Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Immucothel, a Keyhole Lymphocyte Antigen (KLH) product, can trigger an immune response when ingested orally and create "oral tolerance" to KLH. If not, Immucothel will be tested with another agent to enhance the immune response.

This is a follow-on study to the ITN’s LEAP trial to evaluate the persistence of tolerance to peanut, and whether continued consumption of peanuts throughout life is required in order to be able to safely eat peanuts without reacting.

IMPACT is a clinical research study testing whether daily oral exposure to a peanut product can modify peanut allergy in young children.

This trial is a phase II, single arm, open-label, single center study to assess the ability of a specialized pre-transplant conditioning regimen, bone marrow transplantation and high dose post-transplant cyclophosphamide to induce tolerance and enable long-term discontinuation of immunosuppression in six kidney transplant recipients.

The objective of the CALIBRATE study is to determine if treating lupus nephritis with a combination of rituximab (Rituxan®) and cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan®), or a combination of rituximab and cyclophosphamide followed by treatment with belimumab (Benlysta®) is safe and if this drug combination can block the immune system attacks on the kidney.

OPTIMAL is a clinical trial that will be investigating immunosuppression withdrawal in liver transplant recipients.

CATNIP is a clinical research trial, which will test whether a novel therapeutic approach, cat immunotherapy combined with an investigational new drug called MEDI9929/AMG 157 (an anti-TSLP antibody being co-developed by Amgen and Medimmune) can lead to lasting tolerance to cat allergen. This study will implement the concept referred to as “allergen-plus,” which aims to enhance the disease-modifying mechanisms of allergen-specific immunotherapy by combining it with other anti-inflammatory or immune-modulating agents.

EXTEND is a clinical research study that will test whether a therapy called tocilizumab (Actemra®) can stop the immune system from attacking the remaining beta cells and possibly extend the ability to naturally produce insulin in individuals recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

PAUSE is a clinical trial testing the effectiveness of ustekinumab (STELARA ®) followed by an investigational drug, abatacept, for the treatment of psoriasis. The main goal of the study is to determine the efficacy of abatacept to induce prolonged remission.

The goal of the CAT EEC study is to directly compare allergic responses to cat by environmental exposure chamber vs. nasal allergen challenge to better understand and employ these methods as allergy evaluation tools in clinical trials.