NCT03802695RecruitingPhase 1
A Phase 1 Study of Orca-Q in Recipients Undergoing Allogeneic Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies
A Phase 1 Dose Escalation and Expansion Study of Orca-Q, an Engineered Donor Graft Derived From Mobilized Peripheral Blood, in Recipients Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of engineered donor grafts ("OrcaGraft"/"Orca-Q") in participants undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (alloHCT) transplantation for hematologic malignancies.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 1
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 300 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 10 Jan 2019
- Start date
- 8 Apr 2019
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Orca Biosystems, Inc.
- Diseases
- Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Myelodysplastic syndromes, Acute myeloid leukemia, Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT03802695
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 1
- Planned participants: 300
- From 8 Apr 2019 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2027
- 12 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Prior alloHCT
- Currently receiving corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive therapy except for approved disease-specific therapy for the patient's underlying hematologic malignancy. Topical corticosteroids or oral systemic corticosteroid doses less than or equal to 10 mg/day are allowed
- Planned pharmaceutical in vivo or ex vivo T cell depletion, e.g., post-transplant cyclophosphamide (Cy) or alemtuzumab
- Positive anti-donor HLA antibodies against a mismatched allele in the selected donor
- Uncontrolled bacterial, viral or fungal infections (currently taking antimicrobial therapy and with progression or no clinical improvement) at time of enrollment
- Concurrent malignancies or active disease within 1 year, except non-melanoma skin cancers that have been curatively resected. Patients with concurrent indolent hematologic malignancies that do not require active treatment and are under active surveillance only (such as CLL, low-grade lymphomas, smoldering MM, MZL) may be included with the approval of Medical Monitor
Other illness
- Seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 or -2, human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-1 or -2 or Hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg) or anti-Hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody (Ab)
- Any uncontrolled autoimmune disease requiring active immunosuppressive treatment
- History of idiopathic or secondary myelofibrosis
Lab values
- Planned donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI)
Other
- Low performance score: For MAC: Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS) \< 70 percent, For NMA/RIC: \<60 percent
- High HCT-specific Comorbidity Index (HCT-CI): For MAC \> 4, For NMA/RIC \>6
- Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
Who the study is looking for
- Age at the time of enrollment:
- For MAC with fully matched donor (Arm A with 8/8 donor and Arm C) and NMA/RIC: Age ≥ 12 and ≤ 78 years
- For MAC with mismatched donors (Arm A with 7/8 donor and Arm B): Age ≥ 12 and ≤ 65 years
- Diagnosed acute myeloid, lymphoblastic or mixed phenotype leukemia, or high or very high risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) either in complete remission (CR) or with ≤ 10 percent of blast cells in bone marrow (BM)
- Indicated for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alloHCT)
- Matched to a 8/8 or 7/8 related or unrelated donor, or to a related haploidentical donor
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) \> 50 mL/minute (MAC with tacrolimus) or \> 30 mL/minute (NMA/RIC or MAC without tacrolimus)
- Cardiac parameters: Cardiac ejection fraction ≥ 45 percent (MAC) or ≥ 40 percent (NMA/RIC)
- Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) (adjusted for hemoglobin) ≥ 50 percent for MAC or ≥ 40 percent for NMA/RIC
- Liver function: Total bilirubin \< 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) (MAC) or \< 3 times ULN (NMA/RIC); alanine transaminase (ALT)/aspartate transaminase (AST) \< 3 times ULN (MAC) or \< 5 times ULN (NMA/RIC)
- Participants enrolling on NMA/RIC-alloHCT arms must be deemed unfit for a myeloablative alloHCT per assessment of the principal investigator (PI)
Age in the registry: 12 years to 78 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (12)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emory University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Recruiting |
| Ohio State University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbus | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| City of Hope Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Duarte | United States | Recruiting |
| John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hackensack | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
| The University of Kansas Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kansas City | United States | Withdrawn |
| Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milwaukee | United States | Withdrawn |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| UC Davis Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sacramento | United States | Recruiting |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Recruiting |
| Stanford Health Care Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stanford | United States | Recruiting |
| Moffitt Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Recruiting |
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