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NCT05926726
GPC3-directed CAR-T in the Treatment Amongst Subjects With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
NA trial testing CAR-GPC3 T cells in Hepatocellular Carcinoma in 12 participants. Currently enrolling.
31 December 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | RenJi Hospital |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 12 |
| Start date | 1 January 2023 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 31 December 2026 |
| Sites | 1 location across China |
Drugs / interventions tested
- CAR-GPC3 T cells — full drug profile →
Conditions studied
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma — all drugs for Hepatocellular Carcinoma →
Sponsor
RenJi Hospital
Who can join
Adults 18 to 75, any sex, with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This is a single arm, open-label, dose escalation clinical study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of infused autologous armored GPC3-directed CAR-T in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma refractory to prior systematic treatments.
Publications & conference data
8 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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CAR-T Cell Therapy: From the Shop to Cancer Therapy.
Uscanga-Palomeque AC, Chávez-Escamilla AK, Alvizo-Báez CA, Saavedra-Alonso S, et al · · 2023 · cited 60× · PMID 37958672 · DOI 10.3390/ijms242115688 -
Recent Progress in Systemic Therapy for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Sadagopan N, He AR. · · 2024 · cited 26× · PMID 38279258 · DOI 10.3390/ijms25021259 -
Targeting Glypican-3 for Liver Cancer Therapy: Clinical Applications and Detection Methods.
Zhang J, Li R, Tan X, Wang C. · · 2025 · cited 9× · PMID 40862283 · DOI 10.14218/jcth.2025.00099 -
Molecular and immune landscape of hepatocellular carcinoma for therapeutic development.
Suzuki H, Mishra S, Paul S, Hoshida Y. · · 2025 · cited 8× · PMID 39639434 · DOI 10.17998/jlc.2024.12.02 -
Targeting glypican-3 as a new frontier in liver cancer therapy.
Wu CS, Lee TY, Chao HW. · · 2025 · cited 5× · PMID 41024885 · DOI 10.4254/wjh.v17.i9.107671 -
Insights in Molecular Therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Heumann P, Albert A, Gülow K, Tümen D, et al · · 2024 · cited 5× · PMID 38791911 · DOI 10.3390/cancers16101831 -
Advances and challenges of chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy in digestive system malignancies.
Wang C, Zhang J, Chen ZK, Wang YG, et al · · 2026 · PMID 41810338 · DOI 10.5306/wjco.v17.i2.114107 -
Oncofetal reprogramming in hepatocellular carcinoma: linking developmental programs to cancer vaccines and immunotherapy.
Hassanel DNBP, Sharma A. · · 2026 · PMID 41780553 · DOI 10.3350/cmh.2025.1410
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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 NCT05926726 (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 RenJi Hospital
- Last refreshed: 3 July 2023
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