A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Fecal Microbial Transplantation in Acute Graft Versus Host Disease in Intestine, sponsored by Bambino Gesù Hospital and Research Institute. Recruiting at 3 sites in Italy. Open to participants aged 3 Months to 25 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-20.
Sponsored by Bambino Gesù Hospital and Research Institute · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a pilot, prospective, non-profit, multicenter, uncontrolled, open-label study to evaluate the safety and feasibility of FMT in patients aged between 3 months and 25 years suffering from acute intestinal GVHD resistant to conventional steroid therapy.
Eligible patients will receive 1-3 FMT via naso-jejunal tube or endoscopy.
804 studies on the registry are indexed under Graft vs Host Disease; 149 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 20 is below the median of 35 across 639 interventional studies indexed under Graft vs Host Disease.
Browse Graft vs Host Disease studies →Bambino Gesù Hospital and Research Institute is the lead sponsor of 54 studies on the registry; 10 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
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Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
FMT
Biological: Fecal Microbial Transplantation
The administration of the fecal preparation (from a related donor or a third party donor) will be carried out via esophagogastroduodenoscopy, with the release of the fecal preparation into the duodenum; or via a nasoduodenal tube, with the release of the fecal preparation into the duodenum at a 'dose' of 7-12 ml/kg, up to a maximum of 250 ml/administration; or via colonoscopy. In the latter case, mucosal biopsies will not be performed to reduce the risk of bacterial translocation. In some subjects, the possibility of administering the emulsion via ENEMA will be evaluated. Cases will be selected based on specific clinical indications. In the case of a partial response, after evaluating the risk/benefit ratio, a second infusion can be performed after 3 days. The procedure can be repeated a third time later (7 days) in case of a new flare of intestinal GVHD after initial improvement.
Safety (AE and treatment-related AE, according to CTCAE v5.0)
Number of Participants With Adverse Events and Treatment-Related Adverse Events as Assessed by CTCAE v5.0
Time frame: 28 days
Efficacy: Overall Response Rate (ORR)
Number of participants with Complete Response (CR, defined as a score of 0 for the aGvHD grading in all evaluable organs that indicates complete resolution of all signs and symptoms of aGvHD in all evaluable organs without administration of additional systemic therapy for any earlier progression, mixed response or non-response of aGvHD) or Partial Response (PR, defined as improvement of 1 stage in 1 or more organs involved with aGvHD signs or symptoms without progression in other organs or sites without administration of additional systemic therapy for an earlier progression, mixed response or non-response of aGvHD) at day +28 according to MAGIC criteria (ORR=CR+PR).
Time frame: 28 days
Microbiota modification
Comparison of alpha-diversity (according to Chao And Simpson indexes) and of beta-diversity (according to Bray-Curtis and UniFrac dissimilarity indexes) of patient samples taken before and after FMT (16s sequencing).
Time frame: 56 days
Cumulative incidence of infections
Cumulative incidence of clinically-relevant infections (i.e., ≥ grade 3 according to CTCAE v 5.0) after FMT; relapse or start of a new immunosuppressive treatment will be considered competing events.
Time frame: 28 days
Efficacy on other GVHD target organs
Response in skin and liver GVHD involvement according to MAGIC criteria.
Time frame: 56 days
Immune reconstitution
Number of participants with CD3+ counts \> 500/mcl at day +90 after treatment. Number of participants with CD4+ counts \> 50/mcl at day +90 after treatment.
Time frame: 90 days
Plan to share: Undecided
Started Sep 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2028, 21 months after the start.
Of 39 phase 1/2 interventional studies under Graft vs Host Disease, half reached primary completion within 55 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 35 and three quarters within 76. This study's planned 21 months is below that.
Start moved once since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026: May 2026 → Sep 2026, on Oct 20, 2026.
Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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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