Kidney TransplantationPhase 2FREEDOM-2NCT01649388
A Safety and Efficacy Study of FCR001 Cell Therapy in Previously Transplanted Living Donor Kidney Recipients
A Phase 2 study testing FCR001 in people with Kidney Transplantation, run by Talaris Therapeutics Inc. at 3 sites in United States.
Trial summary
An open-label study to assess the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of FCR001 cell therapy in adult recipients 3-12 months after kidney transplantation from a living donor. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Kidney Transplantation
- What is being tested?
- FCR001
- Type of treatment
- Injection or infusion
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 0 participants
- Where
- 3 sitesUnited States
- Study dates
- 15 Oct 2012to 28 Feb 2023
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Main Inclusion Criteria:
- Recipient age ≥18 years old.
- Donor age ≥18 and ≤60 years old at the time of signing informed consent.
- Recipient of a first kidney transplant from a living donor 3-12 months prior to signing informed consent.
- Stable renal allograft function ≥60 mL/min/1.73m^2 prior to screening (defined as <25% decrease in eGFR (by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease formula [MDRD4]) between the last 2 consecutive visits and per investigator judgment).
- Donor between 3 weeks and 12 months after kidney donation, willing to undergo mobilization, apheresis, and 12-month safety follow-up.
Main Exclusion Criteria (Recipient and Donor):
- Donor/recipient crossmatch positive at time of living donor kidney transplantation.
- Recipient or donor with use of other investigational drugs within 30 days (or within 5 drug half-lives) of signing informed consent.
- Recipient or donor with history of hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or drugs of similar chemical classes.
- Recipient and donor who are identical twins.
- Pregnant or nursing (lactating) woman.
- Recipient or donor with history of malignancy or premalignant syndrome (e.g., myelodysplastic syndrome, monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance [MGRS], monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significant [MGUS]) of any organ system (other than localized excised non-melanomatous lesions of the skin or in-situ cervical cancer), treated or untreated, within the past 5 years, regardless of whether there is evidence of local recurrence or metastases.
- Recipient or donor with known bone marrow aplasia. Main Exclusion Criteria (Recipient-Only):
- Multi-organ or cell transplant recipient.
- Blood type ABO incompatible with donor.
- Positive donor-specific antibody (DSA) at any time pre- or post-transplant (to be confirmed within 30 days prior to FCR001 infusion).
- Panel Reactive Antibodies (PRA) >80% at the time of living donor kidney transplantation.
- Induction with alemtuzumab at the time of living donor kidney transplantation.
- History of acute rejection (biopsy-proven or suspected and treated) or recurrent kidney disease following living donor kidney transplantation.
- Findings consistent with acute rejection or recurrent disease on the Screening biopsy.
- Demonstrated intolerance to maintenance immunosuppression with tacrolimus and MMF or MPS.
- Being maintained on oral corticosteroids (prednisone >10 mg/day or equivalent).
- Positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or hepatitis C virus (HCV). Recipients with history of HCV infection may participate if there is a documented history of treatment with an anti-HCV agent and either one (1) documented negative PCR at least three (3) months after last dose of treatment, or two (2) documented negative PCRs at least 2 weeks apart over a maximum of 4 weeks.
- Positive for BKV, CMV, or EBV by PCR at screening.
- Having any baseline condition requiring or anticipated to require chronic or intermittent use of systemic steroids or other IS (e.g., autoimmune disease, asthma) throughout the course of the study.
- Having a body mass index (BMI) < 18 or > 35 kg/m^2.
- Requiring systemic anticoagulation, (e.g., for hypercoagulation disorders, deep vein thrombosis, atrial fibrillation) that cannot be temporarily interrupted with would preclude renal biopsy.
- Having contraindication to TBI according to local radiologist.
- History of autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic progenitor or mesenchymal stem cell transplant prior to signing informed consent. Main Exclusion Criteria (Donor-Only):
- Biologically unrelated (i.e., no genetic relationship) female donor transplant to male recipient.
Trial locations and contacts
3 sites in 1 country.
United States3 sites
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, 60611
University of Minnesota Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455
Georgetown University Hospital
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, 20007
About this study
Official title: A Single-arm, Multi-center, Exploratory Safety and Efficacy Study of FCR001 Cell-based Therapy to Induce Donor-specific Tolerance in Previously Transplanted Recipients of a Kidney From a Living Donor, and Safety in FCR001 Donors
An open-label study to assess the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of FCR001 cell therapy in adult recipients 3-12 months after kidney transplantation from a living donor.
Read the detailed description
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, tolerability, preliminary efficacy, and overall benefit of FCR001 cell therapy in previously transplanted recipients of a kidney from a living donor.
FCR001 is a novel, cryopreserved allogeneic somatic cell therapy, derived from mobilized peripheral blood mononuclear cells from the same donor as the allograft, and containing hematopoietic progenitor cells, facilitating cells, and αβ T cells. The rationale is to establish durable chimerism and donor-specific tolerance in the recipient enabling freedom from chronic immunosuppression (IS) and its associated toxicities.
- Conditions
- Kidney Transplantation
- Being tested
- FCR001
- Keywords
- Selective allograft tolerance, Stem cell therapy, Living donor kidney transplant, Immune tolerance, Durable chimerism, Immunosuppression, Immunosuppressive medications, Organ transplant rejection, Anti-rejection medications
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
FCR001Biological
Enriched hematopoietic stem cell infusion
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| FCR001 | Experimental | Recipients 3-12 months post-living kidney transplantation undergo non-myeloablative conditioning followed by infusion of an enriched hematopoietic stem cell product derived from the same living donor's peripheral blood stem cells Receives: Biological: FCR001 |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Proportion of FCR recipients (FCR-R) who are free from immunosuppression (IS), without biopsy-proven acute rejection (BPAR), at 24 months post-FCR001 infusion
Measured: From infusion to 24 months
Secondary outcomes (15)
Change in renal function (estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate [eGFR] by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD4]) from baseline (Day 1, prior to FCR001 infusion) to Month 24 in FCR recipients
Measured: From Day 1 prior to infusion to 24 months
Renal allograft function (eGFR by MDRD4)
Measured: From infusion to 24 months and 60 months
Change in renal allograft function over time by MDRD4
Measured: From infusion to 24 months and 60 months
Renal allograft function (eGFR) by Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) formula
Measured: From infusion to 24 months and 60 months
Change in renal allograft function over time by CKD-EPI
Measured: From infusion to 24 months and 60 months
Time to event for the composite of BPAR, renal graft loss, death, or lost to follow-up and each component
Measured: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of composite endpoint of BPAR, renal graft loss, or death
Measured: From infusion to 12 months, 24 months and 60 months
Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and AEs leading to study and/or regimen discontinuation
Measured: From informed consent to 12 months, 24 months and 60 months
Incidence of BK viremia, viruria, infection, and nephropathy
Measured: From informed consent to 12 months, 24 months and 60 months
Incidence of donor chimerism by visit
Measured: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of acute and chronic GvHD
Measured: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of engraftment syndrome
Measured: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of recipient autologous apheresis product infusion
Measured: From infusion to 60 months
Renal graft survival for recipients transiently chimeric
Measured: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of composite endpoint of BPAR, death, renal graft loss, or lost to follow-up in FCR-R who did not achieve durable chimerism or able to wean or remain off IS
Measured: From infusion to 60 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted25 Jul 2012 (estimated)
- Study start15 Oct 2012
- Primary completion28 Feb 2023
- Study completion28 Feb 2023
Why it stopped: study terminated by sponsor
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Kidney TransplantationStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Model description
- approximately 15 Donor/Recipient pairs
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 0 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Talaris Therapeutics Inc.
- Sponsor type
- Industry (pharma, biotech, devices)
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT01649388
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- FCR001B2201
- Acronym
- FREEDOM-2
- Status last verified
- Feb 2023
- First submitted
- 29 Jun 2012
- Last updated
- 2 Mar 2023
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- Yes
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 2 Mar 2023. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- A Single-arm, Multi-center, Exploratory Safety and Efficacy Study of FCR001 Cell-based Therapy to Induce Donor-specific Tolerance in Previously Transplanted Recipients of a Kidney From a Living Donor, and Safety in FCR001 Donors
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT01649388
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- FREEDOM-2 / FCR001B2201
- Conditions
- Kidney Transplantation
- Keywords
- Selective allograft tolerance, Stem cell therapy, Living donor kidney transplant, Immune tolerance, Durable chimerism, Immunosuppression, Immunosuppressive medications, Organ transplant rejection
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- WithdrawnReason stopped: study terminated by sponsor
- Enrolment
- 0 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Talaris Therapeutics Inc.Industry (pharma, biotech, devices)
- Study start
- 15 Oct 2012 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 28 Feb 2023 (actual)
- Study completion
- 28 Feb 2023 (actual)
- First posted
- 25 Jul 2012 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
An open-label study to assess the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of FCR001 cell therapy in adult recipients 3-12 months after kidney transplantation from a living donor.
Detailed description
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, tolerability, preliminary efficacy, and overall benefit of FCR001 cell therapy in previously transplanted recipients of a kidney from a living donor.
FCR001 is a novel, cryopreserved allogeneic somatic cell therapy, derived from mobilized peripheral blood mononuclear cells from the same donor as the allograft, and containing hematopoietic progenitor cells, facilitating cells, and αβ T cells. The rationale is to establish durable chimerism and donor-specific tolerance in the recipient enabling freedom from chronic immunosuppression (IS) and its associated toxicities.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
- Model description
- approximately 15 Donor/Recipient pairs
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| FCR001 | Experimental | Biological: FCR001Recipients 3-12 months post-living kidney transplantation undergo non-myeloablative conditioning followed by infusion of an enriched hematopoietic stem cell product derived from the same living donor's peripheral blood stem cells |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| FCR001Enriched hematopoietic stem cell infusion | Biological | FCR001 |
Primary outcome
Proportion of FCR recipients (FCR-R) who are free from immunosuppression (IS), without biopsy-proven acute rejection (BPAR), at 24 months post-FCR001 infusion
Time frame: From infusion to 24 months
15 secondary outcomes
Change in renal function (estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate [eGFR] by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD4]) from baseline (Day 1, prior to FCR001 infusion) to Month 24 in FCR recipients
Time frame: From Day 1 prior to infusion to 24 months
Renal allograft function (eGFR by MDRD4)
Time frame: From infusion to 24 months and 60 months
Change in renal allograft function over time by MDRD4
Time frame: From infusion to 24 months and 60 months
Renal allograft function (eGFR) by Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) formula
Time frame: From infusion to 24 months and 60 months
Change in renal allograft function over time by CKD-EPI
Time frame: From infusion to 24 months and 60 months
Time to event for the composite of BPAR, renal graft loss, death, or lost to follow-up and each component
Time frame: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of composite endpoint of BPAR, renal graft loss, or death
Time frame: From infusion to 12 months, 24 months and 60 months
Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and AEs leading to study and/or regimen discontinuation
Time frame: From informed consent to 12 months, 24 months and 60 months
Incidence of BK viremia, viruria, infection, and nephropathy
Time frame: From informed consent to 12 months, 24 months and 60 months
Incidence of donor chimerism by visit
Time frame: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of acute and chronic GvHD
Time frame: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of engraftment syndrome
Time frame: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of recipient autologous apheresis product infusion
Time frame: From infusion to 60 months
Renal graft survival for recipients transiently chimeric
Time frame: From infusion to 60 months
Incidence of composite endpoint of BPAR, death, renal graft loss, or lost to follow-up in FCR-R who did not achieve durable chimerism or able to wean or remain off IS
Time frame: From infusion to 60 months
Results and safety
The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 2 Mar 2023.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
Related trials for Kidney Transplantation
Enrolling by invitation
Online Exercise Program for Transplant Patients: A Pilot Study
Kidney Transplantation, Physical Function
RecruitingPhase 2
A Study of Mezagitamab in Adults With Late Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR) After a Kidney Transplant
Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR)
Not yet recruiting
Hypothermic Kidney Machine Perfusion With Omnisol
End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Kidney Transplant
Not yet recruitingEarly Phase 1
Biomarker-Guided Mycophenolate Mofetil Elimination in Low-Risk Older Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients
Kidney Transplant Recipient
Recruiting
Non-Invasive Monitoring of Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients and Immunosuppression Personalization: an Open-labeled Multicenter Randomized Controlled Study
Pediatric Kidney Disease, Transplant;Failure,Kidney
Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
The record lists no contact. Use the official record to reach the sponsor.
3 sites in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 2 study testing FCR001 in people with Kidney Transplantation, run by Talaris Therapeutics Inc. at 3 sites in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 2 Mar 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 3 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
What does this phase mean?
Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.
Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.
Are results available for this study?
The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Proportion of FCR recipients (FCR-R) who are free from immunosuppression (IS), without biopsy-proven acute rejection (BPAR), at 24 months post-FCR001 infusion (time frame: From infusion to 24 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 2 Mar 2023.