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The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the safety and feasibility of inducing hematopoietic mixed chimerism to promote immune tolerance and potentially reduce the need for lifelong immunosuppression in pediatric and adult patients undergoing solid organ transplantation (SOT), including kidney, lung, and multivisceral transplants.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
Participants will:
This clinical trial is exploring a new way to help patients who receive a solid organ transplant-such as a kidney, lung, or intestine-live longer and healthier lives with fewer side effects from medication. Today, most transplant recipients must take strong immune-suppressing drugs every day to prevent their bodies from rejecting the new organ. While these drugs are essential, they can lead to serious complications over time, such as infections, and even damage to the transplanted organ itself.
The goal of this study is to test a promising strategy that may help the body naturally accept the transplanted organ, reducing or potentially eliminating the need for long-term immunosuppressive drugs. This approach involves a technique called mixed hematopoietic chimerism, which means that the patient's body receives a mix of immune cells from both themselves and the organ donor. When successful, this blend of immune systems can lead to immune tolerance, allowing the transplanted organ to function without being attacked by the patient's immune system.
This is a Phase I, single-center, open-label clinical trial, which means it is an early-stage study focused primarily on evaluating safety. The trial will enroll 10 patients who are either scheduled to receive a solid organ transplant (SOT) or have recently undergone one, depending on the type of organ and donor availability.
After a transplant, each patient must go through a stabilization period, allowing time for any immediate post-surgical complications to improve. Once stabilized, the patient will receive a specially prepared infusion of blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells from their organ donor. This process is known as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
Before this infusion, patients will undergo low-dose preconditioning using total lymphoid irradiation (TLI) and thymic irradiation. These treatments prepare the body to accept the donor's cells without causing major immune damage, and they aim to lower the risk of complications like graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)-a serious condition where donor immune cells attack the patient's tissues.
The infused cell product is carefully designed:
In some cases, natural killer cells CD56+ may also be included to help protect against viruses and support tolerance-especially when the donor is haploidentical.
The way the cells are collected depends on whether the donor is living or deceased. For living donors, peripheral blood stem cells are collected. For deceased donors, the bone marrow is used.
This trial is based on encouraging results from earlier studies and aims to show that this strategy is safe and feasible. If successful, the benefits could be wide-ranging:
The study will also track how well the patient's body accepts the transplanted organ over time and whether true immune tolerance is achieved. This will be monitored by looking at immune markers in the blood and through regular clinical follow-ups.
This approach could be especially helpful for pediatric patients, who face unique challenges, such as difficulty adhering to lifelong medication plans and a higher risk of needing multiple transplants. It may also help adult patients at high risk of rejection, or those who have already had complications with previous transplants.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| HSCT using a graft enriched in CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells | Experimental | The study intervention involves a HSCT using a graft enriched in CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells. This graft will be specifically engineered through depletion of naïve T-lymphocytes (CD45RA+) and patients will be supplemented with memory lymphocytes to support immune reconstitution and promote tolerance. The source of the hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) will vary depending on whether the donor is a living related donor (HLA-identical or haploidentical) or a deceased donor. Graft Composition and Cell Doses
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Investigational cellular therapy consisting on a HSCT using a graft enriched in CD34+, depleted of naïve T-lymphocytes and supplemented with memory lymphocytes | Biological | Infusion Schedule
Conditioning Regimen Prior to HSCT, all patients will undergo a low-intensity conditioning regimen designed to allow engraftment of the donor cells while minimizing toxicity:
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Incidence of adverse events related to the investigational intervention. | Safety and tolerability will be evaluated based on the incidence, nature and and severity of adverse events during study period. (clinical and laboratory). | From enrollment to end of follow-up at 2 years after cell therapy administration |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Feasibility of cell collection, processing and administration. |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Francisco María Hernández Oliveros, MD, PhD | Contact | +34 91 207 17 40 | fhernandezo@salud.madrid.org |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| La Paz University Hospital | Recruiting | Madrid | Madrid | 28046 | Spain |
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This study is a single-center, open-label clinical trial. Its primary goal is to evaluate the safety of inducing hematopoietic mixed chimerism to promote immunological tolerance in SOT recipients. A total of 10 participants will be recruited, either prior to their scheduled SOT or having already undergone SOT (in case of renal transplant recipients with a living donor), depending on enrollment feasibility.
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| From enrollment to 3 months after solid organ transplantation |
| Mixed hematopoietic chimerism measurement. | Proportion (%) of patients presenting mixed hematopoietic chimerism ≥ 100 days, macrochimerism (>5%) ≥ 100 days, macrochimerism ≥ 30 days and microchimerism (< 5%) ≥ 30 days. | From therapy administration to 30 days and 100 days after investigational therapy administration |
| Donor-Specific T Cell Clone Depletion | Proportion (%) of patients demonstrating donor's alloreactive clones depletion by high resolution TCR sequencing one year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. | One year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. |
| Organ Rejection Rate | Proportion (%) of patients experiencing organ rejection 1 year after investigational therapy administration. | From investigational therapy administration to 1 year after |
| Graft Survival and Failure Rates | Survival rate of grafts, rates of graft failure or complications. | From enrollment to end of follow-up at 2 years after cell therapy administration |
| occurence of GVHD in patients receiving delayed infusion of the investigational celular therapy after solid organ transplantation. | Proportion (%) of patients presenting GVHD, GVHD grade 1 and GVHD garde >1 | From enrollment to end of follow-up at 2 years after cell therapy administration |
| Occurrence of infections in patients receiving delayed infusion of the investigational celular therapy after solid organ transplantation. | Proportion (%) of patients experiencing sepsis or requiring intensive care due to an investigational treatment related adverse event, of viral reactivations/infections, fungal disease, and bacterial infections after investigational treatment initiation. | From enrollment to end of follow-up at 2 years after cell therapy administration |
| Immune reconstitution in patients receiving delayed infusion of the investigational celular therapy after solid organ transplantation | Proportion (%) of patients with CD4+ count >200 cells/μL on day 100 post haematopoietic stem cell therapy. | Day 100 post haematopoietic stem cell therapy. |
| Immune reconstitution in patients receiving investigational cell therapy | Proportion (%) of patients with Treg percentage > 10% at any point after haematopoietic stem cell therapy. | From enrollment to end of follow-up at 2 years after cell therapy administration |
| Development of immune tolerance in transplant recipients | Proportion (%) of patients demonstrating donor's alloreactive clones depletion by high resolution TCR sequencing and proportion (%) of patients experiencing organ rejection one year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. | One-year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. |
| Recipient's laboratory hyporesponsiveness towards the graft | Proportion (%) of patients with donor's hyporesponsiveness in Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction (MLR) one-year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. | One-year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. |
| Recipient's competence against third party donors | Proportion (%) of patients with third party response in Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction (MLR) one-year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. | One-year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. |
| Recipient's competence against virus | Proportion (%) of patients with competent viral immune response in functional tests one-year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. | One-year post haematopoietic stem cell therapy and thereafter. |
| Mortality after investigational therapy adminitration. | Proportion (%) of patients alive up to 1 year after investigational therapy administration. | From enrollment to one year after investigational therapy administration |
| ID | Term |
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| D018952 | Antigens, CD34 |
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| D015703 | Antigens, CD |
| D000943 | Antigens, Differentiation |
| D000954 | Antigens, Surface |
| D000941 | Antigens |
| D001685 | Biological Factors |
| D015415 | Biomarkers |
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