Purpose

This will be a Phase 1, open-label study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of BEAM-201 in patients with R/R T-ALL or T-LLy. BEAM-201 is an allogeneic anti-CD7 CART therapy.

Condition

Eligibility

Eligible Ages
Between 0 Years and 29 Years
Eligible Sex
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No

Criteria

Patients must meet all the following criteria to be eligible for enrollment into the
study:

1. Patients (ages ≥ 18 years) or parent/legal guardians (for patients ages < 18 years)
must provide signed, written informed consent according to local IRB and
institutional requirements.

2. Ages 0 to 29 years.

3. T-ALL/T-LLy in second or greater relapse, first relapse post-transplant, or
chemotherapy-refractory disease. Specifically:

1. Second or greater relapse or post-transplant relapse, defined as:

- BM with ≥ 5% lymphoblasts by morphologic assessment or evidence of
extramedullary disease after second documented CR; OR

- Flow cytometric confirmation of relapsed T-ALL of at least 0.1% after
second CR documented to have been MRD negative < 0.1%; OR

- Any detectable relapsed disease post-allogeneic HSCT with flow cytometric
confirmation of T-ALL of at least 0.1%; OR

- Biopsy confirmed evidence of relapsed T-LLy after second CR; OR

- Any detectable disease post-allogeneic transplant with biopsy confirmed
evidence of T-LLy

2. Refractory disease, defined as:

- Primary refractory T-ALL or T-LLy, defined as failure to achieve CR after
induction chemotherapy, per investigator assessment and based on biopsy-or
MRD-confirmed evidence of residual T-ALL or T-LLy; OR

- Relapsed, refractory disease, defined as > 0.1 % MRD or morphologic
evidence of disease or evidence of residual T-LLy after 1 course of
re-induction chemotherapy for patients who have relapsed after previously
achieving a CR NOTE: Patients with mixed phenotype acute leukemia with T
cell dominant phenotype may be enrolled if the aforementioned criteria are
met.

4. Documentation of CD7 expression on leukemic or T-LLy blasts (defined as at least 90%
of blasts positive for CD7 by flow cytometry or immunohistochemistry).

5. Patients with prior or current history of CNS3 disease will be eligible if CNS
disease is responsive to therapy

6. Eligible for myeloablative conditioning for and allogeneic HSCT based on the
investigator's assessment with an available donor identified by a FACT accredited
transplant center.

7. Lansky Performance Status (ages < 16 years at time of consent) or Karnofsky
Performance Status (KPS) (ages ≥ 16 years at time of consent) score of ≥ 50.

8. Patients of childbearing potential must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy
test at screening.

9. Adequate organ function defined as:

1. Adequate Serum creatinine based on age/gender

2. ALT ≤ 5x ULN in the absence of ALL infiltration of the liver

3. Bilirubin ≤ 3 × ULN for age Note: ALT and/or bilirubin results that exceed this
range are acceptable if, in the opinion of the physician-investigator (or as
confirmed by liver biopsy), the abnormalities are directly related to ALL
infiltration of the liver.

4. Must have a minimum level of pulmonary reserve defined as ≤ Grade 1 dyspnea and
<Grade 3 hypoxia; DLCO ≥40% (corrected for anemia if necessary) if PFTs are
clinically appropriate as determined by the investigator.

5. Cardiac echocardiography (ECHO) with left ventricular shortening fraction
(LVSF) ≥ 30% or left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50%. In cases where
quantitative assessment of LVSF/LVEF is not possible, a statement by the
cardiologist that the ECHO shows qualitatively normal ventricular function will
suffice

10. Patients who are sexually active and of reproductive potential must agree to use an
acceptable form of highly effective contraception from consent to 12 months after
BEAM 201 infusion.

4.2 Exclusion Criteria

Patients who meet any of the following criteria will be disqualified from entering the
study:

1. Active hepatitis B or active hepatitis C

2. Active HTLV infection

3. HIV infection

4. Uncontrolled, active bacterial, viral, or fungal infection.

5. CNS disease that is progressive on therapy, or with CNS parenchymal lesions that
might increase the risk of CNS toxicity.

6. Clinically active CNS dysfunction or known history of irreversible central
neurological toxicity related to prior antileukemic therapy.

7. Receipt of prior CD7 targeted therapy.

8. Radiation therapy within 2 weeks prior to completion of screening, other than
prophylaxis for CNS disease.

9. Acute GVHD that is grade ≥ 2 and requiring systemic immunosuppression
(corticosteroids), or chronic GVHD that is mild, moderate, or severe and requiring
systemic immunosuppression (corticosteroids). Grade 1 acute GVHD not requiring
immunosuppression is allowable.

10. Undergone HSCT within 90 days prior to completion of screening (or donor leukocyte
infusion, if received within 30 days prior to completion of screening).

11. Any other condition that would make the patient ineligible for HSCT as determined by
the investigator.

12. Known primary immunodeficiency or BM failure syndrome.

13. Atrial fibrillation/flutter (not including isolated episodes that responded to
medical management)

14. Clinically significant pericardial effusion

15. Myocardial infarction within the last 12 months

16. QT interval corrected for heart rate > 480 msec

17. Cardiac dysfunction NYHA (New York Heart Association) III or IV

18. Patients with an autoimmune disorder requiring systemic immunosuppressive therapy
that cannot be safely withheld for 3 months.

Concurrent use of systemic corticosteroids for diagnoses unrelated to T-ALL/T-LLy is
prohibited, with exception of physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy
treatment for adrenal insufficiency.

19. Pregnant or breastfeeding

Study Design

Phase
Phase 1
Study Type
Interventional
Allocation
Non-Randomized
Intervention Model
Sequential Assignment
Primary Purpose
Treatment
Masking
None (Open Label)

Arm Groups

ArmDescriptionAssigned Intervention
Experimental
Dose Escalation Arm
The dose escalation portion of the trial will use a standard "3+3" design to establish the recommended maximum tolerated dose of BEAM-201 cells. Three dose escalations of BEAM-201 are planned for the dose escalation phase, with one dose de-escalation level if needed. Should there be sufficient clinical response at lower doses (i.e. DL1 or DL2), then the sponsor and principal investigator may choose to forgo further dose escalation and proceed to dose expansion at the lower dose level.
  • Biological: Allogeneic anti-CD7 CAR-T cells (BEAM-201)
    The investigational agent in this protocol is allogeneic anti-CD7 CART cells (BEAM-201). BEAM-201 is comprised of allogeneic anti-CD7 CAR-T cells edited by 4 gRNAs and a single mRNA encoding a CBE, then transduced with a lentiviral vector (LVV) encoding the anti-CD7 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) molecule.
    Other names:
    • BEAM-201
Experimental
Dose Expansion Arm
If at least one dose level of the dose escalation phase is determined to be safe, the dose expansion phase of the trial will be opened to enrollment.
  • Biological: Allogeneic anti-CD7 CAR-T cells (BEAM-201)
    The investigational agent in this protocol is allogeneic anti-CD7 CART cells (BEAM-201). BEAM-201 is comprised of allogeneic anti-CD7 CAR-T cells edited by 4 gRNAs and a single mRNA encoding a CBE, then transduced with a lentiviral vector (LVV) encoding the anti-CD7 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) molecule.
    Other names:
    • BEAM-201

Recruiting Locations

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Contact:
Melissa S Varghese, BA
8455535358
Varghesem@chop.edu

More Details

Status
Recruiting
Sponsor
Stephan Grupp MD PhD

Study Contact

Cell Therapy Intake Team
445-942-5891
CARTNurseNavigator@chop.edu

Detailed Description

Despite favorable outcomes in newly diagnosed patients, approximately 20% of pediatric and young adult T-ALL patients and 40% of adult patients will have refractory disease or will relapse within 2 years of their initial diagnosis. Survival rates of patients with relapsed disease remain below 35%. For recurrent disease, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) is the only known potentially curative treatment. However, a prerequisite to HSCT is obtaining a complete remission, which remains a significant challenge as only 40 to 50% of patients achieve a second remission with current reinduction regimens with salvage rates even lower for patients with disease that is refractory to first-line chemotherapy. BEAM-201 is an allogeneic anti-CD7 CAR T cell product that has shown promising early evidence of efficacy, with 3 out of 4 adult T-ALL patients infused had a CRi/CR ≥28 days after infusion. Safety of BEAM-201 has been favorable and consistent with known adverse events associated with other CAR T cell therapies. Given the current treatment landscape of T-ALL/T-LLy, promising clinical experience with BEAM-201, and that >98% of T-ALL cases highly and homogenously express CD7 protein on the surfaces of their lymphoblasts, the investigators think there is compelling rationale in further investigating the safety and efficacy of BEAM-201 in pediatric patients.

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