CART19 to Treat B-Cell Leukemia or Lymphoma That Are Resistant or Refractory to Chemotherapy

Summary

This is a Pilot/Phase I, single arm, single center, open label study to determine the safety, efficacy and cellular kinetics of CART19 (CTL019) in chemotherapy resistant or refractory CD19+ leukemia and lymphoma subjects. The study consists of three Phases:

1\) a Screening Phase, followed by 2) an Intervention/Treatment Phase consisting of apheresis, lymphodepleting chemotherapy (determined by the Investigator and based on subject's disease burden and histology, as well as on the prior chemotherapy history received), infusions of CTL019, tumor collection by bone marrow aspiration or lymph node biopsy (optional, depending on availability), and 3) a Follow-up Phase.

The suitability of subjects' T cells for CTL019 manufacturing was determined at study entry.

Subjects with adequate T cells were leukapheresed to obtain large numbers of peripheral blood mononuclear cells for CTL019 manufacturing. The T cells were purified from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells, transduced with TCR-ζ/4-1BB lentiviral vector, expanded in vitro and then frozen for future administration. The number of subjects who had inadequate T cell collections, expansion or manufacturing compared to the number of subjects who had T cells successfully manufactured is a primary measure of feasibility of this study.

Unless contraindicated and medically not advisable based on previous chemotherapy, subjects were given conditioning chemotherapy prior to CTL019 infusion. The chemotherapy was completed 1 to 4 days before the planned infusion of the first dose of CTL019.

Up to 20 evaluable subjects with CD19+ leukemia or lymphoma were planned to be dosed with CTL019. A single dose of CTL019 (consisting of approximately 5x10\^9 total cells, with a minimal acceptable dose for infusion of 1.5x10\^7 CTL019 cells) was to be given to subjects as fractions (10%, 30% and 60% of the total dose) on Day 0, 1 and 2. A second 100% dose of CTL019 was initially permitted to be given on Day 11 to 14 to subjects, providing they had adequate tolerance to the first dose and sufficient CTL019 was manufactured.

Conditions

• Hematopoietic/Lymphoid Cancer
• Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Remission
• B-cell Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• B-cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• Prolymphocytic Leukemia
• Recurrent Adult Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma
• Recurrent Grade 1 Follicular Lymphoma
• Recurrent Grade 2 Follicular Lymphoma
• Recurrent Grade 3 Follicular Lymphoma
• Recurrent Mantle Cell Lymphoma
• Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• Stage III Adult Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma
• Stage III Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• Stage III Grade 1 Follicular Lymphoma
• Stage III Grade 2 Follicular Lymphoma
• Stage III Grade 3 Follicular Lymphoma
• Stage III Mantle Cell Lymphoma
• Stage IV Adult Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma
• Stage IV Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• Stage IV Grade 1 Follicular Lymphoma
• Stage IV Grade 2 Follicular Lymphoma
• Stage IV Grade 3 Follicular Lymphoma
• Stage IV Mantle Cell Lymphoma

Interventions

BIOLOGICAL

CART-19

Autologous T cells purified from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of subjects, transduced with TCR-ζ/4-1BB lentiviral vector, expanded in vitro and then frozen for future administration.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pennsylvania

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Noelle Frey, MD · Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2010-03-17

Primary Completion

2015-07-31

Completion

2016-05-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations