NCT03763136

Treating Heart Failure With hPSC-CMs

Epicardial Injection of Allogeneic Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes to Treat Severe Chronic Heart Failure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: HELP Therapeutics Co., Ltd. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Heart failure has a high morbidity and mortality because the heart is one of the least regenerative organs in the human body. Drug treatments for heart failure manage symptoms but do not restore lost myocytes. Cellular replacement therapy is a potential approach to repair damaged myocardial tissue, restore cardiac function, which has become a new strategy for the treatment of heart failure. The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, feasibility and efficacy of intramyocardial delivery of cardiomyocytes at the time of coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with chronic heart failure.

Detailed description

Patients with heart failure will be treated with allogenic human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes ( hPSC-CM ) from healthy donors. The cells will be injected directly into the myocardium at time of coronary artery bypass grafting. Patients will be assessed at 1, 6 and 12 months after cell transplantation for safety, feasibility and efficacy.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BIOLOGICAL	hPSC-CM Therapy	Injection of allogenic human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) during coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. 200 million hPSC-CMs in 2.5-5 mL medium suspension will be injected into the myocardium.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-08
• Primary completion: 2024-04-30
• Completion: 2024-10-30
• First posted: 2018-12-04
• Last updated: 2025-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China