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A Phase 1/2 Study Evaluating Gene Therapy by Transplantation of Autologous CD34+ Stem Cells Transduced Ex Vivo with the LentiGlobin BB305 Lentiviral Vector in Subjects with Severe Sickle Cell Disease

This study is NOT currently recruiting participants.

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Summary

Number

14-H-0155

Sponsoring Institute

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Recruitment Detail

Type: No longer recruiting/follow-up only
Gender: Male & Female
Min Age: 18 Years
Max Age: 50 Years

Referral Letter Required

No

Population Exclusion(s)

Pregnant Women;
Children;
Neonates;
Adults who are or may become unable to consent

Keywords

Stem Cell Transplant;
Sickle Cell Disease;
Gene Therapy

Recruitment Keyword(s)

None

Condition(s)

Sickle Cell Disease

Investigational Drug(s)

bb1111(aka LentiGlobin BB305) Drug Product

Investigational Device(s)

None

Intervention(s)

Drug: LentiGlobin BB305 Drug Product
Drug: Anti-seizure prophylaxis
Drug: Busulfan
Drug: plerixafor
Procedure/Surgery: Bone marrow harvest

Supporting Site

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Background:

- Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a red blood cell disease. It is caused by a gene that produces an abnormal hemoglobin. Researchers want to see if removing stem cells from a person s bone marrow, adding the correct gene, and returning them back to the person helps symptoms of SCD.

Objective:

- To evaluate how well and safely stem cell transplant with gene-modified stem cells treats sickle cell disease.

Eligibility:

- Adults at least 18 years old with SCD.

Design:

- Participants will be screened with:

- Physical exam

- Blood, urine, heart, and breathing tests

- 6-minute walk

- Brain, liver, and heart scan

- They may have liver tissue removed with a needle.

- Visit 1: While participants are under general anesthesia:

- A needle will collect stem cells from bone marrow at each hipbone.

- They may have a small rubber tube (central line) threaded through the skin, into a large vein.

- The stem cells will be changed in a lab.

- Visit 2: Participants will be in the hospital about 5 6 weeks. They will have frequent physical exams and blood tests.

- They will get a chemotherapy drug through the central line for 4 days.

- Participants will then receive the changed stem cells through the central line.

- They will stay in a protective environment and take medicines to prevent infections.

- Participants will be have 11 follow-up visits for 2 years after the procedure. Screening tests will be repeated at some visits.

- Study doctors will maintain long-term contact with participants.

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Eligibility

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Subjects must:

1. Be greater than or equal to 12 years of age and less than or equal to 50 years of age at time of consent.

2. Have a diagnosis of SCD, with either BetaS/BetaS or BetaS/Beta0 or BetaS/Beta + genotype.

3. In the setting of appropriate supportive care measures (e.g., pain management plan) have experienced at least 4 severe VOEs in the 24 months prior to informed consent as defined below.

For the purposes of this study, a severe VOE is defined as an event with no medically determined cause other than a vaso-occlusion, requiring a greater than or equal to 24-hour hospital or emergency room (ER) observation unit visit or at least 2 visits to a day unit or ER over 72 hours with both visits requiring intravenous treatment. Exception: priapism does not require hospital admission but does require a medical facility visit; 4 priapism episodes that require a visit to a medical facility (without inpatient admission) are sufficient to meet criterion. Severe VOEs include:

-a. an episode of acute pain with no medically determined cause other than a VOE

-b. Acute chest syndrome (ACS), defined by an acute event with pneumonia-like symptoms (e.g., chest pain, fever [>38.5 (Infinite)C], tachypnea, wheezing or cough, or findings upon lung auscultation) and the presence of a new pulmonary infiltrate consistent with ACS and requiring oxygen treatment and/or blood transfusion.

-c. Acute hepatic sequestration, defined by a sudden increase in liver size associated with pain in the right upper quadrant, abnormal results of liver-function test not due to biliary tract disease, and reduction in Hb concentration by at least 2 g/dL below the baseline value

-d. Acute splenic sequestration, defined as sudden enlargement of the spleen and reduction in Hb concentration by at least 2 g/dL below the baseline value

-e. Acute priapism: defined as a sustained, unwanted painful erection lasting more than 2 hours and requiring care at a medical facility (with or without hospitalization.

4. Have a Karnofsky performance status of greater than or equal to 60 (greater than or equal to 16 years of age) or a Lansky performance status of greater than or equal to 60 (<16 years of age).

5. Have either experienced HU failure at any point in the past (defined as >1 VOE or greater than or equal to 1 ACS after HU has been prescribed for at least 6 months) or must have intolerance to HU (intolerance is defined as the patient being unable to continue to take HU per PI judgment.

6. Be treated and followed for at least the past 24 months prior to Informed Consent in medical center(s) that maintained detailed records on sickle cell disease history, including incidence of VOEs and severe VOEs, aplastic crises, infectious complications, SCD-related chronic complications, SCD-related surgery, neurovascular evaluation (including MRI/A and TCD), pRBC transfusions (including indications, volume and units of pRBCs, associated pre- transfusion HbS and total Hb values and posttransfusion adverse events [including allo-immunization]), SCD specific treatment history (e.g., HU, L-glutamine, iron overload, and chelation history), and use of pain medication.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Subjects are excluded if they meet any of the following criteria.

1. Positive for presence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 or 2 (HIV-1 or HIV-2), hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human T-lymphotrophic virus-1 (HTLV-1) or -2(HTLV-2), active syphilis. Note that subjects who have been vaccinated against hepatitis B [hepatitis B surface antibody-positive] who are negative for other markers of prior hepatitis B infection [e.g., negative for hepatitis B core antibody] are eligible. Subjects with past exposure to HBV [HBc Ab positive and/or HBe Ab positive] are also eligible for the study provided they are negative for HBV DNA. Subjects who are positive for antihepatitis C antibody are eligible as long as they have an undetectable hepatitis C viral load. Where clinically and/or regionally indicated, other tests may be performed, in which case relevant positive results suggesting active infection would exclude the subject from participating, depending on regional guidelines: for example, malaria, tuberculosis, active toxoplasmosis, Trypanosoma cruzi, or West Nile Virus.

2. Clinically significant, active bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic infection, as determined by the Investigator e.g., active relapsing malaria.

3. Inadequate bone marrow function, as defined by an absolute neutrophil count of <=1(SqrRoot) 10^9/L (<0.5(SqrRoot) 10^9/L for subjects on

hydroxyurea treatment) or a platelet count <=100(SqrRoot) 10^9/L.

4. Severe cerebral vasculopathy defined by any history of overt ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, abnormal transcranial Doppler (greater than or equal to 200 cm/sec) requiring chronic transfusion, occlusion or stenosis in the circle of Willis, or presence of Moyamoya disease. Subjects with radiologic evidence of silent infarction in the absence of any of the above criteria would still be eligible.

5. Baseline oxygen saturation <90% without supplemental oxygen (excluding periods of SCD crisis, severe anemia or infection).

6. Baseline carbon monoxide diffusing capacity (DLco) less than 50% (corrected for Hb) in the absence of infection. If DLco cannot be assessed due to age or cognition-related restrictions, there must be a normal respiratory exam, chest radiograph without pulmonary infiltrates, and oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry greater than or equal to 90% on room air.

7. Baseline left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) less than 45% measured by cardiac echography.

8. Clinically significant pulmonary hypertension at baseline, as defined by the requirement for ongoing pharmacologic treatment or the consistent or intermittent use of supplemental home oxygen.

9. Baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) less than 70 mL/min/1.73 m2, as determined using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation (see http://www.kidney.org/professionals/kdoqi/gfr_calculator.cfm).

10. Advanced liver disease, defined as:

-a. Persistent aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, or direct bilirubin value >3(SqrRoot) the upper limit of normal (ULN), or

-b. Baseline prothrombin time or partial thromboplastin time >1.5(SqrRoot) ULN, suspected of arising from liver disease, or

-c. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the liver demonstrating clear evidence of cirrhosis, or

-d. MRI findings suggestive of active hepatitis, significant fibrosis, inconclusive evidence of cirrhosis, or liver iron concentration greater than or equal to 15 mg/g require follow-up liver biopsy in subjects greater than or equal to 18 years of age. In subjects < 18 years of age,

these MRI findings are exclusionary, unless in the opinion of the Investigator, a liver biopsy could provide additional data to confirm eligibility and would be safe to perform. If a liver biopsy is performed based on MRI findings, any evidence of cirrhosis, bridging fibrosis, or significant active hepatitis will be exclusionary.

11. For subjects who have history of iron overload or serum ferritin levels >1000 ng/mL, a cardiac MRI is required. Cardiac T2* <10 ms results in exclusion.

12. Contraindication to anesthesia.

13. Any contraindications to the use of plerixafor during the mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells and any contraindications to the use of busulfan and any other medicinal products required during the myeloablative conditioning, including hypersensitivity to the active substances or to any of the excipients

14. Any prior or current malignancy or immunodeficiency disorder, except previously treated, non-life threatening, cured tumors such as squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.

15. Prior receipt of an allogeneic transplant.

16. Immediate family member with a known or suspected Familial Cancer Syndrome (including but not limited to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer syndrome, and familial adenomatous polyposis).

17. Diagnosis of significant psychiatric disorder of the subject that, in the Investigator s judgment, could seriously impede the ability to participate in the study.

18. Pregnancy, or breastfeeding in a postpartum female, or absence of adequate contraception for fertile subjects. Females of childbearing potential must agree to use a medically acceptable method of birth control such as oral contraceptive, intrauterine device, barrier and spermicide, or contraceptive implant/injection from time of consent through at least 6 months after drug product infusion. Male subjects must agree to use effective contraception (including condoms) from Conditioning through at least 6 months after drug product infusion.

19. Participation in another clinical study with an investigational drug within 30 days of Screening.

20. Prior receipt of gene therapy.

21. An assessment by the Investigator that the subject or parents/caregivers (as required) will not be able to comply with the study procedures outlined in the study protocol

22. Patients needing therapeutic anticoagulation treatment during the period of conditioning through platelet engraftment (patients on prophylactic doses of anticoagulants not excluded per this criteria).

23. Unable to receive RBC transfusion

24. Any other condition that would render the subject ineligible for HSCT, as determined by the attending transplant physician

25. Applicable to subjects < 18 years of age only: Availability of a willing, matched HLA identical sibling hematopoietic cell donor.


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Citations:

Not Provided

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Contacts:

Principal Investigator

Referral Contact

For more information:

John F. Tisdale, M.D.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
NIHBC 10 - CLINICAL CENTER BG RM 9N112
10 CENTER DR
BETHESDA MD 20892
(301) 402-6497
johntis@mail.nih.gov

Richard A. Gustafson
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
National Institutes of Health
Building 10
Room 5-1424
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
(301) 402-5822
richard.gustafson@nih.gov

Office of Patient Recruitment
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Building 61, 10 Cloister Court
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Toll Free: 1-800-411-1222
Local Phone: 301-451-4383
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ccopr@nih.gov

Clinical Trials Number:

NCT02140554

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