CRISPR Delivered Anti-BCMA CAR-T

This phase Ib trial tests the safety, side effects and best dose of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) delivered anti-B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells (1XX BCMA CAR-T cells) in treating patients with multiple myeloma that has come back after a period of improvement (relapsed) or that has not responded to previous treatment (refractory). Anti-BCMA CAR-T cell therapy is a type of treatment in which a person's T cells (a type of immune system cell) are changed in the laboratory so they will attack cancer cells. T cells are taken from a patient's blood. Then the gene for a special receptor that binds to a certain protein, such as BCMA, on the patient's cancer cells is added to the T cells in the laboratory by a tool called clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9. The special receptor is called a CAR. Large numbers of the CAR-T cells are grown in the laboratory and given to the patient by infusion for treatment of certain cancers. Giving chemotherapy before CAR-T cells may decrease the number of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cells) in the blood and may help the 1XX BCMA CAR-T cells fight the cancer cells. Treatment with 1XX BCMA CAR-T cells may be safe, tolerable, and/or effective in treating patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM).