Natural Killer(NK) Cell Therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Phase I Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of NK Cell Therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).

This is a phase 1, first-in-human (FIH), open-label, multicohort study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of iPSC NK cells in patients with relapsed/refractory AML or AML Minimal Residual Disease (MRD).

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Minimal Residual Disease; AML, Adult
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Cyclophosphamid; Drug: Fludarabine; Drug: Cytarabine; Drug: CD33/CLL1 dual CAR-NK cell; Drug: CD33 CAR-NK cell; Drug: super NK cell

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 102
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Jianxiang Wang; Phone Number: 022-23909120; Email: wangjx@ihcams.ac.cn
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Ying Wang, M.D.; Phone Number: 022-23909278; Email: wangying1@ihcams.ac.cn

Study Locations

• China
  • Tianjin, China
    • Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital
    • Contact: Jianxiang Wang; Phone Number: 022-23909120; Email: wangjx@ihcams.ac.cn

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Provision of signed and dated informed consent form (ICF).
2. ≥18 years old.
3. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤1 and life expectancy greater than 12 weeks.
4. Diagnosis of r/r AML (Cohort 1 and 2) or AML MRD (Cohort 3).
5. Cohort 1: Both CLL1 and CD33 expression are positive in AML blasts; Cohort 2: The expression of CD33 in AML blast is positive.

6. Adequate organ and marrow function, as defined below:

   1. Blood creatinine (Cr) ≤ 2 x ULN or calculated creatinine clearance (Cockcroft-Gault formula) ≥ 50 mL/min;
   2. Total bilirubin (TBIL) ≤ 2 x the ULN;
   3. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3 x ULN;
   4. International normalized ratio (INR) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) ≤ 1.5 x ULN;
7. Females of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test.
8. Donor specific antibody (DSA) is negative: MFI <= 2000.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Allergic to drug used in this study.

2. Subjects received any antitumor therapy as follows, prior to first NK infusion:

   1. Systemic steroid therapy within 3 days (except physiological replacement therapy);
   2. Systemic antitumor therapy within 2 weeks or at least 5 half-lives, whichever is less;
   3. Radiotherapy within 4 weeks;
   4. Donor lymphocyte infusion within 6 weeks;
   5. Intrathecal treatment within 1 week;
   6. CAR-T therapy, CAR-NK therapy, or any other genetically modified cell therapy product within 6 months;
3. History of allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
4. Received the vaccine within 4 weeks prior to the first infusion and/or expected to require vaccination from the study period to 12 weeks after the last infusion.
5. Active central nervous system Leukemia.
6. Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL).
7. History of other malignant tumors, except for those who have achieved complete remission more than 5 years after radical treatment without any signs of recurrence.
8. Active autoimmune diseases.
9. History of central nervous system disease or meningeal involvement such as epilepsy, paralysis, aphasia, stroke, etc.

10. Serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases:

    1. Severe heart rhythm or conduction abnormalities, corrected QT interval (QTc)≥480 ms;
    2. Acute coronary syndrome, congestive heart failure, aortic dissection, stroke, or other grade 3 or higher cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events within 6 months prior to first infusion;
    3. New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II or above congestive heart failure or left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <50% in color Doppler echocardiography;
    4. Hypertension that cannot be controlled by drug.
11. Active pulmonary infection; SpO2 ≤90%; Pulmonary embolism, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or interstitial lung disease.
12. Uncontrolled bacterial, fungal, or viral infection. Known HIV infection, active Hepatitis B (HBV) or Hepatitis C (HCV) infection.
13. History of substance abuse.
14. Toxicity induced by previous therapy not recovered to ≤ grade 2(NCI-CTCAE v5.0).
15. Large surgical treatment within 4 weeks prior to first infusion, not including diagnostic biopsy.
16. Pregnant/breastfeeding women.
17. Investigator-assessed presence of any medical or social issues that are likely to interfere with study conduct or may cause increased risk to subject.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: CD33/CLL1 dual CAR-NK cell; CLL1/CD33 dual CAR-NK cell therapy in Adult subjects with r/r AML	Drug: Cyclophosphamid; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: Fludarabine; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: Cytarabine; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: CD33/CLL1 dual CAR-NK cell; NK cell therapy
Experimental: CD33 CAR-NK cell; CD33 CAR-NK cell therapy in Adult subjects with r/r AML	Drug: Cyclophosphamid; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: Fludarabine; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: Cytarabine; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: CD33 CAR-NK cell; NK cell therapy
Experimental: super NK cell; super NK cell therapy in Adult subjects with AML MRD	Drug: Cyclophosphamid; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: Fludarabine; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: Cytarabine; Lympho-conditioning Agent; Drug: super NK cell; NK cell therapy

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events [Safety and Tolerability]	28 Days from first dose of iPSC NK cell infusion
Incidence of subjects with Dose Limiting Toxicities within each dose level cohort	28 Days from first dose of iPSC NK cell infusion

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall Response Rate(ORR)		Up to approximately 2 years after last dose of iPSC NK cell infusion
MRD negative rate		28 Days from first dose of iPSC NK cell infusion
Event-free survival		Up to approximately 2 years after last dose of iPSC NK cell infusion]
Relapse-free survival		Up to approximately 2 years after last dose of iPSC NK cell infusion
Overall survival (OS)		Up to approximately 2 years after last dose of iPSC NK cell infusion
Determination of the pharmacokinetics (PK) of iPSC NK cells in peripheral blood	The PK of iPSC NK in peripheral blood will be reported as the relative percentage of product DNA versus patient DNA (% chimerism) measured from blood samples at the specified time points.	Up to approximately 2 years after last dose of iPSC NK cell infusion

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital
• Collaborators: Hangzhou Qihan Biotech Co.,Ltd.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): August 10, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): August 31, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): August 31, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 24, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 4, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): August 14, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 14, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 4, 2023
• Last Verified: August 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Neoplastic Processes; Leukemia; Leukemia, Myeloid; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; Neoplasm, Residual; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Anti-Infective Agents; Antiviral Agents; Antirheumatic Agents; Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic; Antimetabolites; Antineoplastic Agents; Immunosuppressive Agents; Immunologic Factors; Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating; Alkylating Agents; Myeloablative Agonists; Cyclophosphamide; Fludarabine; Cytarabine
• Other Study ID Numbers: QH-TJ-01

Drug and device information, study documents

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