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RecruitingNCT06625190Updated Jun 30, 2026

Alpha/Beta T and B Cell Depletion With Zoledronic Acid for Solid Tumors

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy ® system and Zoledronic acid in Neuroblastoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma and Synovial Sarcoma, sponsored by University of Florida. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 25 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-30.

Sponsored by University of Florida · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Feb 2026; still recruiting 9 months later.
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
27
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
6 Months to 25 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation can cure patients with blood cancer and other underlying diseases. αβ-T cell and B cell depletion has been introduced to decrease GVHD and PTLD and has demonstrated effectiveness for hematologic malignancies and non-malignant diseases additionally increasing the donor pool as to allow for haploidentical transplant to safely occur.

While solid tumors can be highly chemotherapy sensitive, many remain resistant and require multimodalities of treatment. Immunotherapy has been developed to harness the immune system in fighting solid tumors, though not all have targeted effects. Some solid tumors are treated with autologous transplants; however, they do not always demonstrate an improved event free survival or overall survival. There has been evidence of the use of allogeneic stem cell transplants to provide a graft versus tumor effect, though studies remain limited.

By utilizing αβ-T cell and B cell depletion for stem cell transplants and combining with zoledronic acid, the immune system may potentially be harnessed and enhanced to provide an improved graft versus tumor effect in relapsed/refractory solid tumors and promote an improved event-free survival and overall survival.

This study will investigate the safety of treatment with a stem cell graft depleted of αβ-T cell and CD19+ B cells in combination with zoledronic acid in pediatric and young adult patients with select solid tumors, as well as whether this treatment improves survival rates in these patients.

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Conditions studied

  • Neuroblastoma
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Synovial Sarcoma
  • Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
  • Clear Cell Sarcoma
  • Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma
  • Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor
  • Chordoma
  • Rhabdoid Tumor
  • Epithelioid Sarcoma
  • Myoepithelial Tumor
  • Osteosarcoma
  • Ewing Sarcoma
  • Wilms Tumor

Keywords

  • pediatric solid tumors
  • stem cell transplantation
  • graft manipulation
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In context

Neuroblastoma

675 studies on the registry are indexed under Neuroblastoma; 127 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 27 is below the median of 32 across 507 interventional studies indexed under Neuroblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

University of Florida is the lead sponsor of 1,287 studies on the registry; 199 are open to participants now.

Of its 180 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 143 (79%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
6 Months to 25 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patients 6 months to ≤ 25 years old
  • Solid Tumor whom failed or deemed ineligible to receive transplant or if autologous transplant did not offer >20% chance of cure with the following diseases:

    1. neuroblastoma (high risk with relapsed or refractory disease),
    2. relapsed/refractory rhabdomyosarcoma,
    3. relapsed/refractory non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma (NRSTS): synovial sarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST),
    4. High risk adult type NRSTS: clear cell sarcoma, alveolar soft part sarcoma,
    5. Other high-risk extracranial solid tumors: desmoplastic small round cell tumors, chordoma, malignant rhabdoid tumor, epithelioid sarcoma, myoepithelial tumor
    6. relapsed/refractory bone tumors: osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma/PNET, or
    7. Wilm's tumor or other high-risk solid tumors with \<10% expected survival with conventional treatment.
  • Subjects must not have more than one active at the time of enrollment. (Subjects with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the regimen [as determined by the treating physician and approved by the PI] may be included.)
  • Haplo-identical related donor (at least one full haplotype must be matched).
  • or Lansky score ≥60% at the time of enrollment. Karnofsky scores must be used for patients >16 years of age and Lansky scores for patients ≤16 years of age
  • Adequate organ function (within 4 weeks of initiation of preparative regimen), defined as:

    1. Pulmonary: , FVC, and corrected DLCO must all be ≥ 50% of predicted by pulmonary function tests (PFTs). For children who are unable to perform for PFTs due to age, the criteria are: no evidence of dyspnea at rest and no need for supplemental oxygen.
    2. Renal: or radioisotope ≥60 mL/min/1.73 m2 or a serum creatinine based on age/gender
    3. Cardiac: of ≥ 40% by echocardiogram or radionuclide scan (MUGA).
  • Written obtained from the subject and the subject agrees to comply with all the study-related procedures
  • Individuals of (IOCBP) must be using an adequate method of to avoid pregnancy throughout the study and for one year following transplantation to minimize the risk of pregnancy. Prior to study enrollment, individuals of childbearing potential must be advised of the importance of avoiding pregnancy during trial participation and the potential risk factor for an unintentional pregnancy.
  • Subjects with female partners of child-bearing potential must agree to use physician-approved contraceptive methods (e.g., abstinence, condoms, vasectomy) throughout the study and should avoid conceiving children for one year following stem cell transplantation.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with documented uncontrolled infection at the time of study entry are not eligible.

    a. Uncontrolled infection is patient without treatment antimicrobials and/or demonstrating progression despite antimicrobials

  • Patients with progressive solid tumor disease after treatment.
  • Demonstrated lack of compliance with medical care, as determined by the treating physician.
  • Patients who have received an HSCT within 6 months.
  • Patients who do not have an eligible allogeneic donor available.
  • Patients with a \<3 months
  • Patients not meeting inclusion criteria for organ function.
  • Females or males of who are unwilling or unable to use an acceptable method to avoid pregnancy for the entire study period and for at least one year after transplantation.
  • Females who are known to be pregnant or breastfeeding.
  • History of any other disease, metabolic dysfunction, clinical examination finding, or clinical laboratory finding giving reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that contraindicates the use of protocol therapy or that might affect the interpretation of the results of the study or that puts the subject at high risk for treatment complications, in the opinion of the treating physician.
  • Prisoners or subjects who are involuntarily incarcerated, or subjects who are compulsorily detained for treatment of either a psychiatric or physical illness.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(13)

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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.

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.

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.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

FEV1

From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
27 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    alpha/beta T cell and CD19+ B cell depleted stem cell graft with zoledronic acid

    Device: Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy ® system · Drug: Zoledronic acid

Interventions

  • DeviceMiltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy ® system

    Subjects will receive an allogeneic stem cell transplant that has been depleted of ⍺/β T-cells and CD19+ B-cells using the Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy® system.

  • All subjects will receive zoledronic acid intravenously on days +28, +56, +84, +112, and +140. Dosing in the phase Ib portion of the study will follow a 3 + 3 design where the first 3 subjects will receive the expected phase II dose of 1.25 mg/m2 (dose level 1). If no dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) occur in these subjects, dose level 1 will be the maximum tolerated dose. However, if at least 1 DLT is observed in the first 3 patients, 3 additional subjects will be enrolled at dose level 1. If more than 2 DLTs are observed in these 6 subjects, then dose de-escalation to 0.8 mg/m2 (dose level 0) will occur and 3-6 additional subjects may be enrolled. All subjects in the phase II portion of the study will receive the maximum tolerated dose determined in the phase Ib portion.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Disease-free survival rate

    Determine the disease-free survival rate at 1 year post-transplant

    Time frame: 1 year post-transplant

  2. Incidence of aGVHD

    Determine the incidence of grade II-IV acute graft versus host disease (aGVHD)

    Time frame: 2 years post-transplant

Secondary outcomes

  1. Disease-free survival rate

    Determine the disease-free survival rate at 100 days post-transplant

    Time frame: 100 days post-transplant

  2. Disease-free survival rate

    Determine the disease-free survival rate at 2 years post-transplant

    Time frame: 2 years post-transplant

  3. Overall survival rate

    Determine the overall survival rate at 100 days post-transplant

    Time frame: 100 days post-transplant

  4. Overall survival rate

    Determine the overall survival rate at 1 year post-transplant

    Time frame: 1 year post-transplant

  5. Overall survival rate

    Determine the overall survival rate at 2 years post-transplant

    Time frame: 2 years post-transplant

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 30, 2026, 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
NCT06625190
Collaborators
Ocala Royal Dames for Cancer Research, Florida Department of Health
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 3, 2024
Start date
Feb 11, 2026
Primary completion
Feb 2030 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 30, 2026

Study contacts

Giselle Moore-Higgs, PhD, APRN
Contact
mooregj@ufl.edu
352-273-9050
Jordan Milner, MD
principal investigator · University of Florida

Oversight

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