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RecruitingNCT06375161Updated Apr 19, 2024

Anti-CD19-CAR-T Cells in Relapsed/Refractory B-cell Tumor Patients.

An Early Phase 1 interventional study of anti-CD19-CAR-T cells in B Cell Malignancies, sponsored by Shanghai Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Weeks to 70 Weeks. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-04-19.

Sponsored by Shanghai Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine · Early Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2025, 11 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Registered 4 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Dec 2023, registered Apr 2024).
  • Started Dec 2023; still recruiting 2 years 11 months later.
Phase
Early Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
12
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Weeks to 70 Weeks
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a single-center, open-label, single-dose clinical trial of anti-CD19-CAR-T cell therapy in relapsed/refractory B-cell tumor patients after Qinglin pre-treatment.

In this study phase, a traditional "3+3" trial design is employed for dose escalation.

Read the detailed description

The study plans to include CD19-positive relapsed/refractory B-cell tumor patients. After the screening period, peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) collection, and lymphocyte depletion pre-treatment period, subjects will receive a single infusion of anti-CD19-CAR-T cells. In addition to the baseline period, efficacy assessments will be conducted monthly for ALL subjects and at weeks 4, 12, 24, 36, and 48 post-treatment for NHL subjects, until disease progression (PD), relapse, change of treatment regimen, death, intolerable toxicity, at the discretion of the investigator, or voluntary withdrawal by the patient (whichever occurs first).

Toxicity will be evaluated according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE, version 5.0). Safety of anti-CD19-CAR-T cell therapy will be evaluated through laboratory tests, 12-lead electrocardiograms, vital signs, physical examinations, etc. Blood samples will be collected from subjects to assess cellular pharmacokinetics and explore the effects of cellular drugs on ferritin, C-reactive protein, and related cytokines.

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Conditions studied

  • B Cell Malignancies
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In context

Lead sponsor

Shanghai Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine is the lead sponsor of 27 studies on the registry; 7 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 Weeks to 70 Weeks
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Voluntary participation in the clinical trial; the individual or legal guardian fully understands and consents to the study by signing the Form (ICF); willing and able to comply with all trial procedures.
  2. Age between 18-70 years.
  3. Patients who are or relapsed after current standard treatments (including or autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation), and not suitable for other treatment options such as a second hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

    1. Relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is defined as one of the following:

      • Primary refractory disease
      • First relapse if the first remission was ≤12 months
      • Relapse or refractory disease after two or more
      • Relapse or refractory disease after allogeneic transplantation, provided that at least 100 days have elapsed since transplantation at the time of enrollment, and no drugs have been used for at least 4 weeks prior to enrollment, except for low-dose (≤5 mg prednisone or equivalent).
    2. Subjects with Ph+ B-cell ALL who are intolerant or ineligible for treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), or have relapsed/refractory disease after receiving at least two different TKI treatments, are eligible.
    3. Relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is defined as one of the following:

      1. No response to first-line treatment (primary refractory disease); excluding subjects intolerant to first-line chemotherapy - PD as the best response to first-line treatment - Best response after at least 4 cycles of first-line treatment (such as 4 cycles of RCHOP) is SD, and the duration of SD after the last dose does not exceed 6 months.
      2. No response to second-line or subsequent treatments - PD as the best response to the most recent treatment regimen - Best response after at least 2 cycles of last-line treatment is SD, and the duration of SD after the last dose does not exceed 6 months.
      3. Refractory after ASCT

        • Disease progression or relapse ≤12 months post-ASCT (relapse must be confirmed by ).
        • If salvage therapy is given post-ASCT, subjects must have had no response or relapse after the last-line treatment.
  4. Bone marrow smear reports showing tumor cells ≥5% in ALL patients.
  5. Patients with refractory or relapsed NHL meet one of the following subtypes:
  1. DLBCL-NOS. 2) Primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL). 3) Transformed follicular lymphoma (TFL), previously treated with follicular lymphoma chemotherapy, subsequently transformed into refractory disease after DLBCL.
  1. Mantle cell lymphoma. 5) High-grade B-cell lymphoma. 6) CLL/SLL.

(6) performance status ≤2.

(7) Estimated of at least 12 weeks.

(8) Adequate venous access (for single collection) and no other to blood cell separation.

(9) Laboratory test results at screening must meet the following requirements, and subjects must not have received colony-stimulating factors (G-CSF/PEG-CSF) within 2 weeks prior to hematological assessment (except for low-dose steroids):

  1. ≥1.0×10\^9/L, ALL eligibility to be determined by the investigator.
  1. ≥60 g/L (without red blood cell transfusion within 14 days). 3) ≥50×10\^9/L, ALL eligibility to be determined by the investigator. 4) Absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) ≥ 0.5×10\^9/L; if insufficient, and T-cell proportion is high in the lymphocyte subset, the investigator can discuss with the sponsor.
  1. Serum total ≤1.5× (ULN). 6) (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT) ≤2.5× ULN. 7) Creatinine \<1.5× ULN and ≥60 mL/minute.

(10) ≥45%, echocardiography (ECHO) confirms no pericardial effusion (except for trace or physiological), and electrocardiography results have no clinical significance.

(11) Baseline oxygen saturation in room air >92%.

(12) Women of must have negative serum or urine pregnancy tests (women who have undergone surgical sterilization or have been for at least 2 years are not considered women of childbearing potential).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

(1) ALL with central nervous system abnormalities, excluding clinically evident neurological changes CNS-2 and CNS-3.

  1. CNS-3 disease, defined as detectable tumor cells in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), with ≥5 WBCs per mm3, with or without neurological changes.
  1. CNS-2 disease, defined as detectable tumor cells in the CSF, with \<5 WBCs per mm3, and neurological changes.

Note: Subjects with CNS-1 (no tumor cells detected in CSF) and CNS-2 with no clinically evident neurological changes are eligible for this study.

(2) Evidence of central nervous system lymphoma on brain MRI; active primary central nervous system DLBCL, unless the central nervous system involvement has been effectively treated (i.e., participants are asymptomatic), and >4 weeks have elapsed since local treatment before enrollment.

(3) Active central nervous system diseases such as epilepsy, cerebrovascular ischemia/hemorrhage, dementia, cerebellar diseases, or any diseases involving the central nervous system.

(4) History of or concurrent other than CD19+ malignancies.

(5) cardiac diseases, or arrhythmias not controlled by medication.

(6) Presence or suspicion of uncontrolled fungal, bacterial, viral, or other infections, or requiring intravenous antibiotic therapy; simple urinary tract infections and uncomplicated bacterial pharyngitis are allowed if responsive to treatment and after consultation with the sponsor's medical monitor.

(7) (positive for hepatitis B surface antigen and/or positive for hepatitis B core antibody with hepatitis B DNA >1000 copies/ml) and (positive for hepatitis C antibody); syphilis, (HIV) infection.

(8) Presence of any indwelling catheter or drainage tube (such as percutaneous nephrostomy tube, indwelling Foley catheter, bile drainage tube, or pleural/peritoneal/pericardial catheter); use of dedicated central venous access devices such as Port-A-Cath® or Hickman® catheters is allowed.

(9) Prior medication:

  1. CD19-targeted therapy.
  2. Use of chlorambucil or cladribine within 3 months prior to enrollment, or use of PEG-asparaginase within 3 weeks prior to enrollment.
  3. Injection of within 4 weeks prior to enrollment.
  4. Donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) within 28 days prior to enrollment.
  5. Any drugs used for treatment within 4 weeks prior to enrollment (such as calcineurin inhibitors, methotrexate, mycophenolate, rapamycin, or salidroside), or use of antibodies (such as anti-CD20, anti-tumor necrosis factor, anti-interleukin-6, or anti-interleukin-6 receptor) within 4 weeks prior to enrollment.
  6. Immunostimulatory or immunosuppressive therapy within 4 weeks prior to enrollment (such as interferon-alpha, interferon-beta, IL-2, enoxaparin, efalizumab, alemtuzumab, tacrolimus, or mycophenolate).
  7. Any systemic inhibitory/stimulatory immune checkpoint molecule therapy within 4 weeks prior to enrollment (e.g., ipilimumab, nivolumab, pembrolizumab, atezolizumab, OX40 agonists, 4-1BB agonists, etc.).
  8. Use of systemic cytotoxic drugs within 2 weeks prior to enrollment, including daily or weekly low-dose maintenance chemotherapy (such as cyclophosphamide, ifosfamide, bendamustine, chlorambucil, or mephalan, vincristine, etc.).
  9. Long-acting growth factors within 14 days prior to single collection (such as pegfilgrastim) or short-acting growth factors within 5 days prior to single collection or drugs used for cell mobilization (such as G-CSF/PEG-CSF, plerixafor).
  10. Receipt of radiotherapy within 2 weeks prior to enrollment.
  11. Must avoid pharmacological doses of (>5 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent) and other immunosuppressive drugs within 7 days prior to single collection.
  12. Use of venetoclax (BCL-2 inhibitor) within 4 days prior to single collection.
  13. Short-acting targeted therapies (such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors) within 72 hours prior to single collection.
  14. Use of idelalisib (oral PI3Kδ inhibitor) within 2 days prior to single collection.
  15. Use of lenalidomide within 1 day prior to single collection.

(10) Active graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) using CIBMTR acute GVHD grading system ≥ grade 2 or requiring systemic steroids greater than physiological doses.

(11) History of autoimmune diseases in the past 2 years (such as Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus) resulting in end-organ damage or requiring systemic immunos uppressive/disease-modifying therapy.

(12) History of myocardial infarction, cardiac vascular surgery or stent implantation, unstable angina, or other clinically significant cardiac diseases within 12 months prior to enrollment.

(13) History of genetic syndromes associated with bone marrow failure, such as Fanconi anemia, Costello syndrome, Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, etc.

(14) Symptomatic deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism requiring systemic anticoagulation within the past 6 months. Subjects need to be on prophylactic anticoagulation.

(15) Past or present concurrent malignancies (excluding skin basal cell carcinoma, breast/cervical carcinoma in situ, and other malignancies that have not been treated and effectively controlled in the past five years).

(16) Use of other medicinal products within 30 days prior to screening.

(17) Pregnant or lactating women of childbearing age, due to potential risks of chemotherapy to the fetus or infant. Women who have undergone surgical sterilization or have been for at least 2 years are not considered of .

(18) Subjects unwilling to practice from the agreement to treatment completion of conditional chemotherapy or CAR T infusion within 12 months (whichever is longer).

(19) Any medical conditions that may interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the study treatment.

(20) Subjects unlikely, in the investigator's judgment, to complete all protocol-required study visits or procedures, including follow-up, or comply with study requirements.

(21) Previous use of any CAR-T cell products or other genetically modified T cell therapies.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(30)

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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.

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.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

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.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

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.

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.

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.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

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.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

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.

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.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Early Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
12 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    anti-CD19-CAR-T Cells

    anti-CD19-CAR-T cell infusion. Infusion doses: The planned infusion doses are as follows: the first dose group at 1×10\^5 cells/kg; the second dose group at 3×10\^5 cells/kg; the third dose group at 1×10\^6 cells/kg. Infusion doses refer to the number of CAR-positive cells. Administration route: anti-CD19-CAR-T cells are administered via intravenous drip at a rate of approximately 2 to 5 mL/minute using an infusion pump, with a recommended infusion time of less than 30 minutes.

    Biological: anti-CD19-CAR-T cells

Interventions

  • Before cell infusion, Investigator may decide, based on necessity, whether to administer prophylactic medication, which may include options such as acetaminophen and diphenhydramine, or H1 antihistamines, among others. Subjects are allowed to receive adequate supportive care after anti-CD19-CAR-T cell infusion, including blood transfusions and blood products, antibiotic therapy, antiemetics, antidiarrheals, analgesics, etc.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of dose-limiting toxicity

    The proportion of patients receiving CAR-T cells who encounter dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs). Safety evaluations are performed in accordance with the NCI-CTCAE version 5.0 standards (Cytokine Release Syndrome and neurotoxicity will be graded based on ASTCT/ASBMT grading criteria).

    Time frame: Up to 28 days from CAR-T infusion

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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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 Apr 19, 2024, 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
NCT06375161
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine
Responsible party
Aibin Liang,MD,Ph.D. (professor,Chief Physician,Vice President of Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine etc., Shanghai Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine) — Principal investigator
First posted
Apr 19, 2024
Start date
Dec 11, 2023
Primary completion
Dec 10, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 10, 2039 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 19, 2024

Study contacts

Aibin Liang
Contact
lab7182@tongji.edu.cn
+86 21 6611 1019
Ping LI
Contact
lilyforever@126.com
+86 135 6418 1131
Aibin Liang
principal investigator · Shanghai Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine

Oversight

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