Engineered immune cells take on tough lupus cases

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 18 years old; * Diagnosed with SLE according to the 2019 EULAR/ACR SLE classification criteria, and still in moderate to severe disease activity despite ≥3M of high dose glucocorticoids(prednisone≥1mg/kg/d or other equivalent amount of other steriod), and/or hydroxychloroquine, and at least 2 DMARDs(include cyclophosphamide, mycophenolate mofetil, azathioprine, methotrexate, cyclosporin, tacrolimus, sirolimus, leflunomide, telitacicept, beliumab, and rituximab) or intolerant to standard treatments; * SLEDAI-2K score ≥ 8 points; * Meet the standards of leukapheresis or intravenous blood collection, and no contraindication for leukapheresis; * Negative pregnancy test for female subjects of childbearing age, and agree to take effective contraceptive measures until one year after CAR-T infusion; * Participant or his/her guardians agree to participate in the clinical trial and sign the informed consent form which indicating that he/she understands the purpose and procedure of the clinical trial and is willing to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Central nervous system (CNS) disease: CNS neurolupus requires intervention within 30 days; * Have a history of congenital heart disease or acute myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to screening or severe arrhythmias (including multisource frequent supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia, etc.); or NYHA classification class IV; or combined with moderate to massive pericardial effusion, serious myocarditis, etc; or patient with unstable vital signs who need hypertensive drugs; * The functions of important organs meet one of the following conditions: (1)renal function: eGFR\<30mL/min/1.73m2 or require renal replacement therapy; (2)liver function: AST and ALT\>3.0 ULN, total Bilirubin (TBIL) in serum \>2.0×ULN; (3)lung function: SpO2\<92% with no oxygen inhalation; * Uncontrollable infection or active infection that requires systemic treatment within 3 months prior to screening; * Received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation within 3 months prior to screening, or ≥Grade 2 GVHD within 2 weeks prior to screening; * Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) positive and peripheral blood hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA titer greater than the normal reference value range; or hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody positive and peripheral blood hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA titer greater than the normal reference value range; or positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies; or syphilis test positive; * Suffered from active pulmonary tuberculosis at screening; * Received live vaccine within 4 weeks prior to screening; * Positive in blood pregnancy test; * Suffered from malignant disease such as tumors (excluding tumors without active lesions and ending treatment for more than 5 years, as well as fully treated cervical carcinoma in situ, basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, thyroid cancer after radical resection, ductal carcinoma in situ after radical resection); * Patients who participated in other clinical study within 3 months prior to screening; * Any other conditions that the investigators deem it unsuitable for the study.