Axatilimab + CAR-T for High-Risk Lymphoma

Summary

Axatilimab + CAR-T in High-Risk Lymphoma

Timeline

Start

2026-10-31

Primary completion

2028-12-31

Completion

2029-12-31

Publications

• Background Haranaka M, Kinami K, Yang YO, Li H, Pratta M, Suzukawa K. Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of Axatilimab in Healthy Japanese Male Participants: Results from a Phase 1, Randomized, Double-Blind, Dose-Escalation Study. Clin Drug Investig. 2025 Jun;45(6):327-334. doi: 10.1007/s40261-025-01438-7. Epub 2025 May 17.
• Background Kitko CL, Arora M, DeFilipp Z, Zaid MA, Di Stasi A, Radojcic V, Betts CB, Coussens LM, Meyers ML, Qamoos H, Ordentlich P, Kumar V, Quaranto C, Schmitt A, Gu Y, Blazar BR, Wang TP, Salhotra A, Pusic I, Jagasia M, Lee SJ. Axatilimab for Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Failure of at Least Two Prior Systemic Therapies: Results of a Phase I/II Study. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Apr 1;41(10):1864-1875. doi: 10.1200/JCO.22.00958. Epub 2022 Dec 2.
• Background Yan ZX, Li L, Wang W, OuYang BS, Cheng S, Wang L, Wu W, Xu PP, Muftuoglu M, Hao M, Yang S, Zhang MC, Zheng Z, Li J, Zhao WL. Clinical Efficacy and Tumor Microenvironment Influence in a Dose-Escalation Study of Anti-CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells in Refractory B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Dec 1;25(23):6995-7003. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-0101. Epub 2019 Aug 23.
• Background Carniti C, Caldarelli NM, Agnelli L, Torelli T, Ljevar S, Jonnalagadda S, Zanirato G, Fardella E, Stella F, Lorenzini D, Brich S, Arienti F, Dodero A, Chiappella A, Magni M, Corradini P. Monocytes in leukapheresis products affect the outcome of CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy in patients with lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2024 Apr 23;8(8):1968-1980. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2024012563.
• Background Jain MD, Zhao H, Wang X, Atkins R, Menges M, Reid K, Spitler K, Faramand R, Bachmeier C, Dean EA, Cao B, Chavez JC, Shah B, Lazaryan A, Nishihori T, Hussaini M, Gonzalez RJ, Mullinax JE, Rodriguez PC, Conejo-Garcia JR, Anasetti C, Davila ML, Locke FL. Tumor interferon signaling and suppressive myeloid cells are associated with CAR T-cell failure in large B-cell lymphoma. Blood. 2021 May 13;137(19):2621-2633. doi: 10.1182/blood.2020007445.
• Background Wang J, Gao K, Lei W, Dong L, Xuan Q, Feng M, Wang J, Ye X, Jin T, Zhang Z, Zhang Q. Lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio is associated with prognosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: correlation with CD163 positive M2 type tumor-associated macrophages, not PD-1 positive tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. Oncotarget. 2017 Jan 17;8(3):5414-5425. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.14289.
• Background Marchesi F, Cirillo M, Bianchi A, Gately M, Olimpieri OM, Cerchiara E, Renzi D, Micera A, Balzamino BO, Bonini S, Onetti Muda A, Avvisati G. High density of CD68+/CD163+ tumour-associated macrophages (M2-TAM) at diagnosis is significantly correlated to unfavorable prognostic factors and to poor clinical outcomes in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Hematol Oncol. 2015 Jun;33(2):110-2. doi: 10.1002/hon.2142. Epub 2014 Apr 8. No abstract available.
• Background Li YL, Shi ZH, Wang X, Gu KS, Zhai ZM. Tumor-associated macrophages predict prognosis in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and correlation with peripheral absolute monocyte count. BMC Cancer. 2019 Nov 6;19(1):1049. doi: 10.1186/s12885-019-6208-x.
• Background Cencini E, Fabbri A, Schiattone L, Sicuranza A, Mecacci B, Granai M, Mancini V, Lazzi S, Bocchia M, Leoncini L. Prognostic impact of tumor-associated macrophages, lymphocyte-to-monocyte and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Am J Blood Res. 2020 Aug 25;10(4):97-108. eCollection 2020.
• Background Wang Z, Jiang R, Li Q, Wang H, Tao Q, Zhai Z. Elevated M-MDSCs in Circulation Are Indicative of Poor Prognosis in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Patients. J Clin Med. 2021 Apr 19;10(8):1768. doi: 10.3390/jcm10081768.
• Background Shen L, Li H, Shi Y, Wang D, Gong J, Xun J, Zhou S, Xiang R, Tan X. M2 tumour-associated macrophages contribute to tumour progression via legumain remodelling the extracellular matrix in diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Sci Rep. 2016 Jul 28;6:30347. doi: 10.1038/srep30347.
• Background Benner B, Scarberry L, Suarez-Kelly LP, Duggan MC, Campbell AR, Smith E, Lapurga G, Jiang K, Butchar JP, Tridandapani S, Howard JH, Baiocchi RA, Mace TA, Carson WE 3rd. Generation of monocyte-derived tumor-associated macrophages using tumor-conditioned media provides a novel method to study tumor-associated macrophages in vitro. J Immunother Cancer. 2019 May 28;7(1):140. doi: 10.1186/s40425-019-0622-0.
• Background Ugel S, De Sanctis F, Mandruzzato S, Bronte V. Tumor-induced myeloid deviation: when myeloid-derived suppressor cells meet tumor-associated macrophages. J Clin Invest. 2015 Sep;125(9):3365-76. doi: 10.1172/JCI80006. Epub 2015 Sep 1.
• Background Noy R, Pollard JW. Tumor-associated macrophages: from mechanisms to therapy. Immunity. 2014 Jul 17;41(1):49-61. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2014.06.010.
• Background Mantovani A, Allavena P, Sica A, Balkwill F. Cancer-related inflammation. Nature. 2008 Jul 24;454(7203):436-44. doi: 10.1038/nature07205.
• Background Iacoboni G, Navarro V, Martin-Lopez AA, Rejeski K, Kwon M, Jalowiec KA, Amat P, Reguera-Ortega JL, Gallur L, Blumenberg V, Gutierrez-Herrero S, Roddie C, Benzaquen A, Delgado-Serrano J, Sanchez-Salinas MA, Bailen R, Carpio C, Lopez-Corral L, Hernani R, Bastos M, O'Reilly M, Martin-Martin L, Subklewe M, Barba P. Recent Bendamustine Treatment Before Apheresis Has a Negative Impact on Outcomes in Patients With Large B-Cell Lymphoma Receiving Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy. J Clin Oncol. 2024 Jan 10;42(2):205-217. doi: 10.1200/JCO.23.01097. Epub 2023 Oct 24.
• Background Vercellino L, Di Blasi R, Kanoun S, Tessoulin B, Rossi C, D'Aveni-Piney M, Oberic L, Bodet-Milin C, Bories P, Olivier P, Lafon I, Berriolo-Riedinger A, Galli E, Bernard S, Rubio MT, Bossard C, Meignin V, Merlet P, Feugier P, Le Gouill S, Ysebaert L, Casasnovas O, Meignan M, Chevret S, Thieblemont C. Predictive factors of early progression after CAR T-cell therapy in relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2020 Nov 24;4(22):5607-5615. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003001.
• Background Shah NN, Fry TJ. Mechanisms of resistance to CAR T cell therapy. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2019 Jun;16(6):372-385. doi: 10.1038/s41571-019-0184-6.
• Background Galli E, Guarneri A, Sora F, Viscovo M, Pansini I, Maiolo E, Alma E, Annunziata S, Sica S, Leccisotti L, Hohaus S. Baseline Tumor Burden Assessed With AI-Guided PET/CT Total Metabolic Tumor Volume (TMTV) and LDH Levels Predict Efficacy of CAR-T in Aggressive B-Cell Lymphoma. Hematol Oncol. 2025 Jan;43(1):e70029. doi: 10.1002/hon.70029.
• Background Dean EA, Mhaskar RS, Lu H, Mousa MS, Krivenko GS, Lazaryan A, Bachmeier CA, Chavez JC, Nishihori T, Davila ML, Khimani F, Liu HD, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Shah BD, Jain MD, Balagurunathan Y, Locke FL. High metabolic tumor volume is associated with decreased efficacy of axicabtagene ciloleucel in large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2020 Jul 28;4(14):3268-3276. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020001900.
• Background Beyar Katz O, Perry C, Grisariu-Greenzaid S, Yehudai-Ofir D, Luttwak E, Avni B, Zuckerman T, Sdayoor I, Stepensky P, Ringelstein-Harlev S, Bar-On Y, Libster D, Sharvit L, Amit O, Greenbaum U, Gold R, Herishanu Y, Benyamini N, Avivi I, Ram R. Response rates of extra-nodal diffuse large B cell lymphoma to anti-CD19-CAR T cells: A real word retrospective multicenter study. Eur J Haematol. 2023 Jul;111(1):63-71. doi: 10.1111/ejh.13968. Epub 2023 Apr 10.
• Background Lee DW, Santomasso BD, Locke FL, Ghobadi A, Turtle CJ, Brudno JN, Maus MV, Park JH, Mead E, Pavletic S, Go WY, Eldjerou L, Gardner RA, Frey N, Curran KJ, Peggs K, Pasquini M, DiPersio JF, van den Brink MRM, Komanduri KV, Grupp SA, Neelapu SS. ASTCT Consensus Grading for Cytokine Release Syndrome and Neurologic Toxicity Associated with Immune Effector Cells. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2019 Apr;25(4):625-638. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.12.758. Epub 2018 Dec 25.

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