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NeuroblastomaPhase 1GINAKITNCT02439788

3RD GENERATION GD2 SPECIFIC CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR TRANSDUCED AUTOLOGOUS NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS FOR NEUROBLASTOMA

A Phase 1 study testing cyclophosphamide, Fludarabine and GINAKIT Cells in people with Neuroblastoma, run by Baylor College of Medicine at 1 site in United States.

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Withdrawn. The study stopped before anyone enrolled.

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Trial summary

This research study is for patients that have a cancer called Neuroblastoma that has either come back after treatment or did not respond to the standard medicines used to treat it. This study combines two different ways of fighting cancer: antibodies and Natural Killer T cells. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 1 year to 18 years
Conditions the study is for
Neuroblastoma
What is being tested?
cyclophosphamide, Fludarabine and GINAKIT Cells
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
0 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Aug 2017to Oct 2030
Phase
Phase 1
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 1 year to 18 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

Procurement Inclusion Criteria:

  • High risk neuroblastoma or persistent or relapsed disease
  • Life expectancy of at least 12 weeks
  • Age ≥1 and ≤18 years old
  • Karnofsky/Lansky score of 60% or greater
  • Absence of HAMA prior to enrollment (only in patients that have been previously treated with murine antibodies)
  • Ability to tolerate leukocyte apheresis
  • Informed consent for leukocyte apheresis
  • Informed consent and assent (as applicable) obtained from parent/guardian and child.

Procurement Exclusion Criteria:

  • Rapidly progressive disease
  • History of hypersensitivity to murine protein containing products

Treatment Inclusion Criteria:

  • High risk neuroblastoma with persistent or relapsed disease
  • Life expectancy of at least 12 weeks
  • Age ≥1 and ≤18 years old
  • Karnofsky/Lansky score of 60% or greater
  • Patients must have an ANC ≥ 500 without the use G-CSF or GM-CSF for at least 48hrs, platelet count ≥ 20,000
  • Pulse Ox ≥ 90% on room air
  • AST less than 5 times the upper limit of normal
  • Bilirubin less than 3 times the upper limit of normal
  • Serum creatinine less than 3 times upper limit of normal
  • Recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior chemotherapy (if some effects of chemotherapy are expected to last long term, patient is eligible if meeting other eligibility criteria).
  • Absence of human anti-mouse antibodies (HAMA) prior to enrollment for patients who have received prior therapy with murine antibodies
  • Patients must have autologous transduced NKTs with greater than or equal to 20% expression of GD2-specific CAR.
  • Informed consent and assent (as applicable) obtained from parent/guardian and child.

Treatment Exclusion Criteria:

  • Rapidly progressive disease
  • Currently receiving other investigational drugs
  • History of hypersensitivity to murine protein containing products
  • History of cardiomegaly or bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on chest radiograph or CT. However, patients with cardiomegaly on imaging may be enrolled if they have an assessment of cardiac function (i.e., ECHO or MUGA) within 3 weeks of starting protocol therapy that is within normal limits. Additionally, patients with bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on imaging may be enrolled if the lesions are not consistent with active neuroblastoma (i.e., negative on functional imaging with PET or MIBG, or by pathologic assessment).
  • Evidence of tumor potentially causing airway obstruction
  • Patients who are pregnant, lactating, or unwilling to use birth control
  • Patients currently receiving immunosuppressive drugs such as corticosteroids(Patients may receive treatment if treated with corticosteroids with dose of less than 0.5mg/kg/day of prednisone equivalent), tacrolimus or cyclosporine.
  • Patients who have previously experienced severe toxicity from cyclophosphamide and fludarabine.
  • All labs must be collected within 10 days prior to initiation of study related treatment (except for verification of GD2 transduction)

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Texas Children's Hospital

    Houston, Texas, 77030

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About this study

Official title: 3RD GENERATION GD2 SPECIFIC CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR AND INDUCIBLE CASPASE 9 SAFETY SWITCH TRANSDUCED AUTOLOGOUS NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS TO TREAT CHILDREN WITH NEUROBLASTOMA (GINAKIT)

This research study is for patients that have a cancer called Neuroblastoma that has either come back after treatment or did not respond to the standard medicines used to treat it. This study combines two different ways of fighting cancer: antibodies and Natural Killer T cells. Antibodies are types of proteins that protect the body from infectious diseases and possibly cancer. T cells, also called T lymphocytes, are special infection-fighting blood cells that can kill other cells, including cells infected with viruses and tumor cells. Both antibodies and T cells have been used to treat patients with cancers. The investigators have found from previous research that they can put a new gene into T cells that will make them recognize cancer cells and kill them. In a previous clinical trial, the investigators made a gene called a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), from an antibody called 14g2a that recognizes GD2, a molecule found on almost all neuroblastoma cells (GD2-CAR). They put this gene into the patients' own T cells and gave them back to patients that had neuroblastoma. Nineteen patients were treated on that study and there were no long term side-effects seen after the GD2 T cell infusion. As the investigators have followed the patients over time, they noticed that for those patients with disease at the time of their infusion, the time to progression (the amount of time it takes before their neuroblastoma got worse) was longer in those whom they could find GD2 T cells in the blood for more than 6 weeks after the last T cell infusion. Because of this, the investigators think that if effector cells are able to last longer, they may have a better chance of killing neuroblastoma tumor cells.

Natural Killer T cells are a special subset of innate lymphocytes that can effectively go into tumor tissues of neuroblastoma. Inside the tumor, there are certain white blood cells which help the cancer cells to grow and recover from injury. Natural Killer T-cells can specifically kill these cells. In this study, Natural Killer T cells will be genetically engineered to express GD2-CAR to attack neuroblastoma cells and the white blood cells inside the tumor tissue.

Read the detailed description

To prepare the neuroblastoma specific Natural Killer T cells (also called GINAKIT cells), about 80 mL (up to 6 tablespoons) of blood will be collected from the patient. For children, the total amount of blood drawn will not be more than 3 ml (less than 1 teaspoon) per 2.2 lbs of body weight.

In case the neuroblastoma specific Natural Killer T cells cannot be expanded from the amount of blood that can safely be drawn from the patient, the investigators may attempt to collect white blood cells from the patient by using a special type of blood donation called leukocyte apheresis. Unlike a regular blood draw or "whole blood" donation in which whole blood is removed from patient's body, the apheresis process connects the patient to a machine that removes a particular component of their blood and then returns the rest of the blood back to them. The white blood cells collected during leukocyte apheresis will be used to make the GINAKIT cells.

Once collected, the white blood cells will be mixed with a special protein to separate the Natural Killer T cells from the white blood cells using a special machine called a CliniMACS Reagent System in the laboratory. This is an investigational device that is not approved by the FDA. Although this device is not approved for use in this country, it has been in use for years and is approved in other countries. The investigators will put the new genes into patient's Natural Killer T cells by mixing them with a retroviral vector (a special virus that can carry a new gene into cells) containing the new gene called iC9-GD2-CD28-OX40. After the new gene has been put into the Natural Killer T cells, the cells will be tested to make sure that they kill GD2-positive neuroblastoma cells and that the cells are killed by the activation of iC9. The GINAKIT cells may be given back to the patient fresh or frozen.

This is a dose escalation study. This means that at the beginning, patients will be started on the lowest dose (1 of 4 different levels) of GINAKIT cells. Once that dose schedule proves safe, the next group of patients will be started at a higher dose. This process will continue until all 4 dose levels are studied. If the side effects are too severe, the dose will be lowered or the infusions will be stopped.

Before getting the GINAKIT cells, patients will receive cyclophosphamide and fludarabine intraveneously for 2 days and then fludarabine alone for one more day. Patients will then have one day of rest with no chemotherapy before receiving the GINAKIT cells.

The treatment will be given by the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Texas Children's Hospital. Patients will need to stay in Houston for 4 weeks after the infusion so the investigators can monitor them for side effects. They will have follow-up visits (at weeks 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8; months 3, 6, 9, and 12; twice a year for 4 years and then once a year for the next 10 years - for a total of 15 years) and scheduled disease evaluations after the GINAKIT cell infusion (at week 4 and then as clinically needed). Also, to learn more about the way the GINAKIT cells are working and how long they last in the body, blood will be obtained before the chemotherapy, on the day of the GINAKIT cell infusion (before and at the end of the infusion) and at the follow-up visits (time points listed above).

If the patient experiences no significant side effects during or after the first GINAKIT cell infusion and their cancer remains stable or responds, they may be offered additional doses of the same cell dose in the future.

Conditions
Neuroblastoma
Being tested
cyclophosphamide, Fludarabine, GINAKIT Cells
Keywords
Neuroblastoma, Natural Killer T Cells, Gene Therapy, Chimeric Antigen Receptor
Medical subject headings
Neuroblastoma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • cyclophosphamideDrug

    Also called Cytoxan

    500 mg/m2/day x 2 days; for patients <12 kg the dose is 16.7 mg/kg/day x 2 days; Cyclophospamide will be given daily starting Day -4 prior to administration of GINAKIT cells.

  • FludarabineDrug

    30 mg/m2/day x 3 days; for patients <12 kg the dose is 1 mg/kg/day x 3 days; Fludarabine will be given daily starting Day -4 prior to administration of GINAKIT cells

  • GINAKIT CellsGenetic

    Also called iC9-GD2.CD28.OX40.zeta Natural Killer T cells

    • Dose Level 1 = 3 x 10^6
    • Dose Level 2 = 1 x 10^7
    • Dose Level 3 = 3 x 10^7
    • Dose Level 4 = 1 x 10^8

    After the end of the 4 week evaluation period, if subjects have not had a severe side effects and if disease has not gotten worse, the subjects may be offered additional doses of the same cell dose in the future.

Study groups in NCT02439788
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
GINAKIT Cells plus chemotherapyExperimentalPatients receive chemotherapy with Fludarabine and Cyclophosphamide and then an infusion of the GINAKIT cells (iC9-GD2.CD28.OX40.zeta Natural Killer T cells)
Receives: Drug: cyclophosphamide; Drug: Fludarabine; Genetic: GINAKIT Cells

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of Patients with dose limiting toxicities

    We will assess the MTD and the toxicity of GINAKIT cells adoptively transferred to patients with relapsed/refractory neuroblastoma

    Measured: 4 weeks

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Number of patients with a tumor response

    We will:

    • evaluate residual disease sites for change of dimensions of tumor mass by 3 dimensional imaging (MRI or CT) after the administration of GINAKIT cells;
    • Determine the number of detectable MIBG avid disease or bone scan positive sites in response to the administration of GINAKIT cells;
    • Assess bone marrow clearance among children with bone marrow involvement at the time of enrollment after the administration of GINAKIT cells

    Measured: 4 weeks

  2. Number of patients with an immunologic response

    We will assess:

    • The expansion and functional persistence of GINAKIT cells in the peripheral blood of patients using transgene detection by quantitative real-time PCR, flow cytometry and response of transgenic cells to tumor antigen;
    • The frequency of NKT target cells: CD1d+CD33+CD14+CD16+/- myelomonocytic cells in blood and CD1d+CD33+CD14+CD163+ (M2-polarized) TAMs in tumor biopsies and BM aspirates (when available)
    • The frequency and activation status (CD69) of NK cells (CD3-CD56+)
    • The sequential changes in patients' serum cytokine and chemokine levels after infusion of GINAKIT cells

    Measured: 15 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted12 May 2015 (estimated)
  2. Study startAug 2017 (estimated)
  3. Primary completionSep 2019 (estimated)
  4. Study completionOct 2030 (estimated)

Why it stopped: Based on newly available preclinical data we changed the CAR construct to a more effective version and will now study that product on a different protocol.

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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 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02439788
Sponsor's protocol ID
H-33272, GINAKIT
Acronym
GINAKIT
Status last verified
Jun 2017
First submitted
7 May 2015
Last updated
14 Jun 2017
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing cyclophosphamide, Fludarabine and GINAKIT Cells in people with Neuroblastoma, run by Baylor College of Medicine at 1 site 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 14 Jun 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site 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 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

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?

Number of Patients with dose limiting toxicities (time frame: 4 weeks). 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 14 Jun 2017.

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