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Biological Analysis of MABs in NHL in a Translational Prospective Observational Study Within Italian Clinical Practice
Sponsor: Fondazione Italiana Linfomi - ETS
Summary
This a prospective, multicenter, observational pharmacological translational study designed to investigate the biological and imaging correlates of treatment with novel monoclonal antibodies (NMABs) in patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), enrolled in the observationa FIL\_MAB study. Patients enrolled in BIO FIL-MAB are concurrently participating in the FIL-MAB clinical cohort, ensuring that all clinical data-including treatment details, outcomes, and safety-are captured within the main observational study. Patients will undergo systematic collection of biological specimens including tumor tissue, peripheral blood integrated with advanced imaging data. Biological analyses will encompass molecular, cellular, and immunological assessments, while imaging evaluations will include standardized functional and metabolic imaging techniques. All biological and imaging assessments will be performed as routine clinical visits, without requiring modifications to treatment or additional procedures beyond standard-of-care.
Official title: Multilayer Biological Analysis of Novel Monoclonal Antibodies (MABs) in B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL): A Translational and Prospective Observational Study Within Italian Clinical Practice (BIO-FIL_MAB Trial)
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1000
Start Date
2026-10
Completion Date
2041-10
Last Updated
2026-08-17
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
WP1 - Task 1 - Liquid analyses
Objectives 1. To investigate the value of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)/ Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) status as prognostic biomarker for B-NHL patients treated with commercial bi-specifics antibodies (bsAbs). 2. To evaluate the potential role of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) in terms of therapy-related toxicities and treatment response. 3. To evaluate the potential prognostic role of germline single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) involved in drug metabolic pathways and cell-to-cell interactions.
WP1 - Task 2 - Immunological analyses
Objectives 1. evaluate association between levels and subtypes of T cell in PB before and after bsAbs with COs. 2. Analyze expression of PD1, CD25, 41BB/CD137, CTLA4, CD28, and other T cell co-stimulatory molecules, and correlate with COs. 3. Evaluate expansion of NK cells along with their markers of activation, exhaustion, maturation, chemotaxis. 4. evaluate association between T cell exhaustion with treatment failure. 5. evaluate association between T cell exhaustion with previous lines of treatment or other clinical factors such as relapsed time. 6. evaluate association between T cell clusters with the development of cytopenia during treatment. 7. investigate whether immunosenescence (composition and activation status of PBMCs) and inflammaging (soluble mediators) can predict response and clinical outcomes in elderly patients (≧70) undergoing treatment with bsAbs. 8. Immunological characterization of T cell subset by bulk RNAseq before and after bsAbs with COs.
WP1 - Task 3 - Tumor tissue analyses
Objectives 1. Association between specific mutational (Whole Genome Sequencing, WGS) and transcriptomic (Whole Transcriptome Sequencing, WTS) patterns with disease response to bsAbs therapy. 2. To investigate TP53 mutation and del17p as predictive factor of response to bsAbs. 3. Identifying specific relapse patterns, with the hypothesis that alterations in tumor genes facilitating immune evasion are enriched in clones emerging at relapse (i.e., secondary resistance). 4. To characterize intratumoral immune effector cell distribution and to assess T-cell functional fitness and exhaustion states within tumor-draining lymph nodes using Digital Spatial Profiling (DSP). 5. To investigate the association between bsAbs surface target antigens (e.g. CD20) expression level and response to bsAbs.
WP1 - Task 4 - Imaging analyses
Objectives 1. explore how tumor metabolic activity signature predict prognosis and treatment response during bsAbs-approved treatments. 2. explore how tumor heterogeneity activity predicts prognosis and treatment response during bsAbs -approved treatments. 3. explore how PET findings are integrated with other biomarkers, we refine predictions of prognosis and treatment efficacy during bsAbs-approved treatments. 4. explore novel prognostic markers of progression in CT scans and PET scans. 5. apply advanced artificial intelligence methods (radiomics and deep learning) for automated extraction of complex imaging features from PET/CT scans, aiming to enhance prediction of prognosis and treatment response in patients undergoing bsAbs-approved treatments. 6. develop and validate AI-driven multimodal integration frameworks that combine imaging data with clinical and molecular biomarkers, refining risk stratification and enabling early detection of progression under bsAbs therapy.
WP1 - Task 5 - Microbiome and metabolomics analyses
Objectives 1. To describe plasma and tissue microbiome composition and metabolomics during bsAbs -approved treatments. 2. To investigate whether microbiome/metabolomics predicts outcomes during bsAbs -approved treatments. 3. To investigate whether microbiome/metabolomics predicts treatment toxicity during bsAbs -approved treatments.
WP2 - Task 1 - Liquid analyses
Objectives 1. To identify and validate biological and molecular biomarkers (i.e. ctDNA/MRD) that predict patient outcomes in patients treated with novel immunoconjugate therapies. 2. To evaluate the potential role of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) in terms of therapy-related toxicities and treatment response. 3. To evaluate the potential prognostic role of germline single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) involved in drug metabolic pathways and cell-to-cell interactions.
WP2 - Task 2 -Immunological analyses
Objectives 1. evaluate the association between levels and subtypes of T cells in PB before and after ADCs with COs. 2. Analyze the expression of PD1, CD25, 41BB/CD137, CTLA4, CD28, and other T cell co-stimulatory molecules, and correlate them with COs. 3. Evaluate the expansion of NK cells along with their markers of activation, exhaustion, maturation, chemotaxis. 4. evaluate the association between T cell exhaustion with treatment failure. 5. evaluate the association between T cell exhaustion with previous lines of treatment or other clinical factors such as relapsed time. 6. evaluate the association between T cell clusters with the development of cytopenia during treatment. 7. investigate whether immunosenescence and inflammaging can predict response and clinical outcomes in elderly patients (≧ 70) undergoing treatment with ADCs. 8. Immunological characterization of T cell subset by bulk RNAseq before and after ADCs with clinical outcomes.
WP2 - Task 3 - Tumor tissue analyses
Objectives 1. characterize intratumoral immune effector cell distribution and assess T-cell functional fitness and exhaustion states within tumor-draining lymphnodes using DSP. 2. investigate correlation between ADCs surface target antigens expression level and response to ADCs treatment 3. investigate MYC translocation alone or in association with BCL2 and or BCL6 translocation or other MYC chromosomal aberrations as predictive factors of response to ADCs assessed by FISH on diagnostic biopsy and last biopsy preADCs treatment. 4. investigate TP53 mutation and del17p as predictive factor of response to ADCs. 5. investigate mutations and CNVs as predictive factors of response to ADCs treatment. 6. investigate ADCs target antigens RNA expression level and correlation with response to ADCs treatment. 7. characterize transcriptomic and sRNA landscapes to identify gene expression signatures and microRNA profiles associated with response to ADCs treatment.
WP2 - Task 4 - Imaging analyses
Objectives 1. explore how tumor metabolic activity signature predict prognosis and treatment response during ADCs-approved treatments. 2. explore how tumor heterogeneity activity predicts prognosis and treatment response during ADCs-approved treatments. 3. explore how PET findings are integrated with other biomarkers, we refine predictions of prognosis and treatment efficacy during ADCs-approved treatments. 4. explore novel prognostic markers of progression in CT scans and PET scans. 5. apply advanced artificial intelligence methods (radiomics and deep learning) for automated extraction of complex imaging features from PET/CT scans, aiming to enhance prediction of prognosis and treatment response in patients undergoing ADCs-approved treatments. 6. develop and validate AI-driven multimodal integration frameworks that combine imaging data (PET/CT) with clinical and molecular biomarkers, refining risk stratification and enabling early detection of progression under ADCs therapy.
WP2 - Task 5 - Microbiome and metabolomics analyses
Objectives 1. To describe plasma and tissue microbiome and metabolomics composition during ADCs-treatments. 2. To investigate whether microbiome/metabolomics predicts outcomes during ADCs-approved treatments. 3. To investigate whether microbiome/metabolomics predicts treatment toxicity during ADCs-approved treatments.
WP3 - Task 1 - Liquid analyses
Objectives 1. To identify and validate biological and molecular biomarkers (i.e. ctDNA/MRD) that predict patient outcomes in patients treated with novel naked antibodies. 2. To evaluate the potential role of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) in terms of therapy-related toxicities and treatment response. 3. To evaluate the potential prognostic role of germline single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) involved in drug metabolic pathways and cell-to-cell interactions.
WP3 - Task 2 - Immunological analyses
Objective 1\) Evaluate the expansion of immunological cells along with their markers of activation, exhaustion, maturation, and chemotaxis.
WP3 - Task 3 - Tumor tissue analyses
Objectives 1. To investigate the correlation between naked antibodies surface target antigens (e.g. CD19) expression level and response to naked antibodies. 2. To investigate MYC translocation alone or in association with BCL2 and or BCL6 translocation, or other MYC chromosomal aberrations as predictive factors of response to naked antibodies (assessed by FISH on diagnostic biopsy and last biopsy pre- naked antibodies). 3. To investigate TP53 mutation and del17p as predictive factor of response to naked antibodies. 4. To investigate mutations and copy number variations (CNVs) (either studied by targeted sequencing or by WES) as predictive factors of response to treatment.
WP3 - Task 4 - Imaging analyses
Objectives 1. explore how tumor metabolic activity signature predict prognosis and treatment response during naked Abs-approved treatments. 2. explore how tumor heterogeneity activity predicts prognosis and treatment response during naked Abs-approved treatments. 3. explore how PET findings are integrated with other biomarkers, we refine predictions of prognosis and treatment efficacy during naked Abs-approved treatments. 4. explore novel prognostic markers of PD in CT and PET scans. 5. apply advanced artificial intelligence methods (radiomics and deep learning) for automated extraction of complex imaging features from PET/CT, aiming to enhance prediction of prognosis and treatment response in patients undergoing naked Abs-approved treatments. 6. develop and validate AI-driven multimodal integration frameworks that combine imaging data with clinical and molecular biomarkers, refining risk stratification and enabling early detection of progression under naked Abs therapy.
WP3 - Task 5 - Microbiome and metabolomics analyses
Objectives 1. To describe plasma and tissue microbiome and metabolomics composition during naked antibodies -approved treatments. 2. To investigate whether microbiome/metabolomics predicts outcomes during naked antibodies -approved treatments. 3. To investigate whether microbiome/metabolomics predicts treatment toxicity during naked antibodies -approved treatment.
Locations (20)
Ematologia - Fondazione del Piemonte per l'Oncologia - IRCCS
Candiolo, Torino, Italy
Oncoematologia IOV - Ospedale di Castelfranco Veneto
Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso, Italy
SCDU Ematologia -AOU SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
Alessandria, Italy
Divisione di Oncologia e dei Tumori immuno-correlati - IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano
Aviano, Italy
U.O.C Ematologia - IRCCS Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II - Bari
Bari, Italy
SC Ematologia - Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII - Bergamo
Bergamo, Italy
Istituto di Ematologia "Seragnoli" - Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi
Bologna, Italy
Ematologia - ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia
Brescia, Italy
S.C. Ematologia - A.O. S. Croce e Carle
Cuneo, Italy
Unità funzionale di Ematologia -Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi
Florence, Italy
Ematologia - Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano
Milan, Italy
SC Ematologia - ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda
Milan, Italy
SCDU Ematologia - AOU Maggiore della Carità di Novara
Novara, Italy
UOC Ematologia Dipartimento Oncologico Ematologico - P.O. Spirito Santo di Pescara - ASL Pescara
Pescara, Italy
Ematologia - Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova - IRCCS -Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Dipartimento di Medicina Traslazionale e di Precisione - Istituto Ematologia - Policlinico Umberto I - Università "La Sapienza" - Roma
Roma, Italy
Ematologia Universitaria - A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
Torino, Italy
S.C. Ematologia - A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
Torino, Italy
U.O. Ematologia - AOU Integrata di Verona
Verona, Italy
Ematologia - Ospedale S. Bortolo - ULSS 8 Berica
Vicenza, Italy