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SuspendedNCT04470999Updated May 24, 2022

Changes in Cellular Immune Profile During COVID-19 Infection

An interventional study of Leukapheresis in Covid19 and SARS-CoV-2, sponsored by Serhat Gumrukcu, MD PhD. Suspended at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 60 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-05-24.

Sponsored by Serhat Gumrukcu, MD PhD · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science

Why this study was suspended
Study suspended due to the move of clinical trial site. It will be resumed when the move is complete.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
25
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 60 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Clinical specimens are collected from individuals either recovered from or with active SARS-CoV-2 infection to support process and analytical development for a potential cell-based immunotherapy in preclinical research, SRPH-CVD-01.

SRPH-CVD-01 is an allogeneic cell-based immunotherapy candidate to be investigated in a subsequent clinical trial under a future FDA IND to treat people suffering from COVID-19.

Enrolled participants provide a venous blood specimen (up to 40mL) to be used in preclinical studies and research and development of SRPH-CVD-01. Subjects may eventually be asked to undergo leukapheresis for peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) collection and their specimens will be used to further develop the SRPH-CVD-01 cell product, including a cGMP compliant process to be applied under the future FDA IND.

Read the detailed description

This protocol is to collect blood and PBMC specimens from individuals with active of past COVID-19 infection. The first blood draw will be done at the first study visit and if eligible, the second collection will be done via leukapheresis at the second visit. The leukapheresis procedures will follow the facility's standard operating procedures and protocol requirements for leukapheresis.

Donors will be males or females between and including the ages of 18 years and 60 years. Volunteers will provide written informed consent and meet all inclusion and exclusion criteria. Each participant can be in the study for up to 180 days (6 months).

The study will be conducted in accordance with human research for the purposes of obtaining clinical specimens for research. There is no endpoint for this study, however, data collected from this study will include, but not be limited to, gender, demographics, medical history, clinical laboratory values, and volume of the blood collected. The data will be summarized in future studies reporting results from a future clinical trial under FDA IND.

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Conditions studied

  • Covid19
  • SARS-CoV-2

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Keywords

  • SARS-CoV-2
  • COVID
  • COVID19
  • Coronavirus
  • Cell therapy
  • Immunotherapy
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In context

COVID-19

7,640 studies on the registry are indexed under COVID-19; 488 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 25 is below the median of 100 across 4,099 interventional studies indexed under COVID-19.

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Lead sponsor

Serhat Gumrukcu, MD PhD is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; none 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 60 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • Male of female aged 18-60
  • Documented current or past (max 3 months prior) diagnosis of COVID19
  • Participants who has not participated in a cell or gene therapy trial for COVID19

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Uncontrolled SARS symptoms
  • Oxygen saturation (Pulse Ox) \< 90%
  • Uncontrolled diabetes
  • Uncontrolled hypertension
  • Active DIC, bleeding or coagulopathy which cannot be corrected with minimal intervention
  • Symptomatic, uncontrolled or severe intercurrent illness that would compromise the ability to tolerate blood collection or leukapheresis procedure
  • Systemic chemotherapy less than or equal to 2 weeks (6 weeks for clofarabine or nitrosoureas) or radiation therapy less than or equal to 3 weeks prior to leukapheresis
  • Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women, where pregnancy is defined as the state of a female after conception and until the termination of gestation, confirmed by a positive hCG laboratory test at screening
  • Any patient that in the opinion of the investigator is not medically stable to undergo the leukapheresis procedure or will not comply with the visit schedules or procedures
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
25 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Single arm

    Venous blood and apheresis collection will be conducted

    Other: Leukapheresis

Interventions

  • OtherLeukapheresis

    Blood collection and PBMC collection via apheresis machine will be conducted

    Also known as: Mononuclear cell collection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Cellular immune system profiling

    After the initial venous blood draw, the blood samples will be tested to measure the absolute count and percentage of B cells, monocytes, CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, gammadelta T (gdT) cells, CD3+CD56+ natural killer T (NKT) cells, and natural killer (NK) cells in total PBMCs. Data will describe the range of each cell population across participants.

    Time frame: Up to 20 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Innate immune system profiling

    Innate immune system cells (gdT, NKT, and NK) will be assessed for their SARS-CoV-2 antiviral activity by stimulation and immunophenotyping. Data will report the antiviral phenotypic characteristics of these cells.

    Time frame: Up to 100 days

  2. Expansion of virus-specific innate immune cells

    Virus-specific innate immune cells that are relevant to SRPH-CVD-01 clinical product candidate will be expanded under various conditions to assess their therapeutic and protective potential against COVID-19. Data will report the expansion rate of SRPH-CVD-01 cells. These cell will also help validate the assays and processes for the development of the SRPH-CVD-01 cell product to be used in a future clinical trials.

    Time frame: Up to 100 days

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Study locations

1 site
  • Seraph Research Institute
    Los Angeles, California 90067, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 24, 2022, 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
NCT04470999
Lead sponsor
Serhat Gumrukcu, MD PhD
Collaborators
The Scripps Research Institute
Responsible party
Serhat Gumrukcu, MD PhD (Sponsor-Investigator, Seraph Research Institute) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Jul 14, 2020
Start date
Apr 15, 2020
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
May 24, 2022

Study contacts

Serhat Gumrukcu, MD PhD
principal investigator · Seraph Research Institute

Oversight

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