Study of CT071 Injection in RRMM or PPCL

A Clinical Trial to Explore the Safety and Efficacy of CT071 Injection in Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma or Primary Plasma Cell Leukemia

A Clinical Trial to Explore the Safety and Efficacy of CT071 injection in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma or Primary Plasma Cell Leukemia

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Multiple Myeloma; Primary Plasma Cell Leukemia
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Experimental: CAR-T cells Infusion

Detailed Description

This trial is a single-arm, open-label, dose-finding, first-in-human clinical trial. The main aim of this study is to preliminarily evaluate the safety and tolerability of CT071 after infusion, and explore the dose range of CT071 in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma or primary plasma cell leukemia, so as to determine the possible recommended therapeutic dose (RD).

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 18
• Phase: Early Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Juan Du; Phone Number: +8615800706091; Email: changzheng_pg@163.com

Study Locations

• China
  • Shanghai, China
    • Recruiting
    • Shanghai Changzheng Hospital
    • Contact: Juan Du, Ph.D; Email: juan_du@live.com
    • Principal Investigator: Juan Du, Ph.D

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Volunteer to participate in the clinical trial; fully understand and are informed of this trial and sign the informed consent form; Willing to follow and able to complete all trial procedures;
2. Age ≥ 18 years, male or female;
3. Patients with multiple myeloma who were resistant to at least two classes of anti-multiple myeloma drugs with at least one proteasome inhibitor (e.g., bortezomib, ixazomib, carfilzomib, etc.) and at least one immunomodulatory agent (e.g., lenalidomide, pomalidomide, etc.) with relapse, progression, failure to achieve remission, or documented intolerable toxicity; Or patients with multiple myeloma who had failed at least three lines of therapy (required prior therapy containing at least one proteasome inhibitor and at least one immunomodulatory agent). Patients with secondary plasma-cell leukemia had received at least one line of therapy;
4. Patients with primary plasma cell leukemia progressed after treatment with at least 1 regimen;
5. Progressive disease at the time of enrollment according to the IMWG consensus for myeloma or plasma cell leukemia;

6. Have any of the following evaluable conditions:

   1. Serum M-protein ≥ 5 g/L;
   2. 24-hour urine M-protein ≥ 200 mg;
   3. Abnormal serum free light chain (sFLC) ratio and affected FLC ≥ 100 mg/L in subjects with multiple myeloma who did not meet evaluable criteria for either serum or urine M-protein levels;
   4. Circulating plasma cells ≥ 5%;
7. Estimated survival > 12 weeks;
8. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score 0-2;
9. Subjects had adequate organ function.
10. Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test at screening, be willing to use a highly effective and reliable method of contraception within 1 year after receiving the trial treatment, and absolutely prohibit egg donation during the trial and within 1 year after receiving the trial treatment;
11. Male subjects, if sexually active with a female of childbearing potential, are willing to use a highly effective and reliable method of contraception for 1 year after receiving trial treatment. All male subjects are absolutely prohibited from donating sperm during the trial and for 1 year after receiving the trial treatment.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Pregnant or lactating females;
2. Patients with a history of neurological disease, such as epilepsy, intracranial hemorrhage, paralysis, aphasia, stroke, severe brain injury, dementia, Parkinson's disease, cerebellar disease, memory impairment, spinal cord compression, psychiatric disease or any disease involving the central nervous system, or suspected central nervous system (CNS) metastasis;
3. Patients with other incurable malignant tumors within 5 years or at the same time, except for those with very low degree of malignancy;
4. Patients with active autoimmune diseases, including but not limited to psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and other patients requiring long-term immunosuppressive therapy;
5. Received allogeneic stem cell transplantation within two years prior to screening;
6. Received autologous stem cell transplantation within 12 weeks prior to screening, or plan to receive autologous stem cell transplantation during the trial;
7. Any uncontrolled disease or disorder with important clinical significance investigator considered not applicable for the study;
8. Patients who had any uncontrolled active infection (defined as the presence of persistent signs or symptoms associated with infection that did not improve despite appropriate antiinfective treatment) or who required intravenous antiinfective agents (except for prophylactic treatment) within 4 weeks before apheresis. If there is clinical indications, investigators should consider screening EBV, CMV, and other related pathogenic microorganisms;
9. Major surgery within 2 weeks prior to screening, or planning to undergo major surgery within 4 weeks after trial treatment (excluding cataract and other surgery under local anesthesia);
10. Received treatment for the disease under study within 2 weeks prior to apheresis(or within five half-lives of the drug, whichever is shorter), including but not limited to cytotoxic therapy, proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulators, targeted therapy, radiotherapy, epigenetic therapy, etc.; Received anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monoclonal antibody or other investigational drug/invasive medical device within 4 weeksprior to apheresis;
11. Vaccination with live attenuated vaccine or mRNA vaccine within 8 weeks and inactivated vaccine within 4 weeks before screening;
12. Patients who are allergic or intolerant to CLD drugs, tocilizumab, or allergic to the ingredients of CT071 cell infusion preparation (DMSO); Or previous history of other severe allergies, such as anaphylactic shock;
13. Positive test results for any of the following: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody, Treponema pallidum antibody, hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA, hepatitis B virus (HBV) surface antigen (HBsAg), HBV DNA;
14. The toxicities caused by the previous treatment have not recovered to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) ≤ Grade 1, except for alopecia and other tolerable events as judged by the investigator;
15. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 50%;
16. Oxygen saturation < 92% at room air;
17. Received glucocorticoids within 7 days prior to apheresis, with the exception of inhaled glucocorticoids and physiologic replacement doses;
18. Other conditions considered inappropriate for participation in this clinical trial by the investigator.

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: CAR-T cells Infusion; Biological: CART cells chimeric antigen receptor T cells	Drug: Experimental: CAR-T cells Infusion; Biological: chimeric antigen receptor T cells; Other Names: Single Group Assignment

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
DLT after CT071 infusion	Evaluate DLT and adverse events after CT071 infusion	Assessed from the date of first dose of study treatment until 21~28 days
AE of Neurotoxicity and cytokine release syndrome after CT071 infusion	Cytokine release syndrome（CRS）should be evaluated according to the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) consensus grading，higher scores mean a worse outcome.	From first dose of study drug adminisration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)
Adverse Events (AE) after CT071 infusion	An assessment of severity grade will be made according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE), with the exception of cytokine release syndrome (CRS), and immune effector cellassociated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS).	From first dose of study drug administration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Level of CAR-T Cell Expansion (proliferation), and Persistence	Levels of cell expansion (proliferation), and persistence via monitoring CAR-T positive cell counts and CAR transgene level will be reported.	From first dose of study drug administration to 26 weeks
Cytokines in the peripheral blood after CT071 infusion	Serum concentrations of interleukin (IL)-2, IL-6，IL-8，IL-10，interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), and TNF-α after CT071 infusion	From first dose of study drug administration to 4 weeks
Preliminary evaluation of immunogenicity	ADA positive rate	From first dose of study drug administration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)
Overall response rate (ORR) as measured by International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) criteria after CT071 infusion	ORR defined as proportion of patients achieving PR or better based on IMWG defined response criteria	From first dose of study drug administration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)
Rate of very good partial response (VGPR) and above, complete response/stringent complete response (CR/sCR);	Rate of very good partial response (VGPR) and above defined as proportion of patients achieving VGPR or better based on IMWG defined response criteria; Rate of complete response/stringent complete response (CR/sCR) defined as proportion of patients achieving CR or better based on IMWG defined response criteria.	From first dose of study drug administration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)
Duration of response (DOR)	DOR is defined as the time from first achieving PR or better to confirmed disease progression or death from any cause.	From first dose of study drug administration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)
Minimal residual disease (MRD) negative rate;	Minimal residual disease (MRD) negative rate is defined as the proportion of patients with VGPR or better who achieved 10-5 sensitivity of nucleated cell.	From first dose of study drug administration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)
Time to response (TTR)	TTR defined as the time from the date of apheresis to the date of initial assessment of PR or better in patients with a best response assessment of partial response or better according to IMWG2016 criteria.	From first dose of study drug administration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)
Progression-free survival (PFS)	PFS defined as the time from the date of apheresis of the subject to the first assessment of confirmed disease progression or death from any cause according to IMWG2016 criteria, whichever occurs first.	From first dose of study drug administration to end of treatment (up to 12 months)
Overall survival (OS)	OS defined as the time from the date of apheresis of the subject to death from any cause.	From first dose of study drug administration to death

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Shanghai Changzheng Hospital
• Collaborators: CARsgen Therapeutics Co., Ltd.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Juan Du, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 28, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): November 30, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): November 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 3, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 20, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): May 1, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): December 1, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 30, 2023
• Last Verified: November 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: CAR-T; multiple myeloma; primary plasma cell leukemia
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Cardiovascular Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Immune System Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Hematologic Diseases; Hemorrhagic Disorders; Hemostatic Disorders; Paraproteinemias; Blood Protein Disorders; Multiple Myeloma; Neoplasms, Plasma Cell; Leukemia; Leukemia, Plasma Cell
• Other Study ID Numbers: CT071-CG7001

Drug and device information, study documents

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