A Phase 2 interventional study of CMV CTLs in CMV, sponsored by Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla. Recruiting at 1 site in Spain. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-10.
Sponsored by Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla · Phase 2, Interventional, and Prevention
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality for recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation(HSCT). Recently, strategies based on immunotherapy adoptive cells (IAC) with anti-CMV Cytolitic T Lymphocytes (CMV-CTLs) has been incorporated to prevent or treat CMV after HSCT. The aim to study donor derived CMV-CTLs after haploidentical HSCT (HAPLO) as prophylaxis for CMV infection in transplant patients. CMV-CTLs will be administer at day 21 (+-7 days) post-HAPLO. CMV DNA levels with quantitative PCR will be weekly monitored.
In HAPLO, CMV infection and disease are more frequent than in other type of HSCT, this is related to delayed immune reconstitution after transplant increasing post-transplant infectious complications. Approximately 60% of patients reactivated CMV infection after HAPLO and 15%, developed CMV disease afecting organs and causing the death of the patient in 8% of CMV disease cases.
If patient and donor are eligible, it will take 1x10\^9 cells from donor leukapheresis. Donor cells will be selected and procesed by CliniMACs PRODIGY and after 12h it will obtain 7mL of CMV-CTLs. It will use 6mL of CMV-CTLs to infused a dose of 1x10\^5 cells/kg in our patient. The donor derived CMV-CTL cells will be transfused into the patients' intravenous line. The patients will receive the dose of CMV-CTL cells when they are sero-positive for CMV-DNA 21 (+- 7 days) days after transplant.
The CMV-DNA levels will be monitored weekly for at least 100 days after the transplant. If after the initial dose of CMV-CTL cells the patient develops a viral infection, then the patient will receive treatment with anti-CMV comercial drugs.
Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla is the lead sponsor of 33 studies on the registry; 11 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
CMV-CTLs Infusion Criteria:
CMV-CTLs NON-Infusion Criteria:
Patients who don´t fill infusion criteria, after day 28 post-HAPLO, will be considered screening failures and will be out of the study.
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The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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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.
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.
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
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.
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Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
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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.
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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.
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.
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GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
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1x10\^5 CMV-CTLs/kg
Biological: CMV CTLs
The donor derived cytomegalovirus specific T lymphocytes (CMV-CTL) will be transfused to the patients. The patients will receive CMV-CTL cells when their donors are sero-positive for CMV-DNA 21 days after transplant. The CMV-DNA levels will be monitored weekly for at least 100 days after the HAPLO. If after the initial dose of CMV-CTL cells the patient develops a viral infection, then they may be eligible to receive a CMV specific antiviral drug.
100-days incidence of CMV infection
Viral load \>200 copies in 1 sample
Time frame: From date of CMV-CTLs infusion to 100 days after transplant
1-year incidence of CMV specific antiviral drug use
If viral load \>200 copies in 2 samples or \>1000 in 1 sample, treatment with valganciclovir will be started. Time from CMV-CTLs infusion until valganciclovir start and days of valganciclovir.
Time frame: From date of CMV-CTLs infusion to 1 year after transplant
1-year incidence of CMV disease
CMV disease P.Lungman criteria. CMV as primary cause of death.
Time frame: From date of CMV-CTLs infusion to 1 year after transplant
1-year incidence of CMV-CTLs adverse events
Infusion reactions, causes of death, secondary graft failures and graft versus host disease (GVHD).
Time frame: From date of CMV-CTLs infusion to 1 year after transplant
CMV-CTLs persistence
Expansion of CMV-CTLs detected by flow cytometry.
Time frame: From date of CMV-CTLs infusion to 2 months after infusion
Immune reconstitution post-HAPLO
CD3, CD4, CD8, B and NK lymphocyte counts in patient peripheral blood post-transplant (day 30, 60, 90 and 180) detected by flow cytometry.
Time frame: From date of transplant to day 180 post-transplant
Started Mar 2022 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2027, 59 months after the start.
Since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026, the dates moved once, on Nov 10, 2026: primary completion Mar 2026 → Mar 2027 and completion Dec 2026 → Dec 2027.
Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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