Clinical Trial of CNCT19 Cell Injection in the Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Recruiting now · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Relapsed or Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

In brief

The study is a Phase II, single-arm, open-label, single-dose clinical trial, and its primary objective is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CNCT19 Cell Injection in the treatment of CD19 positive Relapsed or Refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04684147

Run by

Juventas Cell Therapy Ltd.

People needed

100

Starts

2020-12-24

Expected to finish

2026-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-08-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Informed consent is signed by the subject.
• Age 18 to 65.
• Relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). (1) Relapse within 12 months of first remission; (2)a. Without remission after more than 6 weeks of induction chemotherapy or without remission after 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy regimen; c. 2nd or greater Bone Marrow (BM) relapse OR; d. First relapse after chemotherapy, without remission after at least 1 rescue treatment; e. Any BM relapse after autologous or allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT).
• Documentation of CD19 tumor expression demonstrated in bone marrow or peripheral blood within 3 months of study entry.
• Patients with Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) ALL are eligible if they are intolerant to or have failed 2 generation of tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy (TKI); no TKI salvage treatments if the patient has a T315I mutation.
• Bone marrow with ≥ 5% lymphoblasts by morphologic assessment at screening.
• Eastern cooperative oncology group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1.
• Adequate organ function defined as:
• aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3 upper limit of normal (ULN);
• Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3 upper limit of normal (ULN);
• Total bilirubin ≤ 2 ULN, except in individuals with Gilbert's syndrome; Note: Patients with Gilbert's syndrome that bilirubin ≤ 3 ULN and direct bilirubin ≤ 1.5 ULN will be eligible;
• A serum creatinine≤ 1.5 ULN or Creatine removal rate ≥ 60mL/min (Cockcroft and Gault）;
• Must have a minimum level of pulmonary reserve as ≤ Grade 1 dyspnea and oxygen saturation > 91% on room air;
• International normalized ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5 ULN and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤ 1.5 ULN.
• Vascular conditions for apheresis.
• Women of childbearing age have a negative blood / urine pregnancy test within 3 days before apheresis and the CNCT19 infusion. Women of child-bearing potential and all male participants must use highly effective methods of contraception throughout the study and for a period of at least two years after the CNCT19 infusion.

You may not qualify if…

• Active Central Nervous System (CNS) involvement by malignancy.
• Isolated extra-medullary disease relapse.
• Patients who received chemotherapy within 2 weeks before CNCT19 infusion. The following situations are excluded:
• Lymphodepleting Chemotherapy prescribed by the protocol;
• Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) and hydroxyurea must be stopped > 72 hours prior to CNCT19 infusion;
• The following drugs must be stopped > 1 week prior to CNCT19 infusion: 6-mercaptopurine, 6-thioguanine, methotrexate (<25 mg / m2), cytosine arabinoside (<100 mg / m2 / d), vincristine, asparaginase;
• CNS prophylaxis treatment must be stopped > 1 week prior to CNCT19 infusion;
• Pegylated-asparaginase must be stopped > 4 weeks prior to CNCT19 infusion.
• Radiotherapy before CNCT19 infusion:
• Non-CNS site of radiation completed < 2 weeks prior to CNCT19 Infusion; CNS directed radiation completed < 8 weeks prior to CNCT19 infusion.
• Therapeutic systemic doses of steroids were stopped < 72 hours prior to CNCT19 infusion. However, the following physiological replacement doses of steroids are allowed: < 10 mg/day hydrocortisone or equivalent.
• Has received anthracycline/anthraquinone drug treatment exceeding the maximum cumulative dose recommended by the guidelines, estimated by investigators before screening, as follows:
• Doxorubicin: 550mg/m2 (radiotherapy or combined medication, <(radiotherapy or combined medication, <350\~400 mg/m2);
• Epirubicin: 900\~1000 mg/m2 (Adriamycin used, <800 mg/m2);
• Pirarubicin: 950 mg/m2;
• Daunorubicin: 550 mg/m2;
• Demethoxydaunorubicin: 290 mg/m2;
• Aclarithromycin: 2000 mg/m2 (Adriamycin used, <800 mg/m2);
• Mitoxantrone: 160 mg/m2 (using doxorubicin, <120 mg/m2);
• Has had treatment with any prior CAR-T therapy.
• Patients with acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) or moderate-to-severe chronic GVHD within 4 weeks before screening; Patients who have received systemic drug therapy for GVHD within 4 weeks before CNCT19 infusion.
• Patients with systemic vasculitis.
• Patients complying with any of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and/or hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) positive, hepatitis B e antibody (HBe-Ab) and/or hepatitis B core antibody (HBc-Ab) positive and HBV-DNA copies being more than the lower limit of detection, hepatitis C antibody (HCV-Ab) positive, anti-treponemia pallidum antibody (TP-Ab) positive, EBV-DNA, and CMV-DNA copies being more than the lower limit of detection.
• Prior malignancy. Patients with Prior malignancy that has been cured for ≥ 5 years or has a low risk of relapse, judged by investigators are excluded.
• a. Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) ≤45%; b. III/IV congestive heart failure (NYHA); c. Severe arrhythmia, or clinically significant conduction abnormalities that can be seen on ECG, including QTc interval ≥480ms (QTcB=QT/RR1/2); d. Hypertension that has not been controlled after standard treatment (systolic ≥140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg); e. Unstable angina; f. Myocardial infarction or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery, heart stent surgery < 6 months prior to CNCT19 infusion; f. Clinically significant valvular disease; g. Other heart diseases that have been judged by the investigator to be unsuitable for receiving cell therapy.

Where it is running

• The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University school of Medicine — Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (enrolling)
• Xinqiao Hospital of TMMU — Chongqing, Chongqing Municipality, China (enrolling)
• Nanfang Hospital — Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (enrolling)
• Beijing Boren Hospital — Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China (enrolling)
• Henan Cancer Hospital — Zhengzhou, Henan, China (enrolling)
• Union Hospital Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology — Wuhan, Hubei, China (enrolling)
• The affiliated hospital of Xuzhou medical university — Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China (enrolling)
• Tongji Hospital of Tongji University — Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China (enrolling)
• West China Hospital，Sichuan University — Chengdu, Sichuan, China (enrolling)
• Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital — Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, China (enrolling)
• Yanda hospital, Hebei medical university — Sanhe, Hebei, China

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