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CompletedNCT04689659Updated May 18, 2025

Multi-centers, Open-Label, Phase 2 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Donor-Derived CD7 CAR T Cells in Subjects With Relapsed or Refractory T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma

A Phase 2 interventional study of chimeric antigen receptor T cell treatment in T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma, Refractory T Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma and Relapse/Recurrence, sponsored by Beijing Boren Hospital. Completed at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 1 Year to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-05-18.

Sponsored by Beijing Boren Hospital · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
55
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
1 Year to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a multi-centers, single-arm, open label, Phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CD7 CAR T cells in subjects with relapsed or refractory T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Seventy subjects will be enrolled. CD7 CAR T cells will be given once intravenously at one dose (1×106, with an allowance of ± 20%) in patients received previous HSCT donor-derived CAR T cells. Patients who received fresh donor derived CD7 CAR T cells were given initial dose of 1×106, with an allowance of ± 20%. The dose levels may be adjusted during the study based on the specific number of cells on the day of fresh CAR T cells infusion, due to at this time all the patients have completed lymphodepleting, so we adopt the allowance of ±20% for each group of absolute infusion cells. And patients who were lower than the designed dose group were also given infusion, but they will be either assigned to the lower dose group or exclude from safety analysis of designed dose group.

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Conditions studied

  • T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma
  • Refractory T Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma
  • Relapse/Recurrence

Keywords

  • CAR-T
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In context

Leukemia, T-Cell

33 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia, T-Cell; 9 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 55 is above the median of 30 across 30 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia, T-Cell.

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Lead sponsor

Beijing Boren Hospital is the lead sponsor of 24 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
1 Year to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria:

  1. Candidates with relapse or CD7+ T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma, who have progressed on after treatment with all standard therapies or intolerant of standard care, have limited prognosis with currently available therapies and had no available curative treatment options (such as SCT or chemotherapy)
  2. Male or female, aged 1-70 years
  3. No serious allergic constitution
  4. (ECOG) performance status (Oken et al., 1982) score 0 to 2
  5. Have of at least 60 days based on investigator's judgement
  6. CD7 positive in bone marrow or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by flow cytometry, or CD7 positive in tumor tissues by immunohistochemistry; (CD7 positive criteria: Flow cytometry: Positive: > 80% of tumor cells expressed CD7 and the mean fluorescence (MFI) of CD7 is the same as that in normal T cells; Dim: > 80% of tumor cells expressed CD7, but the MFI of CD7 is lower than that in normal T cells as least as 1log; Partial positive: 20-80% of tumor cells expressed CD7 and the MFI of CD7 is the same as that in normal T cells. tumor tissue immunohistochemistry: Positive > 30% tumor cells expressed CD7);
  7. Provide a signed before any screening procedure; subjects who voluntarily participate in the study should have the ability to understand and sign the informed consent form and be willing to follow the study visit schedule and relevant study procedure, as specified in the protocol. Candidates aged 19-70 years need to be sufficiently conscious and able to sign the treatment consent form and voluntary consent form; Children candidates of 1-7 can be recruited after the legal guardian or patient advocate has signed the treatment consent form and voluntary consent form. Children candidates of 8-18 years old need to be sufficiently conscious and able to sign the treatment consent form and voluntary consent form and their legal guardian or patient advocate has also need to sign the treatment consent form and voluntary consent form, respectively

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria:

An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:

  1. Intracranial hypertension or disorder of consciousness
  2. Symptomatic heart failure or severe arrhythmia
  3. Symptoms of severe respiratory failure
  4. Complicated with other types of malignant tumors
  5. Diffuse intravascular coagulation
  6. Serum creatinine and / or blood urea nitrogen ≥ 1.5 times of the normal value
  7. Suffering from septicemia or other uncontrollable infections
  8. Patients with uncontrollable diabetes
  9. Severe mental disorders
  10. Obvious and active intracranial lesions were detected by cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  11. Have received organ transplantation (excluding bone marrow transplant)
  12. Reproductive-aged female patients with positive blood human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) test
  13. Screened to be positive of infection of hepatitis (including and C), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or syphilis
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(5)

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.

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.

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.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

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.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    chimeric antigen receptor T cell treatment

    Biological: chimeric antigen receptor T cell treatment

Interventions

  • Biologicalchimeric antigen receptor T cell treatment

    CD7 CAR T cells will be given once intravenously at one dose (1×106, with an allowance of ± 20%) in patients received previous HSCT donor-derived CAR T cells. Patients who received fresh donor derived CD7 CAR T cells were given initial dose of 1×106, with an allowance of ± 20%. The dose levels may be adjusted during the study based on the specific number of cells on the day of fresh CAR T cells infusion, due to at this time all the patients have completed lymphodepleting, so we adopt the allowance of ±20% for each group of absolute infusion cells. And patients who were lower than the designed dose group were also given infusion, but they will be either assigned to the lower dose group or exclude from safety analysis of designed dose group.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Efficacy: Best overall response (BOR) rate

    Best overall response (BOR) rate to the CAR T treatment

    Time frame: at 3 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Beijing Boren Hospital
    Beijing, Beijing Municipality 100000, China
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References and documents

Publications

  • Pan J, Zhao L, Zhang Y, Seery S, Tan Y, Deng B, Shan L, Ling Z, Wu F, Wang Z, Wang Q, Yu X, Zheng Q, Xu X, Yuan Y, Tian Z, Zhang Y, Peng S, Chang AH, Feng X. Donor-derived CD7 CAR T cells for pediatric and adult relapsed/refractory T-ALL/LBL: a phase 2 trial. Blood. 2025 Dec 4;146(23):2745-2757. doi: 10.1182/blood.2025029299. PubMed 40712157 ↗
  • Velasquez MP. Allogeneic CD7-CAR T cells to bridge the gap? Transplant Cell Ther. 2023 Mar;29(3):139-140. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2023.02.006. No abstract available. PubMed 36858787 ↗
  • Pan J, Tan Y, Wang G, Deng B, Ling Z, Song W, Seery S, Zhang Y, Peng S, Xu J, Duan J, Wang Z, Yu X, Zheng Q, Xu X, Yuan Y, Yan F, Tian Z, Tang K, Zhang J, Chang AH, Feng X. Donor-Derived CD7 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells for T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: First-in-Human, Phase I Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Oct 20;39(30):3340-3351. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.00389. Epub 2021 Jul 29. PubMed 34324392 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 18, 2025, 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
NCT04689659
Lead sponsor
Beijing Boren Hospital
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 30, 2020
Start date
Dec 1, 2021
Primary completion
Apr 3, 2024
Completion
Apr 3, 2024
Last update
May 18, 2025

Oversight

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