CAR T Cell Receptor Immunotherapy for Patients With B-cell Lymphoma

Summary

Background: The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surgery Branch has developed an experimental therapy for treating patients with B cell lymphomas or leukemias that involves taking white blood cells from the patient, growing them in the laboratory in large numbers, genetically modifying these specific cells with a type of virus (retrovirus) to attack only the tumor cells, and then giving the cells back to the patient. This type of therapy is called gene transfer. In this protocol, we are modifying the patient s white blood cells with a retrovirus that has the gene for anti-cluster of differentiation 19 (CD19) incorporated in the retrovirus. Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine a safe number of these cells to infuse and to see if these particular tumor-fighting cells (anti-CD19 cells) cause tumors to shrink. Eligibility: \- Adults age 18-70 with B cell lymphomas or leukemias expressing the CD19 molecule. Design: Work up stage: Patients will be seen as an outpatient at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical Center and undergo a history and physical examination, scans, x-rays, lab tests, and other tests as needed Leukapheresis: If the patients meet all of the requirements for the study they will undergo leukapheresis to obtain white blood cells to make the anti-CD19 cells. Leukapheresis is a common procedure, which removes only the white blood cells from the patient. Treatment: Once their cells have grown, the patients will be admitted to the hospital for the conditioning chemotherapy and the anti-CD19 cells. They will stay in the hospital for about 4 weeks for the treatment. Follow up: Patients will return to the clinic for a physical exam, review of side effects, lab tests, and scans about every 1-3 months for the first year, and then every 6 months to 1 year as long as their tumors are shrinking. Follow up visits will take up to 2 days.

Timeline

Start

2009-02-17

Primary completion

2015-09-30

Completion

2021-11-17

Publications

• Results Kochenderfer JN, Rosenberg SA. Treating B-cell cancer with T cells expressing anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptors. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2013 May;10(5):267-76. doi: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2013.46. Epub 2013 Apr 2.
• Results Kochenderfer JN, Dudley ME, Carpenter RO, Kassim SH, Rose JJ, Telford WG, Hakim FT, Halverson DC, Fowler DH, Hardy NM, Mato AR, Hickstein DD, Gea-Banacloche JC, Pavletic SZ, Sportes C, Maric I, Feldman SA, Hansen BG, Wilder JS, Blacklock-Schuver B, Jena B, Bishop MR, Gress RE, Rosenberg SA. Donor-derived CD19-targeted T cells cause regression of malignancy persisting after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Blood. 2013 Dec 12;122(25):4129-39. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-08-519413. Epub 2013 Sep 20.
• Results James N. Kochenderfer, M.D., Mark E. Dudley, Ph.D., Sadik H. Kassim, Ph.D., Robert O. Carpenter, James C. Yang, MD, Giao Q. Phan, MD, Marybeth S. Hughes, MD, Richard M. Sherry, MD, Steven Feldman, Ph.D., David Spaner, MD, PhD, Debbie-Ann N. Nathan, RN, Kathleen E. Morton, RN, Mary Ann Toomey, RN, and Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D. Effective Treatment of Chemotherapy-Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma with Autologous T Cells Genetically-Engineered to Express an Anti-CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor. Oral Abstract Presentation 12-8-13 in New Orleans, LA at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting. Blood Annual Meeting abstract 2013. 122:168.
• Results Kochenderfer JN, Dudley ME, Kassim SH, Somerville RP, Carpenter RO, Stetler-Stevenson M, Yang JC, Phan GQ, Hughes MS, Sherry RM, Raffeld M, Feldman S, Lu L, Li YF, Ngo LT, Goy A, Feldman T, Spaner DE, Wang ML, Chen CC, Kranick SM, Nath A, Nathan DA, Morton KE, Toomey MA, Rosenberg SA. Chemotherapy-refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and indolent B-cell malignancies can be effectively treated with autologous T cells expressing an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Feb 20;33(6):540-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2014.56.2025. Epub 2014 Aug 25.
• Results Kochenderfer JN, Somerville RPT, Lu T, Shi V, Bot A, Rossi J, Xue A, Goff SL, Yang JC, Sherry RM, Klebanoff CA, Kammula US, Sherman M, Perez A, Yuan CM, Feldman T, Friedberg JW, Roschewski MJ, Feldman SA, McIntyre L, Toomey MA, Rosenberg SA. Lymphoma Remissions Caused by Anti-CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Are Associated With High Serum Interleukin-15 Levels. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Jun 1;35(16):1803-1813. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2016.71.3024. Epub 2017 Mar 14.
• Results James N. Kochenderfer, Mark E. Dudley, Robert O. Carpenter, Sadik H. Kassim, Jeremy J. Rose, William G. Telford, Frances T. Hakim, David C. Halverson, Daniel H. Fowler, Nancy M. Hardy, Anthony R. Mato, Dennis D. Hickstein, Juan C. Gea-Banacloche, Steven Z. Pavletic, Claude Sportes, Irina Maric, Steven A. Feldman, Brenna G. Hansen, Jennifer S. Wilder, Bazetta Blacklock-Schuver, Bipulendu Jena, Michael R. Bishop, Steven A. Rosenberg*, Ronald E. Gress* (co-senior authors). Donor-derived anti-CD19 chimeric-antigen-receptor-expressing T cells cause regression of malignancy persisting after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Oral Abstract Presentation 12-8-13 in New Orleans, LA at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting. Blood Annual Meeting abstracts 2013. 122:151.
• Results Kochenderfer, J.N., Somerville, R., Lu, T., Shi, V., Yang, J.C., Sherry, R., Klebanoff, C., Kammula, U.S., Goff, S.L., Bot, A., Rossi, J., Sherman, M., Perez, A., Xue, A., Feldman, T.A., Friedberg, J.W., Roschewski, M.J., Feldman, S., McIntyre, L., Rosenberg, S.A. Anti-CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells Preceded by Low-Dose Chemotherapy to Induce Remissions of Advanced Lymphoma. 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting. J Clin Oncol 34, 2016 (suppl; abstr LBA3010).
• Results Kochenderfer JN, Somerville RPT, Lu T, Yang JC, Sherry RM, Feldman SA, McIntyre L, Bot A, Rossi J, Lam N, Rosenberg SA. Long-Duration Complete Remissions of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma after Anti-CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy. Mol Ther. 2017 Oct 4;25(10):2245-2253. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2017.07.004. Epub 2017 Jul 13.
• Ernst M, Oeser A, Besiroglu B, Caro-Valenzuela J, Abd El Aziz M, Monsef I, Borchmann P, Estcourt LJ, Skoetz N, Goldkuhle M. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for people with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Sep 13;9(9):CD013365. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013365.pub2.
• Cappell KM, Sherry RM, Yang JC, Goff SL, Vanasse DA, McIntyre L, Rosenberg SA, Kochenderfer JN. Long-Term Follow-Up of Anti-CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy. J Clin Oncol. 2020 Nov 10;38(32):3805-3815. doi: 10.1200/JCO.20.01467. Epub 2020 Oct 6.
• Rossi J, Paczkowski P, Shen YW, Morse K, Flynn B, Kaiser A, Ng C, Gallatin K, Cain T, Fan R, Mackay S, Heath JR, Rosenberg SA, Kochenderfer JN, Zhou J, Bot A. Preinfusion polyfunctional anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T cells are associated with clinical outcomes in NHL. Blood. 2018 Aug 23;132(8):804-814. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-01-828343. Epub 2018 Jun 12.
• Kochenderfer JN, Dudley ME, Feldman SA, Wilson WH, Spaner DE, Maric I, Stetler-Stevenson M, Phan GQ, Hughes MS, Sherry RM, Yang JC, Kammula US, Devillier L, Carpenter R, Nathan DA, Morgan RA, Laurencot C, Rosenberg SA. B-cell depletion and remissions of malignancy along with cytokine-associated toxicity in a clinical trial of anti-CD19 chimeric-antigen-receptor-transduced T cells. Blood. 2012 Mar 22;119(12):2709-20. doi: 10.1182/blood-2011-10-384388. Epub 2011 Dec 8.
• Kochenderfer JN, Wilson WH, Janik JE, Dudley ME, Stetler-Stevenson M, Feldman SA, Maric I, Raffeld M, Nathan DA, Lanier BJ, Morgan RA, Rosenberg SA. Eradication of B-lineage cells and regression of lymphoma in a patient treated with autologous T cells genetically engineered to recognize CD19. Blood. 2010 Nov 18;116(20):4099-102. doi: 10.1182/blood-2010-04-281931. Epub 2010 Jul 28.

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