD19. This will be expected to redirect specificity of the transduced T cells for cells that express CD19, a molecule that is restricted in expression on the surface of the malignant cells and on normal B cells.
Outcome measures
Primary
Safety of huCART19 Administration
The safety of the administering Humanized Cd19-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cells (huCART9) will be measured by the monitoring the frequency and severity of adverse events in patients with advanced or refractory CD19+ hematologic malignancies, including those previously treated with cell therapy.
Time frame: 5 years
Efficacy of huCART19 Administration
The efficacy of huCART9 will be measured by the evaluating the overall response rate in patients with advanced or refractory CD19+ hematologic malignancies, including those previously treated with cell therapy.
Time frame: 5 years
Secondary
Manufacturing Feasibility
Time frame: 5 years
Safety of huCART19 as measured by ≥ Grade 3 toxicity rate
Time frame: 5 years
Anti-tumor response due to huCART19 cell infusions
Time frame: 5 years
Remission Rate
Time frame: 5 years
huCART19 cell persistence
Time frame: 5 years
Event Free Survival
Time frame: 5 years
Relapse-Free Survival
Time frame: 5 years
Overall Survival
Time frame: 5 years
Eligibility criteria
Study locations (1)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104