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Safety IssuesSUPERTHYMNCT05655000

Neonatal Thymus Transplantation in Humans

A study testing Neonatal thymus transplantation in people with Safety Issues, run by Fundacion Clinica Valle del Lili at 1 site in Colombia.

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Trial summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to demonstrate the safety of the neonatal thymus transplant in an adult patient. The main questions it aims to answer are: Is the neonatal thymus transplant a safe procedure? What is the adverse event profile of the neonatal thymus transplant? This is a single-subject study; thus… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Safety Issues
What is being tested?
Neonatal thymus transplantation
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
1 participants
Where
1 siteColombia
Study dates
15 Nov 2022to Jan 2023
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Diagnosis of acute leukemia in palliative care, either myeloid (AML) or lymphocytic (ALL).
  • Not candidate for bone marrow transplant.
  • Not candidate for intensive chemotherapy.

Who cannot join

  • Past medical history of bone marrow transplant.
  • Past medical history of severe cognitive decline or dementia.
  • Past medical history of severe liver failure.
  • Past medical history of chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 4-5.
  • Past medical history of acute coronary syndrome within the past 90 days.
  • Past medical history of acute ischemic stroke within the past 90 days.
  • Past medical history of decompensated congestive heart failure (CHF) within the past 90 days.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Luis F Tintinago-Londoño, MD contact

+573319090 ext. 7433

luis.tintinago@fvl.org.co

Colombia1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Fundación Valle Del Lili

    Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, 760031

    Luis F Tintinago-Londoño, MD, +573319090 ext. 7433, luis.tintinago@fvl.org.co

    Luis F Tintinago-Londoño, MD

    Recruiting

Other trials in Colombia

About this study

Official title: A First-in-Humans Supermicrosurgical Technique for the Neonatal Thymus Transplantation

The goal of this clinical trial is to demonstrate the safety of the neonatal thymus transplant in an adult patient. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • Is the neonatal thymus transplant a safe procedure?
  • What is the adverse event profile of the neonatal thymus transplant?

This is a single-subject study; thus, there will not be comparison groups. The participant will receive multidisciplinary supportive care before, during, and after the procedure.

Read the detailed description

Inadequate thymopoiesis is probably related to autoimmunity, immunodeficiency, and immunosenescence. Enhancing thymopoiesis may be attractive for managing or studying such immunologic phenomena. Thymopoiesis is supported by the adult thymus transplant, as demonstrated in different animal models. Several approaches to enhance thymopoiesis in humans have been reported, which include in-vitro and in-vivo regeneration of the thymus and avascular grafting of allogeneic processed thymic tissue, among others.

Although a supermicrosurgical technique for neonatal thymus transplantation was recently described in rabbits, it has never been described in humans. This technique can be used to perform a neonatal thymus transplantation in humans. If this technique demonstrates to be safe, future studies will follow to investigate its effect on thymopoiesis and its efficacy on different health conditions.

This single-subject, first-in-humans clinical trial aims to demonstrate the safety and investigate the adverse effect profile of the neonatal thymus transplant in an adult with acute myeloid leukemia who is not candidate for bone marrow transplant, nor intensive chemotherapy. This human model not only allows to study the safety of the neonatal thymus transplant, it will also allow to investigate the effect of the procedure on thymopoiesis.

Conditions
Safety Issues
Being tested
Neonatal thymus transplantation
Keywords
Neonatal thymus transplant, First-in-humans, Clinical trial, Safety, Supermicrosurgery

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Neonatal thymus transplantationProcedure or surgery

    Also called Multidisciplinary supportive care before, during and after the procedure.

    The donor's neonatal thymus vessels will be dissected right after the routinary partial thymectomy. These vessels will be anastomosed into the recipient's penetrating vessels within the radial forearm by using a supermicrosurgical technique. The graft will be explanted at day 14-21 after the procedure.

Study groups in NCT05655000
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Neonatal thymus transplantationExperimentalSupermicrosurgical technique for neonatal thymus transplantation into the subject's radial forearm. The donor will be a neonate subject to corrective heart surgery via sternotomy requiring routinary partial thymectomy.
Receives: Procedure: Neonatal thymus transplantation

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Incidence of Adverse Events (AEs)

    Incidence of AEs and of clinically relevant changes in vital signs values, symptoms, physical examination findings, laboratory and imaging safety data.

    Measured: 14-21 days

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Thymic graft functioning

    Change in percentage (%) of naïve (CD45+ CD3+ CDRA+) and memory (CD45+ CD3+ CDRA-) T lymphocytes over the total number of T lymphocytes by flow cytometry before engrafting (day -1), and before explant (day +14-21), as biomarkers of thymopoiesis.

    Measured: 14-21 days

  2. Tissue viability

    Presence and extent (if any) of the graft rejection by light microscopy with eosin-hematoxylin and immunochemistry staining in the explanted thymic tissue at post-operative day 14-21.

    Measured: 14-21 days

  3. Donor-receptor compatibility

    Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA) typing.

    Measured: 14-21 days

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted16 Dec 2022
  2. Study start15 Nov 2022
  3. Primary completionDec 2022 (estimated)
  4. Study completionJan 2023 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Model description
Single-subject study of a supermicrosurgical technique for neonatal thymus transplantation in an adult with acute myeloid leukemia who is not candidate for bone marrow transplant, nor intensive chemotherapy. The participant will receive multidisciplinary supportive care before, during and after the procedure. The safety and adverse event profile will be assessed throughout the study. The graft will be explanted 14-21 days after the procedure. Thymopoiesis will be measured at baseline and at postoperatve day 14-21, before explantation.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
1 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05655000
Sponsor's protocol ID
FVL-1995
Acronym
SUPERTHYM
Status last verified
Dec 2022
First submitted
24 Nov 2022
Last updated
16 Dec 2022
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Bluestone JA, Anderson M. Tolerance in the Age of Immunotherapy. N Engl J Med. 2020 Sep 17;383(12):1156-1166. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1911109. No abstract available.

    PubMed 32937048
  • Collins C, Sharpe E, Silber A, Kulke S, Hsieh EWY. Congenital Athymia: Genetic Etiologies, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment. J Clin Immunol. 2021 Jul;41(5):881-895. doi: 10.1007/s10875-021-01059-7. Epub 2021 May 13.

    PubMed 33987750
  • Mittelbrunn M, Kroemer G. Hallmarks of T cell aging. Nat Immunol. 2021 Jun;22(6):687-698. doi: 10.1038/s41590-021-00927-z. Epub 2021 May 13.

    PubMed 33986548
  • Bredenkamp N, Ulyanchenko S, O'Neill KE, Manley NR, Vaidya HJ, Blackburn CC. An organized and functional thymus generated from FOXN1-reprogrammed fibroblasts. Nat Cell Biol. 2014 Sep;16(9):902-8. doi: 10.1038/ncb3023. Epub 2014 Aug 24.

    PubMed 25150981
  • Velardi E, Tsai JJ, Holland AM, Wertheimer T, Yu VW, Zakrzewski JL, Tuckett AZ, Singer NV, West ML, Smith OM, Young LF, Kreines FM, Levy ER, Boyd RL, Scadden DT, Dudakov JA, van den Brink MR. Sex steroid blockade enhances thymopoiesis by modulating Notch signaling. J Exp Med. 2014 Nov 17;211(12):2341-9. doi: 10.1084/jem.20131289. Epub 2014 Oct 20.

    PubMed 25332287
  • O'Neill KE, Bredenkamp N, Tischner C, Vaidya HJ, Stenhouse FH, Peddie CD, Nowell CS, Gaskell T, Blackburn CC. Foxn1 Is Dynamically Regulated in Thymic Epithelial Cells during Embryogenesis and at the Onset of Thymic Involution. PLoS One. 2016 Mar 16;11(3):e0151666. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151666. eCollection 2016.

    PubMed 26983083
  • Ulyanchenko S, O'Neill KE, Medley T, Farley AM, Vaidya HJ, Cook AM, Blair NF, Blackburn CC. Identification of a Bipotent Epithelial Progenitor Population in the Adult Thymus. Cell Rep. 2016 Mar 29;14(12):2819-32. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.02.080. Epub 2016 Mar 17.

    PubMed 26997270
  • Martin-Gayo E, Gonzalez-Garcia S, Garcia-Leon MJ, Murcia-Ceballos A, Alcain J, Garcia-Peydro M, Allende L, de Andres B, Gaspar ML, Toribio ML. Spatially restricted JAG1-Notch signaling in human thymus provides suitable DC developmental niches. J Exp Med. 2017 Nov 6;214(11):3361-3379. doi: 10.1084/jem.20161564. Epub 2017 Sep 25.

    PubMed 28947612
  • Shichkin VP, Gorbach OI, Zuieva OA, Grabchenko NI, Aksyonova IA, Todurov BM. Effect of cryopreservation on viability and growth efficiency of stromal-epithelial cells derived from neonatal human thymus. Cryobiology. 2017 Oct;78:70-79. doi: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2017.06.010. Epub 2017 Jun 28.

    PubMed 28668447
  • Garcia-Leon MJ, Fuentes P, de la Pompa JL, Toribio ML. Dynamic regulation of NOTCH1 activation and Notch ligand expression in human thymus development. Development. 2018 Aug 13;145(16):dev165597. doi: 10.1242/dev.165597.

    PubMed 30042180
  • Campinoti S, Gjinovci A, Ragazzini R, Zanieri L, Ariza-McNaughton L, Catucci M, Boeing S, Park JE, Hutchinson JC, Munoz-Ruiz M, Manti PG, Vozza G, Villa CE, Phylactopoulos DE, Maurer C, Testa G, Stauss HJ, Teichmann SA, Sebire NJ, Hayday AC, Bonnet D, Bonfanti P. Reconstitution of a functional human thymus by postnatal stromal progenitor cells and natural whole-organ scaffolds. Nat Commun. 2020 Dec 11;11(1):6372. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20082-7.

    PubMed 33311516
  • Fahy GM. Apparent induction of partial thymic regeneration in a normal human subject: a case report. J Anti Aging Med. 2003;6(3):219-27. doi: 10.1089/109454503322733063.

    PubMed 14987435
  • Fahy GM, Brooke RT, Watson JP, Good Z, Vasanawala SS, Maecker H, Leipold MD, Lin DTS, Kobor MS, Horvath S. Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans. Aging Cell. 2019 Dec;18(6):e13028. doi: 10.1111/acel.13028. Epub 2019 Sep 8.

    PubMed 31496122
  • Kirkpatrick JA Jr, DiGeorge AM. Congenital absence of the thymus. Am J Roentgenol Radium Ther Nucl Med. 1968 May;103(1):32-7. doi: 10.2214/ajr.103.1.32. No abstract available.

    PubMed 5648947
  • Conley ME, Beckwith JB, Mancer JF, Tenckhoff L. The spectrum of the DiGeorge syndrome. J Pediatr. 1979 Jun;94(6):883-90. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(79)80207-3.

    PubMed 448529

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Neonatal thymus transplantation in people with Safety Issues, run by Fundacion Clinica Valle del Lili at 1 site in Colombia.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 7 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 16 Dec 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Colombia. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Luis F Tintinago-Londoño, MD (+573319090 ext. 7433, luis.tintinago@fvl.org.co), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Incidence of Adverse Events (AEs) (time frame: 14-21 days). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05655000, which also lists 96 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 16 Dec 2022.

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