An observational study in Granuloma, Granulomatous Disease, Chronic and Leukocyte Disease, sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-09.
Sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · Observational
The research goal of this study is to obtain CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) from peripheral blood and/or bone marrow, and Mononuclear Cells (lymphocytes and monocytes), and granulocytes (grans) from peripheral blood that will be used in the laboratory and/or in the clinic to develop new cell therapies for patients with inherited or acquired disorders of immunity or blood cells. Development of novel cellular therapies requires access to HSC, Mononuclear Cells and/or granulocytes as the essential starting materials for the pre-clinical laboratory development of gene therapies and other engineered cell products. HSC or blood cells from healthy adult volunteers serve both as necessary experimental controls and also as surrogates for patient cells for clinical scale-up development. HSC or blood cells from patients serve both as the necessary experimental substrate for novel gene therapy and cellular engineering development for specific disorders and as pre-clinical scale up of cellular therapies. Collection of cells from adult patients collected in the NIH Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) under conditions conforming to accepted blood banking clinical practice may also be used directly in or cryopreserved for future use in other NIH protocols that have all required regulatory approvals allowing such use. In summary, the research goal of this protocol is the collection of HSC or blood cells that may be used for both laboratory research and/or for clinical treatment in other approved protocols.
The research goal of this study is to obtain CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) from peripheral blood and/or bone marrow, and Mononuclear Cells (lymphocytes and monocytes), and granulocytes (grans) from peripheral blood that will be used in the laboratory and/or in the clinic to develop new cell therapies for patients with inherited or acquired disorders of immunity or blood cells. Development of novel cellular therapies requires access to HSC, Mononuclear Cells and/or granulocytes as the essential starting materials for the pre-clinical laboratory development of gene therapies and other engineered cell products. HSC or blood cells from healthy adult volunteers serve both as necessary experimental controls and also as surrogates for patient cells for clinical scale-up development. HSC or blood cells from patients serve both as the necessary experimental substrate for novel gene therapy and cellular engineering development for specific disorders and as pre-clinical scale up of cellular therapies. Collection of cells from adult patients collected in the NIH Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) under conditions conforming to accepted blood banking clinical practice may also be used directly in or cryopreserved for future use in other NIH protocols that have all required regulatory approvals allowing such use. In summary, the research goal of this protocol is -the collection of HSC or blood cells that may be used for both laboratory research and/or for clinical treatment in other approved protocols.
Participants include: 1. Adult patients with any primary immune deficiency (PID) or other blood disorder where collection is both for clinical use in another approved treatment protocol to benefit the patient and for laboratory research; 2. Adult patients with any primary immune deficiency (PID) or blood disorder where collection is for laboratory research use only. 3. Healthy adult volunteers where the collection is for laboratory research use only.
The majority of subjects will have HSC collected from peripheral blood by apheresis. Daily subcutaneous injections of G-CSF (granulocyte colony stimulating factor/filgrastim) for 5 to 6 days is a standard of care method used to mobilize HSC to the peripheral blood prior to apheresis, and will be used for most subjects. Plerixafor (Mozobil) is approved as standard of care for use in combination with G-CSF to mobilize HSC.
Some adult patients will have a clinical scale aspiration collection of bone marrow to obtain HSC for clinical use in another approved treatment protocol. Some adult participants may have a small sample needle aspiration collection of bone marrow obtained for laboratory research purposes only.
Mononuclear cells and/or Granulocytes (gran) will be collected from peripheral blood by apheresis following no stimulation, using G-CSF alone, or a using a combined single dose of G-CSF (480mcg) and Dexamethasone (8mg) prior to collection as is the standard of care pre-treatment used in the NIH DTM for collection of granulocyte transfusions from healthy donors.
As noted, HSC, mononuclear cells, and gran collection from patients with PID or other blood disorders may be used for laboratory research or may be designated for future clinical treatment of the patient under separate treatment protocol. HSC, mononuclear cells, and gran collection from healthy volunteers will be designated entirely for laboratory research.
HSC will be used for the following clinical purposes, where clinical treatments would occur under separate IRB approved protocols: 1. Autologous HSC from patients may be genetically modified and infused into the patient for treatment of an infection or the underlying disease (Gene therapy); 2. Autologous HSC from patients may serve as back up (rescue product) for patients undergoing matched unrelated donor transplantation or haploidential related or unrelated donor transplantation.
Mononuclear Cells (lymphocytes and monocytes) and granulocytes will be used for the following clinical purposes, 1. Autologous lymphocytes may be genetically modified and infused into the patient for treatment of an infection or the underlying disease (Gene therapy); 2. Autologous lymphocytes, monocytes and granulocytes (neutrophils) may be transfected with mRNAs to transiently express a therapeutic protein for treatment of an infection or the underlying disease (Gene therapy).
HSC, lymphocytes, monocytes and granulocytes will be used for laboratory research studies that include: Delineating the pathophysiology of inherited immune deficiencies; Delineating the physiology of and improving engraftment of hematopoietic stem cells; Determining how hematopoietic stem cells may be maintained in ex vivo culture without losing pluripotent potential; Delineating the molecular mechanisms responsible for lineage specific differentiation; Developing efficient methods for gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells for corrective gene therapy; Developing methods for restoration of function in defective peripheral blood monocytes and/or granulocytes; Further characterization of peripheral blood monocytes and/or granulocytes from patients with PID.
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Patients with PID or other blood disorders Healthy adult individuals volunteering for research donation
Patients (Patients with a genetically defined PID or other blood disorder or clinical history consistent with PID or other blood disorder)
Healthy Adult Volunteers
For PBMCs and grans collections, adult subjects with known genetic mutations may participate as healthy volunteers for research purposes as long as the other criteria listed above are fulfilled.
EXCLUSIONS:
Patients
Must be negative by routine blood donor eligibility testing criteria including tests for syphilis (RPR) and TTV Donor Transplant Panel testing (list is modified periodically, but may include and C, and HTLV, T. cruzi). This does not apply to leukapheresis patients, as these tests are not required by DTM.
Healthy Volunteers
Patients being considered for clinical scale bone marrow harvesting
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Allogeneic and autologous transplant
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Healthy Adult Volunteers
Pts with PID or other blood disorder or clinical history consistent with PID or other blood disorder. Pts are able to volunteer as patient for research collection only per PI discretion.
Mobilize to peripheral blood and apheresis collect CD34+PBSC of PID patients for clinical treatment and in part (or entirely) for laboratory research
1\. To efficiently and safely mobilize to the peripheral blood and apheresis collect CD34+ PBSC patients with any inherited primary immune deficiency (PID) or other blood disorders where PBSC from these patients may be designated entirely or in part for future clinical treatment of the patient
Time frame: 1/1/2025
Mobilize to the peripheral blood and apheresis collect CD34+PBSC from healthy volunteers for research
2\. To efficiently and safely mobilize to the peripheral blood and apheresis collect CD34+ PBSC from healthy volunteers, which will be designated entirely for laboratory research.
Time frame: 1/1/2025
Mobilize to peripheral blood mononuclear cells and granulocytes
3.To efficiently and safely collect peripheral blood mononuclear cells and granulocytes from adult subjects with chronic granulomatous disease or other PID affecting granulocyte function, or from adult healthy donors volunteers for preclinical cell therapy studies, following either no stimulation, G-CSF or dexamethasone alone, or combined single dose G-CSF and dexamethasone as per DTM protocol depending on the number of cells desired.
Time frame: 1/1/2025
bone marrow harvest
4.To perform a bone marrow harvest by needle aspiration using standard of medical care methods from adult patients with PID or other blood disorder in sufficient quantity cryopreserved in CC DTM to serve as the source of autologous HSC for gene transfer ex vivo transduction if that patient is enrolled in a separate IRB approved protocol of gene transfer treatment designed to treat the genetically defined type of PID affecting that patient; and the patient has been unable to mobilize and have collected sufficient PBSC to qualify for treatment in that protocol.
Time frame: 1/1/2025
bone marrow by needle aspiration
5.To obtain from adult patients with PID or other blood disorder and from adult healthy volunteers a small sample of bone marrow by needle aspiration from bone marrow aspirates, where the purpose for this aspirate is to obtain bone marrow HSC for laboratory research comparing these cells to the biological properties of PBSC.
Time frame: 1/1/2025
laboratory studies of PBSC and bone marrow HSC
6.To conduct laboratory studies of PBSC and bone marrow HSC obtained from patients with PID or healthy volunteers in order to: study the functional properties of immune cells arising from hematopoietic stem cells in ex vivo culture systems and in NOD/SCID or NOG mice capable of supporting a human hematopoietic stem cellchimeric marrow xenograft.
Time frame: 1/1/2025
laboratory studies of mononuclear cells and granulocytes obtained from patients with PID or healthy volunteers
7.To conduct laboratory studies of mononuclear cells and granulocytes obtained from patients with PID or healthy volunteers in order to: Develop effective methods to restore immunologic function to defective granulocytes/mononuclear cells utilizing mRNA electroporation. Develop methodology of using autologous corrected granulocytes/mononuclear cells for the treatment of infections in immunedeficient patients.
Time frame: 1/1/2025
Started Feb 1994 (actual).
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