A Phase 2 interventional study of Busulfan test dose and Fludarabine in Lymphoproliferative Disorders, Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative and Immune System Diseases, sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI). Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 4 Years to 69 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-10.
Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
Background:
During a transplant, blood "stem cells" from one person are given to someone else. The cells grow into the different cells that make up the immune system. This can cure people with certain immunodeficiencies. But transplant has many risks and complications.
Objective:
To see if stem cell transplant can be successfully performed in people with primary immunodeficiency disease and cure them.
Eligibility:
People ages 4-69 for whom a primary immunodeficiency (PID) or Primary Immune Regulatory Disorder (PIRD), has caused significant health problems and either standard management has not worked or there are no standard management options, along with their donors
Design:
Donors will be screened under protocol 01-C-0129. They will donate blood or bone marrow.
Participants will be screened with:
Medical history
Physical exam
Blood, urine, and heart tests
CT or PET scans
Before transplant, participants will have dental and eye exams. They will have a bone marrow biopsy. For this, a needle will be inserted through the skin into the pelvis to remove marrow.
Participants will be hospitalized before their transplant. They will have a central catheter put into a vein in their chest or neck. They will get medications through the catheter to prevent complications. Participants will get stem cells through the catheter. They will stay in the hospital for at least 4 weeks. They will give blood, urine, bone marrow, and stool samples. They may need blood transfusions. They may need more scans. They will take more medications.
Participants will have visits on days 30, 60, 100, 180, and 360, and 24 months after the transplant. Then they will have visits once a year for about 5 years
Background:
Objectives:
-To determine whether allogeneic HSCT in patients with IEI results in sustained donor engraftment defined as neutrophil recovery with ANC >= 500/mm\^3 for 3 consecutive days associated with > 50% donor T-cell and myeloid cell donor chimerism by day 100 for diseases characterized by loss of function, and >75% donor T-cell and myeloid cell chimerism for diseases characterized by gain-of-function mutations.
Eligibility:
Design:
For Recipients with Fully Matched Donors
In all cohorts, alemtuzumab will be given per PI discretion to patients with clinical evidence of immune dysregulation, at the dose of 10 mg/m\^2 subcutaneously divided over 3 days, on days -14, -13 and -12.
For Recipients with 7/8 or 6/8 Matched Related or Unrelated Donors and Haploidentical Related Donors
In all cohorts, alemtuzumab will be given per PI discretion to patients with clinical evidence of immune dysregulation, at the dose of 10 mg/m2 subcutaneously divided over 3 days, on days -14, -13 and -12.
For Post-Transplant GVHD Prophylaxis
-Post-transplant GVHD prophylaxis in all groups will consist of cyclophosphamide 50 mg/kg IV once daily for 2 days on days +3 and +4, along with mycophenolate mofetil from day +5 to approximately day +35 and tacrolimus from day +5 to approximately day +180.
If there is no evidence of GVHD, tacrolimus will be stopped or tapered at approximately day +180.
216 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoproliferative Disorders; 49 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 66 is above the median of 41 across 173 interventional studies indexed under Lymphoproliferative Disorders.
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Patients without a known IEI mutation may be eligible if they have a clinical history that is characteristic of an individual with an immune defect including a history of infections requiring prolonged courses of therapy or evidence of immune dysregulation manifested by /autoinflammatory disease, atopy, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, hypogammaglobulinemia, or impaired response to vaccination. A virally-driven alone will also constitute basis for inclusion.
Adequate end-organ function, as measured by:
-- > 40%, preferably by 2-D echocardiogram (ECHO) obtained within 60 days prior to enrollment.
Creatinine: Adult patients: \<= 2.0 mg/dl and >= 30 ml/min; Pediatric patients (\<18 years old): creatinine \< 1.5 mg/dL and a creatinine clearance, using the Schwartz Formula > 30 mL/min/1.73m\^2.
limit of normal.
--Pulmonary function tests: > 30% and DLCO >30%. Participants who are unable to have DLCO assessed due to age or inability to complete PFT, are still eligible if no evidence of dyspnea at rest and no need for supplemental oxygen at the discretion of the PI.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
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 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.
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.
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.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
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.
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.
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
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.
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.
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.
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. 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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
FEV1
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Brain metastases
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. 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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Low Intensity, Intermediate Intensity and High Intensity Conditioning with or without alemtuzumab
Drug: Busulfan test dose · Drug: Fludarabine · Drug: Busulfan · Drug: Alemtuzumab · Procedure: Allogeneic HSCT · Drug: Tacrolimus (Tacro) · Drug: Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) · Drug: Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan)
Intermediate Intensity Conditioning with or without Alemtuzumab
Drug: Busulfan test dose · Drug: Fludarabine · Drug: Busulfan · Drug: Alemtuzumab · Radiation: Total body Irradiation · Procedure: Allogeneic HSCT · Drug: Tacrolimus (Tacro) · Drug: Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) · Drug: Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan)
0.8 mg/kg IV infusion over 2 hours
40 mg/m2 IV infusion over 30 min once daily for 4 days
AUC Targeted Dose based on busulfan test dose PKs, IV infusion over 3 hours once daily (3.2 mg/kg IV per day will be the default dose) per the below time frame: For 10/10 Matched Related and Unrelated Donor Recipients For the High Intensity Arm, the busulfan dose will be given for 4 days (-6, -5, -4, and -3). For Intermediate Intensity Arm, the busulfan dose will be given for 3 days (-6,-5, and -4). For Low Intensity Arm, the busulfan dose will be given for 2 days on days (-6 and -5). 9/10 HLA Matched Related or Unrelated Donor Recipients For the High Intensity Arm, the busulfan dose will be given for 3 days (-6, -5, and -4). For the the Intermediate Intensity Arm, the busulfan dose will be given for 2 days (-6 and -5). For the Low Intensity Arm, the busulfan dose will be given for 1 day on day (-6).
Alemtuzumab will be given if there is evidence of immune dysregulation 10 mg/m2 SC divided over three days (-14, -13, and -12)
200 cGy Transplant Day -1 (Only for 9/10 HLA Matched Related or Unrelated Donor Recipients )
Stem cell transplant
Tacrolimus 0.02 mg/kg IV continuous infusion over 24 hours starting on day +5
Mycophenolate mofetil 15 mg/kg IV over 2 hours three times a day starting on day +5 will continue until Approximately+35 (+/- two days)
Cyclophosphamide: 50 mg/kg IV once daily over 2 hours on days +3 and +4, dosed according to ideal body weight
Sustained donor engraftment
neutrophil recovery with ANC \>/= 500/mm\^3 for 3 consecutive days with \>50% or \>75% T-cell and myeloid donor chimerism
Time frame: baseline to day +100
Reversal of the immunological abnormalities
Cumulative correction of disease-specific immunological abnormalities by 1-5 years post transplant
Time frame: 1 through 5 years post transplant
Reversal of the clinical phenotype
Cumulative improvement of clinical phenotype consistent with the replacement of hematopoietic cells at 1 -5 years post transplant
Time frame: 1 and 2 years post transplant
regimen-related mortality
Cumulative incidence of transplant-related mortality at 180 days and 1 year post transplant
Time frame: +180 and 1 year post transplant
Overall survival
Time from transplant to death of any cause
Time frame: 1 through 5 years post transplant
infection and viral reactivation
Cumulative incidence of transplant-related mortality at 180 days and 1 year post transplant
Time frame: +180 and 1 year post transplant
Incidence of Chronic Graft-versus-host disease
Cumulative incidence of chronic graft versus host disease at 1 and 2 years post transplant
Time frame: 1 and 2 years post transplant
Incidence of Acute Graft-versus-host disease
Cumulative incidence of acute graft versus host disease at day 100 post transplant
Time frame: 100 days post transplant
Event free survival
Time from transplant to death of any cause, primary or secondary graft failure, or second transplant
Time frame: 1 through 5 years post transplant
Plan to share: Yes — All IPD recorded in the medical record will be shared with intramural investigators upon request.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form
Time frame: Clinical data available during the study and indefinitely.
Access criteria: Clinical data will be made available via subscription to BTRIS and with the permission of the study PI.
Started Sep 2020 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Oct 2028, 96 months after the start.
Of 30 phase 2 interventional studies under Lymphoproliferative Disorders, half reached primary completion within 144 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 57 and three quarters within 356. This study's planned 96 months is below that.
Since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026, the dates moved once, on Oct 19, 2026: primary completion Oct 2026 → Oct 2028 and completion Nov 2027 → Nov 2032.
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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