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NCT Number: NCT06895811

Clinical Study of Safety and Efficacy of Universal PSMA CAR- T in Refractory CRPC

This is a single-arm, single-center, open-label clinical trial designed to evaluate the clinical safety and tolerability of different doses of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)-Universal Chimeric Antigen Receptor (UCAR) T-lymphocytes (PSMA-UCAR T) for the treatment of patients with refractory castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

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Key information

Age range

18 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1

Primary location

Changzheng hospital

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 201109, China

About this study

This is a single-arm, single-center, open-label clinical trial, which aims to evaluate safety and clinical efficacy of different doses of PSMA-UCAR T (BRL-302) in treating patients with refractory CRPC.

Three patients will be firstly enrolled at a dose level (DL) of 5.0 × 10^6cells/kg in the DL1 group. Based on preliminary safety data, efficacy information, and PK/PD parameters obtained at DL1 cohort, the investigator may enroll another three patients in a decreased dose level group of DL-2: 3 × 10^6 cells/kg or DL-1:1 × 10^6 cells/ kg, after thorough discussions between the investigators.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Fully understood and voluntarily signed informed consent for this study;
  • Male, aged 18-80 years;
  • Expected survival of more than 6 months;
  • Metastatic castration-resistant prostate adenocarcinoma (CRPC) patients:

Have received CRPC standard treatment (such as novel hormone therapies, chemotherapy and radium-223, etc., one or more of the combination therapy) after the diagnosis of CRPC, and is ineffective or progressive :PSA continued rising for 3 months, or bone scan/whole-body MRI/PET-CT showed local recurrence or new metastatic lesions, demonstrating disease progression;

  • PSMA expression in tumor cells was positive in immunohistochemical staining of prostate/metastatic biopsy tissue before enrollment (within 6 months prior to enrollment);
  • ECOG score < 2 ;
  • Virological examination HAV (hepatitis A virus), HBV (hepatitis B virus), HCV (hepatitis C virus), HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), TP (Treponema pallidum) quantitative detection was negative, (antigen and antibody screening method unknown, confirmed by nucleic acid method);
  • Hematological parameters met the following criteria: a. hemoglobin > 100 g/L; b. platelet count > 100 × 10^9/L; c. neutrophils > 1.5 × 10^9/L.

Exclusion criteria

Subjects meeting any of the following exclusion criteria will be excluded:

  • Have received any previous treatment with CAR-T therapy ;
  • Have received any previous treatment that targets PSMA;
  • Tumor pathology suggests a special type of prostate cancer (e.g., neuroendocrine prostate cancer, etc.)
  • Severe mental disorders;
  • Suffered from previous malignancies, except for the following: a. basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma after standardized treatment; b. having a primary malignancy, but completely resected, with a complete remission time of ≥ 5 years.
  • Subjects with severe cardiovascular disease; a.New York Heart Association (NYHA) stage III or IV congestive heart failure; b.Myocardial infarction ≤ 6 months prior to enrollment or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG); c.Clinically significant ventricular arrhythmia, or history of unexplained syncope, nonvasovagal or not due to dehydration; d.History of severe non-ischemic cardiomyopathy; e.Decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF < 55%) as assessed by echocardiogram or multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan, abnormal interventricular septal thickness and atrioventricular size associated with myocardial amyloidosis;
  • Active infectious disease or any major infectious event requiring high grade antibiotics;
  • Organ function in the following abnormalities: a. serum aspartate aminotransferase or alanine aminotransferase > 2.5*Upper Limit of Normal (ULN); CK > ULN; CK-MB > ULN; TnT > 1.5*ULN; b. total bilirubin > 1.5*ULN; c. partial prothrombin time or activated partial thromboplastin time or international normalized ratio > 1.5*ULN in the absence of anticoagulant therapy;
  • Participation in other clinical studies in the past three months or previous treatment with any gene therapy product;
  • Intolerance or hypersensitivity to cyclophosphamide or fludarabine chemotherapy;
  • Unsuitability to participate in this clinical study in the opinion of the investigator.

Treatment and study plan

PSMA-UCAR T (BRL-302)

Biological

Three patients will be firstly enrolled at a dose level (DL) of 5.0 × 10^6cells/kg in the DL1 group, following lymphodepleting chemotherapy which will be given under instruction of protocol and investigators' assessment;

Based on preliminary safety data, efficacy information, and PK/PD parameters obtained at DL1 cohort, the investigator may enroll another three patients in a decreased dose level group of DL-2: 3 × 10^6 cells/kg or DL-1:1 × 10^6 cells/ kg, after thorough discussions between the investigators.

Primary outcomes

  1. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE V5.0)

    Time frame: Through 6 months after CAR T cell infusion

    Safety assessment: toxicity profile

  2. Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS) grading post CAR T cell infusion.

    Time frame: Through 6 months after CAR T cell infusion

    Safety assessment: toxicity profile

  3. Safety assessment: dose-limiting toxicity

    Time frame: 28 days after CAR T cell infusion

    Incidence of dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) within 28 days. Dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) is defined as any relevant adverse event that ≥ grade 3 and did not resolve to a grade ≤ grade 2 within 28 days after the first infusion back.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Efficacy assessment: PSA changes

    Time frame: 6 months after CAR T cell infusion

    Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) changes assessed by serum PSA measurement (ng/ml).

  2. Efficacy assessment: radiographic Progression-Free Survival (rPFS)

    Time frame: 6 months after CAR T cell infusion

    rPFS is defined as the time between treatment with study drug and the development of imaging progression or death from any cause, whichever occurs first, with imaging progression encompassing the evaluation of progression of primary lesions, non-regional lymph node invasion, soft tissue metastases, and bone metastatic lesions according to RECIST 1.1 and PCWG3 criteria.

  3. 6-months Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: 6 months after CAR T cell infusion

    PFS is defined as the time between treatment with study drug and disease progression or death from any cause, whichever occurs first, including biochemical progression or radiographic progression after evaluation according to RECIST 1.1 and PCWG3 criteria according to the included.

  4. Pharmacokinetics (PK) assessment: expansion of CAR T cells

    Time frame: From Day 1 till at least 3 months after CAR T cell infusion

    With the day of the first infusion of the cellular preparation recorded as D0, the monitoring phase of the pharmacokinetic study started from 1 day before the first infusion (D-1).

    Expansion of CAR T cells will be assessed by concentration profile of CAR-T cells in peripheral blood after PSMA-UCAR T infusion.

  5. Pharmacokinetics (PK) assessment: persistence of CAR T cells

    Time frame: From Day 1 till at least 3 months after CAR T cell infusion

    With the day of the first infusion of the cellular preparation recorded as D0, the monitoring phase of the pharmacokinetic study started from 1 day before the first infusion (D-1).

    Persistence of CAR T cells will be assessed by T-cell survival time (area under the curve AUC0-28 at 28 days and area under the curve AUC0-90 at 90 days);

  6. Pharmacodynamics (PD) assessment eg. (Level of IL-6)

    Time frame: From Day 1 till at least 3 months after CAR T cell infusion

    Pharmacokinetic (PD) endpoints is assessed by changes in serum cytokine levels (eg.IL-6) after PSMA-UCAR T infusion.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Shanghai Changzheng Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • Bioray Laboratories

Registry information

Official study title

The Safety and Efficacy Evaluation of Universal PSMA Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells in the Treatment of Refractory Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Mar 26, 2025
Registry last updated
Jul 23, 2026

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