MB-CART19.1 r/r CD19+ B-cell Malignancies (BCM)

Last updated: May 13, 2025
Sponsor: Miltenyi Biomedicine GmbH
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

1/2

Condition

Lymphoma, B-cell

Lymphoma

Leukemia

Treatment

MB-CART19.1

Clinical Study ID

NCT03853616
M-2017-322
2017-002848-32
  • Ages > 1
  • All Genders

Study Summary

This is a phase l/ll multi-centric, single arm, prospective open, dose-escalation study in patients with relapsed or refractory CD19-positive B cell malignancies (ALL, NHL, CLL). The trial will include adult and pediatric patients. The trial consists of 2 parts: Part I and Part II. In total approximately 48 patients will be included in Part I of the trial. There will be three individual cohorts, defined by disease biology: pediatric ALL and aggressive pediatric NHL (Cohort 1), adult ALL (Cohort 2) and adult NHL/CLL (Cohort 3).

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Male or female patients must have r/r CD19-expressing ALL or NHL/CLL

  • CD19 expression must be detected on the malignant cells by flow cytometry (leukemia,malignant effusion in NHL) or immunohistochemistry (NHL);

  • Age ≥ 1 year (if deemed fit by treating investigator);

  • Absolute CD3+ T cell count ≥100/μl;

  • ECOG performance score of 0-2 if >16 years old, or Lansky performance score of >50if ≤16 years old at screening;

  • No active Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV1/2;

  • No childbearing potential or negative pregnancy test at screening and beforechemotherapy in women with childbearing potential;

  • Signed and dated informed consent/assent by patients

  • and meet the following disease-specific criteria:

ALL:

  • patients with >5% blasts in BM (M2 or M3) after at least one standard chemotherapyand one salvage regimen who are ineligible for allogeneic stem cell transplant (alloSCT) or have refractory disease activity precluding alloSCT at this time, or

  • patients who have relapsed post alloSCT at least 100 days posttransplant, with noevidence of active GVHD, and no longer taking immunosuppressive agents for at least 30 days prior to enrollment.

  • patients with Ph+ ALL if they are intolerant to tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)therapy, or if they have r/r disease after treatment with at least 2 different TKIs.

  • ALL patients with combined bone marrow and CNS and/or testicular relapse areeligible only if the extramedullary disease has been successfully cleared byconventional therapy at the time of inclusion (e.g. intrathecal chemotherapy,orchiectomy).

Pediatric aggressive NHL (1-17 years):

  • patients after at least one salvage chemotherapy as bridge to alloSCT or

  • patients ineligible for alloSCT or

  • patients who have relapsed post alloSCT at least 100 days posttransplant, with notevidence of active GVHD, and no longer taking immunosuppressive agents for at least 30 days prior to enrollment.

  • patients with CNS disease (excluding isolated CNS lymphoma) are eligible only ifdisease has been successfully cleared by intrathecal chemotherapy at the time ofinclusion.

Adult NHL:

  • patients after at least one standard chemotherapy and one salvage regimen as bridgeto alloSCT or

  • patients who are ineligible for alloSCT or

  • patients who have relapsed post alloSCT at least 100 days posttransplant, with noevidence of active GVHD, and no longer taking immunosuppressive agents for at least 30 days prior to enrollment.

  • patients with CNS disease (excluding isolated CNS lymphoma) are eligible only ifdisease has been successfully cleared by intrathecal chemotherapy at the time ofinclusion.

CLL:

  • patients with r/r disease after established and approved treatment options havefailed.

  • patients not eligible or appropriate for conventional alloSCT.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Isolated CNS or testicular relapse in ALL;

  • Isolated CNS lymphomas;

  • Active solid brain metastases or history of solid brain metastases

  • Current autoimmune disease, or history of autoimmune disease with potential CNSinvolvement;

  • Active clinically significant CNS dysfunction (including but not limited touncontrolled seizure disorders, cerebrovascular ischemia or hemorrhage, dementia,paralysis);

  • History of an additional malignancy other than non-melanoma skin cancer or carcinomain situ unless disease free for ≥3 years;

  • Pulmonary function: Patients with pre-existing severe lung disease or an oxygenrequirement of >28% O2 supplementation or active pulmonary infiltrates on chestX-ray;

  • Cardiac function: Fractional shortening <28% or left ventricular ejection fraction <50% by echocardiography;

  • Renal function: GFR ≤29 mL/min/1.73 m2 by CKD-EPI for patients 18 yrs (Levey et al.

  1. or creatinine clearance ≤29 mL/min/1.73 m2 by Schwartz formula (Schwartz etal. 1976) for patients <18 yrs of age;
  • Liver function: Patients with a serum bilirubin >3 times upper limit of normal or anAST or ALT > 5 times upper limit of normal, unless due to leukemic liverinfiltration in the estimation of the investigator;

  • Rapidly progressive disease that in the estimation of the investigator wouldcompromise ability to complete study therapy;

  • Pregnant or breast-feeding females;

  • Medications:

  • Systemic chemotherapies, corticosteroids with the exception of physiologicreplacement dosing, tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) within 7 days prior toleukapheresis,

  • Fludarabine/clofarabine or immunosuppressive drugs and antibodies (e.g.rituximab, calcineurin inhibitors, blinatumomab) or investigational drugs ordonor lymphocyte transfusions or radiation therapy within 30 days prior toapheresis,

  • Alemtuzumab within 3 months prior to leukapheresis,

  • Exception: Intrathecal chemotherapy is allowed prior to treatment, but shouldbe discontinued in ALL and BL 10 days prior to MB-CART19.1 infusion to limitrisk of neurotoxicities;

  • Hypersensitivity against any drug or its ingredients/impurities that is scheduled orlikely to be given during trial participation, e.g. as part of the mandatorylymphodepletion protocol, pre-medication for infusion, rescue medication/salvagetherapies for treatment related toxicities;

  • Intake of concomitant medication contraindicated for other reasons thanhypersensitivity, e.g. live vaccines and fludarabine;

  • Contraindication of trial related procedures as judged by the investigator, e.g.lumbar punctures for CSF sampling;

  • Female patients of child-bearing potential not willing to practice a highlyeffective form of birth control from the time of enrollment and for 12 months afterdosing the IMP;

  • Male patients of fathering potential not willing to practice a highly effective formof birth control from the time of enrollment and for 12 months after dosing the IMP;

  • Concurrent participation in another interventional trial that could interact withthis trial, e.g. CAR T trials;

  • Cerebral dysfunction, legal incapacity of adult patients;

  • Committal to an institution on judicial or official order.

Study Design

Total Participants: 48
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: MB-CART19.1
Phase: 1/2
Study Start date:
November 26, 2018
Estimated Completion Date:
March 31, 2026

Study Description

The Part I (Phase I) will evaluate the safety of the MB-CART19.1 and determine the recommended dose levels for the Part II (Phase II) efficacy evaluation in each of the three disease cohorts.

Dose evaluation will start in Cohorts 1 and 2 with Dose Level 1 and in Cohort 3 with Dose Level 2, sparing Dose Level 1 (see figure 1). Each of the cohorts will evaluate the safety of MB-CART19.1.

In each dose level of each of the three cohorts three 3 + 3 patients will be treated. A particular dose level will be expanded to 6 patients if one patient out of 3 patients treated at that particular dose level develops DLT. Once this occurs, further dose-escalations are halted until the dose has proven to be safe in the expanded cohort. If 2 or more in a cohort of 6 patients develop DLT no further dose escalation is allowed, and the next lower dose level will be expanded to 6 patients in total. The highest dose among the dose levels tested at which no more than one out of six patients experiences DLT will be considered the MTD. In Dose Level 3, three additional patients will be treated, if no DLT occurred. Dose Level 0 will be tested only if Dose Level 1 is not tolerable.

Cohort 3 will Start with Dose Level 2. If Dose Level 2 is not tolerated, Dose Level 1 will be tested. DLT will be evaluated within 4 weeks after the infusion of MB-CART19.1. An interval of at least 28 days between the treatment of the first and the second patient in each dose level (and in each cohort) is mandatory.

Part II (Phase II) will evaluate the efficacy and safety in patients treated with the recommended dose in Cohorts 1 to 3, respectively. After review of completed day 28 safety and efficacy data within Part I (Phase I) by the SMB, the design of Phase II, specifically the number and types of Phase II cohorts and the recommended dose level(s) for Phase II will be determined and thus, the number of patients to be treated will be calculated.

Connect with a study center

  • Charite - Medical Clinic with focus on hematology, oncology and tumor immunology

    Berlin,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Charité - University clinic, pediatric clinic with focus on oncology and hematology

    Berlin, 13353
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • University clinic, clinical for children and youth

    Erlangen, 91054
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

    Erlangen, 91054
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • University medicine Goettingen, Clinic of hematology and medical oncology

    Göttingen, 37075
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Children's Hospital of Dr. von Hauner by Ludwig-Maximilian University

    Munich, 80337
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Universitätsklinikum Münster - Klink für Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin / Pädiatrische Hämatologie und Onkologie

    Münster, 48149
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Universitätsklinikum Münster - Medizinische Klinik A / KMT Zentrum

    Münster, 48149
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • Tuebingen University clinic, medical university clinic for internal medicine

    Tuebingen, 72076
    Germany

    Active - Recruiting

  • University clinic for children and youth medicine

    Tuebingen, 72076
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • University clinic, pediatric hematology and oncology

    Würzburg, 97070
    Germany

    Completed

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