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Active, not recruitingNCT03455972Updated Mar 17, 2026

Study of T Cells Targeting CD19/BCMA (CART-19/BCMA) for High Risk Multiple Myeloma Followed With Auto-HSCT

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of anti-CD19 and anti-BCMA CAR and Immunomodulatory drugs in Safety and Efficacy, sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-03-17.

Sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
43
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

CART therapy has showed good safety and efficacy in treatment of lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Researchers want to see if this helps people with high risk multiple myeloma after auto-HSCT.To test the safety and efficacy of giving targeting CD19 and BCMA T cells in treating high risk multiple myeloma followed with auto-HSCT.

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Adults ages 18-75 with high risk Multiple Myelomas (R-ISS III stage or with extramedullary infiltration or with del(17p), t(4;14), t(14;16), t(14;20), 1q21+ or disease progression during treatment).

Design:

Participants may be screened with:

Medical history Physical exam Blood and urine tests Heart tests Bone marrow sample Multiple scans and X-rays Participants will have apheresis. Blood is removed through a needle in an arm. T cells are removed. The rest of the blood is returned through a needle in the other arm.

The cells will be changed in a laboratory. Participants will get auto-HSCT. Hematopoietic reconstitution after auto-HSCT, participants will get the T cells through the IV within 3 days. Maintenance therapy with IMiDs was received after combined CAR T infusion.

After this, participants will stay in the hospital for at least 9 days and stay nearby for 2 weeks. Then they will have blood tests and see a doctor.

Participants will visit the clinic 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after the infusion, then every 3-6 months until disease progression. A bone marrow sample will be taken at the 3-6 months visit.

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Conditions studied

  • Safety and Efficacy
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In context

Lead sponsor

The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University is the lead sponsor of 263 studies on the registry; 150 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 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Multiple myeloma patients eligible for .
  • High risk multiple myeloma (R-ISS III stage or with extramedullary infiltration or with del(17p), t(4;14), t(14;16), t(14;20), 1q21+ or disease progression during treatment).
  • Expected survival ≥ 3 months.
  • Creatinine \< 2.0 mg/dl.
  • Blood coagulation function: PT and \<2x normal.
  • Arterial blood oxygen saturation>92%.
  • (alanine aminotransferase)/AST (aspartate aminotransferase)\< 3x normal
  • scores ≥ 60 and score≤2.
  • Adequate venous access for apheresis, and no other for leukapheresis.
  • Patients should not take immunotherapy in three months prior to CART cells infusion.
  • Voluntary is given.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant or lactating women.
  • Uncontrolled active infection.
  • Active or infection.
  • Concurrent use of systemic . Recent or current use of inhaled steroids is not exclusionary.
  • Previously treatment with any gene therapy products.
  • Any uncontrolled active medical disorder that would preclude participation as outlined.
  • infection.
  • History of myocardial infarction and severe arrhythmia in half a year.
  • Any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease).
  • Patients with fever of unknown origin (T>38℃).
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(11)

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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.

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.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

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

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

Informed consent

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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.

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

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.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
43 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    anti-CD19 and anti-BCMA CAR

    Participants will get auto-HSCT. Hematopoietic reconstitution after auto-HSCT, participants will get the anti-CD19 CAR T cells (on d0) and anti-BCMA CAR T cells as split-dose (40% on d1 and 60% on d2)

    Biological: anti-CD19 and anti-BCMA CAR · Drug: Immunomodulatory drugs

Interventions

  • Biologicalanti-CD19 and anti-BCMA CAR

    Participants will get auto-HSCT. Hematopoietic reconstitution after auto-HSCT, participants will get the anti-CD19 CAR T cells (1×10e+7/kg on d0) and anti-BCMA CAR T cells as split-dose (total 5×10e+7/kg, 40% on d1 and 60% on d2)

  • Maintenance therapy

    Also known as: IMiDs

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence and severity of adverse events

    Proportion of subjects with adverse events overall and by severity grade

    Time frame: Approximately 2 years

  2. PFS, response

    mPFS of all patients. PFS is defined as time from first induction date to first documentation of PD, or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first. Percentage of patients with sCR. Response was graded according to IMWG response criteria.

    Time frame: every 6 months after first induction

  3. CAR-T Pharmacokinetics

    Maximum transgene level, Time to peak transgene levelm, persistence

    Time frame: Minimum of 2 years after first induction

Secondary outcomes

  1. MRD negative conversion ratio and persistence

    MRD negativity by flow cytometry

    Time frame: every 3 months for first year, then every 6 months

  2. lymphocyte subsets analysis

    Proportion of sub-lymphocytes Monitoring by flow cytometry

    Time frame: Minimum of 2 years

  3. immune mutation

    Proportion of T-reg cells and B-reg cells detected whether the treatment process induces an immune response to murine single-chain antibodies in patients

    Time frame: Minimum of 2 years

  4. Patients quality of life

    HRQoL was assessed with the EORTC QLQ-C30 after transplantation followed by CAR-T therapy.

    Time frame: within 1 year post CART infusion

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Study locations

1 site
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Feb 2018 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2027, 118 months after the start.

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

Registered
Feb 19, 2018
First posted
Mar 7, 2018
StartActual
Feb 20, 2018
Primary completionEst.
Dec 2027
CompletionEst.
Dec 2027
Last update
Mar 17, 2026
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 Mar 17, 2026, 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
NCT03455972
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 7, 2018
Start date
Feb 20, 2018
Primary completion
Dec 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Mar 17, 2026

Study contacts

depei wu
study chair · The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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