Recruiting
Phase 2

CTLs

Sponsor:

New York Medical College

Code:

NCT03266640

Conditions

Cytomegalovirus Infections

Primary Immune Deficiency Disorder

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

viral specific cytotoxic t-lymphocytes

Study Details

Brief summary:

CMV cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) manufactured with the Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy Cytokine Capture System will be administered in children, adolescents and young adults (CAYA) with refractory cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection post Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (AlloHSCT), with primary immunodeficiencies (PID) or post solid organ transplant.

Funding Source: FDA OOPD

Conditions

Cytomegalovirus Infections

Primary Immune Deficiency Disorder

Study ID

NCT03266640

Start date

Nov 1, 2018

Status verified date

Aug, 2025

Completion date

Dec 31, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 31, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

1\. Patients with refractory CMV infection post allogeneic HSCT, with primary immunodeficiencies or post solid organ transplant with either

  • Increasing or persistent quantitative qRT-PCR DNA copies despite two weeks of appropriate anti-viral therapy AND/OR
  • Medical intolerance to anti-viral therapies including:
  • ANC < 500/mm2 secondary to ganciclovir

  • 2 renal toxicity with foscarnet And/or
  • known resistance to ganciclovir and/or foscarnet

Consent: Written informed consent given (by patient or legal representative) prior to any study-related procedures.

Performance Status > 30% (Lansky < 16 yrs and Karnofsky > 16 yrs) Age: 0.1 to 79.99 years Females of childbearing potential with a negative urine pregnancy test

Donor Eligibility Related donor available with a T-cell response to the CMV MACS® GMP PepTivator antigen(s).

a. Third Party Allogeneic Donor: If original donor is not available or does not have a T-cell response: third party related allogeneic donor (family donor > 1 HLA A, B, DR match to recipient) with IgG positive to CMV and/or a T-cell response to the CMV MACS® GMP PepTivator .

AND Allogeneic donor disease screening is complete similar to hematopoietic stem cell donors (Appendix 1).

AND Obtained informed consents by donor or donor legally authorized representative prior to donor collection.

3 Patient exclusion criteria:

A patient meeting any of the following criteria is not eligible for the present study:

Patient with acute GVHD > grade 2 or extensive chronic GVHD at the time of CMV CTL infusion Patient receiving steroids (>0.5 mg/kg prednisone equivalent) at the time of CMV CTL infusion Patient treated with donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) within 4 weeks prior to CMV CTL infusion Thymoglobulin (ATG), Alemtuzumab or T cell immunosuppressive monoclonal antibodies within 30 days Patient with poor performance status determined by Karnofsky (patients >16 years) or Lansky (patients ≤16 years) score ≤30% CMV retinitis Concomitant enrollment in another experimental clinical trial investigating the treatment of refractory CMV infection.

Any medical condition which could compromise participation in the study according to the investigator's assessment Known HIV infection Female patient of childbearing age who is pregnant or breast-feeding or not willing to use an effective method of birth control during study treatment.

Known hypersensitivity to iron dextran Patients unwilling or unable to comply with the protocol or unable to give informed consent.

Known human anti-mouse antibodies CMV retinitis, meningitis, encephalitis, and/or cerebritis

Study Design

Enrollment

20 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Refractory CMV

Patients with refractory CMV will be given one dose of CMV specific CTLs. HLA matched donors will get Dose 2.5 × 10(4) CD3/kg recipient weight; HLA mismatched will get 0.5x10(4) CD3/kg recipient weight. Additional doses may be given for a total of 5 doses if patients do not have a response to the first dose with a reduction in viral load to normal limits.

Interventions

viral specific cytotoxic t-lymphocytes

CMV specific CTLs will be collected from HLA matched or mismatched donors and manufactured in a GMP facility and administered to patients with refractory CMV infection.

Primary outcome measure

  • Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events [Safety and Tolerability] [ Time Frame: Patients will be followed for 12 weeks after each infusion ]
  • Incidence of Response to Treatment [ Time Frame: Patients will be followed 12 weeks after each infusion ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Recruiting

Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027

Contacts

Neena Kapoor, MD

nkapoor@chla.usc.edu

University of California San Francisco

Recruiting

San Francisco, California, United States, 94158

Contacts

Julia Chu, MD

Julia.Chu2@ucsf.edu

Indiana University

Recruiting

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202

Contacts

Emily Hopewell, MD

emlhope@iu.edu

Johns Hopkins

Recruiting

Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287

Washington University

Recruiting

St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63130

Contacts

Shalini Shenoy, MD

shalinishenoy@wustl.edu

New York Medical College

Recruiting

Valhalla, New York, United States, 10595

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Mitchell S. Cairo, MD

Nationwide Children's Hosptial

Recruiting

Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43205

Contacts

Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania

Recruiting

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104

Contacts

Medical College of Wisconsin/Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Recruiting

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226

Contacts

More Information

Sponsor

New York Medical College

Last update posted

Aug 8, 2025

Last verified

Aug, 2025

Keywords

  • Cytomegalovirus
  • CMV
  • cytotoxic t-lymphocytes

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by New York Medical College on 2025-08-08.