In-Body CAR-T: a new shot at fighting blood cancers?
NCT ID NCT07511426
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This early study tests a new treatment called U96 for people with B-cell leukemia or lymphoma that has come back or not responded to standard therapy. U96 is a gene therapy given as a single infusion that aims to create cancer-fighting CAR-T cells inside the patient's own body. The trial will enroll about 30 adults and focus first on safety, checking for side effects and how well the treatment is tolerated.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- U96 (a gene therapy that creates CAR-T cells inside the body to target CD19 on cancer cells)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a new treatment option for patients with hard-to-treat B-cell cancers, potentially reducing the need for complex lab-made CAR-T cells.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very early Phase 1 trial with only 30 patients, so it is too soon to know if it is safe or effective. There are risks of serious side effects like cytokine release syndrome and nerve problems.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1
The first testing in people. Mainly checks safety and dose, usually in a small group.
- Participants
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About 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Jul 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * (All the following items must be met simultaneously) 1. Patients must voluntarily sign the informed consent form and have good compliance; 2. For different indications, patients must meet the following requirements: 2-1) Patients in the acute B lymphoblastic leukemia group: 1. The age at signing the informed consent form is ≥ 18 years old, both male and female are acceptable; 2. According to the standards of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Clinical Practice Guidelines (2024, 2nd Edition), it is clearly diagnosed as acute B lymphoblastic leukemia; 3. According to the "Chinese Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines" (2021 Edition), one of the following conditions must be met: a. Refractory leukemia: standard induction therapy fails to achieve CR/CRi after (generally referring to 4-week regimen or Hyper-CVAD regimen) completion; b. Leukemia recurrence: patients who have achieved CR have peripheral blood or bone marrow with blast cells (proportion \> 5%) or MRD positive or extramedullary lesions; 2-2) Patients in the B-cell lymphoma group: <!-- --> 1. The age at signing the informed consent form is ≥ 18 years old, both male and female are acceptable; 2. According to the standards of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) B-cell lymphoma clinical practice guidelines (2024, 3rd Edition), it is clearly diagnosed as B-cell lymphoma; 3. Patients with B-cell lymphoma who have failed at least two-line treatment (one standardized chemotherapy regimen + one salvage chemotherapy) or have relapsed before screening. The previous treatment of B-cell lymphoma must include CD20 monoclonal antibody (excluding CD20-negative tumor patients) and anthracycline-based standardized treatment regimen. At least one of the following conditions must be met: a. Unable to undergo autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; b. Refuse to undergo autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; c. Relapse after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; 4. At screening, the patient is in a state of disease recurrence or refractory: a) Recurrence definition: after adequate treatment achieving remission (including partial remission (PR) or complete remission (CR)), PD again occurs; b) Refractoriness definition: i. No response to the last treatment: PD during/after the last treatment or the best efficacy is SD, and the duration is less than 6 months; ii. Recurrence or progression after ASCT (requiring biopsy confirmation), including: recurrence or PD within 12 months after ASCT, if salvage treatment is received, no response (SD or PD) to the last treatment; 3. Bone marrow or peripheral blood or immunohistochemistry or pathology shows CD19 antigen positive; 4. According to the Lugano Lymphoma Response Evaluation Criteria (Cheson 2014), B-cell lymphoma patients have at least one evaluable lesion, or positive lesions confirmed by PET-CT; 5. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score is 0-3; 6. At screening, there is a certain degree of bone marrow reserve, defined as: absolute lymphocyte value (ALC) ≥ 0.3×109/L, platelet (PLT) ≥ 30×109/L (allowing the result after administration); 7. Have appropriate organ function, and need to meet the following standards: aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3 times the upper limit of normal (ULN); alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3 times ULN (for liver function abnormalities caused by tumor infiltration, AST and ALT ≤ 5 times ULN are required); total serum bilirubin The serum bilirubin should be ≤ 2 times the ULN, except for those with Gilbert syndrome who have a combined condition; the total bilirubin should be ≤ 3 times the ULN and the direct bilirubin should be ≤ 1.5 times the ULN. Patients with Gilbert syndrome who meet these criteria can be included. The serum creatinine should be ≤ 1.5 times the ULN, or the creatinine clearance rate should be ≥ 60 mL/min (Cockcroft and Gault formula); possess the lowest level of pulmonary reserve, defined as ≤ 1 grade of dyspnea and a blood oxygen saturation \> 91% in non-oxygenated state; left ventricular ejection fraction of the left heart in echocardiography should be ≥ 50%; International Normalized Ratio (INR) should be ≤ 1.5 times the ULN, and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) should be ≤ 1.5 times the ULN; 8. The blood/urine pregnancy test for women of childbearing age during the screening period should be negative. Any male or female patient with reproductive capacity must agree to use an effective contraceptive method throughout the study process and for at least 1 year after the administration of the study treatment; 9. The expected survival period should be greater than 3 months. Exclusion Criteria: * (Any of the following conditions will disqualify one from participating) 1. Having another malignant tumor and the investigator considers that the presence of other malignant tumors may affect the current treatment; 2. Any of the following conditions: positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or hepatitis B core antibody (HBc-Ab), and the HBV-DNA copy number is greater than the minimum detection limit; positive for hepatitis C antibody (HCV-Ab), and the HCV-RNA copy number is greater than the minimum detection limit; positive for anti-mycoplasma antibody (TP-Ab); positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody; 3. Existing bacterial, fungal, viral, mycoplasma or other types of infections and the investigator determines that they are difficult to control; 4. Having a CNS disease other than this disease in the past or currently, such as epileptic seizures, cerebral ischemia/hemorrhage, dementia, cerebellar disease or any CNS-related autoimmune disease, and the investigator determines that it is uncontrollable; 5. Before signing the informed consent form, having undergone cardiac angioplasty or stent placement within 12 months, or having NYHA classification III-IV grade congestive heart failure, or having myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris or the investigator determines that there is a clinically significant history of heart disease, or the patient's QTc interval is \> 480 ms (QTc interval calculated using the Fridericia formula), and the left ventricular ejection fraction of the heart ultrasound is \< 50%; 6. Patients with primary immunodeficiency; 7. Having had a severe immediate-type hypersensitivity reaction to any drug used in this study; 8. Having received live vaccines within 6 weeks before screening; 9. Pregnant or lactating women; 10. Active autoimmune diseases; 11. Having active acute or chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) at the time of signing the informed consent form, and the investigator determines that it is uncontrollable; 12. Participating in any other interventional clinical research within 30 days before signing the informed consent form; 13. Situations that the investigator deems unsuitable for participating in this study.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University
Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, China
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