CD123-Directed Autologous T-Cell Therapy for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (CATCHAML)

The CD123-CAR T-cell therapy is a new treatment that is being investigated for treatment of AML/myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), T- or B- acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasia (BPDCN). The purpose of this study is to find the maximum (highest) dose of CD123-CAR T cells that is safe to give to these patients. This would include studying the side effects of the chemotherapy, as well as the CD123-CAR T-cell product on the recipient's body, disease and overall survival.

Primary Objective

To determine the safety of one intravenous infusion of escalating doses of autologous, CD123-CAR T cells in patients (≤21 years) with recurrent/refractory CD123+ disease (AML/MDS, B-ALL, T-ALL or BPDCN) after lymphodepleting chemotherapy.

Secondary Objectives

To evaluate the antileukemia activity of CD123-CAR T cells.

Exploratory Objectives

• To assess the immunophenotype, clonal structure and endogenous repertoire of CD123-CAR T cells and unmodified T cells
• To characterize the cytokine profile in the peripheral blood and CSF after treatment with CD123-CAR T cells
• To characterize tumor cells post CD123-CAR T-cell therapy

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: B-ALL; T-ALL; AML/MDS; BPDCN
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Cyclophosphamide; Drug: CD123-CAR T; Drug: Fludarabine; Drug: Mesna; Drug: Rituximab

Detailed Description

This study will evaluate the safety and maximum tolerated dose of CD123-CAR T cells.

This study contains 2 phases. The first part is the called the "Collection and Manufacturing Phase" and the second is the "Treatment Phase".

The Collection and Manufacturing Phase refers to your blood cells being collected and possibly frozen, via a process called apheresis. These cells will then be changed to improve their ability to recognize and kill cancer cells.

The Treatment Phase refers to the portion of the study in which you receive an infusion of the CD123-CAR T cells that were made in the Collection and Manufacturing Phase; chemotherapy is given for several days prior to the cellular infusion. You are then monitored for any possible side effects.

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Chemotherapy is given to get your body ready to accept the CATCHAML treatment.

Treatment Schedule:

Patients will receive lymphodepleting chemotherapy followed by infusion of CD123-CAR T cells

Fludarabine on day -4, -3 and -2

Cyclophosphamide on day -3 and -2

REST DAY on day -1

CD123-CAR T cell infusion on day 0 or +1

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 32
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Swati Naik, MD; Phone Number: 866-278-5833; Email: referralinfo@stjude.org

Study Locations

• United States
  • Tennessee
    • Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105
      • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    • Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105
      • St Jude Children's Research Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: No older than 19 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria for Procurement and T-cell Production:

• Age ≤21 years old
• Relapsed/refractory CD123+ disease defined as follows:

AML/MDS

• Relapsed disease: Patients developing recurrent disease after a first complete remission (CR)
• Refractory disease: Patients not achieving a CR after 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy

B-cell ALL

• Relapsed disease that is CD123 positive and CD19 negative/dim or patients otherwise ineligible for CD19 directed therapies including

  • Patients in 2nd or greater relapse
  • Patients with relapse after allogeneic HSCT
• Refractory disease that is CD123 positive and CD19 negative/dim or patients otherwise ineligible for CD19 directed therapies

T-cell All • Relapsed refractory disease that is CD123 positive

BPDCN

• Relapsed/refractory disease that has failed front-line therapy

• Estimated life expectancy of >12 weeks
• Karnofsky or Lansky (age-dependent) performance score ≥50
• Patients with a history of prior allogeneic HCT must be clinically recovered from prior HCT therapy, have no evidence of active GVHD and have not received a donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) within the 28 days prior to apheresis
• Patient must have an identified, suitable HCT donor
• For females of child-bearing age:
• Not lactating with intent to breastfeed
• Not pregnant with negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to enrollment
• Meets eligibility criteria to undergo autologous apheresis, or have previously undergone autologous apheresis

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known primary immunodeficiency
• History of HIV infection
• Severe intercurrent uncontrolled bacterial, viral or fungal infection (e.g. active hepatitis B or C infection or adenovirus infection)
• History of hypersensitivity reactions to murine protein-containing products
• Patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL, t (15;17))
• Known contraindication to the protocol defined lymphodepleting chemotherapy regimen of fludarabine/cyclophosphamide.

Inclusion Criteria for Treatment:

• Age≤21 years old
• Detectable disease that is CD123+ (at least MRD+ disease)
• Estimated life expectancy of >8 weeks
• Karnofsky or Lansky (age-dependent) performance score≥50
• Patients with a history of prior allogeneic HCT must be clinically recovered from prior HCT therapy, have no evidence of active GVHD and have not received a donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) within the 28 days prior to planned infusion
• Patient must have an identified, suitable HCT donor
• Adequate cardiac function defined as left ventricular ejection fraction >40%, OR shortening fraction ≥25%
• EKG without evidence of clinically significant arrhythmia
• Adequate renal function defined as creatinine clearance or radioisotope GFR ≥50 ml/min/1.73m2 (GFR ≥40 ml/min/1.73m2 if < 2 years of age)
• Adequate pulmonary function defined as forced vital capacity (FVC)≥50% of predicted value; or pulse oximetry≥92% on room air if patient is unable to perform pulmonary function testing
• Total Bilirubin≤3 times the upper limit of normal for age, except in subjects with Gilbert's syndrome
• Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) OR aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤5 times the upper limit of normal for age
• Has recovered from all NCI CTAE grade III-IV, non-hematologic acute toxicities from prior therapy

• For females of child-bearing age

  • Not lactating with intent to breastfeed
  • Not pregnant with negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to enrollment
• If sexually active, agreement to use birth control until 3 months after T- cell infusion. Male partners should use a condom.
• Available autologous transduced T-cell product that has met GMP release criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known primary immunodeficiency
• History of HIV infection
• Severe intercurrent uncontrolled bacterial, viral or fungal infection
• History of hypersensitivity reactions to murine protein-containing products
• History of severe hypersensitivity reactions to cornstarch or hydroxyethyl starch.
• Receiving systemic steroids therapy exceeding the equivalent of 0.5 mg/kg/day of methylprednisolone, in the 7 days prior to CD123-CAR T- cell infusion
• Receiving systemic therapy in the 14 days prior to CD123-CAR T-cell infusion, which will interfere with the activity of the CD123-CAR T cells in vivo (in the opinion of the study PI(s))
• Receiving rituximab therapy in the 30 days prior to CD123-CAR T cell infusion. (This exclusion criterion is intended to prevent premature exposure of CD123-CAR T cells to rituximab, which would activate the safety switch and promote CAR T-cell apoptosis).
• Receiving intrathecal chemotherapy in the 7 days prior to CD123-CAR T cell infusion.
• Known contraindication to the protocol defined lymphodepleting chemotherapy regimen of fludarabine/cyclophosphamide.
• Active CNS disease

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Other: CD123-CAR T cell therapy; CD123-CAR T-cell dose and infusion Up to 4 Dose levels will be evaluated with a maximum dose of 2.5 x 10^8 CAR+ T cells. If dose limiting toxicities (DLTs) are observed on Dose level 1 then the cell dose is de- escalated.

Drug: Cyclophosphamide; Cyclophosphamide is a nitrogen mustard derivative. It acts as an alkylating agent that causes cross-linking of DNA strands by binding with nucleic acids and other intracellular structures, thus interfering with the normal function of DNA.; Other Names: Cytoxan; Drug: CD123-CAR T; To treat relapsed/refractory CD123+ AML/MDS, B-ALL, T-ALL or BPDCN patient population that needs new cancer-directed therapies.; Other Names: CD123-CAR T cells; Drug: Fludarabine; Fludarabine phosphate is a synthetic purine nucleoside analog. It acts by inhibiting DNA polymerase, ribonucleotide reductase and DNA primase by competing with the physiologic substrate, deoxyadenosine triphosphate, resulting in inhibition of DNA synthesis; Other Names: Fludara; Drug: Mesna; Mesna is a synthetic sulfhydryl (thiol) compound. Mesna contains free sulfhydryl groups that interact chemically with urotoxic metabolites of oxaza-phosphorine derivatives such as cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide; Drug: Rituximab; Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody directed against the CD20 antigen on the surface of B-lymphocytes; Other Names: Rituxan

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Maximum tolerated dose of CD123-CAR T cells (CATCHAML)	A phase I design to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of autologous, CD123- CAR T cells. Four dose levels (3x10^5/kg, 1x10^6/kg, 3x10^6/kg, and 1x10^7/kg) will be evaluated.	4 weeks after CD123-CAR T-cell infusion

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Swati Naik, MD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Principal Investigator: Paulina Velasquez, MD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Clinical Trials Open at St. Jude

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 29, 2020
• Primary Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 20, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 20, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): March 24, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 30, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 28, 2023
• Last Verified: August 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: CD123+
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Leukemia; Leukemia, Myeloid; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Antirheumatic Agents; Antineoplastic Agents; Immunosuppressive Agents; Immunologic Factors; Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating; Alkylating Agents; Myeloablative Agonists; Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological; Cyclophosphamide; Rituximab; Fludarabine
• Other Study ID Numbers: CATCHAML

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: Individual participant de-identified datasets containing the variables analyzed in the published article will be made available (related to the study primary or secondary objectives contained in the publication). Supporting documents such as the protocol, statistical analyses plan, and informed consent are available through the CTG website for the specific study. Data used to generate the published article will be made available at the time of article publication. Investigators who seek access to individual level de-identified data will contact the computing team in the Department of Biostatistics (ClinTrialDataRequest@stjude.org) who will respond to the data request.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: Data will be made available at the time of article publication.
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: Data will be provided to researchers following a formal request with the following information: full name of requestor, affiliation, data set requested, and timing of when data is needed. As an informational point, the lead statistician and study principal investigator will be informed that primary results datasets have been requested.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; SAP; ICF

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: Yes