BCMA-CD19 cCAR in Multiple Myeloma and Plasmacytoid Lymphoma

BCMA-CD19 cCAR is a compound Chimeric Antigen Receptor (cCAR) immunotherapy with two distinct functional CAR molecules expressing on a T-cell, directed against the surface proteins BCMA and CD19. BCMA-CD19 cCAR is also aimed to treat multiple myeloma, a challenging disease due to the heterogeneity of myeloma cells, which renders single-antigen targeting CAR T-cell therapy ineffective. BCMA-CD19 cCAR is proposed to target both bulky myeloma cells expressing BCMA, and myeloma stem cells expressing CD19 to effectively eradicate the disease.

BCMA-CD19 cCAR is also aimed to treat heterogeneous plasmacytoid lymphoma bearing two types of lymphoma cells, regular lymphoma cells expressing CD19 and plasmacytoid lymphoma cells expressing BCMA. The use of two different targets intends to increase coverage and eradicate cancerous cells before resistance develops in surviving cancer cells that have undergone selective pressures or antigen escape.

Inclusion criteria

• Signed written informed consent; Patients volunteer to participate in the research
• Diagnosis is mainly based on the World Health Organization (WHO) 2008
• Patients have exhausted standard therapeutic options
• Systematic usage of immunosuppressive drug or corticosteroid must have been stopped for more than 1 weeks
• Female must be not pregnant during the study

Exclusion criteria

• Patients declining to consent for treatment
• Prior solid organ transplantation
• Potentially curative therapy including chemotherapy or hematopoietic cell transplant
• Prior treatment with BCMAxCD3 or CD19xCD3 bispecific agents