Clinical Trials

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

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.

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.

The purpose of this trial is to test whether a drug called alefacept will slow or halt destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas. If the destruction of the beta cells is stopped, the patients might be able to produce insulin on their own longer which could stop or slow the progression of their type 1 diabetes.

GRASS is a clinical research study looking at long-term immunity from the symptoms of hay fever. The study is testing the effectiveness of two commercially available tolerance-increasing treatments.

The RETAIN study is evaluating a protein called alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) in recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients.

This study is for participants who have received up to three islet cell infusions as a previous participant in the ITN005CT study. Study participants will receive a maintenance immunosuppressive treatment regimen consisting of a combination of orally administered drugs (tacrolimus (Prograf®), sirolimus (Rapamune®), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF, Cellcept®), and/or mycophenolic acid (MPA, Myfortic®).) This protocol provides a way to supply these immunosuppressive medications to subjects whose islets continue to function and make C-peptide.

The purpose of the RESTARRT study is see if a combination of two drugs, (ATG and rituximab), given at the time of the transplant surgery, will help reduce or eliminate the need for long-term immunosuppressive medication.

This study will examine the safety and effectiveness of a combination kidney and bone marrow transplant from a relative with the same (or nearly the same) blood cell type as the transplant recipient. An investigational medication will be given prior to and after the transplant to help protect the transplanted kidney from attack by the body's immune system.

ACCLAIM is a Phase II clinical research trial of the safety and efficacy of abatacept in adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The study is testing whether abatacept works differently from most other MS treatments, as it is more specific in the immune cells that it targets.