This study will evaluate the safety of autologous T cells that have been immunized ex vivo with patient-specific MDS stem cell neoantigens in patients with MDS.
PACTN is manufactured by a novel method to employ cancer-specific somatic variants (mutations) as a means to immunize autologous T lymphocytes to specifically kill cancer cells bearing the protein products of the mutations. The PACTN method is based on the premise that somatic DNA mutations that cause cancer often give rise to proteins with an altered amino acid sequence. Peptides derived from these proteins, if expressed in the context of MHC Class I or II may be perceived as "non-self" by the immune system; that is, they may be perceived as neoantigens (aka, neoepitopes). Such neoantigens could therefore serve as immunogenic targets for the development of patient-specific, personalized T cell mediated immunotherapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
12
To treat patients with MDS who have failed treatment with hypomethylating agents or have relapsed after treatment with hypomethylating agents or have declined hypomethylating therapy.
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
Acute and subacute toxicities and AEs
The incidence of dose limiting toxicities (DLTs) after PACTN infusion will be used to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). Adverse effects (AEs) and in particular cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and potential autoimmune AEs will be monitored.
Time frame: baseline to four weeks after infusion
Persistence, abundance, and activity of PACTN
Determined by quantity of PACTN in the subject's blood sample, assessed by the unique phenotype of PACTN lymphocytes and by functional measurement of PACTN activity (antigen-specific cytotoxicity)
Time frame: Samples will be collected on days 1, 4, 8, 15, 36, and 57, and then 3, 6, and 12 months
Disease Response
Disease response will be assessed by International Working Group (IWG) criteria on bone marrow aspiration
Time frame: Samples will be collected between day 29 and 43, and then at 3, 6, and 12 months
Overall and progression-free survival of subjects who receive PACTN
Incidence of subjects who are alive, and both alive and disease - free will be assessed at 6 and 12 months
Time frame: Six and 12 months after PACTN infusion
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