A Study of Healthy Donor CD19-targeted Allogeneic CAR T Cells in Participants With Severe, Refractory Autoimmune Diseases

Recruiting now · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Refractory Autoimmune Diseases

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety, tolerability, optimal dose, and preliminary efficacy of BMS-986515, a healthy donor (HD) allogeneic CD19-targeted CART cell product, in participants with severe, refractory autoimmune diseases.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT07115745
Run by: Juno Therapeutics, Inc., a Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
People needed: 125
Starts: 2025-09-04
Expected to finish: 2030-08-16
Last updated by the study team: 2026-07-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) population:.
i) Diagnosis of SLE based on the 2019 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR).
ii) Participant must be positive for at least one of the following antibodies at screening: anti-nuclear antibody, anti-dsDNA, anti-histone, anti-chromatin or anti-Sm antibody.
iii) Inadequate response or intolerance to steroids and immunosuppressive therapies.
iv) Participants must have active disease at screening.
Inflammatory myopathy (IIM) population:.
i) Participants meeting the 2017 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) / European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) classification criteria.
ii) Participants must meet criteria for with severe, refractory IIM. iii) Participants who had inadequate response to steroids and prior immunosuppressive therapies.
iv) Evidence of active disease.
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) population:.
i) Participant must fulfill the 2013 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/ European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) classification criteria for systemic sclerosis.
ii) Inadequate disease response or intolerance to prior therapies. iii) Participants diagnosed with progressive systemic sclerosis including skin disease and/or interstitial lung disease.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) population:.
i) Participants with difficult to treat RA. ii) Participants with a diagnosis of RA meeting 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria. iii) Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity at screening and baseline visit. iv) Inadequate disease response or intolerance to standard of care therapy.

You may not qualify if…

All participants:.
i) Any other systemic autoimmune disease. ii) Pregnant or nursing women. iii) Active hepatitis B, C or HIV. iv) Prior history of malignancies. v) Uncontrolled or active infection. vi) History of certain cardiovascular conditions within 6 months prior to screening.
vii) Previous CAR-T cell therapy. viii) Significant lung impairment. ix) Inadequate organ function. x) Active, clinically significant, central nervous system (CNS) disorders.
SLE population:.
i) Participants who have SLE because of drugs or have other autoimmune diseases along with SLE.
IIM population:.
i) Participants who have other forms of myopathies other than IIM. ii) Severe muscle damage.
SSc population:.
i) People who have high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs caused by SSc, which needs regular treatment to keep it under control.
ii) Rapidly deteriorating SSc, or history of severe kidney disease.
RA population:.
i) People who have additional autoimmune diseases along with RA.
Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria apply.

Where it is running

Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal — Madrid, Madrid, Comunidad de, Spain (enrolling)
Duke University — Durham, North Carolina, United States (enrolling)
Hadassah Medical Center — Jerusalem, Israel (enrolling)
Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne — Gdansk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland (enrolling)
Szpital Specjalistyczny nr 1 w Bytomiu — Bytom, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (enrolling)
Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy w Gliwicach — Gliwice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (enrolling)
ARENSIA Exploratory Medicine — Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania (enrolling)
Fundeni Clinical Institute — Bucharest, Romania (enrolling)
Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron — Barcelona, Barcelona [Barcelona], Spain (enrolling)
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau — Barcelona, Catalunya [Cataluña], Spain (enrolling)
Brigham And Womens Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States (enrolling)
Revmatologicky ustav — Prague, Czechia (enrolling)
CHU Strasbourg-Hautepierre — Strasbourg, Alsace, France (enrolling)
Hopital Claude Huriez - CHU de Lille — Lille, Nord, France (enrolling)
Universitaetsklinikum Duesseldorf — Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (enrolling)
Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel — Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (enrolling)
Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin - Campus Bejnamin Franklin — Berlin, Germany (enrolling)
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus an der TU Dresden — Dresden, Germany (enrolling)
Sheba Medical Center — Ramat Gan, Central District, Israel (enrolling)
Local Institution - 0007 — Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Local Institution - 0008 — Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Local Institution - 0013 — Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Local Institution - 0040 — Salvador, Estado de Bahia, Brazil
Local Institution - 0039 — Porto Alegre, Brazil
Local Institution - 0038 — São Paulo, Brazil

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