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NCT05426252
Thal-Fabs: Reduced Toxicity Conditioning for High Risk Thalassemia
Phase 1, PHASE2 trial testing Abatacept in Thalassemia in Children in 20 participants. Currently enrolling.
31 December 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | The Hospital for Sick Children |
|---|---|
| Phase | Phase 1, PHASE2 |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 20 |
| Start date | 22 March 2022 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 31 December 2026 |
| Sites | 1 location across Canada |
Drugs / interventions tested
Conditions studied
- Thalassemia in Children — all drugs for Thalassemia in Children →
Sponsor
The Hospital for Sick Children
Who can join
Adults 1 to 18, any sex, with Thalassemia in Children. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a novel transplant strategy for the long-term benefit of patients with transfusion dependent high-risk thalassemia.
Publications & conference data
2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Role of abatacept in the prevention of graft-<i>versus</i>-host disease: current perspectives.
Ngwube A, Rangarajan H, Shah N. · · 2023 · cited 16× · PMID 36845849 · DOI 10.1177/20406207231152644 -
Early Engraftment and Immune Kinetics Following Allogeneic Transplant Using a Novel Reduced-Toxicity Transplant Strategy in Children/Adolescents with High-Risk Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia: Early Results of the ThalFAbS Trial.
Raffa EH, Harris TM, Choed-Amphai C, Kirby-Allen M, et al · · 2025 · PMID 39722321 · DOI 10.1016/j.jtct.2024.12.016
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- PubMed search for NCT05426252
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05426252 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by The Hospital for Sick Children
- Last refreshed: 19 December 2023
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