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ATTAC-IIATTAC-II: A Phase II Randomized, Blinded, and Placebo-controlled Trial of CMV RNA-Pulsed Dendritic Cells With Tetanus-Diphtheria Toxoid Vaccine in Patients With Newly-Diagnosed Glioblastoma

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What is being tested

pp65-shLAMP DC with GM-CSF

+ Td

+ unpulsed PBMC and saline

BiologicalDrug
Who is being recruted

Astrocytoma+7

+ Glioblastoma

+ Glioma

Over 18 Years
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Placebo-ControlledPhase 2
Interventional
Study Start: August 2016
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Summary

Principal SponsorUniversity of Florida
Last updated: January 28, 2026
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Study start date: August 9, 2016

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

Dendritic cells (DC) are involved in activating, or turning-on, your body's immune system. Your immune system helps guard your body from germs, viruses, and other threats. Although dendritic cells are very strong, the number of them in the body is not high enough to cause a powerful immune response; therefore, more DC are made in a laboratory with cells collected from an individual's blood. In this study, we will make a vaccine that we hope will educate immune cells to target the pp65 antigen, a type of immune marker in GBM, thus resulting in what we call the pp65 DC vaccine. Use of a vaccine that activates your immune system is a type of immunotherapy. It is hoped that by giving the pp65 DC vaccine as a shot under the skin, the immune system will be activated to attack tumor cells in the brain while leaving normal cells alone. To see if the pp65 DC vaccine is effective for the treatment of GBM, subjects will be assigned to different treatment groups. Two groups of subjects will receive the pp65 DC vaccine and one group will receive a placebo.

Official TitleATTAC-II: A Phase II Randomized, Blinded, and Placebo-controlled Trial of CMV RNA-Pulsed Dendritic Cells With Tetanus-Diphtheria Toxoid Vaccine in Patients With Newly-Diagnosed Glioblastoma
NCT02465268
Principal SponsorUniversity of Florida
Last updated: January 28, 2026
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Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details

175 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Treatment Study

These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.



Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

Over 18 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

AstrocytomaGlioblastomaGliomaNeoplasmsNeoplasms by Histologic TypeNeoplasms, Germ Cell and EmbryonalNeoplasms, Glandular and EpithelialNeoplasms, Nerve TissueNeuroectodermal TumorsNeoplasms, Neuroepithelial

Criteria

Abbreviated Inclusion Criteria: To be assessed at study enrollment prior to standard of care chemo-radiation therapy: * Age ≥ 18 years. * Histopathologically proven newly-diagnosed de novo GBM (WHO Grade IV glioma) * The tumor must have a supratentorial component. * Must have undergone definitive surgical resection of tumor with less than approximately 3cm x 3cm residual enhancing tumor as product of longest perpendicular planes by MRI. * Recovery from the effects of surgery, postoperative infection, and other complications. * Diagnostic contrast-enhanced MRI or CT scan of the brain preoperatively and postoperatively. * Karnofsky Performance Status of ≥ 70. * Signed informed consent. * For females of childbearing potential, negative serum pregnancy test. * Women of childbearing potential and male participants must be willing to practice adequate contraception throughout the study and for at least 24 weeks after the last dose of study drug. To be assessed prior to initiation of adjuvant TMZ: * Must have completed RT (targeted total dose of 59.4-60.0 Gy over ≤ 7 weeks) and concomitant TMZ (targeted dose of 75mg/m2/d for ≤ 49 days) therapy without significant toxicity that persisted over 4 weeks. * History \& physical with neurologic examination prior to initiation of adjuvant TMZ. * For patients receiving steroids, daily dose must be ≤ 4 mg. * CBC with differential with adequate bone marrow function. * Adequate renal function. * Adequate hepatic function. Abbreviated Exclusion Criteria: To be verified in order to randomize subject: * Prior invasive malignancy unless disease free for ≥ 3 years. * Metastases detected below the tentorium or beyond the cranial vault and leptomeningeal involvement. * Recurrent or multifocal malignant gliomas. * HIV, Hepatitis B, or Hepatitis C seropositive. * Known active infection or immunosuppressive disease. * Prior chemotherapy or radiosensitizers (including Gliadel wafers) for cancers of the head and neck region. * Prior radiotherapy to the head or neck, resulting in overlap of radiation fields. * Severe, active co-morbidity. * Pregnancy or women of childbearing potential and men who are sexually active and not willing/able to use medically acceptable forms of contraception for the entire study period. * Pregnant or lactating women. * Prior allergic reaction to temozolomide, GM-CSF or Td. * Prior history of brachial neuritis or Guillain-Barré syndrome. * Patients treated on any other therapeutic clinical protocols within 30 days prior to study entry. To be assessed prior to initiation of adjuvant TMZ: * Did not start radiation therapy and temozolomide within 7 weeks of surgery. * Progression of disease as defined by modified RANO criteria. * More than 45 days after completion of radiation therapy and temozolomide

Study Plan

Find out more about all the medication administered in this study, their detailed description and what they involve.
Treatment Groups
Study Objectives

3 intervention groups are designated in this study

33.333% chance of being blinded to the placebo group

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental
Given under the skin at day 22-24 after the first temozolomide cycle then at 2 week intervals. Doses 4-10 will be given on day 22-24 of each temozolomide cycle. Doses will continue until a total of 10 or until progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Group II

Placebo
Given under the skin at day 22-24 after the first temozolomide cycle then at 2 week intervals. Doses 4-10 will be given on day 22-24 of each temozolomide cycle. Doses will continue until a total of 10 or until progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Group III

Experimental
Given under the skin at day 22-24 after the first temozolomide cycle then at 2 week intervals. Doses 4-10 will be given on day 22-24 of each temozolomide cycle. Doses will continue until a total of 10 or until progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Secondary Objectives

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.

This study has 3 locations

Suspended

University of Florida

Gainesville, United StatesOpen University of Florida in Google Maps
Suspended

Orlando Health

Orlando, United States
Suspended

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, United States
Completed3 Study Centers