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Safety and Pharmacodynamics of QH103 Cell Injection in the Treatment of Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Antibody-Mediated Neurological Autoimmune Diseases.

A Phase 1 interventional study of Universal CD19 CAR-γδT Cell Injection and Cyclophosphamide in Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) and Autoimmune Encephalitis (AE), sponsored by Tongji Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-12.

Sponsored by Tongji Hospital · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Apr 2026; still recruiting 7 months later.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
6
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is an open-label, exploratory, prospective clinical trial with dose escalation(according to "3+3" design), to evaluate the safety and tolerability of QH103(Universal CD19 CAR-γδT Cell Injection)in the treatment of recurrent/refractory antibody-mediated neurological autoimmune diseases.

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Conditions studied

  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD)
  • Autoimmune Encephalitis (AE)
  • Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
  • Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
  • Anti-Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Immunoglobulin G Antibody-Associated Disease (MOGAD)
  • Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM)
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In context

Multiple Sclerosis

3,264 studies on the registry are indexed under Multiple Sclerosis; 659 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 6 is below the median of 50 across 2,201 interventional studies indexed under Multiple Sclerosis.

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Lead sponsor

Tongji Hospital is the lead sponsor of 386 studies on the registry; 209 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Common Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Aged 18-75 years (inclusive), any gender.
  2. Female subjects of and male subjects with partners of childbearing potential must use medically approved or practice abstinence during the study treatment period and for at least 6 months after the end of the study treatment. Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative serum HCG test within 7 days before study enrollment and must not be breastfeeding.
  3. The subject's expected survival, as judged by the investigator, is ≥12 weeks.
  4. Voluntarily participate in this trial and sign the form.

Disease-Specific Inclusion Criteria:

1、Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Clinically confirmed as progressive MS (including Primary Progressive PPMS or Secondary Progressive SPMS) or Relapsing-Remitting MS (RMS) according to the revised 2017 McDonald criteria. Disability status at screening must meet an EDSS score of 2-7 (inclusive) .For participants with RMS, despite standardized use of DMTs, they must have documented evidence meeting one of the following conditions prior to signing the informed consent:

  1. Two relapses were recorded within the first 2 years of screening;
  2. One recurrence was recorded within the first year prior to screening;
  3. Select the results of Gd-enhanced MRI scans that were positive within the previous year (if there is no record of a positive Gd-enhanced scan in the previous year, the results of the screening MRI scan can be used).

2、Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD): Participants with AQP4 antibody-positive NMOSD meeting the 2015 IPND NMOSD diagnostic criteria, and meeting one of the following:

  1. Treatment with at least one for over 1 year, or intolerance to immunosuppressant treatment, with suboptimal symptom control.
  2. At least 2 documented relapses within the last 12 months, or 3 documented relapses within the last 24 months with at least 1 relapse occurring within the 12 months prior to screening.

3、 Encephalitis (AE): Participants with a clinical diagnosis of Autoimmune Encephalitis based on the 2016 International Diagnostic Criteria, meeting all of the following requirements:

  1. Positive for at least one relevant autoantibody;
  2. Inadequate symptom control with or intolerance to previous standardized treatment with and at least one immunosuppressant/immunomodulator (including CD20 monoclonal antibody);
  3. An episode of autoimmune encephalitis within 3 months prior to signing the informed consent form;
  4. Disability status at screening meeting a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score ≥ 2 or a CASE score ≥ 4 .

4、Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP): Participants diagnosed with antibody-positive CIDP according to the 2021 EAN/PNS diagnostic criteria, with an INCAT Disability Scale total score between 2 and 9, and meeting one of the following:

  1. Inadequate symptom control despite standardized use of at least one therapy (corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulin, or plasma exchange) for over 3 months;
  2. Intolerance to corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulin, and plasma exchange due to side effects or other reasons.

5、Myasthenia Gravis (MG): Participants diagnosed with antibody-positive MGFA Class II-IV Myasthenia Gravis according to the 2020 MGFA diagnostic criteria, with a Myasthenia Gravis Activities of Daily Living (MG-ADL) profile (Appendix 6) total score ≥ 6, and meeting one of the following:

  1. Standardized treatment with at least one immunosuppressant for over 1 year, with one of the following indicating inadequate control: (1) persistent weakness affecting daily life, (2) worsening MG symptoms and/or crisis episodes despite standard treatment, or (3) intolerance to immunosuppressant therapy;
  2. Requiring maintenance therapy with plasma exchange or intravenous immunoglobulin.

6、Anti-Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Immunoglobulin G Antibody----- - Associated Disease (MOGAD): Participants with a clinical diagnosis of MOGAD based on the 2023 International MOGAD Diagnostic Criteria, meeting all of the following:

  1. Positive for MOG autoantibody via cell-based assay (CBA);
  2. Disability status at screening meeting a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score ≥ 2.
  3. Inadequate symptom control with or intolerance to previous standardized treatment with glucocorticoids and at least one immunosuppressant / immunomodulator (including CD20 monoclonal antibody).

7、Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM): Patients clinically diagnosed with , antibody-positive Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy (IIM) based on the 2017 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology/American College of Rheumatology (EULAR/ACR) classification criteria. At screening, at least one muscle enzyme (CK, , ALT, ALD, LDH) must be ≥1.5 times the (ULN); OR the Cutaneous Dermatomyositis Disease Area and Severity Index (CDASI) for dermatomyositis must be ≥6 (Appendix 7); OR there must be evidence of active myositis within the last 6 months from at least one of the following: MRI, electromyography, or muscle . The patient must test positive for at least one myositis-specific antibody (MSA), myositis-associated antibody (MAA), or antinuclear antibody (ANA). Additionally, they must meet one of the following criteria:

  1. Treatment with corticosteroids for at least 1 month, combined with standardized use of at least one immunosuppressant/immunomodulator (e.g., azathioprine, methotrexate, mycophenolate mofetil, cyclosporine, tacrolimus, cyclophosphamide, leflunomide, intravenous immunoglobulin, etc.) for over 3 months, resulting in inadequate symptom control.
  2. Intolerance to the aforementioned conventional treatment regimens due to side effects or other reasons.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. History of severe drug allergy or allergic diathesis.
  2. Presence of or suspected uncontrolled or treatment-requiring fungal, bacterial, viral, or other infections.
  3. Organ function that does not meet the following requirements (except for abnormalities caused by the autoimmune disease itself):

    1. Bone Marrow Function: White blood cell count ≥1×10⁹/L; ≥1×10⁹/L (no treatment with colony-stimulating factors within 2 weeks prior to the test); ≥60 g/L.
    2. Liver Function: ALT ≤3×ULN (except if elevated due to inflammatory myopathy); AST ≤3×ULN (except if elevated due to inflammatory myopathy); Indirect (IBIL) ≤1.5×ULN (except for Gilbert's syndrome); Total bilirubin ≤3.0×ULN.
    3. Renal Function: (CrCl) ≥30 mL/min ( ≥30 mL/min/1.73m²) (calculated by Cockcroft-Gault formula, except for acute decreases in CrCl due to the disease itself).
    4. Coagulation Function: (INR) ≤1.5×ULN; Prothrombin time (PT) ≤1.5×ULN.
    5. Cardiac Function: (LVEF) ≥55% and no cardiac disease.
  4. Subjects with a history indicative of congenital immunoglobulin deficiency.
  5. History of active/unresolved malignant tumors within the past 5 years.
  6. Subjects who are positive for surface antigen (HBsAg) or hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) with peripheral blood HBV DNA titer above the detection limit; positive for virus (HCV) antibody with detectable peripheral blood HCV RNA; positive for (HIV) antibody; or positive for Treponema pallidumserology.
  7. History of definite psychiatric disorders or history of substance abuse involving psychotropic drugs that cannot be discontinued.
  8. Participation in any other clinical trial within 3 months prior to enrollment.
  9. Prior treatment with CAR-T cell therapy.
  10. History of severe adverse reactions to cyclophosphamide or fludarabine.
  11. History of other autoimmune diseases (e.g.,Crohn's disease, systemic lupus erythematosus) that, within the past 2 years, have resulted in end-organ damage or required systemic immunosuppressive therapy (excluding the disease populations specified for enrollment in the study protocol).
  12. Myasthenia gravis crisis not effectively controlled within 2 weeks prior to enrollment.
  13. History of cerebrovascular accident, including or stroke, within 6 months prior to enrollment.
  14. Male or female participants unwilling to practice contraception from the time of informed consent until 6 months after treatment completion.
  15. Any medical condition that may interfere with the assessment of the safety or efficacy of the study treatment.
  16. History of symptomatic deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism within 6 months prior to enrollment, requiring systemic anticoagulation therapy.
  17. Any other condition that, in the investigator's judgment, makes the subject unsuitable for participation in this study.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(23)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Antibody-Mediated Neurological Autoimmune Diseases

    Biological: Universal CD19 CAR-γδT Cell Injection · Drug: Cyclophosphamide · Drug: Fludarabine

Interventions

  • Biological: Allogeneic CD19 CAR-γδT cell following lymphodepletion with chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide and fludarabine) patients will be treated

    Also known as: QH103 Cell Injection

  • Subjects will receive cyclophosphamide infusion on Days -5 to -3 prior to cell infusion.

  • Subjects will receive fludarabine infusion on Days -5 to -3 prior to cell infusion.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Dose-Limiting Toxicities (DLTs)

    DLT was defined as QH103-related events with onset within first 28 days.

    Time frame: First infusion date of QH103 up to 28 days

  2. Adverse Event

    AE is defined as any adverse medical event from the date the subject receives lymphodepleting chemotherapy to 12months after QH103 infusion. Among them, cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) were graded according to American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) criteria, graft-versushost disease (GVHD) according to criteria defined by the Mount Sinai Acute GVHD International Consortium. Other AEs were graded according to common terminology criteria for adverse events (CTCAE) v5.0

    Time frame: 12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. PK(Pharmacokinetics): Number and Copy Number of CD19 CAR-γδT cells

    Number and copy number of CD19 CAR-γδT cells were assessed by number in peripheral blood. Blood samples were collected before and one year after cell infusion (until CD19 CAR-γδT cells were not detected for two consecutive times) to detect the number and copy number of CD19 CAR-γδT cells, and to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of CD19 CAR-γδT.

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. PD(Pharmacodynamics) :Changes in cytokines and chemokines over time

    Changes in cytokines and chemokines (such as IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IFN-γ, and TNF-α) over time

    Time frame: 12 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Wuhan, Hubei 430000, China
    Recruiting
    • Daishi Tian · Contact
    • Daishi Tian · Principal investigator
    • Chuan Qin · Principal investigator
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Access to the data underlying this study can be obtained from the corresponding author upon reasonable request and subject to any required ethical approvals.

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Apr 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2027, 20 months after the start.

Of 53 non-industry phase 1 interventional studies under Multiple Sclerosis, half reached primary completion within 50 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 19 and three quarters within 71. This study's planned 20 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 91 studies reached it within 30 months; a quarter within 9 and three quarters within 56.

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

Registered
Apr 3, 2026
First posted
Apr 13, 2026
StartActual
Apr 1, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Dec 31, 2027
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2028
Last update
May 12, 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 12, 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
NCT07526493
Lead sponsor
Tongji Hospital
Responsible party
Daishi Tian (Deputy Director of the Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Apr 13, 2026
Start date
Apr 1, 2026
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2028 (estimated)
Last update
May 12, 2026

Study contacts

Daishi Tian
Contact
tiands@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn
+86 13607178809
Daishi Tian
principal investigator · Tongji Hospital
Chuan Qin
principal investigator · Tongji Hospital

Oversight

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