Precursor B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL) Treated With Autologous T Cells Genetically Targeted to the B Cell Specific Antigen CD19

Summary

This study is an investigational approach that uses immune cells, called "T cells", to kill leukemia. These T cells are removed from blood, modified in a laboratory, and then put back in the body. T cells fight infections and can also kill cancer cells in some cases. However, right now T cells are unable to kill the cancer cells. For this reason we will put one gene into the T cells that allows them to recognize and kill the leukemia cells. This gene will be put in the T cells by a weakened virus. The gene will produce proteins in the T cells that help the T cells recognize the leukemia cells and possibly kill them. The doctors have found that T cells modified in this way can cure an ALL-like cancer in mice. The main goals of this study is to determine the safety and appropriate dose of these modified T cells in patients with ALL. This will be done in a "clinical trial." The dose of modified T-cells will depend on if you have disease present in your bone marrow or not. The patient will also receive chemotherapy before the T cells. We will use normally chemotherapy that is used in patients with leukemia. The chemotherapy is given to reduce leukemia and to allow the T cells to live longer.

Timeline

Start

2010-01-05

Primary completion

2027-01

Completion

2027-01

Publications

• Valtis YK, Lin C, Nemirovsky D, Devlin S, Rejeski K, Curran KJ, Wang X, Shah NN, Jeyakumar N, Miller K, Zhang A, Kota VK, Al Darobi AH, Muhsen I, Sasine J, Aldoss I, Advani AS, Reshef R, Chen EC, Kopmar N, Tsai SB, Hilal T, Shah BD, Faramand R, Solh MM, Tan V, Bezerra E, Battiwalla M, Ramakrishnan A, Mathews J, Shaughnessy P, Mountjoy L, Hoeg RT, Dykes KC, Logan AC, Kumaran MV, Schwartz M, Tracy S, Moore J, Odstrcil Bobillo S, Frey NV, Connor M, Ladha A, Dholaria B, Sutherland K, Roloff GW, Muffly LS, Park JH. CAR HEMATOTOX independently predicts outcomes after CD19 CAR-T therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood Adv. 2026 Jan 13;10(1):276-288. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2025017526.
• Jain T, Knezevic A, Pennisi M, Chen Y, Ruiz JD, Purdon TJ, Devlin SM, Smith M, Shah GL, Halton E, Diamonte C, Scordo M, Sauter CS, Mead E, Santomasso BD, Palomba ML, Batlevi CW, Maloy MA, Giralt S, Smith E, Brentjens R, Park JH, Perales MA, Mailankody S. Hematopoietic recovery in patients receiving chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for hematologic malignancies. Blood Adv. 2020 Aug 11;4(15):3776-3787. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020002509.
• Pennisi M, Jain T, Santomasso BD, Mead E, Wudhikarn K, Silverberg ML, Batlevi Y, Shouval R, Devlin SM, Batlevi C, Brentjens RJ, Dahi PB, Diamonte C, Giralt S, Halton EF, Maloy M, Palomba ML, Sanchez-Escamilla M, Sauter CS, Scordo M, Shah G, Park JH, Perales MA. Comparing CAR T-cell toxicity grading systems: application of the ASTCT grading system and implications for management. Blood Adv. 2020 Feb 25;4(4):676-686. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2019000952.
• Park JH, Romero FA, Taur Y, Sadelain M, Brentjens RJ, Hohl TM, Seo SK. Cytokine Release Syndrome Grade as a Predictive Marker for Infections in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treated With Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Aug 1;67(4):533-540. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy152.
• Park JH, Riviere I, Gonen M, Wang X, Senechal B, Curran KJ, Sauter C, Wang Y, Santomasso B, Mead E, Roshal M, Maslak P, Davila M, Brentjens RJ, Sadelain M. Long-Term Follow-up of CD19 CAR Therapy in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. N Engl J Med. 2018 Feb 1;378(5):449-459. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1709919.
• Brentjens RJ, Riviere I, Park JH, Davila ML, Wang X, Stefanski J, Taylor C, Yeh R, Bartido S, Borquez-Ojeda O, Olszewska M, Bernal Y, Pegram H, Przybylowski M, Hollyman D, Usachenko Y, Pirraglia D, Hosey J, Santos E, Halton E, Maslak P, Scheinberg D, Jurcic J, Heaney M, Heller G, Frattini M, Sadelain M. Safety and persistence of adoptively transferred autologous CD19-targeted T cells in patients with relapsed or chemotherapy refractory B-cell leukemias. Blood. 2011 Nov 3;118(18):4817-28. doi: 10.1182/blood-2011-04-348540. Epub 2011 Aug 17.

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