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WithdrawnNCT03438344Updated Nov 21, 2018

Multi-antigen CMV-Modified Vaccinia Ankara Vaccine in Reducing CMV Related Complications in Patients With Blood Cancer Undergoing Donor Stem Cell Transplant

A Phase 2 interventional study of Multi-antigen CMV-Modified Vaccinia Ankara Vaccine and Laboratory Biomarker Analysis in Accelerated Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Remission and Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission, sponsored by City of Hope Medical Center. Withdrawn at 3 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-11-21.

Primary conditionLeukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-CellRegistry: Leukemia, Myeloid, Accelerated PhaseReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Leukemia, Myeloid, Accelerated Phase — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
Why
  1. Leukemia, Myeloid, Accelerated Phase is a broad heading, used only when no more specific condition is named.
  2. The study's listed conditions name Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by City of Hope Medical Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Supportive care

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Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 40 studies in Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell by City of Hope Medical Center — 7 open to participants now, 19 under way, none of them phase 3. Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell · City of Hope Medical Center.

Enrollment
35th of 36
0 · median 31
Started
2018
with 2 others
Phase 2
18 of 40
4 open now
Registered
22nd of 40
by date

Among the 40 studies in Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell by City of Hope Medical Center, this one is the 35th largest by enrollment of the 36 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 3 that started in 2018, is one of 18 in phase 2, and was the 22nd registered.

Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell

2,036 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell; 237 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

7 of the 40 studies in Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell by City of Hope Medical Center are open now, in 1 country. Recruiting first, the newest first:

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Where they have run

Who these studies take

Of the 188 Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell studies recruiting now, 150 (80%) set no upper age limit and 15 (8%) stop at 75 or younger; 17 take children under 18; 13 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

This randomized phase II trial studies how well multi-antigen cytomegalovirus (CMV)-modified vaccinia Ankara vaccine works in reducing CMV related complications in patients with blood cancer who are undergoing donor stem cell transplant. Vaccines made from a gene-modified virus may help the body build an effective immune response to kill cancer cells.

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if multi-antigen CMV-modified vaccinia Ankara vaccine (CMV-modified vaccinia Ankara [MVA] triplex) reduces the frequency of CMV events, defined as reactivation or CMV disease in CMV+, haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation (haploHCT) recipients.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the safety and tolerability of CMV-MVA triplex in vaccinated, haploHCT recipients by assessing the following: non-relapse mortality (NRM) at 100 days post hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), severe (grade 3-4) acute graft versus host disease (GVHD), and grade 3-4 adverse events (AEs) probably or definitely related to the vaccination within 2 weeks from each vaccination.

II. To characterize CMV related events in recipients of CMV-MVA triplex compared to placebo, by assessing time to viremia (number of days from transplantation to the date of >= 1250 IU/mL), duration of viremia, recurrence of viremia, incidence of late CMV viremia/disease (> 100 and =\< 360 days post HCT), use of antiviral drugs (triggered by clinically significant viremia of >= 1250 IU/mL), cumulative number of CMV specific antiviral treatment days.

III. To evaluate the impact of CMV-MVA triplex on transplant related outcomes by assessing the incidence of acute graft versus host disease (aGVHD), chronic GVHD, relapse, non-relapse mortality, all-cause mortality, infections.

IV. To determine if CMV-MVA triplex increases levels, function and kinetics of CMV-specific T cell immunity in vaccinated compared to placebo treated, CMV seropositive HCT-recipients.

V. To determine whether vaccination induces adaptive natural killer (NK) cell population changes, and increase in the highly cytotoxic memory NKG2C+ NK cell.

VI. To compare GVHD biomarkers between the vaccine and placebo groups.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized into 1 of 2 arms.

ARM I: Patients receive multi-antigen CMV-modified vaccinia Ankara vaccine intramuscularly (IM) on days 28 and 56 post-HCT.

ARM II: Patients receive placebo IM on days 28 and 56 post-HCT.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 100, 140, 180, 270, and 365 days, and then periodically for 3 years.

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Conditions studied

  • Accelerated Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Remission
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation Recipient
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive
  • Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipient
  • Hodgkin Lymphoma
  • Myelodysplastic Syndrome
  • Myelofibrosis
  • Myeloproliferative Neoplasm
  • Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
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In context

Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell Reclassified

2,036 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell; 237 are open to participants now.

Browse Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell studies →

Lead sponsor

City of Hope Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 677 studies on the registry; 181 are open to participants now.

Of its 31 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 12 (39%) have results posted.

Compared within Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Leukemia, Myeloid, Accelerated Phase. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • All subjects must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written
  • Participant must be willing to comply with study and/or follow-up procedures, including willingness to be followed for one year post-HCT
  • Planned peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) or bone marrow (BM) HCT for the treatment of the following hematologic :

    • Lymphoma (Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin)
    • Myelodysplastic syndrome
    • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first or second remission (for acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoblastic lymphoma, the disease status must be in hematologic remission by bone marrow and peripheral blood; persistent lymphadenopathy on computed tomography [CT] or CT/positron emission tomography [PET] scan without progression is allowed)
    • Acute myeloid leukemia in first or second remission
    • Chronic myelogenous leukemia in first chronic or accelerated phase, or in second chronic phase
    • Other hematologic malignancies judged appropriate by the clinical principal investigators (PIs), including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, myeloproliferative disorders and myelofibrosis; patients with multiple myeloma and those with non-malignant disease such as aplastic anemia are excluded

      • Adult cases of multiple myeloma (MM) are excluded; adults with aplastic anemia are excluded; patients undergoing a second haploHCT are not eligible (patients who have undergone a previous HCT are eligible)
  • Patients receiving myeloablation (MA) or reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) are allowed
  • CMV seropositive (recipient)
  • Planned related HCT with molecular 3/6 (haploidentical) intermediate/high resolution human leukocyte antigen (HLA) donor allele matching
  • Planned HCT with minimal to no-T cell depletion of graft
  • Conditioning and regimens according to institutional guidelines are permitted
  • Negative serum or urine beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) test (female patient of only) within two weeks of registration
  • Seronegative for (HIV), virus (HCV) and active virus (HBV) (surface antigen negative) within 2 months of registration and no history of disseminated cutaneous human papillomavirus (HPV) related disease
  • Agreement by females of childbearing potential and sexually active males to use an effective method of (hormonal or barrier method of birth control or abstinence) prior to study entry and for up to 90 days post-HCT; should a woman become pregnant or suspect that she is pregnant while participating on the trial, she should inform her treating physician immediately

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any prior CMV vaccine
  • Experimental anti-CMV chemotherapy in the last 6 months
  • Medically indicated subunit (Engerix-B for , Gardasil for HPV) or killed vaccine (e.g. influenza, pneumococcal, or allergy treatment with antigen injections)
  • Allergy treatment with antigen injections
  • Alemtuzumab or any equivalent in vivo T-cell depleting agent (or CD34+ selection)
  • Antiviral medications with known therapeutic effects on CMV such as ganciclovir/valganciclovir (GCV/VAL), foscarnet (FOS), Cidofovir, CMX-001, maribavir; acyclovir has no known therapeutic efficacy against CMV and is allowable as standard of care to prevent herpes simplex virus (HSV)
  • Prophylactic therapy with CMV immunoglobulin or prophylactic antiviral CMV treatment
  • Conditioning regimens 30 days (d) prior to trial participation and up to d28 post-HCT
  • Disease-based radiation therapy (not total body irradiation)
  • Other investigational product-concurrent enrollment in other clinical trials using any investigational new drug (IND) drugs with unknown effects on CMV or with unknown toxicity profiles is prohibited
  • Other medications that might interfere with the evaluation of the investigational product
  • Patients with active conditions requiting systemic therapy within the previous 5 years at not eligible
  • Patients considered by PIs/protocol team to have a complicated prior therapy or HCT regimen, or who have a low survival probability (e.g., leukemia and/or undergoing 2nd HCT)
  • Poor risk disease/disease status including: chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in blast crisis, acute myeloid leukemia (AML)/acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) beyond 2nd remission, multiple myeloma, and aplastic anemia
  • Pregnant women and women who are lactating; breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is enrolled on this study
  • Any other condition that would, in the investigator's judgment, contraindicate the patient's participation in the clinical study due to safety concerns or compliance with clinical study procedures, e.g., social/psychological issues, etc
  • Prospective participants who, in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with all study procedures (including compliance issues related to feasibility/logistics)
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Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

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.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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.

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.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

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.

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.

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.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Arm I (CMV-MVA triplex vaccine)

    Patients receive multi-antigen CMV-modified vaccinia Ankara vaccine via injection on days 28 and 56 post-HCT.

    Biological: Multi-antigen CMV-Modified Vaccinia Ankara Vaccine · Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis

  • Placebo comparator
    Arm II (placebo)

    Patients receive placebo via injection on days 28 and 56 post-HCT.

    Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis · Other: Placebo

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) events

    Will include any CMV reactivation (detection of \>= 1250 U/mL plasma), low-level reactivation prompting antiviral therapy, or CMV disease (defined by histology) prior to day 100 post-hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Non-relapse mortality (NRM)

    Time frame: At 100 days post HCT

  2. Severe (grade 3-4) acute graft versus host disease (GVHD)

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  3. Grade 3-4 adverse events probably/definitely related to the vaccination and modified vaccinia Ankara vector persistence

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  4. Duration of viremia

    The primary statistical analyses will compare vaccine and placebo regarding hazards of CMV events from injection to day 100. Events prior to injection will inform Kaplan Meier estimates for both arms to obtain unbiased estimates of reactivation rates applicable to all transplanted subjects on each arm.

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  5. Duration of anti-CMV therapy

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  6. Peak CMV polymerase chain reaction value

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  7. Recurrence of CMV viremia

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  8. Incidence of late CMV reactivation or disease

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  9. Time to engraftment

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  10. Incidence of acute GVHD

    Will be scored using Keystone consensus criteria. Whenever possible, acute GVHD will be confirmed histologically with microscopic review.

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  11. Incidence of chronic GVHD

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  12. Relapse

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  13. Non-relapse mortality

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  14. All-cause mortality

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  15. Infections

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  16. Overall survival

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  17. Levels of CMV-specific T cell immunity

    Will also assess immunophenotyping and function.

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

  18. Natural killer cell function

    Will assess cytotoxicity of NK cells against K562 target cell line compared with control (% killing) and cytokine production using flow-cytometry with intra-cellular staining of gamma-interferon and other cytokines (% of NK cells producing these cytokines).

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

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Study locations

3 sites
  • City of Hope Medical Center
    Duarte, California 91010, United States
  • Northside Hospital
    Atlanta, Georgia 30342, United States
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Dec 2018; primary completion for Dec 2021, 36 months later.

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

Registered
Dec 29, 2017
First posted
Feb 19, 2018
StartEst.
Dec 2018
Primary completionEst.
Dec 2021
CompletionEst.
Dec 2021
Last update
Nov 21, 2018
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 Nov 21, 2018, 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
NCT03438344
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 19, 2018
Start date
Dec 2018 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 2021 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2021 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 21, 2018

Study contacts

Ryotaro Nakamura, MD
principal investigator · City of Hope Medical Center

Oversight

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