TY - JOUR
T1 - Omidubicel vs standard myeloablative umbilical cord blood transplantation
T2 - results of a phase 3 randomized study
AU - Horwitz, Mitchell E.
AU - Stiff, Patrick J.
AU - Cutler, Corey
AU - Brunstein, Claudio
AU - Hanna, Rabi
AU - Maziarz, Richard T.
AU - Rezvani, Andrew R.
AU - Karris, Nicole A.
AU - McGuirk, Joseph
AU - Valcarcel, David
AU - Schiller, Gary J.
AU - Lindemans, Caroline A.
AU - Hwang, William Y.K.
AU - Koh, Liang Piu
AU - Keating, Amy
AU - Khaled, Yasser
AU - Hamerschlak, Nelson
AU - Frankfurt, Olga
AU - Peled, Tony
AU - Segalovich, Irit
AU - Blackwell, Beth
AU - Wease, Stephen
AU - Freedman, Laurence S.
AU - Galamidi-Cohen, Einat
AU - Sanz, Guillermo
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Bruno Boulanger and Elena Maurer from BPE for their contribution to the CD34 correlative analyses, and Sarah Anderson, Alice Henning, Shashidhar Joshy, Laura Morrison, and Amarnath Vijayarangan from the Emmes Company for their support for statistical analyses. This work was supported by funding from Gamida Cell.
Funding Information:
Conflict-of-interest disclosure: M.E.H. served as consultant to AbbVie, CareDx, and Magenta, received honoraria from Kadmon, and received research funding from Gamida Cell. P.J.S. served as a consultant to CRISPR and received research funding from Gamida Cell, Atara Biotherapeutics, Amgen, Incyte, Takeda, Macrogenics, and Eisai. C.C. served as a consultant and member of the board of directors or advisory committee for Incyte, Kadmon, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Medsenic, Generon, and Mesoblast. C.B. received research funding from Magenta, Gamida Cell, and Astex and is an advisor to AlloVir. R.T.M. received research funding from Novartis and Juno, data safety monitoring board membership for Novartis and Athersys, received honoraria from Incyte, Kite Pharma, Bristol Myers Squibb/Celgene, PACT Pharma, Orca BioSystems, and Omeros, has patents with and receives royalties from Athersys, and served as a consultant for Novartis, Incyte, CRISPR Therapeutics, Artiva Biotherapeutics, and Allovir. A.R.R. received research funding from Pharmacyclics. J.M. received research funding from Novartis, Fresenius Biotech, Astellas, Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Gamida Cell, and Pluristem, and received honoraria and served as a consultant for Kite Pharma, Juno, and AlloVir. G.J.S. served as a consultant for Agios, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Incyte, Novartis, and Ono, served on the speakers bureau for Celgene, Sanofi, Gilead, and Stemline, and received research funding from AbbVie, Actinium, Ariad, Astellas, Celgene, Celator, Constellation, Cyclacel, Daiichi Sankyo, Deciphera, DeltaFly, Forma, FujiFilm, Gamida Cell, Genentech, Roche, Geron, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Karyopharm, Kite Pharma, Mateon, Medimmune, Onconova, Pfizer, Regimmune, Samus, Sangamo, Tolero, Trovagene, Kaiser Permanente, and Johnson & Johnson, and has equity in Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer. Y.K. was a member of the board of directors, advisory committee, or speakers bureau for Celgene, Seattle Genetics, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, and Takeda. G.S. served on an advisory committee for AbbVie, Hoffman-LaRoche, Helsinn, and Takeda. I.S. and E.G.-C. are employed by and have equity holdings in Gamida Cell. T.P. reports equity holdings in Gamida Cell. B.B. and S.W. are employed by Emmes Company. L.S.F. declares that Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research received remuneration from Gamida Cell for the statistical consultation that he provided to the trial. The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests.
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PY - 2021/10/21
Y1 - 2021/10/21
N2 - Omidubicel is an ex vivo expanded hematopoietic progenitor cell and nonexpanded myeloid and lymphoid cell product derived from a single umbilical cord blood unit. We report results of a phase 3 trial to evaluate the efficacy of omidubicel compared with standard umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT). Between January 2017 and January 2020, 125 patients age 13 to 65 years with hematologic malignancies were randomly assigned to omidubicel vs standard UCBT. Patients received myeloablative conditioning and prophylaxis with a calcineurin inhibitor and mycophenolate mofetil for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The primary end point was time to neutrophil engraftment. The treatment arms were well balanced and racially diverse. Median time to neutrophil engraftment was 12 days (95% confidence interval [CI], 10-14 days) for the omidubicel arm and 22 days (95% CI, 19-25 days) for the control arm (P < .001). The cumulative incidence of neutrophil engraftment was 96% for patients receiving omidubicel and 89% for patients receiving control transplants. The omidubicel arm had faster platelet recovery (55% vs 35% recovery by 42 days; P = .028), had a lower incidence of first grade 2 to 3 bacterial or invasive fungal infection (37% vs 57%; P = .027), and spent more time out of hospital during the first 100 days after transplant (median, 61 vs 48 days; P = .005) than controls. Differences in GVHD and survival between the 2 arms were not statistically significant. Transplantation with omidubicel results in faster hematopoietic recovery and reduces early transplant-related complications compared with standard UCBT. The results suggest that omidubicel may be considered as a new standard of care for adult patients eligible for UCBT. The trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT02730299.
AB - Omidubicel is an ex vivo expanded hematopoietic progenitor cell and nonexpanded myeloid and lymphoid cell product derived from a single umbilical cord blood unit. We report results of a phase 3 trial to evaluate the efficacy of omidubicel compared with standard umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT). Between January 2017 and January 2020, 125 patients age 13 to 65 years with hematologic malignancies were randomly assigned to omidubicel vs standard UCBT. Patients received myeloablative conditioning and prophylaxis with a calcineurin inhibitor and mycophenolate mofetil for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The primary end point was time to neutrophil engraftment. The treatment arms were well balanced and racially diverse. Median time to neutrophil engraftment was 12 days (95% confidence interval [CI], 10-14 days) for the omidubicel arm and 22 days (95% CI, 19-25 days) for the control arm (P < .001). The cumulative incidence of neutrophil engraftment was 96% for patients receiving omidubicel and 89% for patients receiving control transplants. The omidubicel arm had faster platelet recovery (55% vs 35% recovery by 42 days; P = .028), had a lower incidence of first grade 2 to 3 bacterial or invasive fungal infection (37% vs 57%; P = .027), and spent more time out of hospital during the first 100 days after transplant (median, 61 vs 48 days; P = .005) than controls. Differences in GVHD and survival between the 2 arms were not statistically significant. Transplantation with omidubicel results in faster hematopoietic recovery and reduces early transplant-related complications compared with standard UCBT. The results suggest that omidubicel may be considered as a new standard of care for adult patients eligible for UCBT. The trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT02730299.
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U2 - 10.1182/blood.2021011719
DO - 10.1182/blood.2021011719
M3 - Article
C2 - 34157093
AN - SCOPUS:85113491493
VL - 138
SP - 1429
EP - 1440
JO - Blood
JF - Blood
SN - 0006-4971
IS - 16
ER -