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Not yet recruitingNCT07897968GD2CART-BEVUpdated Nov 3, 2026

GD2IL18CART Combined With Bevacizumab for Relapsed and Refractory GD2-positive Solid Tumors

A Phase 1 interventional study of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) Therapy Infusion and Bevacizumab (Avastin) in Neuroblastoma (NBL), Ewing Sarcoma and Osteosarcoma, sponsored by Universität Münster. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 1 Year to 25 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-03.

Sponsored by Universität Münster · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Updated Nov 3, 2026Eligibility revisedNewly registeredGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
1 Year to 25 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study will test a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell treatment combined with bevacizumab in children and young adults with relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, or osteosarcoma.

The CAR T-cell treatment, called GD2IL18CART, is made from a patient's own T cells. The T cells are genetically modified to recognize GD2, a molecule found on the surface of these cancers, and to release the immune-stimulating protein interleukin-18 (IL-18) when they encounter tumor cells. Bevacizumab is an antibody that blocks vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a protein that affects tumor blood vessels and may make it difficult for immune cells to enter tumors. Combining bevacizumab with GD2IL18CART may therefore help more CAR T cells reach the tumor and improve their antitumor activity.

The main goals of this study are to determine whether the combination can be given safely, identify a recommended dose of GD2IL18CART for use with bevacizumab, and look for early evidence of antitumor activity. The study will also examine blood and tumor samples to better understand how the treatment affects CAR T cells and the tumor environment.

Read the detailed description

This is an international, prospective, multicenter, open-label, non-randomized phase Ib dose-escalation and dose-expansion study evaluating GD2IL18CART in combination with bevacizumab in children, adolescents, and young adults with relapsed or refractory GD2-positive neuroblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, or osteosarcoma.

GD2IL18CART is an autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product directed against the tumor-associated antigen GD2 and engineered for antigen-inducible secretion of interleukin-18 (IL-18). Clinical investigation of GD2IL18CART as a single agent demonstrated robust CAR T-cell expansion and established doses that could be administered with a manageable safety profile. However, clinical activity remained limited, particularly at non-osseous tumor sites and in Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma.

The combination with bevacizumab is intended to address tumor microenvironmental barriers that may limit CAR T-cell access and activity. Bevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody that neutralizes vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A). Persistent VEGF signaling contributes to abnormal tumor vasculature that can restrict immune-cell trafficking and promote local immunosuppression. In preclinical models of Ewing sarcoma and neuroblastoma, vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGF/VEGFR) pathway inhibition increased intratumoral accumulation and antitumor activity of GD2-directed CAR T cells. Bevacizumab also enhanced the antitumor activity of the clinical GD2IL18CART product. These findings provide the rationale for evaluating the combination clinically.

Following leukapheresis and manufacture of the autologous GD2IL18CART product, participants will receive lymphodepleting chemotherapy with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide on days -6 to -4. Bevacizumab will be administered intravenously at 15 mg/kg on day -3, followed by a single intravenous infusion of GD2IL18CART on day 0. Additional bevacizumab doses will be administered every 3 weeks for up to five doses in total, unless treatment is discontinued earlier according to protocol-defined criteria. The timing of bevacizumab is intended to initiate VEGF inhibition before CAR T-cell infusion and maintain VEGF inhibition during the early period of CAR T-cell trafficking, expansion, and persistence.

GD2IL18CART dose escalation will follow a cohort-based single ascending dose design. The starting dose is lower than the doses established during previous clinical investigation of GD2IL18CART as a single agent because bevacizumab may increase tumor infiltration and biological activity of the CAR T cells. Cohorts of three participants will be treated sequentially, with predefined stopping rules and independent Data Monitoring Committee review guiding dose escalation. The objective of the dose-escalation phase is to characterize the safety of the combination and determine a recommended GD2IL18CART dose for use with bevacizumab.

After determination of the recommended combination dose, disease-specific expansion cohorts will enroll participants with neuroblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, and osteosarcoma, with up to six participants per disease entity treated at the recommended dose. The expansion phase will further characterize safety, feasibility, biological activity, and preliminary antitumor activity of the combination.

Tumor response will be assessed at weeks 6 and 12 and at months 6 and 12. Participants will be followed within this study through month 12. Long-term follow-up after genetically modified cell therapy will continue for up to 15 years in a separate long-term follow-up study.

An integrated translational research program will investigate the biological effects of the combination. Longitudinal analysis of blood samples will assess CAR T-cell expansion, persistence, phenotype, and immune responses. Mandatory on-treatment tumor biopsies obtained on day 14 will be analyzed using molecular and spatial approaches to investigate CAR T-cell trafficking and function within the tumor microenvironment and to identify potential biological determinants of response and resistance.

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Conditions studied

  • Neuroblastoma (NBL)
  • Ewing Sarcoma
  • Osteosarcoma

Keywords

  • CAR T-cell therapy
  • GD2
  • GD2IL18CART
  • IL-18
  • VEGF
  • VEGF inhibition
  • pediatric solid tumors
  • neuroblastoma
  • osteosarcoma
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • bevacizumab
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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 30 is close to the median of 32 across 507 interventional studies indexed under Neuroblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

Universität Münster is the lead sponsor of 30 studies on the registry; 19 are open to participants now.

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 Nov 3, 2026. See what changed

Ages eligible
1 Year to 25 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

  • Participants must have neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma, or Ewing sarcoma judged to be incurable with conventional treatment and meet the following disease-specific requirements:

    • Neuroblastoma: Patients with locoregional recurrence must have received surgery and/or radiotherapy followed by relapse chemotherapy. Patients with recurrence after initial classification as intermediate risk must have received high-risk therapy. Patients with recurrence after initial classification as high risk must have received relapse chemotherapy alone or combined with immunotherapy.
    • Osteosarcoma: Patients must have received frontline therapy and at least one prior line of relapse systemic anticancer therapy for relapsed or refractory disease. Patients with an isolated relapse manifestation (lung metastasis or local relapse) must have unresectable disease.
    • Ewing sarcoma: Patients must have received frontline therapy and at least one prior line of relapse chemotherapy according to standard regimens. Patients with an isolated lung relapse must have received pulmonary irradiation during frontline or relapse therapy.
  • All participants must additionally meet the following criteria:

    • GD2 expression on tumor cells in an archival assessed by the central reference laboratory. GD2-positive tumor is defined as GD2 at least 50% of tumor cells expressing GD2 at an intensity of 2+ or higher, using an immunofluorescence assay for specific detection of GD2 expression in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded or frozen tumor tissue with semiquantitative evaluation.
    • Evaluable disease based on for all disease entities or, in cases of diffuse bone/bone marrow metastases, by whole-body nuclear medicine imaging (e.g. metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG)) scan for neuroblastoma or positron emission tomography (PET) based imaging.
    • Age ≥1 year and ≤25 years.
    • Absolute cluster of differentiation 3 (CD3)-positive T-cell count ≥200/µL.
    • (ECOG) performance status 0-2 for participants >16 years of age or Lansky performance score ≥60 for participants ≤16 years of age at screening.
    • No , or negative pregnancy test at screening and before chemotherapy in participants with childbearing potential.
    • Signed and dated /assent by participants and/or their caregivers before any trial-specific procedure.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Active solid central nervous system (CNS) or metabolically active metastatic disease in the skull with direct contact to the dura.
  • Current disease or history of autoimmune disease with potential CNS involvement.
  • Active CNS dysfunction, including but not limited to uncontrolled seizure disorders, cerebrovascular ischemia or hemorrhage, dementia, or paralysis.
  • History of an additional other than non-melanoma skin cancer or carcinoma in situ unless disease-free for ≥3 years.
  • Pre-existing severe lung disease, oxygen requirement of >28% inspired oxygen (O2) supplementation, or active pulmonary infiltrates on X-ray.
  • Cardiac function: Pediatric patients (˂18 yrs): fractional shortening \<28% or \<50% by echocardiography, young adult patients (18-25 yrs): left ventricular ejection fraction \<50% by echocardiography.
  • Renal function: ≤29 mL/min/1.73 m22 by CKD-EPI for patients ≥18 yrs or ≤29 mL/min/1.73 m2 by Schwartz formula for patients \<18 yrs of age.
  • Liver function: serum >3 times the (ULN) or (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >5 times ULN, unless attributable to liver infiltration by the underlying malignant disease.
  • Hematological function: (ANC) \<500/µL or count \<50 × 10³/µL.
  • Presence of any active infection.
  • Bevacizumab-specific exclusion criteria:

    • uncontrolled arterial hypertension, history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy,
    • clinically significant proteinuria.
    • history of gastrointestinal perforation or clinically significant fistula, or current condition considered to confer a clinically relevant increased risk of gastrointestinal perforation,
    • clinically significant bleeding or coagulopathy, including recent clinically significant hemoptysis or pulmonary hemorrhage,
    • any history of clinically significant arterial thromboembolic event, including myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident, , or arterial thrombosis/embolism,
    • clinically significant venous thromboembolism within 6 months before the first dose of bevacizumab,
    • history of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES),
    • clinically significant cardiovascular disease beyond inadequate left ventricular ejection fraction, e.g., uncontrolled arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, unstable angina.
  • Rapidly progressive disease that in the estimation of the Investigator would compromise ability to complete study therapy.
  • Pregnant or breast-feeding females.
  • Concurrent or recent prior therapies:

    • High-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation or requiring autologous stem cell rescue or anticancer biologicals (e.g. mifamurtide) or radiation therapy or major surgery within 30 days prior to leukapheresis.
    • CAR T cells within 3 months before leukapheresis.
    • within less than 2 half lives prior to apheresis.
    • Neuroblastoma patients who have after allogeneic or haploidentical stem cell transplantation must be at least 100 days posttransplant, with no evidence of and not taking agents for at least 30 days prior to leukapheresis.
    • I-131 MIBG therapy (neuroblastoma) or other targeted radionuclide therapy must be completed at least 3 months prior to apheresis.
    • GD2-specific antibody therapy with dinutuximab beta or naxitamab within 40 days (5 half-lives) before apheresis.
    • Antiproliferative chemotherapy, epigenetic agents, antibody-drug conjugates, or antibodies targeting antigens other than GD2 within 3 weeks prior apheresis.
    • Immunosuppressive agents other than within 2 weeks before apheresis.
    • Short-acting molecularly targeted agents (kinase inhibitors) within 7 days before apheresis.
    • Systemic corticosteroids, except physiologic replacement dosing, within 7 days before apheresis.
    • within 30 days before apheresis.
  • against any drug or its ingredients/impurities that is scheduled or likely to be given during trial participation, e.g. as part of the mandatory preparative chemotherapy, pre-medication for infusion, rescue medication/salvage therapies for treatment related toxicities.
  • to trial related procedures as judged by the Investigator, e.g., tumor .
  • Female patients of not willing to practice a highly effective form of from the time of signing the form and for 12 months after dosing the IMP.
  • Male patients of fathering potential not willing to practice a highly effective form of birth control from the time of signing the informed consent form and for 12 months after dosing the IMP.
  • Concurrent participation in another interventional trial that could interact with this trial, e.g. CAR T trials.
  • Cerebral dysfunction, legal incapacity of adult patients; Committal to an institution on judicial or official order.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(28)

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.

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.

Metastases

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    GD2IL18CART + bevacizumab

    Participants receive a single intravenous infusion of freshly prepared autologous GD2IL18CART cells in combination with intravenous bevacizumab administered every 3 weeks for up to 5 doses.

    Genetic: Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) Therapy Infusion · Drug: Bevacizumab (Avastin)

Interventions

  • GeneticChimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) Therapy Infusion

    Combination of GD2IL1CART (IMP1, EU CT 2022-501725-21-00) with a monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor, bevacizumab (IMP2) to promote effective CAR T-cell accumulation and function within the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME).

    Also known as: GD2IL18CART

  • In combination with GD2IL18CART (IMP1, EU CT 2022-501725-21-00)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence and severity of adverse events

    Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs), graded according to CTCAE version 6.0

    Time frame: Through 12 months after GD2IL18CART infusion

  2. Dose-limiting toxicities and recommended dose - dose-finding part

    Incidence of protocol-defined dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) and determination of the recommended dose (RD) of GD2IL18CART in combination with bevacizumab using a rule-based small-cohort design

    Time frame: 28 days after IMP infusion

  3. Recommended dose of GD2IL18CART in combination with bevacizumab

    Determination of the recommended dose (RD) of GD2IL18CART in combination with bevacizumab using a rule-based small-cohort dose-escalation design, based on observed dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) and protocol-defined dose-escalation and stopping rules.

    Time frame: Through completion of the protocol-defined DLT assessment period of 28 days for the final dose-finding cohort

  4. Overall response rate at week 6 - dose-extension part

    Proportion of participants achieving a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) at week 6

    Time frame: Week 6

Secondary outcomes

  1. Intratumoral infiltration of GD2IL18CART

    Presence and extent of GD2IL18CART-cell infiltration in on-treatment tumor biopsies

    Time frame: Day 14

  2. Expansion and persistence of GD2IL18CART

    Longitudinal assessment of GD2IL18CART-cell expansion, persistence and phenotype in peripheral blood

    Time frame: From GD2IL18CART infusion through 12 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Children's Hospital Muenster
    Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia 48149, Germany
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References and documents

Publications

  • Fischer-Riepe L, Kailayangiri S, Zimmermann K, Pfeifer R, Aigner M, Altvater B, Kretschmann S, Volkl S, Hartley J, Dreger C, Petry K, Bosio A, von Dollen A, Hartmann W, Lode H, Gorlich D, Mackensen A, Jungblut M, Schambach A, Abken H, Rossig C. Preclinical Development of CAR T Cells with Antigen-Inducible IL18 Enforcement to Treat GD2-Positive Solid Cancers. Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Aug 15;30(16):3564-3577. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-23-3157. PubMed 38593230 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — De-identified individual participant data underlying the published results may be made available to qualified researchers upon reasonable request following publication, subject to applicable informed consent, ethical and data-protection requirements, and execution of an appropriate data-use agreement.

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

Time frame: Beginning after publication of the primary study results and for a period of 5 years thereafter.

Access criteria: De-identified individual participant data underlying the published results may be made available to qualified researchers upon reasonable request. Requests will be evaluated based on scientific merit and compatibility with the participants' informed consent, applicable data-protection requirements, and institutional policies. Data will be shared following approval of the request and execution of an appropriate data-use agreement.

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Timeline

2 registry updates 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

Start is estimated for Oct 2027; primary completion for Sep 2031, 47 months later.

Of 73 non-industry phase 1 interventional studies under Neuroblastoma, half reached primary completion within 89 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 65 and three quarters within 117. This study's planned 47 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 86 studies reached it within 83 months; a quarter within 60 and three quarters within 114.

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

Registered
Oct 20, 2026
First posted
Oct 27, 2026
StartEst.
Oct 1, 2027
Primary completionEst.
Sep 30, 2031
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2032
Last update
Nov 3, 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.
Eligibility
10 inclusion criteria edited; 28 exclusion criteria edited
What changed in the criteria
Inclusion criteria
  • EditedParticipants must have relapsed and/or refractory neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma, or Ewing sarcoma judged to be incurable with conventional treatment and meet the following disease-specific prior-treatment requirements:
  • EditedNeuroblastoma: ParticipantsPatients with locoregional recurrence must have received surgery and/or radiotherapy followed by relapse chemotherapy. ParticipantsPatients with metastatic recurrence after initial classification as intermediate risk must have received high-risk therapy. ParticipantsPatients with recurrence after initial classification as high risk must have received relapse chemotherapy alone or combined with immunotherapy.
  • EditedOsteosarcoma: ParticipantsPatients must have received frontline therapy and at least one prior line of relapse chemotherapysystemic anticancer therapy for relapsed or refractory disease. ParticipantsPatients with an isolated relapse manifestation (lung metastasis or local relapse) must have unresectable disease.
  • EditedEwing sarcoma: ParticipantsPatients must have received frontline therapy and at least one prior line of relapse chemotherapy according to standard regimens. ParticipantsPatients with an isolated lung relapse must have received pulmonary irradiation during frontline or relapse therapy.
  • EditedGD2 expression inon tumor cells in an archival biopsy assessed by the central reference laboratory. GD2-positive tumor is defined as ≥GD2 at least 50% of tumor cells expressing ≥GD2 at an intensity of 2+ GD2or higher, using an immunofluorescence assay for specific detection of GD2 expression in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded or frozen tumor tissue with semiquantitative evaluation.
  • EditedEvaluable disease based on imRECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors for all disease entities), or, in cases of diffuse bone/bone marrow metastases, by whole-body nuclear medicine imaging (e.g. metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG)) scan (for neuroblastoma) or whole-body FDG-PET scanpositron emission tomography (all disease entities)PET) based imaging.
  • EditedAge ≥1 year and ≤25 years.
  • EditedAbsolute cluster of differentiation 3 (CD3+)-positive T-cell count ≥200/µL.
  • EditedEastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2 for participants >16 years of age or Lansky performance score ≥60 for participants ≤16 years of age at screening.
  • EditedSigned and dated informed consent/assent by participants and/or parentstheir caregivers before any trial-specific procedure.
Exclusion criteria
  • EditedPre-existing severe lung disease, oxygen requirement of >28% inspired oxygen (O2) supplementation, or active pulmonary infiltrates on X-ray.
  • EditedCardiac function: Pediatric patients (˂18 yrs): fractional shortening <28% or left ventricular ejection fraction <50% by echocardiography in pediatric participants, young adult patients (<18 years-25 yrs);: left ventricular ejection fraction <50% by echocardiography in young adult participants (18-25 years).
  • EditedRenal function: GFR ≤29 mL/min/1.73 m²m22 by CKD-EPI for participantspatients ≥18 yearsyrs or creatinine clearance ≤29 mL/min/1.73 m²m2 by Schwartz formula for participantspatients <18 yearsyrs of age.
  • EditedLiver function: serum bilirubin >3 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >5 times ULN, unless dueattributable to liver infiltration by the underlying malignant disease in the Investigator's estimation.
  • EditedHematological function: absolute neutrophil count (ANC) <500/µL or platelet count <50 × 10³/µL.
  • EditedAny of the following bevacizumabBevacizumab-specific exclusion criteria:
  • EditedUncontrolleduncontrolled arterial hypertension or, history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy.,
  • EditedHistoryhistory of gastrointestinal perforation or clinically significant fistula, or a current condition considered to confer a clinically relevant increased risk of gastrointestinal perforation.,
  • EditedClinicallyclinically significant cardiovascular disease beyond inadequate left ventricular ejection fraction, e.g., uncontrolled arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, or unstable angina.
  • EditedRapidly progressive disease that, in the estimation of the Investigator's estimation, would compromise the ability to complete study therapy.
  • ChangedBefore Pregnancy or breastfeeding.Now Pregnant or breast-feeding females.
  • EditedAny of the following concurrentConcurrent or recent prior therapies:
  • EditedHigh-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation or requiring autologous stem cell rescue, or anticancer biologicals (e.g., mifamurtide, interferons),) or radiation therapy, or major surgery within 30 days beforeprior to leukapheresis.
  • EditedCheckpoint inhibitors within less than 2 half- lives before leukapheresisprior to apheresis.
  • EditedFor neuroblastoma participantsNeuroblastoma patients who have relapsed after allogeneic or haploidentical stem cell transplantation: < must be at least 100 days post-transplantposttransplant, with no evidence of GVHD, or use of and not taking immunosuppressive agents withinfor at least 30 days beforeprior to leukapheresis.
  • EditedI-131 MIBG therapy (neuroblastoma) or other targeted radionuclide therapy withinmust be completed at least 3 months before leukapheresisprior to apheresis.
  • EditedGD2-specific antibody therapy with dinutuximab beta or naxitamab within 40 days (5 half-lives) before leukapheresisapheresis.
  • EditedAntiproliferative chemotherapy, epigenetic agents, antibody-drug conjugates, or antibodies targeting antigens other than GD2 within 3 weeks before leukapheresisprior apheresis.
  • EditedImmunosuppressive agents other than steroids within 2 weeks before leukapheresisapheresis.
  • EditedShort-acting molecularly targeted agents (kinase inhibitors) within 7 days before leukapheresisapheresis.
  • EditedSystemic corticosteroids, except physiologic replacement dosing, within 7 days before leukapheresisapheresis.
  • EditedLive vaccines within 30 days before leukapheresisapheresis.
  • EditedHypersensitivity toagainst any drug or its ingredients/impurities that is scheduled or likely to be administeredgiven during trial participation, including agents used fore.g. as part of the mandatory preparative chemotherapy, pre-medication for infusion premedication, or rescuerescue medication/salvage therapies for treatment of treatment-related toxicities.
  • EditedContraindication to trial- related procedures as judged by the Investigator, e.g., tumor biopsy.
  • EditedParticipantsFemale patients of childbearingchild-bearing potential unwillingnot willing to usepractice a highly effective methodform of contraceptionbirth control from the time of signing the informed consent throughform and for 12 months after dosing the IMP administration.
  • EditedMale participantspatients of fathering potential unwillingnot willing to usepractice a highly effective methodform of contraceptionbirth control from the time of signing the informed consent throughform and for 12 months after dosing the IMP administration.
  • EditedConcurrent participation in another interventional trial that could interact with this trial, e.g., a CAR T-cell trial trials.
  • EditedCerebral dysfunction or, legal incapacity of adult participantspatients; committalCommittal to an institution byon judicial or official order.
Nov 3, 2026
Registered
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Oct 27, 2026
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  1. Nov 3, 2026
    Eligibility 10 inclusion criteria edited; 28 exclusion criteria edited
    What changed in the criteria
    Inclusion criteria
    • EditedParticipants must have relapsed and/or refractory neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma, or Ewing sarcoma judged to be incurable with conventional treatment and meet the following disease-specific prior-treatment requirements:
    • EditedNeuroblastoma: ParticipantsPatients with locoregional recurrence must have received surgery and/or radiotherapy followed by relapse chemotherapy. ParticipantsPatients with metastatic recurrence after initial classification as intermediate risk must have received high-risk therapy. ParticipantsPatients with recurrence after initial classification as high risk must have received relapse chemotherapy alone or combined with immunotherapy.
    • EditedOsteosarcoma: ParticipantsPatients must have received frontline therapy and at least one prior line of relapse chemotherapysystemic anticancer therapy for relapsed or refractory disease. ParticipantsPatients with an isolated relapse manifestation (lung metastasis or local relapse) must have unresectable disease.
    • EditedEwing sarcoma: ParticipantsPatients must have received frontline therapy and at least one prior line of relapse chemotherapy according to standard regimens. ParticipantsPatients with an isolated lung relapse must have received pulmonary irradiation during frontline or relapse therapy.
    • EditedGD2 expression inon tumor cells in an archival biopsy assessed by the central reference laboratory. GD2-positive tumor is defined as ≥GD2 at least 50% of tumor cells expressing ≥GD2 at an intensity of 2+ GD2or higher, using an immunofluorescence assay for specific detection of GD2 expression in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded or frozen tumor tissue with semiquantitative evaluation.
    • EditedEvaluable disease based on imRECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors for all disease entities), or, in cases of diffuse bone/bone marrow metastases, by whole-body nuclear medicine imaging (e.g. metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG)) scan (for neuroblastoma) or whole-body FDG-PET scanpositron emission tomography (all disease entities)PET) based imaging.
    • EditedAge ≥1 year and ≤25 years.
    • EditedAbsolute cluster of differentiation 3 (CD3+)-positive T-cell count ≥200/µL.
    • EditedEastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2 for participants >16 years of age or Lansky performance score ≥60 for participants ≤16 years of age at screening.
    • EditedSigned and dated informed consent/assent by participants and/or parentstheir caregivers before any trial-specific procedure.
    Exclusion criteria
    • EditedPre-existing severe lung disease, oxygen requirement of >28% inspired oxygen (O2) supplementation, or active pulmonary infiltrates on X-ray.
    • EditedCardiac function: Pediatric patients (˂18 yrs): fractional shortening <28% or left ventricular ejection fraction <50% by echocardiography in pediatric participants, young adult patients (<18 years-25 yrs);: left ventricular ejection fraction <50% by echocardiography in young adult participants (18-25 years).
    • EditedRenal function: GFR ≤29 mL/min/1.73 m²m22 by CKD-EPI for participantspatients ≥18 yearsyrs or creatinine clearance ≤29 mL/min/1.73 m²m2 by Schwartz formula for participantspatients <18 yearsyrs of age.
    • EditedLiver function: serum bilirubin >3 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >5 times ULN, unless dueattributable to liver infiltration by the underlying malignant disease in the Investigator's estimation.
    • EditedHematological function: absolute neutrophil count (ANC) <500/µL or platelet count <50 × 10³/µL.
    • EditedAny of the following bevacizumabBevacizumab-specific exclusion criteria:
    • EditedUncontrolleduncontrolled arterial hypertension or, history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy.,
    • EditedHistoryhistory of gastrointestinal perforation or clinically significant fistula, or a current condition considered to confer a clinically relevant increased risk of gastrointestinal perforation.,
    • EditedClinicallyclinically significant cardiovascular disease beyond inadequate left ventricular ejection fraction, e.g., uncontrolled arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, or unstable angina.
    • EditedRapidly progressive disease that, in the estimation of the Investigator's estimation, would compromise the ability to complete study therapy.
    • ChangedBefore Pregnancy or breastfeeding.Now Pregnant or breast-feeding females.
    • EditedAny of the following concurrentConcurrent or recent prior therapies:
    • EditedHigh-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation or requiring autologous stem cell rescue, or anticancer biologicals (e.g., mifamurtide, interferons),) or radiation therapy, or major surgery within 30 days beforeprior to leukapheresis.
    • EditedCheckpoint inhibitors within less than 2 half- lives before leukapheresisprior to apheresis.
    • EditedFor neuroblastoma participantsNeuroblastoma patients who have relapsed after allogeneic or haploidentical stem cell transplantation: < must be at least 100 days post-transplantposttransplant, with no evidence of GVHD, or use of and not taking immunosuppressive agents withinfor at least 30 days beforeprior to leukapheresis.
    • EditedI-131 MIBG therapy (neuroblastoma) or other targeted radionuclide therapy withinmust be completed at least 3 months before leukapheresisprior to apheresis.
    • EditedGD2-specific antibody therapy with dinutuximab beta or naxitamab within 40 days (5 half-lives) before leukapheresisapheresis.
    • EditedAntiproliferative chemotherapy, epigenetic agents, antibody-drug conjugates, or antibodies targeting antigens other than GD2 within 3 weeks before leukapheresisprior apheresis.
    • EditedImmunosuppressive agents other than steroids within 2 weeks before leukapheresisapheresis.
    • EditedShort-acting molecularly targeted agents (kinase inhibitors) within 7 days before leukapheresisapheresis.
    • EditedSystemic corticosteroids, except physiologic replacement dosing, within 7 days before leukapheresisapheresis.
    • EditedLive vaccines within 30 days before leukapheresisapheresis.
    • EditedHypersensitivity toagainst any drug or its ingredients/impurities that is scheduled or likely to be administeredgiven during trial participation, including agents used fore.g. as part of the mandatory preparative chemotherapy, pre-medication for infusion premedication, or rescuerescue medication/salvage therapies for treatment of treatment-related toxicities.
    • EditedContraindication to trial- related procedures as judged by the Investigator, e.g., tumor biopsy.
    • EditedParticipantsFemale patients of childbearingchild-bearing potential unwillingnot willing to usepractice a highly effective methodform of contraceptionbirth control from the time of signing the informed consent throughform and for 12 months after dosing the IMP administration.
    • EditedMale participantspatients of fathering potential unwillingnot willing to usepractice a highly effective methodform of contraceptionbirth control from the time of signing the informed consent throughform and for 12 months after dosing the IMP administration.
    • EditedConcurrent participation in another interventional trial that could interact with this trial, e.g., a CAR T-cell trial trials.
    • EditedCerebral dysfunction or, legal incapacity of adult participantspatients; committalCommittal to an institution byon judicial or official order.
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Key details

Study ID
NCT07897968
Lead sponsor
Universität Münster
Collaborators
University Hospital Erlangen, Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, St. Anna Children's Hospital, Vienna, University Hospital Tuebingen, Oslo University Hospital
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 27, 2026
Start date
Oct 1, 2027 (estimated)
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2031 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2032 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 3, 2026

Study contacts

Claudia Rossig, MD
Contact
rossig@ukmuenster.de
00492518347742
Andreas Mackensen, MD
Contact
andreas.mackensen@uk-erlangen.de
004991318535954
Claudia Rossig, MD
principal investigator · University Children´s Hospital Münster

Oversight

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