Engineered immune cells take on lupus in early trial

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

Inclusion Criteria: * Aged 18 to 65 years (inclusive), regardless of gender. * Definitive diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) meeting the 2019 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology (EULAR/ACR) classification criteria for SLE * Treatment refractory: failed ≥ 2 Conventional SLE treatments for at least 3 months. * Disease activity assessed by SELENA-SLEDAI score ≥ 6 with at least one British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG)-2004 Class A (severe manifestation) or two Class B (moderate manifestation) organ scores (or both); OR SELENA-SLEDAI score ≥ 8. * Adequate function of major organs as follows: Bone marrow function: a. Neutrophil count ≥ 1×10⁹/L (no colony-stimulating factor therapy within 2 weeks prior to testing, excluding neutropenia caused by SLE); b. Hemoglobin ≥ 60 g/L. Liver function: Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3 × upper limit of normal (ULN) (excluding ALT elevation caused by SLE); Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3 × ULN (excluding AST elevation caused by SLE); Total bilirubin (TBIL) ≤ 1.5 × ULN (excluding TBIL elevation caused by SLE). Renal function: Creatinine clearance rate (CrCl) ≥ 30 mL/minute (calculated by Cockcroft/Gault formula, excluding CrCl reduction caused by SLE). Coagulation function: International normalized ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5 × ULN; Prothrombin time (PT) ≤ 1.5 × ULN. Cardiac function: Hemodynamically stable. * Female subjects of childbearing potential and male subjects whose partners are of childbearing potential must use medically approved contraceptive methods or abstain from sexual intercourse during the study treatment period and for at least 6 months after the end of study treatment. Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative serum human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) test within 7 days prior to study enrollment and must not be breastfeeding. * Voluntarily agrees to participate in the clinical study, signs the informed consent form (ICF), and demonstrates good compliance with study procedures and follow-up. Exclusion Criteria: * History of severe drug allergies or atopic diathesis. * Presence or suspicion of uncontrolled or treatment-requiring fungal, bacterial, viral, or other infections. * Cardiac function insufficient to tolerate the study treatment. * Congenital immunoglobulin deficiency. * History of malignant tumors within the past 5 years. * End-stage renal failure. * Positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) with peripheral blood HBV DNA titer above the lower limit of detection; positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody with positive peripheral blood HCV RNA; positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody; positive syphilis test. * History of mental illness or severe cognitive impairment. * Use of disease-modifying immunosuppressive agents within 5 half-lives or biological agents within 4 weeks prior to enrollment. * Pregnant females or females planning to become pregnant. * Other conditions deemed by the investigator to preclude study participation.