TCR Alpha Beta T-cell Depleted Haploidentical HCT in the Treatment of Non-Malignant Hematological Disorders in Children

Study of TCR Alpha Beta T-Cell and CD19 B-Cell Depletion for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation From Haploidentical Donors in the Treatment of Non-Malignant Hematological Disorders in Children

This research is being done to learn if a new type of haploidentical transplantation using TCR alpha beta and CD19 depleted stem cell graft from the donor is safe and effective to treat the patient's underlying condition. This study will use stem cells obtained via peripheral blood or bone marrow from parent or other half-matched family member donor. These will be processed through a special device called CliniMACS, which is considered investigational.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Severe Aplastic Anemia; Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome; Hemoglobinopathy (Disorder)
• Intervention / Treatment: Biological: Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 17
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Jade Hanson, MSN; Phone Number: 7277676468; Email: jade.hanson@jhmi.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States, 33701
      • Recruiting
      • Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
      • Contact: Ian Snyder; Email: ISnyder5@jhmi.edu
      • Principal Investigator: Deepak Chellapandian, MD

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 1 second to 21 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Severe sickle cell disease (HbSS, HbSC, HbSB0, HbSB+, HbSD, HbSE) with at least one of the following criteria:

   1. Cerebrovascular accident lasting longer than 24 hours
   2. Impaired neuropsychological function with abnormal brain MRI/MRA
   3. Patients with frequent (≥ 3 per year for preceding 2 years) painful vaso-occlusive episodes
   4. Recurrent (≥ 3 in lifetime) acute chest syndrome events which have necessitated erythrocyte transfusion therapy
   5. Any combination of ≥ 3 acute chest syndrome episodes and vaso-occlusive pain episodes yearly for 3 years and have failed treatment with hydroxyurea (HU) (at least 6 months on maximum tolerated dose) or who are intolerant to HU therapy

2. Thalassemia major with at least one of the following criteria:

   1. Transfusion dependency defined as receiving 8 or more transfusions per year
   2. Thalassemia diagnosis documented by clinical assessment, laboratory evidence with microcytic anemia and absence of HbA (< 10%) on electrophoresis and or confirmation by DNA analysis of alpha and beta gene loci
   3. Genotypically proven thalassemia major for children < 2 years of age even in the absence of transfusion dependency
   4. Lucarelli class 1 or 2 risk status (i.e. with only 0-2 of the following factors: hepatomegaly, portal fibrosis, or poor response to chelation therapy)

3. Bone marrow failure syndromes and autoimmune cytopenias:

   1. Severe Aplastic Anemia refractory to immunosuppressive therapy
   2. Diamond Blackfan Anemia refractory to conventional therapy
   3. Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes such as Fanconi anemia and Shwachman-Diamond syndrome with progressive marrow failure (without cytogenetic evidence of MDS/AML)
   4. Severe Congenital Neutropenia
   5. Congenital Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
   6. Glanzmann Thrombasthenia
   7. Autoimmune Cytopenias refractory to conventional treatment (including Pure red cell aplasia, Evan's syndrome, Immune thrombocytopenia, autoimmune hemolytic anemia)
   8. Other marrow failure disorders not otherwise specified

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patient has a suitable genotypic identical match of 5/10. The donor and recipient must be identical, as determined by high resolution typing, at least one allele of each of the following genetic loci: HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1.

2. Patients must have adequate organ function measured by:

   1. Cardiac: asymptomatic or if symptomatic then LVEF at rest must be ≥ 40% or SF ≥ 26%
   2. Pulmonary: asymptomatic or if symptomatic DLCO ≥ 40% of predicted (corrected for hemoglobin) or pulse oximetry ≥ 92% on room air if the patient is unable to perform pulmonary function testing.
   3. Renal: Creatinine clearance (CrCl) or glomerular filtration rate (GFR) must be > 50 mL/min/1.73 m2.
   4. Hepatic: Serum conjugated (direct) bilirubin < 2.0 x ULN for age as per local laboratory unless attributable to Gilbert's syndrome; AST and ALT < 5.0 x ULN for age as per local laboratory. Patients with hyperbilirubinemia as a consequence of hyperhemolysis, or a profound change in serum hemoglobin post blood transfusion, are not excluded.
   5. Karnofsky or Lansky (age-dependent) performance score ≥ 50
3. Signed written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Participants who have an HLA-matched sibling who is able and willing to donate bone marrow. Patients with a HLA-matched unrelated donors are not excluded.
2. Pregnant or breastfeeding females.
3. Patient has HIV or uncontrolled fungal, bacterial or viral infections.
4. Patient has received prior solid organ transplant.
5. Patient has active GVHD (> grade II) or chronic extensive GVHD due to a previous allograft at the time of inclusion.
6. For patients with hemoglobinopathy, liver biopsy is necessary if the patient has received chronic transfusions for over a year and has two ferritin levels of ≥ 1000 ng/ml. Patients with cirrhosis, extensive bridging hepatic fibrosis, or active hepatitis are excluded from enrollment.

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
Experimental: TCR alpha beta T cell depletion; The leukapheresis product will undergo TCR alpha beta negative selection following a standardized protocol	Biological: Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation; TCR alpha beta T-cell and CD19 B-cell depleted haploidentical transplantation

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Incidence of successful donor engraftment	The incidence of engraftment at day 100 will be described based on donor chimerism in the whole blood and or fractions sorted for T-cell and myeloid subsets. The donor chimerism will be scored as autologous reconstitution (< 5% donor), mixed chimerism (5-49%=low mixed, 50-95%=high mixed), > 95%=full donor chimerism.	Day 100 after transplantation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall survival and Event-free survival	Overall survival is defined as the time of enrollment to death from any cause or last follow up. Event-free survival is defined as the time of enrollment to death, primary or secondary graft failure, graft failure necessitating a second HCT procedure, DLI or stem cell boost given for treatment of falling chimerism, or disease recurrence	Up to 2 years post transplant
Transplant-related mortality	Rate of transplant-related mortality	Up to 100 days post transplant
Cellular and Immunological reconstitution by laboratory evaluations	The recovery of different lymphocyte subpopulation (CD3+; CD4+; CD8+; CD3+CD45RA+and CD45RO; TCR alpha beta; TCR gamma delta; CD19+)	Up to 2 years post transplant
Kinetics of neutrophil and platelet engraftment	Neutrophil engraftment defined as absolute neutrophil count ≥500/μL for 3 consecutive measurements on different days and platelet engraftment defined as sustained platelet count >20,000/μL and >50,000//μL with no platelet transfusions in the preceding seven days.	Up to 42 days post transplant
Acute grade II-IV GvHD and Chronic GvHD	Incidence and severity of acute and chronic graft versus host disease	Up to 2 years post transplant
Primary and secondary graft failure	Rates of primary and secondary graft failure	Up to 2 years post transplant
Transplant-related complications and infections	Frequency of transplant-related complications and rate of infections following transplantation	Up to 2 years post transplant

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Deepak Chellapandian, MD, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 22, 2020
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 19, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 21, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): April 22, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 13, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 8, 2023
• Last Verified: September 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Bone Marrow Diseases; Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Anemia; Hematologic Diseases; Anemia, Aplastic; Hemoglobinopathies; Bone Marrow Failure Disorders; Pancytopenia
• Other Study ID Numbers: HAP-HEM

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No