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NCT Number: NCT07416383

Safety and Efficiency of the Universal CNK-UT009 in Difficult-to-treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients

Inflammatory bowel disease patients who failed from at least two types of biologics or suffered refractory after at least twice surgery are defiened as difficult-to-treat IBD. It is reported a low five-year suvival rate around 15% of difficult-to-treat IBD patients. Cell therapy is a promising new strategy in auto-immune diseases beyond malignant cancers. Inbalanced immune microenvironment contribute to IBD and cell therapy should be a brighting selection of difficult-to-treat IBD. CNK-UT009 is an universal cellular immunotherapy targeted to auto-reactive T cells whose safety and effect were proved in patients with GVHD and type 1 diabetes mellius. Here, we conducted a single-arm open-label exploratory clinical study of CNK-UT cell therapy on difficult-to-treat IBD patients, mainly to explore the safety and define the maximum tolerated dose. Besides, the preliminary effect would also be evaluated.

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Key information

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • diagnosed moderate-to- severe IBD patients
  • defiened as difficult-to-treat(failed from at least two types of biologics or small molecular drugs, or refractory from at least twice of intestinal surgery)
  • with complete bone-marrow and organic function
  • no pregnant or planning to become pregnant
  • welling to paticipate

Exclusion criteria

  • patients with active infections or latent infections, malignant tumors, recent serious infections(within two weeks)
  • patients paticipated other clinical trials with four weeks
  • patients with drug combination other than low-dose glucocotiod
  • patients recieved abdominal surgery or live vaccine
  • patients with planned surgery in three months
  • unsuitable situations determined by researchers

Treatment and study plan

injection of CNK-UT009

Drug

CNK-UT009 is a type of independent development universal cell therapy agent, the reagent would be injected intravenously. We set three preset dose levels (3*7E positive cells/kg 、6*7E positive cells/kg 和 1*8E positive cells/kg) with a tapering dose of 1.5*7E positive cells/kg. Total cells would be divided into several parts and be given in the cycle of two weeks, adjusted by the tolerance and adverse effects of our patients.

Primary outcomes

  1. maximum tolerant dose(MTD)

    Time frame: 12 weeks after first injection

    indicate the safty

  2. rate of DLT(dose-limiting toxicity)

    Time frame: 12 weeks after first injection

    indicate the safety

Secondary outcomes

  1. adverse effects of CNK-UT009

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    rate of TRAE(treatment related adverse effect), rate of TEAE(treatment emergent adverse effect)

  2. pharmacokinetics of CNK-UT009

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    take blood samples to analyse the CNK-UT009 cell counts and draft the pharmacokinetics of CNK-UT009

  3. preliminary efficacy of CNK-UT009

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    rate of clinical remission patients after EOT-I(end of induction treatment phase), rate of endoscopic remission patients after EOT-I.

Other outcomes

  1. exploratory endpoint include long-term efficacy

    Time frame: 52 weeks after the first injection

    rate of clinical remission patients and rate of endoscopic remission patients in the maintaining period, rate of glucocoticoid-free patient

  2. influence of immune environment

    Time frame: 12weeks and 52 weeks

    analyse immune cell components and levels of cytokines in blood samples to describe the influence on immune environments of CNK-UT009 cells.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Yan Chen, Doctor

CONTACT

[email protected]

+86 13757118653

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University

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Registry information

Official study title

An Exploratory Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety, Preliminary Efficacy, and Pharmacokinetics of the Universal CNK-UT009 Cell Injection in Subjects With Difficult-to-treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2030
Study completion
2031
First posted
Feb 18, 2026
Registry last updated
Feb 18, 2026

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