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Immune ThrombocytopeniaPhase 2NCT06168851

Anti-CD38 Antibody Treating Pediatric Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)

A Phase 2 study testing Anti-CD38 antibody Injection in people with Immune Thrombocytopenia and Treatment, run by Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, China at 1 site in China.

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Trial summary

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Anti-CD38 Antibody in the treatment of pediatric primary immune thrombocytopenia in patients who have not responded adequately or relapsed after first-line treatment and at least one second-line therapy including Anti-CD20 Antibody and/or TPO-RA, or those in whom no other… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 6 to 17 years
Conditions the study is for
Immune Thrombocytopenia, Treatment
What is being tested?
Anti-CD38 antibody Injection
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
60 participants
Where
1 siteChina
Study dates
28 Dec 2023to Dec 2030
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

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 6 to 17 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child

Who may be able to join

  • Age 6 years and above, male or female
  • Conform to the diagnostic criteria of immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)
  • Diagnosis of ITP ≥3 months, and with a platelet count of <30 X 10^9/L measured within 2 days prior to inclusion
  • Failure to achieve response or relapse after corticosteroid therapy, and at least one second-line therapy including rituximab or TPORAs.
  • The previous emergency treatment of ITP (e.g. methylprednisolone, platelet transfusion, IVIG transfusion) must be completed at least 2 weeks before the first administration
  • Signed and dated written informed consent
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  • With normal hepatic and renal functions
  • ECOG physical state score ≤ 2 points
  • Cardiac function of the New York Society of Cardiac Function ≤ 2
  • Patients receiving maintenance treatment (including corticosteroids (less than or equal to 0.5mg/kg prednisone), TPO receptor agonists, etc.) must have a stable dose at least 4 weeks before the first administration, and azathioprine, danazol, cyclosporin A, tacrolimus, sirolimus, etc. must be stopped at least 4 weeks before the first administration; The end of rituximab treatment was>3 months;More than 6 months after splenectomy.
  • March 26,2024 After approval by the Ethics Committee,age of subjects has been modified to 6 years and above upon enrollment. Approval Number: IIT2023072-EC-2.

Who cannot join

  • Allergy to daratumumab or its excipients, or prior treatment with daratumumab that was refractory or achieved a response lasting <6 months;
  • Uncontrollable primary diseases of important organs, such as malignant tumors, liver failure, heart failure, renal failure and other diseases;
  • HIV positive;
  • Accompanied by uncontrollable active infection, including hepatitis B, hepatitis C, cytomegalovirus, EB virus and syphilis positive;
  • Accompanied by extensive and severe bleeding, such as hemoptysis, upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage, etc.;
  • At present, there are heart diseases, arrhythmias that need treatment or hypertension that researchers judge is poorly controlled;
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  • Patients with thrombotic diseases such as pulmonary embolism, thrombosis and atherosclerosis;
  • Those who have received allogeneic stem cell transplantation or organ transplantation in the past;
  • Patients with mental disorders who cannot normally obtain informed consent and conduct trials and follow-up;
  • Patients whose toxic symptoms caused by pre-trial treatment have not disappeared;
  • Other serious diseases that may limit the subject's participation in this test (such as diabetes; Severe cardiac insufficiency; Myocardial obstruction or unstable arrhythmia or unstable angina pectoris in recent 6 months; Gastric ulcer, etc.);
  • Patients with septicemia or other irregular severe bleeding;
  • Patients taking antiplatelet drugs at the same time;
  • Pregnant women, suspected pregnancies (positive pregnancy test for human chorionic gonadotropin in urine at screening) and lactating patients.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

China1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Blood Disease Hospital

    Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, 300020

    Ting Sun, MD, +86-22-23909009, sunting@ihcams.ac.cn

    Yunfei Chen, MD, +86-22-23909009, chenyunfei@ihcams.ac.cn

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: A Prospective, One-arm and Open Clinical Study to Assess Safety and Efficacy of Anti-CD38 Antibody in the Treatment of Pediatric Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Anti-CD38 Antibody in the treatment of pediatric primary immune thrombocytopenia in patients who have not responded adequately or relapsed after first-line treatment and at least one second-line therapy including Anti-CD20 Antibody and/or TPO-RA, or those in whom no other second-line treatment options are suitable.

Read the detailed description

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease, which is characterized by decreased platelet count and skin and mucosal bleeding. ITP is a kind of disease with increased platelet destruction and impaired platelet production caused by autoimmunity. Conventional treatment of adult ITP includes first-line glucocorticoid and immunoglobulin therapy, second line TPO and TPO receptor agonist, splenectomy and other immunosuppressive treatments (such as rituximab, vincristine, azathioprine, etc.). ITP is one of the most common hemorrhagic diseases. At present, the treatment response of ITP is not good, and a considerable number of patients need drug maintenance treatment, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients and increases the economic burden of patients. Therefore, there is still a lack of effective treatment for adult ITP, especially for recurrent and refractory ITP patients, which is one of the problems that have attracted more attention and need to be solved urgently.

The main pathogenesis of ITP is the loss of platelet autoantigen immune tolerance, which leads to abnormal activation of humoral and cellular immunity. It is characterized by antibody mediated platelet destruction and insufficient platelet production by megakaryocytes. The residual long-term autoreactive plasma cells may be a source of therapeutic resistance to autoimmune cytopenia. Antiplatelet specific plasma cells have been detected in the spleen of patients with rituximab refractory ITP. Therefore, the strategy of simply eliminating B cells may not work, because LLPC will continue to produce pathogenic antibodies. However, targeting LLPC becomes a new strategy to treat autoimmune diseases.

Anti-CD38 antibody is a new type of monoclonal antibody targeting CD38. It targets plasma cells and has carried out some clinical studies in multiple myeloma, with good therapeutic effects. In addition, the clinical trials of similar CD38 monoclonal antibody drugs, such as daratumumab, in the treatment of autoimmune diseases, including membranous nephropathy, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and ITP, are also being carried out simultaneously. We assume that autologous reaction LLPC may be the cause of treatment failure in some ITP patients. Therefore, the use of CD38 monoclonal antibody to clear long-term surviving plasma cells in ITP patients may be a new strategy for treating ITP patients.

Therefore, the investigators designed this clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CD38 monoclonal antibody in the treatment of pediatric immune thrombocytopenia in patients who are steroid-refractory or steroid-dependent, and fail to respond to at least one previous second-line therapy, including Anti-CD20 Antibody and/ or TPO agonist.

Being tested
Anti-CD38 antibody Injection
Medical subject headings
Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic

What participants receive

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

  • Anti-CD38 antibody InjectionDrug

    intravenous Anti-CD38 antibody administration

    This study adopts a prospective, single arm, open design method. Twenty subjects were enrolled in the study and were treated with Anti-CD38 antibody (16mg/kg/w) for 8 weeks.

    The first stage is the main research stage (d1-w8), which is the core treatment period. The subjects will receive intravenous infusion of 16mg/kg Anti-CD38 antibody once a week for 8 weeks to observe the safety and efficacy during treatment.

    The second stage (w9-w24) is the stage of withdrawal from the visit, mainly to observe the safety and continuous efficacy of Anti-CD38 antibody after treatment.

    The third stage (w 25 to y 5): Extension visit phase, primarily to observe the long-term safety and sustained efficacy following CD38 monoclonal antibody therapy.

Study groups in NCT06168851
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Experimental: Intervention (Anti-CD38 antibody)Experimental60 enrolled subjects : once a week x 8 doses
Receives: Drug: Anti-CD38 antibody Injection

What is being measured

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

  1. Evaluation of overall efficacy response after Anti-CD38 antibody treatment within 8 weeks

    Proportion of subjects with a platelet count ≥ 50 × 10^9/L within 8 weeks after initial administration in absence of rescue therapy, and without having had dose increment of TPO-RA or corticosteroids during the study period

    Measured: 8 weeks

  2. Safety of Anti-CD38 antibody treatment

    Incidence, severity, and relationship of treatment emergent adverse events after Anti-CD38 antibody treatment

    Measured: 5 years

Secondary outcomes (9)
  1. Other efficacy evaluation

    Including: 1. Proportion of subjects with a platelet count ≥ 50 × 10^9/L at week 2, week 4, week 6,week 8,week 10, week 12 and other visit throughout the study period in absence of rescue therapy, and without having had dose increment of TPO-RA or corticosteroids during the study period; 2. Proportion of subjects achieving platelet counts ≥ 50×10^9/L at least once in absence of rescue therapy, and without having had dose increment of TPO-RA or corticosteroids during the first 12 weeks and other visit throughout the study period; 3. Proportion of subjects whose platelet counts ≥ 30×10^9/L and at least two times of baseline platelet count in absence of rescue therapy, and without having had dose increment of TPO-RA or corticosteroids within 8 weeks and other visit throughout the study period(two consecutive measurements at least 7 days apart).

    Measured: 5 years

  2. Duration from treatment initiation to platelet count ≥30×10^9/L and ≥50×10^9/L

    Duration from treatment initiation to platelet count ≥30×10^9/L and ≥50×10^9/L without having received any platelet elevating therapy or having had dose increment of TPO-RA and/or corticosteroids

    Measured: 12 weeks

  3. Cumulative weeks of platelet ≥30×10^9/L and platelet ≥50×10^9/L

    Cumulative weeks of platelet ≥30×10^9/L and platelet ≥50×10^9/L without having received any platelet elevating therapy or having had dose increment of TPO-RA and/or corticosteroids

    Measured: 5 years

  4. Reduction of concomitant drug

    Percentage of patients with reduced doses of corticosteroids and/or other concomitant immunosuppressive drugs at baseline by 24 weeks of Anti-CD38 antibody treatment

    Measured: 5 years

  5. Number of subjects with clinically significant bleeding as assessed using the world health organization (WHO) bleeding scale

    Changes of the subjects' numbers in WHO bleeding score after Anti-CD38 antibody treatment according to the reported World Health Organization's Bleeding Scale. The WHO Bleeding Scale is a measure of bleeding severity with the following grades: grade 0 = no bleeding, grade 1= petechiae, grade 2= mild blood loss, grade 3 = gross blood loss, and grade 4 = debilitating blood loss.

    Measured: 5 years

  6. Number of subjects with clinically significant bleeding as assessed using the bleeding scale for pediatric patients with ITP

    Changes of the subjects' numbers in bleeding score after Anti-CD38 antibody treatment according to the reported bleeding scale for pediatric patients with ITP. The bleeding scale for pediatric patients with ITP is a measure of bleeding severity with the following grades: Grade 1 (minor) Minor bleeding, few petechiae (≤100 total) and/or ≤5 small bruises (≤3 cm in diameter), no mucosal bleeding;Grade 2 (mild) Mild bleeding, many petechiae (>100 total) and/or >5 large bruises (>3 cm in diameter), no mucosal bleeding;Grade 3 (moderate) Moderate bleeding, overt mucosal bleeding, troublesome lifestyle;Grade 4 (severe) Severe bleeding, mucosal bleeding leading to decrease in Hb>2 g/dL or suspected internal hemorrhage;

    Measured: 5 years

  7. Measurements of platelet glycoprotein (GP) autoantibodies

    level of anti-GPIIb/IIIa and Ib/IX antibodies before and after Anti-CD38 antibody treatment

    Measured: 5 years

  8. Measurements of immunoglobulin quantification

    The level of IgG, IgA, IgM and IgE quantification before and after Anti-CD38 antibody treatment

    Measured: 5 years

  9. Measurements of various subsets of immunocompetent cells

    To assess the changes of the percentage of B cell subsets,regulatory B cells(Breg),regulatory T cells (Treg),supressor T cells(Ts),monocyte subcets, helper T cells(Th)subsets and the functionally-polarized CD4+ T cell subsets, etc. in peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PBMCs)before and after Anti-CD38 antibody treatment, and to compare with the healthy controls.

    Measured: 5 years

Timeline

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

  1. First posted13 Dec 2023
  2. Study start28 Dec 2023
  3. Primary completionDec 2025 (estimated)
  4. Study completionDec 2030 (estimated)

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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 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
60 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06168851
Sponsor's protocol ID
IIT2023072
Status last verified
Dec 2024
First submitted
5 Dec 2023
Last updated
28 Nov 2025
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: Researchers qualified can request the dataset, including de-identified individual subject data. Data may be requested from PI from 12 months 36 months after study completion.

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Anti-CD38 antibody Injection in people with Immune Thrombocytopenia and Treatment, run by Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, China at 1 site in China.

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 11 inclusion and 14 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: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 28 Nov 2025. 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 China. 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.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

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

Contact Ting Sun, MD (+8615822339131, sunting@ihcams.ac.cn), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Evaluation of overall efficacy response after Anti-CD38 antibody treatment within 8 weeks (time frame: 8 weeks). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
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 28 Nov 2025.

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