Experimental CART123 therapy targets tough blood cancers in early trial

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with AML, MDS-IB2, BPDCN or ALL positive for CD123 antigen, who meet one of disease specific criteria below: a) Patients with AML will be eligible if they meet one of the following criteria: i) Patient with refractory AML defined as failure to achieve CR or CRi after at least 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy or 1 cycle of high dose salvage regimen or 4 cycles of venetoclax with azacytidine OR ii) Second or subsequent relapse of AML OR iii) Relapse after allogeneic HSCT. b) Patients with ALL will be eligible if they meet one of following criteria: i) disease refractory to or relapsed after CAR-19 cell therapy OR ii) CD19 negative relapse ineligible for treatment with TKI inhibitors and inotuzumab ozogamicin. c) Patients with BPDCN will be eligible if they meet following criteria: i) Refractory or relapsing after chemotherapy with or without allogeneic stem cell transplantation. d) Patients with MDS-IB2 will be eligible if they meet one of following criteria: i) Disease refractory to at least four cycles of azacytidine or progression on azacytidine-based therapy OR ii) Disease refractory to induction chemotherapy OR iii) Relapse after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 2. CD123 expression on malignant cells confirmed by flow cytometry or by immunohistochemistry. 3. Age between 18 and 70 years. 4. Patient has a suitable donor for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Workup and clearance of the donor must be completed before IMP administration. 5. Patient able to understand and sign informed consent. 6. Women of child-bearing potential: negative pregnancy test at enrolment (PSV) and at Visit 1. 7. Patient for whom there are no standard-of-care treatments available or such treatment options have been exhausted. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Known hypersensitivity to any component of the IMP. 2. Allogeneic HSCT within 3 months prior to IMP administration. 3. Severe, uncontrolled active infection. 4. Life expectancy \< 8 weeks. 5. Respiratory insufficiency (need for oxygen therapy). 6. Significant liver impairment: bilirubin \> 50 µmol/L, AST or ALT \> 4 times normal upper limit. 7. Acute kidney injury with serum creatinine \> 180 µmol/L, oliguria or need for acute dialysis. 8. Heart failure with LVEF \< 50% by echocardiography. 9. Presence of active grade 3 - 4 acute GvHD or severe chronic GvHD. 10. Serious uncontrolled neurological comorbidity. 11. Vaccination with live virus vaccines in the 4 weeks before IMP administration and within 90 days after the IMP dose. 12. Women: pregnancy or breast-feeding. 13. Subjects of fertile age, unless permanent sexual abstinence is their lifestyle choice: 1. female patients of childbearing potential not willing to use a highly effective method of contraception during the study, 2. male patients whose sexual partner(s) are women of childbearing potential who are not willing to use a highly effective method of contraception during the study.