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Cellular Immunotherapy in Recipients of HLA-matched, Living Donor Kidney Transplants

Phase 3
Completed
Conditions
Kidney Transplant Rejection
Registration Number
NCT03363945
Lead Sponsor
Medeor Therapeutics, Inc.
Brief Summary

The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of cellular immunotherapy with MDR-101 for induction of functional immune tolerance in recipients of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched, living donor kidney transplants.

Detailed Description

Currently, patients receiving a transplanted kidney are required to take life-long immunosuppressive medications to prevent rejection of the transplanted kidney. These medications carry substantial side effects. In addition, these medicines often do not completely control damage to the kidney from the recipients' immune system, ultimately causing the kidney to fail.

Medeor Therapeutics is developing a novel cell-based therapy to reprogram the recipients' immune system to accept a transplanted kidney without the need for long term use of immunosuppression drugs.

The purpose of the current Phase 3 study is to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of MDR-101 for the induction of transplant immune tolerance in a prospective, randomized, multicenter clinical trial. MDR-101 is intended to induce mixed lymphohematopoietic chimerism and donor specific immune tolerance in order to preserve transplant kidney function, avert transplant kidney rejection, and eliminate the cumulative and serious side effects associated with immunosuppressive drugs.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
30
Inclusion Criteria
  • Planned recipient of a first kidney allograft from an HLA-matched, living related donor
  • Age ≥18 and ≤70 years
  • Single solid organ recipient (kidney only)
  • ABO matched with donor

Recipient

Exclusion Criteria
  • Underlying kidney disease with a high risk of disease recurrence in the transplanted kidney
  • Baseline positive donor-specific anti-HLA antibody testing
  • Is taking immunosuppressive therapy
  • Evidence of prior hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV)

Donor Inclusion Criteria:

  • HLA-matched first degree (parent, child or sibling) or second-degree (child of a sibling or half sibling) relative of the prospective recipient participant
  • Age ≥18 and ≤70 years
  • Prepared to be a living related kidney donor, and capable of undergoing G-CSF mobilization and apheresis of hematopoietic cells

Donor Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of autoimmune disorders
  • History of type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Tests confirmed positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), HBV, HCV, T. cruzi, or syphilis
  • History of infection with Zika virus

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Functional immune tolerance defined asUp to 36 months post-kidney transplant

* Achievement of the required duration of persistent donor mixed chimerism to permit calcineurin inhibitor immunosuppressive withdrawal beginning at 6-7 months post-kidney transplant surgery, and

* Successful withdrawal from all immunosuppressives by at least 12 months post-kidney transplant surgery, and

* Subsequent successful maintenance off all immunosuppressive drugs for at least 24 additional months (out to at least 36 months post-kidney transplant surgery) without biopsy-proven acute rejection, de novo Donor Specific Antibody, transplant kidney loss, or subject death. Loss to follow-up will be adjudicated as a failure in intent-to-treat analysis.

Secondary Outcome Measures
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Trial Locations

Locations (19)

Loma Linda University Medical Center

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Loma Linda, California, United States

USC

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Los Angeles, California, United States

Stanford University Medical Center

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Stanford, California, United States

University of Colorado Denver

🇺🇸

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Yale University

🇺🇸

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Georgetown University Medical Center

🇺🇸

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Mayo Clinic Hospital

🇺🇸

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Loyola University Medical Center

🇺🇸

Maywood, Illinois, United States

Mayo Clinic

🇺🇸

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

RWJBarnabas Health

🇺🇸

Orange, New Jersey, United States

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Loma Linda University Medical Center
🇺🇸Loma Linda, California, United States

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