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).
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
89
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.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
RECRUITINGSafety 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
Manufacturing Feasibility
Manufacturing feasibility will be measured by the percentage of manufactured products that do not meet release criteria for vector transduction efficiency, T cell product purity, viability, sterility, or due to tumor contamination.
Time frame: 5 years
Safety of huCART19 as measured by ≥ Grade 3 toxicity rate
Safety of huCART19 as measured by ≥ Grade 3 toxicity rate (toxicity that is possibly attributed to huCART19) that is unmanageable, unexpected, and unrelated to chemotherapy.
Time frame: 5 years
Anti-tumor response due to huCART19 cell infusions
For subjects with detectable disease, measure anti-tumor response due to huCART19 cell infusions, as defined by the presence of medullary (morphologic or Minimal Residual Disease (MRD-level disease) and/or extramedullary disease at 1-month post-infusion.
Time frame: 5 years
Remission Rate
Overall remission rate will be measured by the proportion of treated subjects who achieve complete morphologic remission at Day 28 post huCART19 infusion.
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Time frame: 5 years
huCART19 cell persistence
huCART 19 cell persistence will be measured by PCR (or flow) analysis of whole blood to detect and quantify survival of huCART19 cells over time.
Time frame: 5 years
Event Free Survival
1-year Event-Free Survival (EFS) in subjects with relapsed/refractory B-ALL (Cohort A) and in subjects with poor response to prior B cell directed engineered cell therapy (Cohort B).
Time frame: 5 years
Relapse-Free Survival
1-year Relapse-Free Survival (RFS) in subjects with relapsed/refractory B-ALL (Cohort A) and in subjects with poor response to prior B cell directed engineered cell therapy (Cohort B).
Time frame: 5 years
Overall Survival
1-year Overall Survival (OS) in subjects with relapsed/refractory B-ALL (Cohort A) and in subjects with poor response to prior B cell directed engineered cell therapy (Cohort B).
Time frame: 5 years