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CompletedNCT04873752Updated Apr 6, 2025

A Study to Investigate the Safety and Efficacy of UC-MSCs in Pediatric Patients With Cerebral Palsy

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of UDI-001 in Cerebral Palsy and Periventricular Leukomalacia, sponsored by Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. Completed at 1 site in Japan. Open to participants aged 12 Months to 24 Months. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-04-06.

Sponsored by Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
6
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
12 Months to 24 Months
Sex
All
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Study summary

UDI-001 is administered to pediatric patients with cerebral palsy attributed to periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) multiple times to investigate its safety and efficacy.

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This is the first study of UDI-001 to be administered to children. Pediatric patients with cerebral palsy attributed to PVL are enrolled to the study and umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stromal cells (UC-MSCs) are administered to those patients multiple times intravenously. Safety and efficacy of UC-MSCs are evaluated for 52 weeks after the first administration.

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Conditions studied

  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Periventricular Leukomalacia
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In context

Cerebral Palsy

1,937 studies on the registry are indexed under Cerebral Palsy; 457 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 6 is below the median of 34 across 1,431 interventional studies indexed under Cerebral Palsy.

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Lead sponsor

Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
12 Months to 24 Months
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age >= 12 months and \< 24 months corrected age at the time of
  • Diagnosed with cerebral palsy
  • Diagnosed with PVL
  • GMFCS level between II and IV
  • Able to obtain written informed consent from parents (legal representative)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Presence of progressive neurological disease
  • Presence of congenital anomaly
  • Diagnosed with Grade 3 or more severe intraventricular hemorrhage
  • Body weight \< 5kg
  • Profound intellectual disorder
  • Complication of serious infection such as sepsis
  • Requirement of mechanical ventilation
  • Complication of serious organ failure such as kidney, liver or heart diseases or others and considered to be inappropriate
  • Diagnosed with or suspected of hypsarrhythmia
  • Positive for , , or HTLV-1
  • Patients who have received cell therapy
  • Patients who have undergone selective dorsal rhizotomy or received botulinum toxin products within a certain period of time
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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
6 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    UDI-001

    Four cycles with 8 administrations

    Biological: UDI-001

Interventions

  • BiologicalUDI-001

    2.5 x 10\^6 cells/kg of UDI-001 are administered intravenously. One cycle consists of twice a week administrations.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety: Adverse Event

    Adverse events which appear in the participants after the treatment

    Time frame: until Week 52

Secondary outcomes

  1. Gross Motor Function Measure Score (GMFM Score)

    Difference and change in GMFM score

    Time frame: baseline to Week 52

  2. Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS)

    Improvement rate of GMFCS

    Time frame: baseline to Week 52

  3. Function Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM)

    Change in WeeFIM score

    Time frame: baseline to Week 52

  4. Kyoto Scale of Psychological Development Test 2001 (KSPD)

    Change in and Improvement rate of KSPD

    Time frame: baseline to Week 52

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Study locations

1 site
  • Osaka City University Hospital
    Osaka, 545-8586, Japan
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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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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Jun 2021 to primary completion in Jul 2023, 25 months.

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

Registered
Apr 30, 2021
First posted
May 5, 2021
StartActual
Jun 2, 2021
Primary completionActual
Jul 12, 2023
CompletionActual
Feb 15, 2024
Last update
Apr 6, 2025
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 Apr 6, 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
NCT04873752
Lead sponsor
Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 5, 2021
Start date
Jun 2, 2021
Primary completion
Jul 12, 2023
Completion
Feb 15, 2024
Last update
Apr 6, 2025

Study contacts

Sumito Okawa
study director · Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Oversight

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