Immune-Boosting drug aims to outsmart Hard-to-Treat blood cancers

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

Inclusion Criteria: * Diagnosis of a high risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), treatment related MDS, OR relapsed/refractory acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). * Absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) ≥ 200 cells/µL OR absolute circulating CD56+/CD3- NK cell count \>25 cells/µL within the 14 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1. * Peripheral blasts ≤20,000 at the time of treatment start. Hydroxyurea may be used up to Day 1 of the 1st cycle to achieve this threshold and continued for the 1st two weeks of Cycle 1 to maintain it. * Karnofsky performance status ≥ 70% * Adequate organ function within 14 days (30 days for cardiac) of Cycle 1 Day 1 * Sexually active persons of childbearing potential or persons with partners of childbearing potential must agree to use a highly effective form of contraception during study treatment and for at least 4 months after the last dose of GTB-3650. Non-childbearing is defined as \>1 year postmenopausal or surgically sterilized. -For the Dose Finding Component Only: Must agree to stay within a 60- minute drive of the Study Center through the Cycle 1 Day 29 visit (end of the Dose Limiting Toxicity period). * Provides voluntary written consent prior to the performance of any research related activity. * Pulmonary: room air 0 2 saturation at ≥ 95% Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant or breast-feeding. The effect of GTB-3650 TriKE on the fetus is unknown. Persons of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine test within 7 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1 to rule out pregnancy. * A candidate for hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) or newly relapsed after HSCT (e.g. no post-HSCT therapy given). * Bi-phenotypic acute leukemia or mixed lineage leukemia. * Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). * No anticancer therapy within 14 days of Cycle 1 Day 1; any AEs from therapy given prior must have resolved to Grade 1 or baseline * New or progressive pulmonary infiltrates on screening chest x-ray or chest CT scan unless cleared for study by Pulmonary. Infiltrates attributed to infection must be stable/improving with associated clinical improvement after 1 week of appropriate therapy (4 weeks for presumed or documented fungal infections). * Active systemic infection requiring parenteral antibiotic therapy. Any prior systemic infections must have resolved following optimal therapy. * Known history of HIV. * Active Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C (virus detectable by PCR) - chronic asymptomatic viral hepatitis is allowed. * Positive test results from chronic hepatitis B infection (defined as positive HBsAg serology) and/or positive test results for hepatitis C (HCV antibody serology test). * Prior malignancy except for the following: adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, adequately treated Stage I or II cancer currently in complete remission, or any other cancer from which the patient has been disease-free for 1 year * Active central nervous system (CNS) malignancy or symptoms of CNS spread or administration of IT chemotherapy within 14 days prior to Day 1. * Extramedullary disease causing symptoms and/or involving the CNS or spinal canal - asymptomatic extramedullary disease outside the CNS and spinal canal is eligible provided the marrow has measurable disease. * Known autoimmune disease requiring active treatment with steroids or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days before Cycle 1 Day. Inhaled or topical steroids, and adrenal replacement steroid doses ≤ 10 mg daily prednisone equivalent, are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease. * Persons with a condition requiring systemic treatment with steroids (\> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalent) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days before Cycle 1 Day 1. * The potential risk of QT/QTc prolongation is unknown in humans receiving TriKE therefore either of the following is an exclusion criteria: * QTc interval \> 480 msec at screening * A family history of long QT syndrome * Psychiatric illness/social situations that, in the judgement of the enrolling Investigator, would limit compliance with study requirements. * Other illness or a medical issue that, in the judgement of the enrolling Investigator, would exclude the patient from participating in this study.