A Phase 2A Study of ALXN1007 in Participants With Newly Diagnosed Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GIGVHD)
Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease, GIGVHD
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease focused on measuring GIGVHD
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants must be males or females age 18 years or older.
- Participants with Stage 1 to 4 (per the Modified Keystone Grading Schema) acute GVHD of the lower GI tract, without signs of chronic GVHD, at the time of diagnosis, which developed in the first 180 days following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) using bone marrow, peripheral blood, or cord blood; or after preplanned donor lymphocyte infusion.
- Participants are willing to undergo or must have had an endoscopy of the upper and/or lower GI tract and biopsy to confirm GI GVHD.
- Participants must be receiving systemic corticosteroids.
- Participants with an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >500/microliter (μL) at Screening.
- Participants and spouse/partner who are of childbearing potential must be using high effective contraception consisting of 2 forms of birth control (at least 1 of which much be barrier method) starting at Screening and continuing through the entire study (for at least 3 months after the last dose of ALXN1007 if study treatment is stopped early or participant withdraws consent).
Male participants must not donate sperm during the Screening and Treatment periods, and for at least 3 months after the last dose of ALXN1007.
- Stage of acute GVHD of the lower GI tract will be determined using the Modified Keystone Grading Schema.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participants with a body weight > 140 kg (for Cohorts dosing 20 mg/kg of ALXN1007 and higher only).
- Participants with signs and symptoms of chronic GVHD.
- Participants with an active uncontrolled infection.
- Participants who test positive for Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) at Screening.
- Participants with relapsed/persistent malignancy requiring rapid immune suppression withdrawal.
- Participants who received an unplanned (not part of the original transplant therapy plan) donor lymphocyte infusion.
- Participants who received previous systemic treatment for acute GVHD, except for a maximum of 3 days (72 hours) of 2 mg/kg corticosteroid therapy.
- Participants with unresolved veno-occlusive disease of the liver.
- Participants with creatinine clearance <40 milliliters (mL)/minute at Screening, as calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula.
- Participants known to be infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B, or hepatitis C.
- Participants known to have an uncontrolled thyroid disorder.
- Participants who are pregnant, breast feeding, or sexually active and unwilling to use effective birth control for the duration of the study.
- Participants who participated in any other investigational drug trial or had exposure to any other investigational agent, device, or procedure <4 weeks prior to Screening and throughout the entire trial, with the exception of investigational drugs administered prophylactically for cytomegalovirus (CMV) post allogeneic HCT.
Sites / Locations
- City of Hope
- Emory University Hospital
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- University of Minnesota Medicine - Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation Office
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Hackensack University Medical Center
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- Abramson Cancer Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- CHU de Grenoble - Hôpital Nord
- Groupe Hospitalier Sud - Hôpital Haut-Lévêque - Centre François
- Hôpital Saint-Louis
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
ALXN1007 10 mg/kg once weekly
ALXN1007 20 mg/kg once weekly
ALXN1007 20 mg/kg twice weekly
Cohort 1, the first dosing cohort, received 10 mg/kg ALXN1007 IV once weekly for 8 weeks.
Cohort 2 received 20 mg/kg ALXN1007 IV once weekly for 8 weeks. For the first 2 participants enrolled, the first ALXN1007 dose was not to be administered on the same day and a safety and tolerability review was to take place after the second (and prior to the third) ALXN1007 dose for each participant. If the ALXN1007 dose was determined to be sufficiently tolerated by the participant, dosing was to continue for that participant. For any other participants enrolled in the dosing cohort, participants were not to proceed to the third ALXN1007 dose prior to the completion of the safety and tolerability review (of the first 2 doses) for the first 2 participants.
Cohort 3 received 20 mg/kg ALXN1007 IV twice weekly for 8 weeks. For the first 2 participants enrolled, the first ALXN1007 dose was not to be administered on the same day and a safety and tolerability review was to take place after the second (and prior to the third) ALXN1007 dose for each participant. If the ALXN1007 dose was determined to be sufficiently tolerated by the participant, dosing was to continue for that participant. For any other participants enrolled in the dosing cohort, participants were not to proceed to the third ALXN1007 dose prior to the completion of the safety and tolerability review (of the first 2 doses) for the first 2 participants.