Allgemeine Informationen
  • Krankheitskategorie Lymphom , Infektionen und Parasitenbefall (BASEC)
  • Studienphase Phase 1/Phase 2 (ICTRP)
  • Rekrutierungsstatus Rekrutierung hat noch nicht begonnen (BASEC/ICTRP)
  • Studienstandort
    Basel
    (BASEC)
  • Studienverantwortliche Prof. Dr. med. Nina Khanna nina.khanna@usb.ch (BASEC)
  • Datenquelle(n) BASEC: Import vom 29.07.2025 ICTRP: Import vom 20.03.2025
  • Letzte Aktualisierung 29.07.2025 19:06
HumRes62473 | SNCTP000005415 | BASEC2022-01210 | NCT05688241

ESPECT: Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) specific T-cell therapy

  • Krankheitskategorie Lymphom , Infektionen und Parasitenbefall (BASEC)
  • Studienphase Phase 1/Phase 2 (ICTRP)
  • Rekrutierungsstatus Rekrutierung hat noch nicht begonnen (BASEC/ICTRP)
  • Studienstandort
    Basel
    (BASEC)
  • Studienverantwortliche Prof. Dr. med. Nina Khanna nina.khanna@usb.ch (BASEC)
  • Datenquelle(n) BASEC: Import vom 29.07.2025 ICTRP: Import vom 20.03.2025
  • Letzte Aktualisierung 29.07.2025 19:06

Zusammenfassung der Studie

Patients infected with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) can become severely ill; this includes EBV-induced cancers such as lymphomas. There are generally few effective therapies for treating EBV-associated diseases, representing an area of significant medical need. In some patients who respond inadequately to approved chemotherapies or antibody therapies, new findings show that virus-specific defense cells are effective. In this study, virus-specific defense cells are obtained from the blood of a compatible donor, processed in the laboratory, and then administered to patients at three time points via infusion. The cells are processed to specifically attack only the infected (cancer) cells without harming healthy cells.

(BASEC)

Untersuchte Intervention

Either blood is drawn from the patient themselves, or a compatible donor can donate blood. From this blood, the appropriate cells are isolated and expanded in the laboratory for 10 days and modified to fight the EBV-infected cells. This modification is carried out under strict regulations. Once the right cells have multiplied sufficiently, they are administered to the recipient via infusions.

(BASEC)

Untersuchte Krankheit(en)

EBV-associated diseases/Lymphomas

(BASEC)

Kriterien zur Teilnahme
Group A: Patients with EBV-related lymphomas with EBV complications or patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases at high risk for EBV complications with planned cell transplantation from an unrelated donor Group B: EBV-related PTLD developing after HCT or SOT For both groups: - All age groups - Negative pregnancy test in female patients of childbearing age. - Signed written informed consent from the patient and/or parents/legal representatives (BASEC)

Ausschlusskriterien
- Patients who received antithymocyte globulin or Campath within 28 days prior to infusion - Patients with active, acute graft versus host disease grade III-IV - Previous severe reaction to DMSO (BASEC)

Studienstandort

Basel

(BASEC)

Switzerland (ICTRP)

Sponsor

Universitättspital Basel, Klinik für Infektiologie

(BASEC)

Kontakt für weitere Auskünfte zur Studie

Kontaktperson Schweiz

Prof. Dr. med. Nina Khanna

+41 61 265 31 98

nina.khanna@usb.ch

Universitätsspital Basel, Klinik für Infektiologie Petersgraben 4 4031 Basel

(BASEC)

Allgemeine Auskünfte

Klinik f?r Infektiologie und Spitalhygiene, University Hospital of Basel,

+41 61 328 73 25

nina.khanna@usb.ch

(ICTRP)

Allgemeine Auskünfte

Klinik fr Infektiologie und Spitalhygiene, University Hospital of Basel

+41 61 328 73 25

nina.khanna@usb.ch

(ICTRP)

Wissenschaftliche Auskünfte

Klinik f?r Infektiologie und Spitalhygiene, University Hospital of Basel,

+41 61 328 73 25

nina.khanna@usb.ch

(ICTRP)

Name der bewilligenden Ethikkommission (bei multizentrischen Studien nur die Leitkommission)

Ethikkommission Nordwest- und Zentralschweiz EKNZ

(BASEC)

Datum der Bewilligung durch die Ethikkommission

20.03.2023

(BASEC)


ICTRP Studien-ID
NCT05688241 (ICTRP)

Offizieller Titel (Genehmigt von der Ethikkommission)
Epstein-Barr Virus-specific T Memory Stem Cell Therapy to Treat EBV-driven Lymphomas/Diseases (BASEC)

Wissenschaftlicher Titel
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) -Specific T Memory Stem Cell (Tscm) Therapy to Treat EBV- Driven Lymphomas/ Diseases (ICTRP)

Öffentlicher Titel
EBV-Tscm Cytotoxic T Cells (CTLs) for EBV- Driven Lymphomas/ Diseases (ICTRP)

Untersuchte Krankheit(en)
EBV LymphomaPost-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease (PTLD) (ICTRP)

Untersuchte Intervention
Drug: Donor-derived ex-vivo expanded EBV Tscm CTL (ICTRP)

Studientyp
Interventional (ICTRP)

Studiendesign
Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label). (ICTRP)

Ein-/Ausschlusskriterien
Patients' inclusion criteria:

- Group A: Patients with EBV driven lymphomas (e.g., NK/T-cell lymphoma), with EBV
complications (e.g. HLH, CAEBV) or patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders
with high risk for EBV complications (e.g. SCID) with planned allogeneic HCT

- Group B: EBV-driven PTLD that develop after a HCT or SOT

For both groups:

- All age groups

- Negative pregnancy test in female patients of childbearing potential.

- Signed written informed consent of patient or/and parents

Patients' exclusion criteria:

- Patients receiving anti-thymocyte globulin or Campath within 28 days of infusion

- Patients with active, acute GvHD grades III-IV

- Previous severe reaction to dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO)

Donors' inclusion criteria:

- EBV positive serology (VCA and Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen (EBNA) immunoglobulin G
(IgG) positive)

- Detectable interferon (IFN)-y-secreting T cells (>100 SFC/10e6 PBMC) measured by
Elispot to the EBV consensus peptide pool

- Suitability for blood or HCT donation meeting requirements of local institutional
guidelines

- An informed consent for EBV Tscm CTL manufacturing

- Age > 18 years

Donors' exclusion criteria:

- Detectable IFN-y-secreting T-cells <100 spot-forming cell (SFC)/10e6 PBMC measured
by Elispot to EBV select

- Unwilling and/or unable to donate, according to the donor center (ICTRP)

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Primäre und sekundäre Endpunkte
Assessment of feasibility to expand Tscm-enriched EBV CTLs;Safety of EBV Tscm-CTL infusion assessed by number of early infusion-related events;Safety of EBV Tscm-CTL infusion assessed by number of late clinical reaction to EBV Tscm-CTLs (ICTRP)

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Registrierungsdatum
21.12.2022 (ICTRP)

Einschluss des ersten Teilnehmers
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Sekundäre Sponsoren
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Weitere Kontakte
Nina Khanna, Prof. Dr. med.;Nina Khanna, Prof. Dr. med., nina.khanna@usb.ch, +41 61 328 73 25, Klinik f?r Infektiologie und Spitalhygiene, University Hospital of Basel, (ICTRP)

Sekundäre IDs
2022-01210, am22Khanna (ICTRP)

Angaben zur Verfügbarkeit von individuellen Teilnehmerdaten
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Weitere Informationen zur Studie
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05688241 (ICTRP)

Ergebnisse der Studie

Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse

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Link zu den Ergebnissen im Primärregister

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