Refractory Viral InfectionsPhase 1NCT02510404
Multivirus-specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes (mCTL)
A Phase 1 study testing mCTLs in people with Refractory Viral Infections, run by Catherine Bollard at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
PIDD represent an expanding group of genetic disorders that compromise immunity against bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The most severe forms of PIDD cause profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections due to impaired or absent T-cell immunity. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 4 weeks to 45 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Refractory Viral Infections
- What is being tested?
- mCTLs
- Type of treatment
- Injection or infusion
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 1 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Apr 2014to 8 Jun 2019
- 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 4 weeks to 45 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult
Who may be able to join
- Diagnosis of primary immunodeficiency with established plan to undergo myeloablative or non-myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant for treatment thereof or diagnosis of a form of primary immunodeficiency for which hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is not indicated.
- Active infection with EBV, CMV, and/or Adenovirus, unable to be successfully controlled with standard therapy.
- Steroids less than 0.5 mg/kg/day prednisone
- Karnofsky/Lansky score of ≥ 50
- ANC greater than 500/µL.
- Bilirubin <2x, AST <3x, Serum creatinine <2x upper limit of normal, Hgb >8.0
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- Pulse oximetry of > 90% on room air
- Negative pregnancy test (if female of childbearing potential)
- Patient or parent/guardian capable of providing informed consent.
Who cannot join
- Patients with other uncontrolled infections (see 2.3.2 for definitions)
- Patients who received ATG, Campath, or other T cell immunosuppressive monoclonal antibodies in the last 28 days
- Received donor lymphocyte infusion in last 28 days
- Diagnosis of Omenn's syndrome or MHC class I deficiency
- Active and uncontrolled malignancy
- Pregnant or lactating
- Unable to wean steroids to ≤0.5 mg/kg/day prednisone.
- Patients with Grade 3 hyperbilirubinemia
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
Childrens National Medical Center
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, 20010
About this study
Official title: Treatment of EBV, CMV, and Adenovirus Infections in Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders With Viral-specific Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes
PIDD represent an expanding group of genetic disorders that compromise immunity against bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The most severe forms of PIDD cause profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections due to impaired or absent T-cell immunity. These diseases can be rapidly fatal unless treated via hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Chronic viral illnesses are a common presenting feature of many of these disorders, and studies have shown that survival of HSCT is profoundly impacted by the patient's pre-transplant disease status. Primary infections with viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are common, and respiratory viruses such as adenovirus also frequently cause infection. In patients with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a prior study identified these viruses as the most common causes of mortality in the immediate period following HSCT. Though some forms of PIDD are amenable to HSCT without requiring conditioning chemotherapy, many forms require a variable degree of pre-conditioning to ensure that stable engraftment of the donor cells is achieved. The administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy used in the conditioning regimens can however increase the risk for regimen related toxicity and for some patients (especially those with active viral infections) this risk is particularly high, leading to high treatment related mortality rates. For these reasons, many such patients are not even considered candidates for HSCT or are delayed getting to HSCT and ultimately succumb to infection before they can receive the transplant.
The primary objective of this study is to determine the safety of administering third-party multivirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (mCTL) from adult CMV seropositive donors to treat refractory viral infections in patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDD) prior to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
Read the detailed description
Since recovery of virus-specific T cells is clearly associated with protection from infection with each of these viruses, adoptive immunotherapy to decrease the time to immune reconstitution is an attractive approach. Virus-specific T cells generated by repeated stimulation with antigen presenting cells (APCs) expressing viral antigens have been evaluated in clinical trials to prevent and treat viral infections in immunocompromised hosts. This approach eliminates alloreactive T cells.
To broaden the specificity of single CTL lines to include the three most common viral pathogens of stem cell recipients, investigators reactivated CMV and adenovirus-specific T cells by using mononuclear cells transduced with a recombinant adenoviral vector encoding the CMV antigen pp65 (Ad5f35CMVpp65). Subsequent stimulations with EBV-LCL transduced with the same vector both reactivated EBV-specific T cells and maintained the expansion of the activated adenovirus and CMV-specific T cells. This method reliably produced CTLs with cytotoxic function specific for all three viruses, which investigators infused into 14 stem cell recipients in a Phase I prophylaxis study. They observed recovery of immunity to CMV and EBV in all patients but an increase in adenovirus-specific T cells was only seen in patients who had evidence of adenovirus infection pre-infusion. A follow-up study in which the frequency of adenovirus-specific T cells was increased in the infused CTLs produced similar results, thus highlighting the importance of endogenous antigen to promote the expansion of infused T cells in vivo. Nevertheless, all patients in both clinical trials with pre-infusion CMV, adenovirus or EBV infection or reactivation were able to clear the infection, including one patient with severe adenoviral pneumonia requiring ventilatory support. CTLs recognizing multiple antigens can therefore produce clinically relevant effects against all three viruses.
- Conditions
- Refractory Viral Infections
- Being tested
- mCTLs
- Medical subject headings
- Virus Diseases
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
mCTLsBiological
The investigators have elected to limit this phase I study to PIDD patients with active viral infections unable to be controlled with standard pharmacotherapy, who are therefore likely to benefit from mCTLs treatment. This trial will be performed as dose-escalation study. Patients will be evaluated for matched lines from a bank of third-party mCTLs, derived from CMV seropositive donors. These lines will have been used clinically in prior clinical trials, with safety demonstrated in the post-HSCT setting.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| mCTLs against three viruss | Experimental | The investigator will use 3 different dose levels starting with 5 x 106 (a T cell number more than an order of magnitude lower than that administered at the time of an unmanipulated marrow infusion), followed by 1 x 107 and a final dose 2 x 107 mCTLs/m2. They will give the option of administering 2 additional doses (at the same level) of the same or different cell lines, 28 days after the first dose, in subjects that have limited or no improvement in viral count after one dose in the absence of any toxicities attributable to the infusion,or who receive other therapy that may affect the persistence or function of the infused mCTLs. Receives: Biological: mCTLs |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Assessments of patients with adverse events after mCTLs infusion
The safety endpoint will be defined as acute GvHD grades III-IV related to the T cell product within 45 days of the last VST dose and that are not due to the pre-existing infection or the original malignancy or pre-existing co-morbidities as defined by the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE)
Measured: 45 days
Secondary outcomes (2)
Assessments of viral load response to the mCTLs infusion
Increase in viral load of at least 50% from baseline or dissemination to other sites of disease.
Measured: 12 months
Assessments of Antiviral Immunity
Patient serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cells will be monitored for virus-specific activity by phenotypic and functional studies including ELIspot with appropriate viral specific peptide mixtures and available HLA-restricted epitope peptides, intracellular cytokine staining, serum cytokine profiling and/or other assays as they become available for immune profiling purposes.
Measured: 12 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted29 Jul 2015 (estimated)
- Study startApr 2014
- Primary completion8 May 2019
- Study completion8 Jun 2019
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Refractory Viral InfectionsStudies 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 1
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 1 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Catherine Bollard
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Children's National Research Institute
- Responsible party
- Sponsor-investigator, Catherine Bollard, Children's National Research Institute
- Investigators
- Catherine Bollard, MD, Principal investigator, Children's National Research Institute
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02510404
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- TREPID
- Status last verified
- Jan 2020
- First submitted
- 13 Jul 2015
- Last updated
- 18 Jan 2020
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 18 Jan 2020. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Treatment of EBV, CMV, and Adenovirus Infections in Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders With Viral-specific Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02510404
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- TREPID
- Conditions
- Refractory Viral Infections
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 1 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Catherine BollardUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Children's National Research Institute
- Study start
- Apr 2014 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 8 May 2019 (actual)
- Study completion
- 8 Jun 2019 (actual)
- First posted
- 29 Jul 2015 (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.
PIDD represent an expanding group of genetic disorders that compromise immunity against bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The most severe forms of PIDD cause profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections due to impaired or absent T-cell immunity. These diseases can be rapidly fatal unless treated via hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Chronic viral illnesses are a common presenting feature of many of these disorders, and studies have shown that survival of HSCT is profoundly impacted by the patient's pre-transplant disease status. Primary infections with viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are common, and respiratory viruses such as adenovirus also frequently cause infection. In patients with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a prior study identified these viruses as the most common causes of mortality in the immediate period following HSCT. Though some forms of PIDD are amenable to HSCT without requiring conditioning chemotherapy, many forms require a variable degree of pre-conditioning to ensure that stable engraftment of the donor cells is achieved. The administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy used in the conditioning regimens can however increase the risk for regimen related toxicity and for some patients (especially those with active viral infections) this risk is particularly high, leading to high treatment related mortality rates. For these reasons, many such patients are not even considered candidates for HSCT or are delayed getting to HSCT and ultimately succumb to infection before they can receive the transplant.
The primary objective of this study is to determine the safety of administering third-party multivirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (mCTL) from adult CMV seropositive donors to treat refractory viral infections in patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDD) prior to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
Detailed description
Since recovery of virus-specific T cells is clearly associated with protection from infection with each of these viruses, adoptive immunotherapy to decrease the time to immune reconstitution is an attractive approach. Virus-specific T cells generated by repeated stimulation with antigen presenting cells (APCs) expressing viral antigens have been evaluated in clinical trials to prevent and treat viral infections in immunocompromised hosts. This approach eliminates alloreactive T cells.
To broaden the specificity of single CTL lines to include the three most common viral pathogens of stem cell recipients, investigators reactivated CMV and adenovirus-specific T cells by using mononuclear cells transduced with a recombinant adenoviral vector encoding the CMV antigen pp65 (Ad5f35CMVpp65). Subsequent stimulations with EBV-LCL transduced with the same vector both reactivated EBV-specific T cells and maintained the expansion of the activated adenovirus and CMV-specific T cells. This method reliably produced CTLs with cytotoxic function specific for all three viruses, which investigators infused into 14 stem cell recipients in a Phase I prophylaxis study. They observed recovery of immunity to CMV and EBV in all patients but an increase in adenovirus-specific T cells was only seen in patients who had evidence of adenovirus infection pre-infusion. A follow-up study in which the frequency of adenovirus-specific T cells was increased in the infused CTLs produced similar results, thus highlighting the importance of endogenous antigen to promote the expansion of infused T cells in vivo. Nevertheless, all patients in both clinical trials with pre-infusion CMV, adenovirus or EBV infection or reactivation were able to clear the infection, including one patient with severe adenoviral pneumonia requiring ventilatory support. CTLs recognizing multiple antigens can therefore produce clinically relevant effects against all three viruses.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| mCTLs against three viruss | Experimental | Biological: mCTLsThe investigator will use 3 different dose levels starting with 5 x 106 (a T cell number more than an order of magnitude lower than that administered at the time of an unmanipulated marrow infusion), followed by 1 x 107 and a final dose 2 x 107 mCTLs/m2. They will give the option of administering 2 additional doses (at the same level) of the same or different cell lines, 28 days after the first dose, in subjects that have limited or no improvement in viral count after one dose in the absence of any toxicities attributable to the infusion,or who receive other therapy that may affect the persistence or function of the infused mCTLs. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 4 weeks to 45 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult
Key inclusion criteria (9 listed)
- Diagnosis of primary immunodeficiency with established plan to undergo myeloablative or non-myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant for treatment thereof or diagnosis of a form of primary immunodeficiency for which hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is not indicated.
- Active infection with EBV, CMV, and/or Adenovirus, unable to be successfully controlled with standard therapy.
- Steroids less than 0.5 mg/kg/day prednisone
- Karnofsky/Lansky score of ≥ 50
- ANC greater than 500/µL.
Key exclusion criteria (8 listed)
- Patients with other uncontrolled infections (see 2.3.2 for definitions)
- Patients who received ATG, Campath, or other T cell immunosuppressive monoclonal antibodies in the last 28 days
- Received donor lymphocyte infusion in last 28 days
- Diagnosis of Omenn's syndrome or MHC class I deficiency
- Active and uncontrolled malignancy
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 |
|---|---|---|
| mCTLsThe investigators have elected to limit this phase I study to PIDD patients with active viral infections unable to be controlled with standard pharmacotherapy, who are therefore likely to benefit from mCTLs treatment. This trial will be performed as dose-escalation study. Patients will be evaluated for matched lines from a bank of third-party mCTLs, derived from CMV seropositive donors. These lines will have been used clinically in prior clinical trials, with safety demonstrated in the post-HSCT setting. | Biological | mCTLs against three viruss |
Primary outcome
Assessments of patients with adverse events after mCTLs infusion
Time frame: 45 days
The safety endpoint will be defined as acute GvHD grades III-IV related to the T cell product within 45 days of the last VST dose and that are not due to the pre-existing infection or the original malignancy or pre-existing co-morbidities as defined by the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE)
2 secondary outcomes
Assessments of viral load response to the mCTLs infusion
Time frame: 12 months
Assessments of Antiviral Immunity
Time frame: 12 months
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 18 Jan 2020.
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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.
Catherine Bollard, MD principal investigator
Children's National Research Institute
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Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 1 study testing mCTLs in people with Refractory Viral Infections, run by Catherine Bollard 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?
The sponsor lists 9 inclusion and 8 exclusion criteria. 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: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 18 Jan 2020. 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 is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
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?
Assessments of patients with adverse events after mCTLs infusion (time frame: 45 days). 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 18 Jan 2020.