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Anti-Mesothelin TNaive/SCM hYP218 (TNhYP218) CAR T Cells in Participants With Mesothelin-Expressing Solid Tumors Including Mesothelioma

A Phase 1 interventional study of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine in Mesothelioma, Neoplasms and Stomach Neoplasms, sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI). Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 120 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-05.

Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jul 2025; still recruiting 1 year 4 months later.
Updated Oct 2, 2026Enrollment updatedEligibility revisedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
120
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 120 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Background:

Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer that grows in the linings of the body; this can include the membranes that line the heart, lungs, and internal organs. Mesothelin (MSLN) is a protein that appears in high numbers in many tumors, including mesothelioma. Researchers are developing a new treatment that collects a person s own immune cells (T cells); the T cells are genetically modified to target and kill tumor cells with high levels of MSLN.

Objective:

To test a new treatment (TNhYP218 CAR T cells) in people with solid tumors including mesothelioma.

Eligibility:

People aged 18 and older with solid tumors including mesothelioma that returned or spread after standard treatment.

Design:

Participants will be screened. A small piece of tissue will be cut from a tumor (biopsy). The sample will be tested to see if it has enough MSLN.

Participants will undergo leukapheresis: Blood will be taken from their body through a vein. The blood will pass through a machine that separates out the T cells. The remaining blood will be returned to the body through a different vein.

Participant s T cells will be modified in a lab to produce TNhYP218 CAR T cells.

Participants will enter the hospital. For 7 days, they will receive drugs to prepare their bodies for the study treatment.

TNhYP218 CAR T cells will be administered into a vein. Participants will remain in the hospital for at least 7 more days.

After discharge, participants will have follow-up visits for 5 years. These visits may include imaging scans, blood and heart tests, and a new biopsy.

Long-term follow-up will continue another 10 years....

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Background:

  • Mesothelin (MSLN), a cell surface glycoprotein, normally expressed on the mesothelial cells lining the pleura, peritoneum, and pericardium, is highly expressed in many cancers including mesothelioma, ovarian, lung, thymic, colorectal, pancreatic, and gastric cancers, making it an attractive target for immunotherapy.
  • Adoptive cell therapy using CAR T cells exploits the ability of these modified T cells to recognize and kill their target. Several mesothelin directed CAR T cell therapies have been evaluated in clinical trials, but thus far have not resulted in significant anti-tumor efficacy.
  • Many antibodies used to make anti-mesothelin CAR T cells bind to the immunogenic distal region of mesothelin, away from the cell membrane.
  • hYP218 CAR T cells target membrane-proximal region of mesothelin and in pre-clinical studies have shown increased tumor killing and persistence compared to CAR T cells binding to membrane distal region of mesothelin.
  • Naive/SCM T cells have stem cell like properties and have increased persistence and decreased exhaustion in tumors.
  • We hypothesize that TNaive/SCM anti-mesothelin, TNhYP218 CAR T cells will have enhanced anti-tumor activity and increased persistence in participants with mesothelioma and other mesothelin expressing cancers.

Objectives:

  • Part 1- Dose escalation: Establish the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of TNhYP218 CAR T cells based on dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) of defined adverse events (AEs).
  • Part 2- Dose expansion: Determine the preliminary objective response rate of TNhYP218 CAR T cells in a limited number of participants with mesothelioma treated at the RP2D.

Eligibility:

  • Age 18 or older
  • Must have unresectable, histologically confirmed, recurrent, locally advanced, or metastatic mesothelioma, and other mesothelin expressing solid tumors.
  • Tumor must be positive for mesothelin in more than half of the cancer cells.
  • Participants must have an ECOG performance status of 0 or 1.
  • Participants must have adequate organ function.

Design:

  • Phase 1 dose-escalation study of TNhYP218 CAR T cells, with a small expansion cohort.
  • Participants will undergo leukapheresis for cell manufacture, followed by lymphodepletion with chemotherapeutic drugs, followed by infusion of TNhYP218 CAR T cells.
  • Participants will be followed for safety for up to 15 years per FDA requirement.
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Conditions studied

  • Mesothelioma
  • Neoplasms
  • Stomach Neoplasms
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms
  • Ovarian Neoplasms
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Thymus Neoplasms
  • Colonic Neoplasms

Keywords

  • Peritoneal Mesothelioma
  • Thymic Carcinoma
  • Colon Cancer
  • Gastric Cancer
  • Lung Cancer
  • Ovarian Cancer
  • Pancreatic Cancer
  • mesothelin expressing solid tumors
  • CAR T cell therapy
  • Gene Therapy
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In context

Mesothelioma

305 studies on the registry are indexed under Mesothelioma; 61 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 120 is above the median of 48 across 250 interventional studies indexed under Mesothelioma.

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Lead sponsor

National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the lead sponsor of 3,556 studies on the registry; 336 are open to participants now.

Of its 411 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 373 (91%) have results posted.

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

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Who can participate

The criteria were revised on the registry on Oct 2, 2026. See what changed

Ages eligible
18 Years to 120 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria. For this protocol, treatment initiation is defined as the first day of lymphodepleting chemotherapy.

  • Participant must have unresectable, locally advanced, or , or recurrent mesothelioma and other mesothelin expressing solid tumors. For participants with mesothelioma only those with epithelioid or biphasic histology (with >80% epithelioid component) will be eligible. The diagnosis will be confirmed by the Laboratory of Pathology, CCR, NCI.
  • Participant must have progressed on at least one FDA-approved systemic therapy considered standard of care for their tumor type. There is no limit on the number of prior treatment regimens. Note: Given the aggressive nature of pancreatic cancer, otherwise eligible individuals with this cancer type can undergo leukapheresis before or while they are getting their frontline treatment as long as they meet all other inclusion criteria. However, TNhYP218 CAR T cells will only be administered after progression on standard of care therapy.
  • Participant must have at least 1 by version 1.1.
  • Tumor must have MSLN positivity of 2+ to 3+ in >= 50% cancer cells by immunohistochemistry on freshly collected or archival tissue.
  • Age >= 18 years.
  • (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.
  • Participants must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:

System: Laboratory Value

Hematological

  • : >=9 g/dL(a)
  • : >=1,500/mcL
  • : >=100,000/mcL

Hepatic

  • total : \<=2.5 X institutional OR direct bilirubin \<= ULN for participants with total bilirubin levels >1.5 X ULN
  • and ALT \<= 2.5 X institutional ULN (\<= 5 X ULN for participants with liver metastases)

Renal

  • Creatinine OR: \<=1.5 X ULN OR
  • Calculated(b) ( can also be used in place of creatinine or CrCl) >= 50 mL/min for participant with creatinine levels > 1.5 X institutional ULN

Coagulation

  • (INR) OR prothrombin time (PT): \<=1.5 X ULN unless participant is receiving anticoagulant therapy if PT or aPTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants
  • Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT): \<=1.5 X ULN unless participant is receiving anticoagulant therapy if PT or aPTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants

ALT (SGPT)=alanine aminotransferase (serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase); AST (SGOT)=aspartate aminotransferase (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase); GFR=glomerular filtration rate; ULN=upper limit of normal.

  1. Criteria must be met without erythropoietin dependency and without packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusion within last 7 days.
  2. Creatinine clearance (CrCl) should be calculated per institutional standard.

    • Normal cardiac (>= 45% by echocardiogram) and no evidence of hemodynamically significant pericardial effusion as determined by an echocardiogram.
    • Room air oxygen saturation of 90% or greater.
    • Treatment-related toxicities from prior treatments must be resolved to \<= grade 2.
    • Participants with , or carcinomatous meningitis are eligible if they are asymptomatic, have completed their treatment for CNS disease and have recovered from the acute effects of radiation therapy or surgery prior to study entry. Participants must have radiographically stable CNS disease without associated edema at least three months prior to study entry. Additionally, participants have had to have discontinued treatment or non-prophylactic antiseizure medications for these metastases at least four weeks prior to study entry.
    • Participants of and participants who can father children must agree to use highly effective or abstinence.
    • Participants who are nursing or plan to nurse a child must agree to discontinue/postpone nursing for the duration of study therapy and for 12 months after the administration of the cell product or for 4 months from the time no evidence of persistence/gene modified cells is documented in the participant s blood.
    • Ability of participant to understand and the willingness to sign a written document.

Exclusion criteria

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

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

  • Prior systemic therapy, an therapy, radiation, and/or surgery within 14 days prior to leukapheresis and 21 days prior to lymphodepleting chemotherapy.
  • Prior administration of or anti-PD-L1 antibodies or other agents that in the opinion of the PI can stimulate immune activity and interfere with an infusion of CAR-T cells within 8 weeks prior to treatment initiation.
  • Participants with any form of primary immunodeficiency (e.g. severe combined immunodeficiency).
  • Participants with active or history of or immune mediated disease such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, or small vessel vasculitis. NOTE: Participants with vitiligo, endocrine deficiencies including thyroiditis managed with replacement hormones including physiologic are eligible.
  • History of severe immediate reaction to cyclophosphamide or fludarabine.
  • Therapeutic doses of systemic corticosteroid therapy within 14 days prior to treatment initiation. Physiological doses of steroids (up to 5mg/day of prednisolone or equivalent) are allowed. Corticosteroid creams, ointments, and eye drops are allowed.
  • Participants with lung fibrosis, inflammatory lung disease or evidence of pneumonitis on baseline imaging studies or medical history of these disorders.
  • Participant has any other prior or concurrent with the following exceptions:

    • Adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma
    • In situ carcinoma of the cervix or breast, treated curatively and without evidence of recurrence for at least 12 months prior to initiation of study therapy.
    • Treated non-melanoma skin cancer.
    • Stage 0 or 1 melanoma completely resected at least 12 months prior to initiation of study therapy.
    • Successfully treated organ-confined prostate cancer with no evidence of progressive disease based on PSA levels and are not on active therapy.
    • A primary malignancy which has been completely resected and in complete remission for >= 5 years.
  • showing a > 450 msec in males and > 470 msec in females (> 80 msec for participants with bundle branch block). Either Fridericia s or Bazett s formula may be used to correct the QT interval.
  • Participant has active infection with , virus, , or HTLV as defined below:

    • Positive serology for HIV, HTLV-1, or HTLV-2.
    • Active hepatitis B infection as demonstrated by test for hepatitis B surface antigen. Participants who are hepatitis B surface antigen negative but are hepatitis B core antibody positive must have undetectable hepatitis B DNA and receive prophylaxis against viral reactivation.
    • Active hepatitis C infection as demonstrated by hepatitis C RNA test. Participants who are HCV antibody positive will be screened for HCV RNA by any reverse transcription PCR or branched DNA assay. If HCV antibody is positive, eligibility will be determined based on a negative screening RNA value.
  • Participant is pregnant or intends to be pregnant during the required period of for participants of .
  • Participants who received live or attenuated vaccine or virus-based vaccine within 30 days before initiation of treatment initiation
  • Participants with a history of seizure disorder unless due to now treated lesions.
  • Ongoing uncontrolled intercurrent illness, including but not limited to ongoing or active infection, that would impact participant safety or limit compliance with study requirements.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(32)

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.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

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.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

Leptomeningeal disease

Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.

Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

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.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

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.

ECG (electrocardiogram)

A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
120 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    1/Dose Escalation

    Participants with mesothelin expressing tumors will undergo lymphodepletion and will receive TNhYP218 CAR T cells at escalating doses

    Drug: cyclophosphamide · Drug: fludarabine · Biological: TNhYP218 CAR T Cells · Device: mesothelin expression testing

  • Experimental
    2/Dose Expansion

    Participants with mesothelioma will undergo lymphodepletion and will receive TNhYP218 CAR T cells at the RP2D determined in Arm 1

    Drug: cyclophosphamide · Drug: fludarabine · Biological: TNhYP218 CAR T Cells · Device: mesothelin expression testing

Interventions

  • 600 mg/m\^2 IV infusion. Daily x 3 doses on Day -6, -5, -4

  • 30 mg/m\^2 IV infusion administered followed by cyclophosphamide on days both are given. Daily x 4 doses on Day -7, -6, -5 and -4

  • BiologicalTNhYP218 CAR T Cells

    Variable doses, administered intravenously on Day 0

  • Devicemesothelin expression testing

    Assay done at screening to determine mesothelin expression levels

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Establish the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of TNhYP218 CAR T cells based on dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) of defined adverse events (AEs).

    The highest dose level below the maximum administered dose at which no more than 1 of 6 participants experience DLT from the initiation of CAR-T cell infusion (day 0) through day 28 after infusion (day 28).

    Time frame: DLT assessment will occur in participants in the dose escalation cohort daily on days 0-4, on day 7, on day 21 and during week 4.

  2. Determine the preliminary objective response rate of TNhYP218 CAR T cells in a limited number of participants with mesothelioma treated at the recommended phase 2 dose.

    The proportion of mesothelioma participants with partial response or complete response at the recommended phase 2 dose.

    Time frame: assessed based on imaging studies at weeks 4, 8, 12 then every 12 weeks through disease progression or week 108, whichever occurs first.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Near term safety of autologous genetically modified TNhYP218 CAR T cells in adult study participants with mesothelin expressing unresectable, metastatic, or recurrent mesothelioma and other mesothelin expressing solid tumors.

    The near-term safety of the study therapy will be evaluated by reporting the grade and type of toxicity at each dose level.

    Time frame: Assessments will occur daily during lymphodepletion, on day of cell infusion (D0), D10, D21, every 2 weeks from W4 to W8, then every 4 weeks through W 24 or disease progression.

  2. Long term safety of autologous genetically modified TNhYP218 CAR T cells in adult study participants with mesothelin expressing unresectable, metastatic, or recurrent mesothelioma and other mesothelin expressing solid tumors.

    The long-term safety will be assessed by the presence of RCL as well as clinical assessments.

    Time frame: Monitored at baseline, weeks 4, 12, 24 and 48 after cell infusion and annually thereafter for up to 15 years if positive during year 1 or warranted based on clinical history collected annually during15 year follow-up.

  3. Determine the objective response rate of TNhYP218 CAR T cells in participants with mesothelin expressing solid tumors treated at doses other than the RP2D

    The proportion of participants with partial response or complete response at doses other than the recommended phase 2 dose.

    Time frame: assessed based on imaging studies at weeks 4, 8, 12 then every 12 weeks through disease progression or week 108, whichever occurs first.

  4. Determine progression free survival in participants with mesothelin expressing solid tumors

    The duration of time from start of treatment (lymphodepletion) to time of progression or death, whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: Assessed based on imaging studies at weeks 4, 8, 12 then every 12 weeks through disease progression or week 108, whichever occurs first.

  5. Determine duration of response in participants with mesothelin expressing solid tumors

    The duration of overall response is measured from the time measurement criteria are met for CR or PR (whichever is first recorded) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented (taking as reference for progressive disease the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started).

    Time frame: Assessed based on imaging studies at weeks 4, 8, 12 then every 12 weeks through disease progression or week 108, whichever occurs first.

  6. Determine overall survival in participants with mesothelin expressing solid tumors

    The duration of time from start of treatment (lymphodepletion) to time of death from any cause.

    Time frame: Assessed from physical exams performed on D10, D21, W4, W6, W8, then every 4 weeks through W 24, and with semiannual remote assessments following active follow up through year 5.

  7. Evaluate feasibility of manufacturing TNhYP218 CAR T cells from participants with mesothelin expressing solid tumors.

    The fraction of participants with cell products produced with Tna(SqrRoot) ve/scm cells

    Time frame: Assessed prior to cell infusion (Day 0).

  8. Assess the tolerability of lymphodepletion followed by TNhYP218 CAR T-cell infusion in participants with mesothelin expressing solid tumors

    -The fraction of participants able to receive all protocol therapy without treatment delay.-The fraction of participants able to receive cell product without interruption due to infusion related reactions.

    Time frame: Assessed through cell infusion (Day 0)

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
    Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Scholler J, Song A, Deshmukh M, Song D, Gabunia K, Ji M, Liu S, Fan TJ, Gulendran G, June CH, Siegel DL. Engineering a juxtamembrane-targeting CAR T-cell against mesothelin: a novel binder resilient to shed antigen for enhanced efficacy against ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Front Immunol. 2026 Jul 1;17:1805950. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1805950. eCollection 2026. PubMed 42459653 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — This study will comply with the NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy, which applies to all new and ongoing NIH-funded research in the IRP, as of January 25, 2023, that is associated with a ZIA, with a clinical protocol that undergoes scientific review and/or will involve genomic data sharing.

Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form

Time frame: Data will be made available as soon as possible or at the time of associated publication. Data not published in a manuscript will be shared via public source once the data set completes QC.

Access criteria: The scientific data will be findable by key words or MeSH terms used during publication of manuscripts.@@@@@@All scRNA seq data will be uploaded to dbGaP and accession numbers will be shared.

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Updates

4 registry updates since Sep 25, 2026
Enrollment
100→120
Oct 2, 2026
Eligibility
3 inclusion criteria edited
What changed in the criteria
Inclusion criteria
  • EditedHemoglobiHemoglobin: >=9 g/dL(a)
  • Editedtotal bilirubin: <=2.5 X institutional ULN OR direct bilirubin <= ULN for participants with total bilirubin levels >1.5 X ULN
  • EditedCriteria must be met without erythropoietin dependency and without packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusion within last 2 weeks7 days.
Oct 2, 2026
Publications
1 publication citing this study linked from PubMed, e.g. PubMed 42459653 ↗
Nov 5, 2026
Show all 4 updates
  1. Nov 5, 2026
    Publications 1 publication citing this study linked from PubMed, e.g. PubMed 42459653 ↗
    + 1 other change: verification date
  2. Oct 16, 2026
    Minor edits only
    + 1 other change: verification date
  3. Oct 6, 2026
    Minor edits only
    + 1 other change: verification date
  4. Oct 2, 2026
    Enrollment 100→120
    Eligibility 3 inclusion criteria edited
    What changed in the criteria
    Inclusion criteria
    • EditedHemoglobiHemoglobin: >=9 g/dL(a)
    • Editedtotal bilirubin: <=2.5 X institutional ULN OR direct bilirubin <= ULN for participants with total bilirubin levels >1.5 X ULN
    • EditedCriteria must be met without erythropoietin dependency and without packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusion within last 2 weeks7 days.

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06885697
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 20, 2025
Start date
Jul 8, 2025
Primary completion
Jun 1, 2034 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 1, 2044 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 5, 2026

Study contacts

Cathy I Wagner, R.N.
Contact
cathy.wagner@nih.gov
(240) 858-3159
Raffit Hassan, M.D.
Contact
rh276q@nih.gov
(240) 760-6232
Raffit Hassan, M.D.
principal investigator · National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
Yes
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