About this trial
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, to establish the recommended dose, and to evaluate the antitumor effect of CD7-CART01 in pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) or lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LL).
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Patients in 1st or subsequent relapse, after at least one standard frontline chemotherapy with BM involvement (MRD >1% in 2 consecutive determinations or evidence of morphological relapse, i.e. >5% blasts in BM);
Relapse after allogeneic HSCT, if at least 100 days post-transplant, if there is no evidence of active GVHD and if the patient is no longer taking immunosuppressive agents for at least 30 days prior to enrollment;
CNS disease as defined as > 5 WBCs/mcL in CSF with morphological/flow-cytometry evidence of blasts or biopsy proven recurrence in the eye or brain;
Extramedullary relapse as defined by morphological evidence of blasts in the testis or any other extramedullary sites;
Disqualifiers
Severe, uncontrolled active intercurrent infections.
HIV, or active HCV and/or HBV infection.
Blast contamination in peripheral blood >5%, by flow-cytometry, at the time of leukapheresis collection.
Systemic steroids (at a dose equivalent to or greater than 2 mg/kg prednisone) in the 2 weeks before apheresis collection. Recent or current use of inhaled/topical/non-absorbable steroids is not exclusionary
Trial design
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
CD7-CART01
Biological/VaccineA single IV infusion of CD7-CART01 on Day 0
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Safety (Phase I) and definition of the recommended dose (Phase I)
To evaluate the safety of the infusion of CD7-CART01, explore the dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) of the cellular product and define the recommended dose of CD7-CART01, defined as the maximum tolerated dose/recommended dose (MTD/RD), to be evaluated for efficacy in the phase II extension
Antitumor effect of CD7-CART01 (Phase II)
To evaluate the portion of patients achieving either BM, PB and CSF morphological complete remission (CR) or CR with incomplete blood count recovery (CRi) and with minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity at day 28
Secondary outcomes
Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v5.0
In the phase II portion of the study, the treatment-related adverse events will be recorded
Antitumor effect of CD7-CART01 (Phase I and II)
To assess the Overall Response Rate (ORR) at day 28
In vivo persistence of CD7-CART01 (Phase I and II)
To assess the in vivo persistence of the infused T cells using immunoassays and transgene detection (flow-cytometry and Real Time qPCR)
Relative proportion and phenotype of CD3+CAR+ T cells/CD3+CAR- T cells/NK cells (Phase I and II)
To assess the relative proportion and phenotype of CD3+CAR+ T cells/CD3+CAR- T cells/NK cells at day +28 and whenever it will be the case at subsequent time points
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