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RecruitingNCT07284641CVID/PIRDUpdated May 15, 2026

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) for Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) and Other Autoimmune Manifestations of Primary Immune Regulatory Disorders (PIRD)

A Phase 2 interventional study of Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) in Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID), Primary Immune Regulatory Disorder and Immune Dysregulation, sponsored by Paul Szabolcs. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 5 Years to 40 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-15.

Sponsored by Paul Szabolcs · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started May 2026; still recruiting 6 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
25
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
5 Years to 40 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a research protocol that will examine Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) using a reduced conditioning regimen (RIC) with total body Irradiation (TBI) in those diagnosed with Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) and Other Autoimmune Manifestations of Primary Immune Regulatory Disorders (PIRD).

Read the detailed description

Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) with reduced-intensity conditioning has been demonstrated as the best definitive therapy to correct many of these inheritable immune defects (Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) and Other Autoimmune Manifestations of Primary Immune Regulatory Disorders (PIRD). This is a single center, open label, non-randomized, Phase II study in which subjects receive an allogenic, fully (8 of 8 match) or partially Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-matched (6-7/8 HLA-matched), stem cell transplant utilizing a conditioning regimen of alemtuzumab/Campath, anti-thymocyte globulin/rabbit (ATG), Fludarabine and Melphalan and Total Body Irradiation (TBI). Graft sources include bone marrow or mobilized peripheral blood stem cells from either a related or unrelated donor. After stem cell infusion, subjects are followed for 2 years per standard of care practices.

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Conditions studied

  • Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)
  • Primary Immune Regulatory Disorder
  • Immune Dysregulation
  • DiGeorge Syndrome
  • STAT 1 Gain of Function
  • STAT 3 Gain of Function
  • Hypomorphic RAG1 Deficiency
  • CD40 Ligand Deficiency
  • Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Disease
  • GATA2 Associated Immunodeficiency
  • CD40 Deficiency
  • Hypomorphic RAG2 Deficiency
  • Immune Dysregulation Polyendocrinopathy Enteropathy X-Linked Syndrome
  • Omenn Syndrome
  • Chronic Granulomatous Disease

Keywords

  • HSCT
  • CVID
  • PIRD
  • primary immune regulatory disorder
  • common variable immunodeficiency
  • IPEX like syndromes
  • Immune dysregulation
  • polyendocrinopathy
  • enteropathy
  • X-linked (IPEX syndrome)
  • DiGeorge Syndrome
  • Combined Immunodeficiency
  • Chronic Granulomatous Disease
  • STAT 1 Gain of Function
  • STAT 3 Gain of Function
  • Hypomorphic RAG 1 and RAG 2
  • CD40 or CD40L deficiency
  • Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Disease
  • GATA2 Associated Immunodeficiency
  • Inflamed Cartilage Syndrome (MAGIC)
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In context

Common Variable Immunodeficiency

54 studies on the registry are indexed under Common Variable Immunodeficiency; 13 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 25 is below the median of 40 across 39 interventional studies indexed under Common Variable Immunodeficiency.

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Lead sponsor

Paul Szabolcs is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; 9 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
5 Years to 40 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

  1. Patient, parent, or legal guardian must have given written . For pediatric subjects who are developmentally able, assent or affirmation will be obtained.
  2. Male or female, 5 through 40 years old, inclusive, at the time of informed consent.
  3. Patients must have evidence of common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) or other manifestation of a primary immune regulatory disorder (PIRD). Genetic screening is required by a targeting gene panel to determine presence of genetic variations that may lead to inborn errors of immunity.

    Examples of such diseases include, but are not limited to:

    • Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID)
    • Combined Immunodeficiency (CID)
    • Immune dysregulation polyendocrinopathy enteropathy X-linked (IPEX syndrome), IPEX like syndromes
    • Combined immunodeficiency with defects in T-cell-mediated immunity, including Omenn syndrome and DiGeorge Syndrome
    • Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD)
    • Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (STAT 1) Gain of Function (STAT1 GOF)
    • Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (STAT 3) Gain of Function (STAT3 GOF)
    • Hypomorphic Recombination-Activating Genes (RAG) 1 and RAG 2
    • 0 or CD40L deficiency
    • Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Disease
    • GATA-binding factor 2 (GATA2) Associated Immunodeficiency
    • Mouth and Genital Ulcers with Inflamed Cartilage Syndrome (MAGIC)
  4. Must have previously failed, due to lack of response or intolerance, mycophenolate mofetil and a B cell-depleting antibody, such as Rituximab
  5. (GFR) ≥50 mL/min/1.73 m2
  6. (AST) ≤4x
  7. Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) ≤4x upper limit of normal
  8. Direct ≤ 2.5 mg/dL
  9. (HIV) negative by serology and PCR
  10. Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV) negative by serology
  11. Cardiac ≥ 40% or shortening fraction ≥26%
  12. Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) and (FEV1) ≥40% predicted for age
  13. Peripheral Capillary Oxygen Saturation (SpO2) of >92% at rest on room air
  14. Subjects must be a minimum of 8 weeks post-solid organ transplant prior to start of conditioning, if applicable
  15. Negative pregnancy test for females >10 years old or who have reached menarche, unless surgically sterilized.
  16. All females of and sexually active males must agree to use a FDA approved method of for up to 12 months after stem cell transplant or for as long as they are taking any medication that may harm a pregnancy, an unborn child or may cause birth defects.
  17. Subject and/or parent guardian informed of the potential risks of infertility following stem cell transplant and advised to discuss sperm banking or oocyte harvesting.
  18. Transplant endorsement from clinical immunologist

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Allergy to Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) or any other ingredient used in the manufacturing of the stem cell product
  2. Uncontrolled systemic infection, as determined by the appropriate confirmatory testing e.g. blood cultures, Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, etc.
  3. Recent recipient of any licensed or (s) within 4 weeks of stem cell transplant
  4. Past or current medical problems or findings from physical examination or laboratory testing that are not listed above, which, in the opinion of the investigator, may pose additional risks from participation in the study, may interfere with the subject's ability to comply with study requirements or that may impact the quality or interpretation of the data obtained from the study.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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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.

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.

CD4 count

The number of CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, in a given amount of blood. It is used to follow how well the immune system is doing in HIV.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
25 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Other
    Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT)

    The participant will receive an allogenic, fully (8 of 8 match) or partially HLA-matched (6-7/8 HLA-matched), stem cell transplant utilizing a conditioning regimen of alemtuzumab/Campath, anti-thymocyte globulin/rabbit ATG, Fludarabine and Melphalan and total body irradiation

    Biological: Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT)

Interventions

  • BiologicalHematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT)

    The participant will receive an allogenic, fully (8 of 8 match) or partially HLA-matched (6-7/8 HLA-matched), stem cell transplant utilizing a conditioning regimen of alemtuzumab/Campath, anti-thymocyte globulin/rabbit ATG, Fludarabine and Melphalan and total body irradiation.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Survival post-HSCT

    review of the existing medical records to check on the participant's survival status

    Time frame: 2 years post transplant

Secondary outcomes

  1. engraftment, based upon chimerism data

    review of chimerism test results in the existing medical records to check on degree of donor engraftment measured by the percentage of donor-derived blood cells in the HSCT recipient

    Time frame: 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months

  2. Assess myeloid, B and T cell chimerism

    review test results from medical records to check how donor and recipient cells populate different immune lineages post-transplant

    Time frame: up to 2 years post translant

  3. Assess Immunoglobulin A (IgA), Immunoglobulin (IgM), and Immunoglobulin E (IgE) reconstitution

    review of the existing medical records to check on the participant's humoral immune recovery.

    Time frame: up to 2 years post transplant

  4. independence of immunoglobulin replacement (IVIG, IgG)

    Determine and probability

    Time frame: 1 and 2 year post transplant

  5. incidence of acute graft versus host disease (GVHD)

    grades 3-4

    Time frame: 6 months post transplant

  6. chronic graft-versus-host-disease

    grades 3-4

    Time frame: 1 year post transplant

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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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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started May 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for May 2030, 48 months after the start.

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

Registered
Dec 8, 2025
First posted
Dec 16, 2025
StartActual
May 4, 2026
Primary completionEst.
May 4, 2030
CompletionEst.
Feb 1, 2031
Last update
May 15, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 15, 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
NCT07284641
Lead sponsor
Paul Szabolcs
Responsible party
Paul Szabolcs (Professor, University of Pittsburgh) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Dec 16, 2025
Start date
May 4, 2026
Primary completion
May 4, 2030 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 1, 2031 (estimated)
Last update
May 15, 2026

Study contacts

Shawna A McIntyre, RN
Contact
mcintyresm@upmc.edu
1-412-692-5552
Paul Szabolcs, MD
principal investigator · UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Oversight

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