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Status unknownNCT03423992Updated Jun 15, 2021

Personalized Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Immunotherapy for Patients With Recurrent Malignant Gliomas

A Phase 1 interventional study of chimeric antigen receptor T cells in Glioma, Malignant Glioma of Brain and Recurrence Tumor, sponsored by Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-06-15.

Sponsored by Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jun 2021), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

A pilot study to determine the safety and efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T cell (autologous T cells transduced with a lentiviral vector expressing chimeric antigen receptor with or without anti-PDL1 antibody) personalized immunotherapy for patients with recurrent malignant gliomas based on the expression of tumor specific/associated antigens (EGFRVIII, IL13Rα2, Her-2, EphA2, CD133, GD2).

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Conditions studied

  • Glioma
  • Malignant Glioma of Brain
  • Recurrence Tumor
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In context

Glioma

1,452 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioma; 349 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 32 across 1,075 interventional studies indexed under Glioma.

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Lead sponsor

Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing is the lead sponsor of 363 studies on the registry; 230 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Voluntary for entry of trial;
  • Age greater than 18 years, and less than 70 years;
  • confirmed recurrent malignant gliomas;
  • Tumor cells from resected tissue must be available for antigen testing (EGFRvIII, IL13Rα2, Her-2, CD133, EphA2, GD2) and at least one of the targets should be tested positively by immunohistochemistry study;
  • If the patient is on dexamethasone, the anticipated dose must be 4 mg/day or less for at least 5 days prior to apheresis.
  • Patients must have a performance status of greater than or equal to 70.
  • greater than 3 months;
  • Participants with adequate organ function as measured by:

    1. White blood count greater than or equal to 2500/mm\^3; greater than or equal to 100,000/mm\^3, greater than or equal to 10.0 g/dL; without transfusion or growth factor support
    2. (AST), Alanine transaminase (ALT), gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), lactic acid dehydrogenase (LDH), alkaline phosphatase within 2.5 x upper normal limit, and total less than or equal to 2.0 mg/dL
    3. Serum creatinine less than or equal to 1.5 x
    4. Coagulation tests (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) have to be within normal limits, unless the patient has been therapeutically anti-coagulated for previous venous thrombosis.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Female subjects of who are pregnant or lactating;
  • Previous treatment with any gene therapy products or other form immunotherapy;
  • Uncontrolled active infection.
  • Active or latent chronic [detectable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)] or active (positive serology [hepatitis C virus Ab]) infection.
  • infection;
  • History of allergy or to study product (human serum albumin, Dimethyl sulfoxide, and Dextran 40);
  • Currently enrolled in other clinical trials;
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(16)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

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Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

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Life expectancy

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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.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

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ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

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Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Bilirubin

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Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

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“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

Reproductive potential

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Criteria about it usually ask for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

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.

Hepatitis C tests

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After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

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Hypersensitivity

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Excipients

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Biological: Chimeric antigen receptor T cells

    Biological: chimeric antigen receptor T cells

Interventions

  • Biologicalchimeric antigen receptor T cells

    chimeric antigen receptor T cells expressing receptors specific for EGFRvIII, IL13Rα2, Her-2, CD133, EphA2, GD2, respectively

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Adverse events attributed to the administration of the chimeric antigen receptor T cells

    Determine the toxicity profile of the chimeric antigen receptor T cells with Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Effects (CTCAE) version 4.0.

    Time frame: 1 year

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate

    The objective response rate (ORR) is defined as the proportion of patients who achieve radiographic partial or complete response (PR or CR) according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1 guideline.

    Time frame: 1 year

  2. clinical activity of chimeric antigen receptor T cells

    the number of infused chimeric antigen receptor T cells;

    Time frame: 28 days

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Xuanwu Hospital
    Beijing, 100054, China
    Recruiting
    • Ye Cheng, M.D. · Contactchengye@xwhosp.org · 8610-83192683
    • Qingtang Lin, M.D., Ph.D. · Contactlinqingtang@xwhosp.org · 8610-83192683
    • Qingtang Lin, M.D., Ph.D. · Principal investigator
    • Feng Ling, M.D., Ph.D. · Principal investigator
    • Ye Cheng, M.D. · Sub investigator
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References and documents

Publications

  • Lin Q, Ba T, Ho J, Chen D, Cheng Y, Wang L, Xu G, Xu L, Zhou Y, Wei Y, Li J, Ling F. First-in-Human Trial of EphA2-Redirected CAR T-Cells in Patients With Recurrent Glioblastoma: A Preliminary Report of Three Cases at the Starting Dose. Front Oncol. 2021 Jun 21;11:694941. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.694941. eCollection 2021. PubMed 34235085 ↗
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Mar 2018 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jan 2023, 58 months after the start.

Of 166 non-industry phase 1 interventional studies under Glioma, half reached primary completion within 59 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 87. This study's planned 58 months is close to that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 213 studies reached it within 59 months; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 88.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jan 22, 2018
First posted
Feb 6, 2018
StartActual
Mar 2, 2018
Primary completionEst.
Jan 30, 2023
CompletionEst.
Jan 30, 2023
Last update
Jun 15, 2021
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 15, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03423992
Collaborators
Beijing Mario Biotech Company, Hebei Senlang BIotech Company, Beijing HuiNengAn Biotech Company
Responsible party
Qingtang Lin (Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 6, 2018
Start date
Mar 2, 2018
Primary completion
Jan 30, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 30, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 15, 2021

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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