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Anti-CD19 IL-10/IL15 CAR-NK Cells in Refractory/Relapsed Autoimmune Diseases

An interventional study of Anti-CD19 IL-10/IL15 CAR-NK in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), ANCA Associated Vasculitis (AAV) and Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy (IIM), sponsored by Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-12-29.

Sponsored by Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jan 2026, 9 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Jan 2025; still recruiting 1 year 9 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a single-center, open-label, single-arm, dose-escalation trial. The aim of this study is to investigate the safety and efficacy of Anti-CD19 IL-10/IL15 CAR-NK cells in patients with refractory/relapsed autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, idiopathic inflammatory myositis, ANCA associated vasculitis, sjogren syndrome, and antiphospholipid syndrome.

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Conditions studied

  • Systemic Sclerosis (SSc)
  • ANCA Associated Vasculitis (AAV)
  • Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy (IIM)
  • Sjogren's Syndrome
  • Antiphospholipid Syndrome
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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In context

Scleroderma, Systemic

688 studies on the registry are indexed under Scleroderma, Systemic; 223 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 15 is below the median of 34 across 493 interventional studies indexed under Scleroderma, Systemic.

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Lead sponsor

Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University is the lead sponsor of 1,058 studies on the registry; 511 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Common inlcusion Criteria:

  1. Age 18-65 years old, male or female;
  2. Routine blood count: hemoglobin ≥60g/L, white blood cell count ≥ 2.5×109/L, neutrophil count ≥1.0×109/L (no colony-stimulating factor treatment within 2 weeks before examination);
  3. Liver function: ALT ≤3×ULN, AST≤3×ULN, TBIL≤1.5×ULN;
  4. Coagulation function: international normalized ratio (INR) \< 1.5×ULN, prothrombin time (PT) \<1.5×ULN;
  5. Cardiac function: good hemodynamic stability;
  6. Female subjects of childbearing age must have a negative pregnancy test and agree to use effective contraception during the trial;
  7. Voluntarily participate in this study and sign the informed consent form, agreeing to participate in the follow-up as required.

SLE Enrollment Criteria:

  1. patients meet the classification criteria of SLE;
  2. Refractory or relapsed cases classified as non-response to standard therapy or disease recurrence after remission. Standard treatment is defined as therapy with at least three agents, including glucocorticoids at a dose >1 mg/kg/day, together with at least two of the following immunomodulatory drugs administered for more than 6 months: cyclophosphamide, mycophenolate mofetil, azathioprine, methotrexate, leflunomide, tacrolimus, cyclosporine, iguratimod, antimalarials, and biologic agents, including rituximab, belimumab, or telitacicept.

Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) Enrollment Criteria:

  1. Patients who meet the SSc classification criteria of the 2013 ACR/EULAR and have a diagnosis of systemic sclerosis;
  2. the patient\'s disease duration ≤ 60 months (defined as the onset of the first non-Raynaud\'s symptoms);
  3. Patient-modified Rodnan skin score (mRSS) ≥10 at the baseline visit; or active interstitial lung disease (ILD): ground-glass opacity on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), pulmonary function suggestive of forced vital capacity (FVC) or diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) less than 70% predicted;
  4. A or B needs to be met:

A. Refractory or relapsed cases classified as non-response to standard therapy or disease recurrence after remission. Standard treatment is defined as the use of glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide, as well as any of the following immunomodulatory drugs, for more than 6 months: antimalarials, azathioprine, mycophenolate mofetil, methotrexate, leflunomide, tacrolimus, cyclosporine, and biologics including rituximab, belimumab, tocilizumab, etc.; B. Presence of progressive disease, specifically defined as, within the past 6 months: a) Progression of cutaneous involvement: more than 25% increase in mRSS; or b) progression of lung disease: 10% reduction in FVC, or 5% reduction in FVC with 15% reduction in DLCO.

Idiopathic Inflammatory myopathy enrollment criteria:

  1. Diagnosis according to the 2017 EULAR/ACR classification criteria for inflammatory myopathies, including dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), antisynthetase antibody syndrome (ASS), and immune-mediated necrotizing myositis (IMNM);
  2. patients with muscle involvement with a manual strength test-8 (MMT-8) score less than 142 and at least 2 abnormalities in the following 5 core assessments: Physician Global Assessment (PhGA), Patient Global Assessment (PtGA), Extramuscular Disease Activity Score ≥2 points, Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) total score ≥0.25, muscle enzyme level ≥1.5×ULN); or MMT-8≥142 with active interstitial lung disease (HRCT suggests ground-glass opacities);
  3. Positive myositis-specific antibodies;
  4. A or B needs to be met:

A. Relapsed or refractory patients: relapsed or reactive after remission. Definition of conventional treatment: use of glucocorticoids (more than 1 mg/kg/d) and cyclophosphamide and any one or more of the following immunomodulatory drugs for more than 6 months: antimalarials, azathioprine, mycophenolate mofetil, methotrexate, leflunomide, tacrolimus, cyclosporine, and biologics including rituximab, belimumab, tetatercept, etc.; B. Patients with progressive disease: rapid progressive interstitial pneumonia in a short period of time.

ANCA-associated vasculitis enrollment criteria:

  1. Meets the 2022 ACR/EULAR ANCA-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA, INCLUDING MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS (MPA), GRANULOMATOSIS WITH POLYANGIITIS (MPA);
  2. Positive PR3-ANCA or MPO-ANCA (either previous or current positive);
  3. Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Scale (BVAS) score of ≥ 15 points, and at least 1 major item caused by active vasculitis, or at least 3 non-major items, or at least renal involvement hematuria, proteinuria;
  4. estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≥15 mL/minute/1.73 m2 (MDRD method);
  5. Definition of refractory/relapsed: Conventional treatment that remains ineffective for more than 6 months, or disease recurrence after remission. Conventional treatment definition: use of glucocorticoids (more than 1 mg/kg/day) and cyclophosphamide, as well as any one or more of the following immunomodulatory drugs: antimalarials, azathioprine, mycophenolate mofetil, methotrexate, leflunomide, tacrolimus, cyclosporine, and biologics including rituximab, belimumab, tocilizumab, etc.

Sjögren\'s syndrome enrollment criteria:

  1. Meet the 2002 European and American Consensus Group (AECG) standards or the 2016 ACR/EULAR Primary Sjögren\'s Syndrome (pSS) classification criteria;
  2. positive anti-SSA/Ro-60 antibody;
  3. Definition of disease activity: EULAR Sjögren\'s Syndrome Disease Activity Index (ESSDAI) score ≥ 5;
  4. Definition of recurrence/refractory: Conventional treatment that remains ineffective for more than 6 months, or disease recurrence after remission. Conventional treatment is defined as the use of glucocorticoids (>1 mg/kg/day) and cyclophosphamide, as well as any one or more of the following immunomodulatory drugs: antimalarials, azathioprine, mycophenolate mofetil, methotrexate, leflunomide, tacrolimus, cyclosporine, and biologics including belimumab, rituximab, and tocilizumab.

Antiphospholipid syndrome enrollment criteria:

  1. Primary antiphospholipid syndrome meeting the 2006 Sydney criteria;
  2. Medium to high titer phospholipid antibody (aPL) positive: lupus anticoagulant (LA), IgG or IgM anti-β2 glycoprotein 1 antibody (anti-β2-GP1) or anticardiolipin antibody (aCL), at least 2 or more times positive, with an interval of more than 12 weeks;
  3. A or B needs to be met:

A. Definition of refractory/relapsed: recurrent thrombosis with standard therapy with warfarin or other vitamin K antagonist coagulation (INR maintained within the range required for treatment), or standard therapeutic dose low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) with glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide; B. Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome requires the following four criteria: (1) involvement of ≥ 3 organs, systems, and/or tissues (vascular embolism requires radiographic evidence, renal involvement requires a >50% increase in creatinine, blood pressure > 180/100 mmHg, and/or urine protein >0.5 g/24 hours); (2) all clinical manifestations appear simultaneously or sequentially within 1 week; (3) Pathological basis for the presence of small vessel occlusion in at least one organ or tissue (evidence of vascular embolism is required for pathological diagnosis, occasionally complicated by vasculitic manifestations); (4) Positive aPL antibody.

Common Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Combined with other connective tissue diseases;
  2. Involvement of important organs: heart (individuals with more severe heart disease, such as angina, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and arrhythmias), kidney (eGFR \< 15 ml/min/1.73m2), liver (ALT>3×ULN, AST>3×ULN, TBIL >1.5×ULN), lung (FVC\<50% predicted or hemoglobin-corrected DLCO\<40% predicted), hematologic (leukocyte \< 2.5×109/L, neutrophil count \<1.0×109/L, HGB\<60g/L), etc.;
  3. Abnormal hepatitis B or hepatitis C test indicating active infection or chronic infection, including positive HBsAg or HBcAb test and positive hepatitis C antibody;
  4. Have active tuberculosis or latent tuberculosis;
  5. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) serology positivity or known history of HIV infection;
  6. Presence of any known serious active infection (including bacterial, viral, fungal, etc.), including those requiring hospitalization or intravenous antibiotic therapy within 4 weeks prior to screening and oral antibiotic therapy within 2 weeks prior to screening; Those who have various chronic infections and are currently receiving corresponding treatment, such as pneumocystosis, cytomegalovirus, herpes zoster, atypical mycobacteria, etc.;
  7. Patients with primary or secondary immunodeficiency;
  8. IgA deficiency (\<10 mg/dL) or IgG deficiency (\<400 mg/dL);
  9. Receiving other investigational drug treatment or participating in any other drug trial within 3 months before screening;
  10. History of documented and confirmed malignancy within 5 years prior to screening, with the exception of basal cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ of the cervix that has been appropriately treated or resected;
  11. Patients who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning a recent pregnancy, or who are unwilling to use a reliable contraceptive method of contraception for the duration of the study;
  12. Those who have been allergic to human or murine proteins and monoclonal antibodies in the past;
  13. Received live vaccine or live attenuated vaccine within 4 weeks prior to randomization;
  14. Patients who are not expected to comply with the requirements of the protocol or are not expected to complete the trial as planned (such as those with psychiatric disorders, history of alcoholism, drug or other substance abuse);
  15. Other conditions that the investigator considers the patient not suitable to enter the trial.

Systemic Sclerosis Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Localized cutaneous SSc;
  2. the duration of the disease is greater than 5 years (defined as the onset of the first non-RP symptom);
  3. SSc-like syndrome related to environmental factors, such as vinyl chloride, bleomycin, etc.;
  4. Any history of scleroderma renal crisis;
  5. intermediate- and high-risk pulmonary hypertension;
  6. Active antral vasodilation.

Idiopathic Inflammatory myopathy exclusion criteria:

  1. drug-induced myopathy;
  2. inclusion body myositis;
  3. Tumor-associated myositis (myositis occurring within 2 years of diagnosis of tumor).

ANCA-associated vasculitis exclusion criteria:

  1. alveolar hemorrhage, requiring invasive lung ventilation, which is expected to last longer than the screening time;
  2. Need for dialysis or plasmapheresis during screening;
  3. Have undergone a kidney transplant.

Sjögren\'s syndrome exclusion criteria:

  1. Combined with liver cirrhosis;
  2. Combined with aplastic anemia (AA), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or other myeloproliferative disorders (MPD);
  3. drug-induced thrombocytopenia;
  4. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)/microthrombotic vascular disease (TMA).

Antiphospholipid syndrome exclusion criteria:

  1. Obstetric APS;
  2. APS incorporates other CTDs;
  3. APS involves the nervous system.
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Participant Group

    Anti-CD19 IL-10/IL15 CAR-NK

    Drug: Anti-CD19 IL-10/IL15 CAR-NK

Interventions

  • DrugAnti-CD19 IL-10/IL15 CAR-NK

    Patients will receive Fludarabine and Cyclophosphamide for conditioning. Multiple doses of Anti-CD19 IL-10/IL15 CAR-NK cells will be infused on Day 0, 3, and 6.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The proportion of subjects with DLT

    DLT definition is dose-limiting toxicity.

    Time frame: Within 28 days after anti-CD19 CAR-NK cells infusion

  2. The proportion of subjects with adverse events

    Incidence and severity of AEs and SAEs, including changes in laboratory values, ECG and vital signs as assessed by CTCAE v5.0.

    Time frame: 12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes in SLEDAI-2K scores and the proportions of patients achieving SRI-4 response, DORIS remission, and LLDAS in systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. changes of mRSS score for systemic sclerosis

    Time frame: 48 weeks

  3. definition of improvement by IMACS for IIM

    Time frame: 48 weeks

  4. STAR score for sjogren&#39;s syndrome

    Time frame: 48 weeks

  5. BVAS for AAV

    Time frame: 48 weeks

  6. Thrombosis/death for APS

    Time frame: 48 weeks

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • the second affiliated hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine
    Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310005, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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 Dec 29, 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
NCT06614270
Lead sponsor
Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 26, 2024
Start date
Jan 6, 2025
Primary completion
Jan 6, 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 6, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 29, 2025

Study contacts

Jing Xue, MD.,
Contact
jingxue@zju.edu.cn
+86-13758121751

Oversight

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