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Transplanted Organ RejectionPhase 3FREEDOM-1NCT03995901

A Safety and Efficacy Study of FCR001 vs Standard of Care in de Novo Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

A Phase 3 study testing FCR001 in people with Transplanted Organ Rejection, run by Talaris Therapeutics Inc. at 18 sites in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

A randomized controlled study to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and overall benefit of FCR001 cell therapy in de novo living donor renal transplantation. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Transplanted Organ Rejection
What is being tested?
FCR001
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
15 participants
Where
18 sitesUnited States
Study dates
25 Oct 2019to 16 Feb 2023
Phase
Phase 3
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.
  • Donor age ≥18 and ≤60 years at time of signing informed consent.
  • Recipients of a first or second living donor kidney transplant
  • Donor willing to undergo mobilization, apheresis and 12-month safety follow-up and meet all local standard eligibility criteria to donate stem cells for allogeneic transplantation.
  • Recipient meets all local standard eligibility criteria for allogeneic stem cell transplant.
  • Donors must be deemed eligible as per the requirements of 21CFR1271.

Main Recipient and Donor Exclusion Criteria:

  • Recipient and donor who are identical twins.
  • Recipient or donor with history of malignancy or premalignant syndrome (e.g., myelodysplastic syndrome, monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance [MGRS], monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance [MGUS]) of any organ system (other than localized basal cell carcinoma 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 Recipient-only Exclusion Criteria:

  • Multi-organ or stem cell transplant recipient.
  • Calculated panel reactive antibodies >80%.
  • Recipient is blood type ABO incompatible with donor.
  • Presence of donor-specific antibodies (DSA) (positive result) at any time pre-transplant.
  • Recipient who is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive.
  • Recipient with any baseline condition requiring or anticipated will require chronic or intermittent use of systemic steroids or other IS (eg, autoimmune disease, asthma) throughout the course of the study.
  • Recipient with a BMI < 18 or > 35 kg/m2.
  • Recipient requiring systemic anticoagulation, (eg, for hyper-coagulation disorders, deep vein thrombosis, atrial fibrillation) that cannot be temporarily interrupted which would preclude renal biopsy.

Main Donor-only Exclusion Criteria:

  • Biologically unrelated (i.e., no genetic relationship) female donor transplant to male recipient.

Trial locations and contacts

18 sites in 1 country.

18 sites in 1 country

United States18 sites
  • The University of Michigan Hospitals & Health System

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109

  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital

    Chicago, Illinois, 60611

  • The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

    Columbus, Ohio, 43210

  • Baylor University Medical Center

    Dallas, Texas, 75246

  • UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Dallas, Texas, 75390

  • Duke University Medical Center

    Durham, North Carolina, 27710

  • Mayo Clinic

    Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

  • Scripps Clinic

    La Jolla, California, 92037

  • University of Minnesota Medical Center

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455

  • New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell

    New York, New York, 10065

  • University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Omaha, Nebraska, 68198

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

  • Mayo Clinic

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85054

  • Oregon Health & Science University

    Portland, Oregon, 97239

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

    Richmond, Virginia, 23298

  • Mayo Clinic

    Rochester, Minnesota, 55905

  • University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, California, 94143

  • Georgetown University Hospital

    Washington D.C., District of Columbia, 20007

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About this study

Official title: A Randomized, Controlled, Multi-center, Safety and Efficacy Study of FCR001 Cell-based Therapy Relative to a Tacrolimus and Mycophenolate-based Regimen in de Novo Living Donor Renal Transplant Recipients, and Safety in FCR001 Donors

A randomized controlled study to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and overall benefit of FCR001 cell therapy in de novo living donor renal transplantation.

Read the detailed description

The purpose of this randomized (2:1) controlled study is to evaluate the safety, efficacy and overall benefit of FCR001 cell therapy in first or second de novo living donor renal transplantation relative to a standard-of-care control immunosuppression regimen of antibody induction, tacrolimus, mycophenolate, and corticosteroids.

Being tested
FCR001
Keywords
Kidney Transplant, Stem cell therapy, Anti-rejection medications, Living donor kidney transplant, Immune tolerance, Immunosuppression, Immunosuppressive medication, Organ transplant rejection

What participants receive

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

  • FCR001Biological

    Also called Cell based therapy, Allogeneic stem cell transplant

    FCR001 is a cryopreserved allogeneic stem cell therapy derived from mobilized peripheral blood of the kidney donor that is delivered as a single dose with a non- myeloablative conditioning regimen. FCR001 contains the donor's CD34+ cells, facilitating cells, and αβ T cells.

Study groups in NCT03995901
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
FCR001ExperimentalFCR001 is a cryopreserved allogeneic stem cell therapy derived from mobilized peripheral blood of the kidney donor that is delivered as a single dose with a non- myeloablative conditioning regimen. FCR001 contains the donor's CD34+ cells, facilitating cells, and αβ T cells.
Receives: Biological: FCR001
ControlNo interventionStandard induction therapy followed by a maintenance regimen of tacrolimus, mycophenolate, and +/- corticosteroids after kidney transplant. Control donors are not followed beyond randomization.

What is being measured

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

  1. Proportion of FCR001 recipients who are free from immunosuppression (IS), without biopsy proven acute rejection (BPAR) at 24 months post-transplant

    Free from IS is defined as not taking any immunosuppression medications and not having to take immunosuppression medications since their withdrawal.

    Biopsy proven acute rejection is defined as Grade ≥1A according to the Banff 2017 Classification of Antibody-Medicated Rejection and T Cell-Mediated Rejection in Renal Allografts (Haas et al 2018).

    Measured: 24 months post-transplant

Secondary outcomes (33)
  1. Change in renal function by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD4) from post-transplant baseline (Month 1) to Month 24 in FCR001 recipients

    Measured: 24 months post-transplant

  2. Proportion of FCR001 recipients free from IS, without BPAR, at Month 36 and 60

    Measured: Month 36 and 60 post transplant

  3. Allograft function (eGFR by MDRD4) and change in eGFR from Month 1 to Month 24, 36, and Month 60, by treatment

    Measured: Month 1 (post-transplant) to Month 24, 36, and Month 60

  4. Slope and difference in slope of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD4) over time to Month 24, 36, and 60, by treatment

    Measured: Month 24, 36, and 60

  5. Allograft function (eGFR) and change in renal allograft function from Month 1 to Months 24, 36 and 60 by treatment group, using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) formula

    Measured: Month 1 (post transplant) to Month 24, 36, and Month 60

  6. Time to the event for the composite of BPAR, graft loss, death or lost to follow-up and for each component, by treatment group

    Measured: Month 1 (post transplant) to Month 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60

  7. Incidence of composite endpoint of BPAR, graft loss or death, by treatment group

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  8. Incidence of composite endpoint of BPAR, graft loss, or death and lost to follow-up, by treatment group

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  9. Incidence of BPAR and treated BPAR by severity, type, and steroid-resistance, by treatment group

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  10. Incidence of acute rejection

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  11. Incidence of de novo donor-specific antibodies

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  12. Incidence or worsening of abnormal histologic findings of cellular or antibody-mediated chronic rejection, chronic glomerulopathy, tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis, C4d, calcineurin inhibitor induced damage, disease recurrence, BK nephropathy

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  13. Incidence of renal replacement therapy by treatment group

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  14. Incidence of BPAR or eGFR <50 mL/min by treatment group

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  15. Categorical distribution of eGFR according to chronic kidney disease CKD staging classification by treatment

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  16. Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs; including infections), serious adverse events (SAEs) and AEs leading to study and/or regimen discontinuation

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  17. Incidence of BK viremia, viruria, infection, and nephropathy by treatment

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  18. Incidence of the adverse events of special interest (proteinuria, neurotoxicity, anemia, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, opportunistic infections, major adverse cardiovascular events, and malignancies

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  19. Urinary protein and albumin excretion, estimated by urinary protein/creatinine and urinary albumin/creatinine ratios by treatment group

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  20. Subject quality of life according to 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) will be analyzed descriptively by treatment group

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  21. Subject quality of life according to End-Stage Renal Disease Symptom Checklist (ESRD-SCL) will be analyzed descriptively by treatment group

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  22. Incidence and duration of hospitalization and readmission, according to type of ward/unit

    Measured: Months 12, 24, 36 and 60

  23. iBox predicted allograft survival

    Measured: Months 12 and 24 post-transplant

  24. Graft and patient survival and eGFR in FCR001 recipients who are only transiently chimeric

    Measured: Month 24, 36, and 60

  25. To describe the incidence and severity of AEs (including infections) and SAEs among FCR001 donors

    Measured: Month 24, 36, and 60

  26. Incidence of acute rejection, death, renal graft loss, and lost to follow-up between FCR001 recipients who did not achieve durable chimerism or the ability to wean or remain off immunosuppression vs. the control arm

    Measured: Month 24, 36, and 60

  27. The incidence of autologous infusions in FCR001 recipients

    Measured: Month 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60

  28. The incidence of engraftment syndrome in FCR001 recipients

    Measured: Month 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60

  29. The incidence of blood component transfusions in FCR001 recipients

    Measured: Month 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60

  30. The time to neutrophil and platelet recovery in FCR001 recipients

    Measured: Month 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60

  31. The incidence of acute and chronic Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD) in FCR001 recipients will be described

    Measured: Month 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60

  32. The incidence of donor chimerism and level of chimerism by study visit in FCR001 recipients will be described

    Measured: Month 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60

  33. The correlation of donor chimerism with freedom from IS)in FCR001 recipients will be described

    Measured: Month 6, 12, 24, 36, and 60

Timeline

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

  1. First posted24 Jun 2019
  2. Study start25 Oct 2019
  3. Primary completion16 Feb 2023
  4. Study completion16 Feb 2023

Why it stopped: Talaris decided to discontinue living donor kidney transplant development program

Resources

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 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
15 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03995901
Sponsor's protocol ID
FCR001A2301
Acronym
FREEDOM-1
Status last verified
Mar 2023
First submitted
13 Jun 2019
Last updated
3 Mar 2023
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing FCR001 in people with Transplanted Organ Rejection, run by Talaris Therapeutics Inc. at 18 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: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 3 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 18 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 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

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 stopped early (reason given: Talaris decided to discontinue living donor kidney transplant development program). Results are not available in the source record.

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 FCR001 recipients who are free from immunosuppression (IS), without biopsy proven acute rejection (BPAR) at 24 months post-transplant (time frame: 24 months post-transplant). 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 3 Mar 2023.

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