Oral Pooled Fecal Microbiotherapy to Prevent Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Complications (PHOEBUS Trial)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05762211 |
Recruitment Status :
Recruiting
First Posted : March 9, 2023
Last Update Posted : November 8, 2023
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Transplant Complication | Drug: Pooled allogeneic fecal microbiotherapy Drug: Placebo | Phase 2 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 387 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | A Multi-center Randomized, Double Blinded Phase IIb Trial Evaluating Oral Pooled Fecal Microbiotherapy MaaT033 to Prevent Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Complications (PHOEBUS Trial) |
Actual Study Start Date : | October 31, 2023 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | October 31, 2026 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | February 15, 2027 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Oral pooled fecal microbiotherapy - MaaT033
3 capsules per day
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Drug: Pooled allogeneic fecal microbiotherapy
Capsule for oral use
Other Name: MaaT033 |
Placebo Comparator: Placebo capsule
3 capsules per day
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Drug: Placebo
Capsule for oral use |
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]To compare the efficacy of MaaT033 with its placebo on OS at 12 months after alloHCT
- Restoration of gut microbiota diversity [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]To evaluate MaaT033 efficacy in gut microbiota diversity restoration using alpha-diversity (Richness index)
- grade 2-4 acute GvHD [ Time Frame: 6 months post alloHCT ]To evaluate the cumulative incidence of grade 2-4 acute GvHD within 6 months after alloHCT
- grade 3-4 acute GvHD [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]
To evaluate the cumulative incidence of grade 3-4 severe acute GvHD within 12+
+ months after alloHCT
- Non-relapse mortality [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]To evaluate the cumulative incidence of non-relapse mortality within 12 months after alloHCT
- Infectious-related mortality [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]To evaluate the cumulative incidence of infectious-related mortality within 12 months after alloHCT
- GvHD-related mortality [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]To evaluate the cumulative incidence of GvHD-related mortality within 12 months after alloHCT
- GRFS [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]To evaluate GvHD-free relapse-free survival (GRFS) at 12 months after alloHCT
- Quality of life questionnaire [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]To evaluate the Quality of Life (EORTC QLQ C30 questionnaire)
- Quality of life questionnaire [ Time Frame: 12 months post alloHCT ]To evaluate the Quality of Life (FACT-BMT questionnaire)
- Proportion of patients with severe infections [ Time Frame: 6 months after alloHCT ]To evaluate the proportion of patients with severe infections defined by NCI-CTCAE ≥ Grade 3 within 6 months after alloHCT
- Proportion of patients who have discontinued immune suppression therapies [ Time Frame: 12 months after alloHCT ]To evaluate the proportion of patients who have discontinued immune suppression therapies including standard of care GvHD prophylaxis and steroid treatment
- Time to platelet engraftment [ Time Frame: 12 months after alloHCT ]Time to the first of 3 consecutive days of absolute neutrophil counts ≥ 0.5 G/L after alloHCT
- Time to neutrophil engraftment [ Time Frame: 12 months after alloHCT ]Time to the first of 3 consecutive days of platelet counts ≥ 20 G/L after alloHCT
- Safety: incidence of AEs [ Time Frame: 12 months after alloHCT ]To evaluate MaaT033 safety

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 50 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥ 50 years old
- Presence of a hematologic malignancy for which an alloHCT is indicated with a reduced toxicity or reduced intensity conditioning regimen
- Patients with polynuclear neutrophils > 0.5 G/L
- Patients having received wide spectrum antibiotics within the last 90 days prior to inclusion
- Karnofsky index ≥ 70%
- Availability of a sibling donor, an unrelated stem-cell donor or a familial haploidentical donor
- Written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients planned to receive a non-myeloablative conditioning regimen (2 Gray total body irradiation (TBI) +/- purine analog, fludarabine + cyclophosphamide or equivalent)
- Patients planned to receive a conventional myeloablative conditioning regimen (e.g. high dose cyclophosphamide and high dose TBI (≥10Gy); high dose busulfan (12.8 mg/kg IV) + high dose cyclophosphamide)
- Patients receiving a manipulated graft (in-vitro T-cell depletion)
- Patients planned to receive a conditioning regimen with alemtuzumab
- Patients planned to receive alloHCT with cord blood cells
- Patients planned to receive alloHCT from unrelated donor with >= 3/10 HLA-mismatches
- Patients receiving a large spectrum antibiotic at time of randomization
- Patients planned to receive vedolizumab or abatacept for GvHD prophylaxis
- Creatinine clearance <30 mL/min
- Bilirubin or amino-transferases abnormalities contra-indicating alloHCT
- Cardiac ejection fraction less than 40%
- Pulmonary impairment with <50% lung carbon monoxide diffusing capacity (DLCO)
- Pregnancy
- Confirmed or suspected intestinal ischemia
- Confirmed or suspected toxic megacolon or gastrointestinal perforation
- Any history of gastro-intestinal surgery in the past 3 months
- Any history of chronic digestive disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel disease or other relevant digestive condition according to physician's judgement)
- Known allergy or intolerance to trehalose or maltodextrin
- Patients with EBV-IgG negative serology
- Any condition that would, in the investigator's judgment, interfere with full participation in the study, including administration of study drug and attending required study visits; pose a significant risk to the subject; or interfere with interpretation of study data.
- Vulnerable patients such as: persons deprived of liberty, persons in Intensive Care Unit unable to provide informed consent prior to the intervention.

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT05762211
Contact: Emilie Plantamura | 0663590186 | eplantamura@maat-pharma.com | |
Contact: Claire de Condé | cdeconde@maat-pharma.com |
France | |
CHU Angers | Recruiting |
Angers, France | |
Contact: Sylvie François, MD | |
CHU Caen | Recruiting |
Caen, France | |
Contact: Sylvain Chantepie, MD | |
CHU Grenoble | Recruiting |
La Tronche, France | |
Contact: Martin Carré, MD | |
Institut Paoli Calmettes | Recruiting |
Marseille, France | |
Contact: Raynier Devillier | |
CHU Nantes Hôtel Dieu | Recruiting |
Nantes, France | |
Contact: Patrice Chevallier | |
Hôpital St Antoine | Recruiting |
Paris, France | |
Contact: Florent Malard, MD, PhD | |
Hôpital Haut-Lévêque | Recruiting |
Pessac, France | |
Contact: Clémence Médiavilla | |
CHU Rennes - Hôpital Pontchaillou | Recruiting |
Rennes, France | |
Contact: Jean-Baptiste Méar, MD | |
CHU St Etienne | Recruiting |
Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France | |
Contact: Jérôme Cornillon, MD | |
IUCT Toulouse | Recruiting |
Toulouse, France | |
Contact: Anne Huynh | |
Germany | |
Universitätsklinikum Bonn | Recruiting |
Bonn, Germany | |
Contact: Tobias Holderried | |
Universitätsklinikum Ulm | Recruiting |
Ulm, Germany | |
Contact: Elisa Sala, MD |
Principal Investigator: | Florent Malard, MD, PhD | APHP |
Responsible Party: | MaaT Pharma |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT05762211 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
MPOH08 |
First Posted: | March 9, 2023 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | November 8, 2023 |
Last Verified: | November 2023 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |