💬In plain words
What the trial is, and whether it could suit you
This early phase I trial tests the safety and side effects of allogeneic CMV-specific CD19-CAR T cells plus CMV-MVA vaccine and how well it works in treating patients with high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia after a matched related donor (allogeneic) hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alloHSCT). Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a type of treatment in which T cells (a type of immune system cell) are changed in the laboratory so they will attack cancer cells. T cells are taken from a patient's blood, in this study, the T cells are cytomegalovirus (CMV) specific. Then the gene for a special receptor that binds to a certain protein, CD19, on the patient's cancer cells is added to the CMV-specific T cells in the laboratory. The special receptor is called a CAR. Large numbers of the CAR T cells are grown in the laboratory and given to the patient by infusion for treatment
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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria:
* Documented informed consent of the participant and/or legally authorized representative
* Assent, when appropriate, will be obtained per institutional guidelines
* Agreement to allow the use of archival tissue from diagnostic tumor biopsies
* If unavailable, exceptions may be granted with study PI approval
* Note: For research participants who do not speak English, a short form consent may be used with a City of Hope (COH) certified interpreter/translator to proceed with screening and leukapheresis, while the request for a translated full consent is processed
* Age: ≥ 18 years
* Karnofsky performance status (KPS) ≥ 70
* Participants with high-risk ALL defined as:
* Any complete remission (CR) with minimal residual disease (MRD)+ (by flow cytometry, polymerase chain reaction \[PCR\] or clonoSEQ) at the time of HSCT; or
* Blasts ≥ 5% at the time of transplant; or
* Complete response (CR)2 or higher irrespective of MRD status; or
* Requiring \> 1 regimen to achieve CR1
* Pathology confirmed CD19+ ALL after the last targeted therapy if the patient has active disease or before the last therapy if the patient is in CR
* Note: CD19 positivity must be documented in a pathology report; however, it is not a requirement that the CD19 testing be performed by a COH pathologist
* Planned allogeneic HSCT (myeloablative or reduced intensity conditioning) according to institutional eligibility requirements with an available 8/8 (HLA A, B, C, DR) allele-matched related is allowed per discretion of the principal investigator. for allogeneic HSCT will be unmanipulated mobilized peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) or bone marrow
* Participants who received other prior forms of CAR T therapy are eligible
* No known contraindications to HSCT, leukapheresis, steroids or tocilizum,ab, smallpox vaccine and any other modified vaccinia ankara virus (MVA)-based vaccines
* Total serum bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to hematopoeitic stem cell \[HSC\] infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Participants with Gilbert syndrome may be included if their total bilirubin is ≤ 3.0 (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) \< 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Alanine aminotransferase \< 2.5 x ULN (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Serum creatinine ≤ 2.5 x ULN or estimated creatinine clearance of ≥ 40 mL/min per the Cockcroft-Gault formula, and the participant is not on hemodialysis (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Cardiac function (12 lead-electrocardiogram \[ECG\]): Corrected QT interval (QTc) must be ≤ 480 msec (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Left ventricular ejection fraction ≥ 45% within 8 weeks before protocol therapy (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Oxygen (O2) saturation \> 92% without requiring supplemental oxygen (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Seronegative for HIV quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), hepatitis C virus (HCV), active hepatitis B virus (HBV) (surface antigen negative), and syphilis (RPR) (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* If positive, hepatitis C ribonucleic acid (RNA) quantitation must be performed OR
* If seropositive for HIV, HCV or HBV, nucleic acid quantitation must be performed. Viral load must be undetectable
* Negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours of day 0 of protocol therapy (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Negative for human herpes virus-6 (HHV6) by PCR-based assay (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Meets other institutional and federal requirements for infectious disease titer requirements (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Participants must have negative QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFTG) test (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* Participants with positive QFTG test need clearance from ID before protocol therapy
* Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP): Negative urine or serum pregnancy test (to be performed no more than 45-days prior to HSC infusion unless otherwise stated)
* If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required
* Agreement by females and males of childbearing potential to use an effective method of birth control or abstain from heterosexual activity for the course of the study through at least 6 months after the last dose of protocol therapy
* Childbearing potential defined as not being surgically sterilized (men and women) or have not been free from menses for \> 1 year (women only)
* DONOR CRITERIA: The identified donor must be the original donor whose stem cells were used for the research participant's alloHSCT
* DONOR CRITERIA: Donor must be CMV seropositive through the following:
* CMV seropositive AND
* CMV positive by CMV insight T cell immunity testing through Viracor (Test code 30360)
* DONOR CRITERIA: The donor's hepatitis B surface antigen must be negative and the hepatitis C antibody must be nonreactive. In the case of a positive hepatitis C antibody result, the HCV viral PCR will have to be performed and the results should be negative
* DONOR CRITERIA: The donor must be HIV negative
* DONOR CRITERIA: KPS ≥ 70
* DONOR CRITERIA: Documented body weight
* DONOR CRITERIA: Willingness to sign 'donor consent form' and undergo T cell leukapheresis for the collection of PBMCs for cellular manufacture
* DONOR CRITERIA: COH standard opera