RecruitingPhase 1

Anti-CRLF2-R/TSLPR Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells (TSLPR-CART) in Participants With Recurrent or Refractory CRLF2-R/TSLPR-Overexpressing B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL)

Phase I Dose Escalation Study of Anti-CRLF2-R/TSLPR Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells (TSLPR-CART) in Participants With Recurrent or Refractory CRLF2-R/TSLPR-Overexpressing B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL)

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years to 120 Years
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

  • Time periods mentioned: 5 days, 2 years
  • Procedures mentioned: Spinal tap (lumbar puncture)

Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.

Show the study's own words
  • "They will have a lumbar puncture: A needle will be inserted into their back to collect a sample of the fluid around the spinal cord."
  • "Participants will take chemotherapy over 5 days to prepare their body for the therapy; then they will receive the modified cells through a tube inserted into a vein."
  • "Participants will have follow-up visits for 2 years after TSLPR-CART either at NIH or at home...."
Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests TSLPR-CART, a treatment that changes a person’s immune cells to attack blood cancer cells. Researchers want to learn if it is safe and may help adults with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) that came back or did not respond to treatment. The cancer cells must have a protein called TSLPR.

Background: B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is a type of blood cancer. Some people with B-ALL have a gene mutation that makes the disease hard to treat. The mutation causes cancer cells to make too much of a protein called thymic stromal lymphopoietin receptor (TSLPR). Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is a treatment that takes immune cells (T cells) from a person s body and modifies them to attack specific proteins. Researchers want to test whether TSLPR-CART cells can be given safely to adults with forms of B-cell leukemia, and to learn whether the treatment may help fight these cancers. Objective: To test TSLPR-CART in people with B-ALL. Eligibility: People aged 18 years and older with B-ALL that did not respond or returned after treatment. They must have TSLPR on their B-ALL. Design: Participants will be screened. They will have imaging scans and tests of their heart function. Samples will be taken from their bone marrow. They will have a lumbar puncture: A needle will be inserted into their back to collect a sample of the fluid around the spinal cord. Participants will undergo leukapheresis: Blood will be taken from their body through a tube. The blood will pass through a machine that separates out the T cells. The remaining blood will be returned to the body through a different tube. The T cells will be used to create TSLPR-CART. Participants will take chemotherapy over 5 days to prepare their body for the therapy; then they will receive the modified cells through a tube inserted into a vein. Staying in the hospital during part of the treatment is expected and participants will be monitored locally to evaluate for side effects. Approximately 1 month after receiving TSLPR-CART, participants will undergo evaluations to see how the TSLPR-CART impacted their leukemia. Participants will have follow-up visits for 2 years after TSLPR-CART either at NIH or at home....

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Be age 18 or older with confirmed B-ALL. At least 80% of cancer cells must have the TSLPR protein.
  • Cancer must have returned or resisted the first treatment and at least one further treatment. Other treatments that could cure it must be unsuitable, unavailable in time, declined, or have failed, as outlined by the study.
  • Tests must show cancer is still present, even in very small amounts.
  • Meet the study’s limits for daily activity, blood counts, and liver, kidney, heart, and lung function. Some low blood counts caused by leukemia are allowed.
  • Have no leukemia or only limited leukemia in the fluid around the brain and spinal cord, within the study’s limits.
  • Follow birth control rules: women who can become pregnant must use highly effective birth control through 12 months after the last chemotherapy dose. Men who can father a child must use birth control and not freeze or donate sperm through 4 months after the last study drug dose.
  • If breastfeeding, stop from the start of study treatment through 1 month after the last study drug dose.
  • You or your legal representative must sign a consent form and agree to join a long-term study of delayed side effects.

Who can't join

  • Leukemia is only in the testicles or only in the brain and spinal cord, or there is more advanced active cancer in the brain and spinal cord.
  • Have 50,000 or more immature leukemia cells per microliter of blood.
  • Have a positive pregnancy test.
  • Have not waited long enough after earlier cancer treatments, a donor stem cell transplant, immune-suppressing drugs, or cell therapy. Required waiting times vary, with some exceptions.
  • Test positive for HIV, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C.
  • Have another active cancer, with limited exceptions, or active graft-versus-host disease, when donor cells attack the body.
  • Have had a severe, immediate allergic reaction to substances like those used in this study or to make the cells.
  • Have an uncontrolled illness with symptoms or a social situation that would make study participation unsafe or hard to follow.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

* INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Documentation of pathologic confirmation of a diagnosis of B-Cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). 2. TSLPR+ expression must be detected on \>=80% of the malignant cells by NSR device. Note: TSLPR+ expression does not need to be repeated by NSR device if there is a documentation of TSLPR surface expression by flow cytometry from a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) approved laboratory. 3. Participants must have a disease that is relapsed or refractory after initial systemic therapy and at least one salvage treatment, and must either be ineligible for, cannot access in a timely manner, or declined alternative curative options (including commercial CAR Tcell constructs\*, and/or have relapsed after allogeneic HSCT). \*Individuals that are CD19 positive will be considered for this study, However, these individuals should be ineligible for, unable to obtain in a timely manner, cannot access, unwilling to undergo, or have failed prior FDA approved CD19 CAR constructs. 4. Participants must have measurable or evaluable disease at the screening, defined by any evidence of MRD or positron emission tomography (PET)-avid extramedullary disease 5. Age \>= 18 years 6. Clinical performance status: Karnofsky \>= 50%. Participants who are unable to walk because of paralysis, but who are upright in a wheelchair will be considered ambulatory for the purpose of calculating the performance score. 7. Participants must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below: * Leukocytes \>= 750/mcL\* * Platelets \>= 50,000/mcL\* * Total bilirubin \<= 2 x upper limit of normal (ULN) (except in the case of participants with documented Gilbert s disease \> 3 X ULN) * Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST)/Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) \<= 5 X institutional ULN * Creatinine \< 1.5X ULN OR Creatinine clearance \>= 60 mL/min/1.73m\^2 for participants with creatinine levels above max listed above * A participant will not be excluded because of pancytopenia \>=Grade 3 if it is due to underlying bone marrow involvement by leukemia 8. Cardiac function: left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \>=45% or fractional shortening \>= 28%, and no clinically significant electrocardiogram (EKG) findings 9. Pulmonary Function: Baseline oxygen saturation \> 92% on room air at rest without oxygen supplementation 10. Participants with the following central nervous system (CNS) status are eligible: * CNS 1, defined as absence of blasts in CSF on cytospin preparation, regardless of the number of WBCs; * CNS 2, defined as presence of \< 5/mcL WBCs in CSF and cytospin positive for blasts, or \> 5/mcL WBCs but negative by Steinherz/Bleyer algorithm: * CNS 2a: \< 10/mcL red blood cells (RBCs); \< 5/mcL WBCs and cytospin positive for blasts; * CNS 2b: \>=10/mcL RBCs; \< 5/mcL WBCs and cytospin positive for blasts; * CNS 2c: \>=10/mcL RBCs; \>= 5/mcL WBCs and cytospin positive for blasts but negative by Steinherz/Bleyer algorithm. 11. Contraception: * Women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP) must agree to use a highly effective contraception (hormonal, intrauterine device \[IUD\], surgical sterilization, abstinence) at the study entry and up to 12 months after the last dose of combined chemotherapy. Note: WOCBP is defined as any individual who has experienced menarche and who has not undergone successful surgical sterilization or who is not postmenopausal. * Men able to father a child must agree to use an effective method of contraception (barrier, surgical sterilization, abstinence) at the study entry and for 4 months after the last dose of study drugs. We also will recommend men ask their partners to be on highly effective birth control (hormonal, IUD, surgical sterilization). Men able to father a child must not freeze or donate sperm within the same period. 12. Nursing participants must be willing to discontinue nursing from study treatment initiation through 1 month after the last dose of the study drug(s). 13. Ability and willingness of participant or Legally Authorized Representative (LAR) to co-enroll on 15-C-0028: Follow-up Evaluation for Gene-Therapy Related Delayed Adverse Events after Participation in Pediatric Oncology Branch Clinical Trials. 14. Participant or LAR must understand and sign a written informed consent. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: <!-- --> 1. Recurrent or refractory leukemia limited to isolated testicular or isolated CNS disease 2. CNS 3 disease including participants with radiologically detected active CNS lymphoma, or participants who have cranial nerve palsy from active CNS leukemia. Note: Chronic complications of prior CNS disease are not exclusionary in the absence of active disease (e.g., blindness from prior ocular CNS disease or persistent cranial nerve palsy) 3. Hyperleukocytosis (\>=50,000 blasts/mcL) 4. Positive serum or urine beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-HCG) pregnancy test performed in WOCBP at screening. 5. Washout criteria (time prior to apheresis or prior to start of LD if apheresis is not done on this protocol): ==== Therapy: Systemic chemotherapy, antineoplastic investigational agents, or antibody-based therapies, any investigational therapy Washout\*: \>= 2 weeks Exceptions: 6 weeks for clofarabine or nitrosoureas No washout for prior intrathecal chemotherapy, steroid therapy, hydroxyurea (no dose increases within prior 2 weeks) or ALL maintenance type chemotherapy (vincristine, 6- mercaptopurine, oral methotrexate, or a tyrosine kinase for participants with Ph+ or Ph-like ALL) provided there is recovery from any acute toxic effects. ==== Therapy: Radiation therapy Washout\*: \>= 3 weeks Exceptions: No time restriction with radiation therapy if the volume of bone marrow treated is less than 10% and the participant has measurable/evaluable disease outside the radiation window. ==== Therapy: History of allogeneic HSCT Washout\*: \>=100 days since HSCT; \>=30 days since completion of immunosuppression; \>=6 weeks since donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) ==== Therapy: History of prior CAR therapy or other adoptive cell therapies Washout\*: \> 30 days post infusion * Time between prior therapy and apheresis or prior to start of LD if apheresis is not done on this protocol. 6. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, as measured by seropositivity for HIV antibody. 7. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, as measured by positivity for hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg). 8. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, as measured by seropositivity for hepatitis C. 9. Active second malignancy with the exception of in situ carcinoma of the cervix, unless the tumor was treated with curative intent at least two years previously and participant is in remission. 10. History of severe, immediate hypersensitivity reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to any agents used in study or in the manufacturing of the cells. 11. Evidence of active graft-versus- host disease (GVHD). 12. Uncontrolled, symptomatic, intercurrent illness or social situations as evaluated by medical history, physical exam, and laboratory evaluations that would limit compliance with study requirements or would pose an unacceptable risk to the participant.

Study sites (1)

MD