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. 2020 Sep 3;21(17):6435. doi: 10.3390/ijms21176435

Table 3.

MSC based therapy clinical trials for COVID-19.

NCT No. Title Status Company Name Disease/Conditions Route of Administration Intervention/Mechanism Target Results Phase
NCT04333368 Cell therapy using Umbilical cord-derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in SARS-CoV-2 related ARDS (STROMA-CoV2) Recruiting Hopitaux de Paris COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 106 UC-MSCs in 60 min. Via peripheral or central venous line N/A 1 and 2
NCT04392778 Clinical use of stem cells for the treatment of COVID-19 Recruiting SBÜ COVID-19, Pneumonia, Multiple Organ Failure, CoronaVirus Infection Intravenous Participants will receive 3 × 106 MSC on Day 0, 3 and 6. N/A 1 and 2
NCT04252118 Mesenchymal stem cell treatment for pneumonia patients infected with COVID-19 Recruiting Beijing 302 Hospital COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 3 × 107 of MSCs on day 0, 3 and 6 N/A 1
NCT04348435 A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to determine the safety and efficacy of hope biosciences allogenic mesenchymal stem cell therapy (HB-adMSCs) to provide protection against COVID-19 Enrolling by Invitation Hope biosciences COVID-19 Intravenous 2 × 108, 1 × 108 0.5 × 108 and 0.1 × 108 Allogenic HB-adMSCs given to 4 different sets participants on day 0, 2, 6, 10, and day 14 N/A 2
NCT04366063 Mesenchymal Stem cell Therapy for SARS-CoV-2 related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Recruiting Royan Institute COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 2 doses of 100 × 106 MSC at day 0 and 2 and 2 doses of EVs at day 4 and 6 N/A 2 and 3
NCT04288102 Treatment with mesenchymal system cells for severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Recruiting Beijing 302 COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 4 × 107 MSCs 3 times a day on day 0, 3 and 6 N/A 2
NCT04349631 A Clinical Trial to Determine the safety and efficacy of Hope Biosciences Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy (HB-adMSCs) to provide protection Against COVID-19 Enrolling by Invitation Hope biosciences COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 5 IV infusions of autologous, AD-MSCs collected and infused and follow up on week 6, 14, 26 N/A 2
NCT04324996 A Phase I/II Study of universal off-the-shelf- NKG2D-ACE2 CAR-NK Cells for Therapy of COVID-19 Recruiting Chongqing Public Health Medical Center COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 108 cells administered per kilogram of body weight N/A 1 and 2
NCT04273646 Study of Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem cells in the treatment of Severe COVID-19 Not recruiting yet Wuhan Union Hospital China COVID-19, 2019 Novel Coronavirus pneumonia Intravenous Participants will receive 0.5 × 106 UC-MSCs cells/kg body weight administered on day 1, day 3, day 5, and day 7 N/A N/A
NCT04397471 A study to collect bone marrow for process development and production of BM-MSC to treat severe COVID-19 Pneumonitis (COMET20d Not recruiting yet Cambridge Cellular Therapies Laboratory COVID-19, Pneumonia Donation 30–80 mL sample of bone marrow collected from posterior superior iliac crests N/A N/A
NCT04382547 Treatment of COVID-19 Associated Pneumonia with Allogenic Pooled Olfactory Mucosa-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enrolling by Invitation Institute of Biophysics and Cell Engineering of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus COVID-19, Pneumonia Intravenous Participants will receive standard treatments and also allogenic pooled olfactory mucosa derived MSCs N/A 1 and 2
NCT04366271 Clinical Trial of Allogenic Mesenchymal Cells from Umbilical Cord Tissue with Patients with COVID-19 (MESCEL-COVID-19) Recruiting Hospital Infantil Universitario Nino Jesus, Madrid Spain COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 infusion of undifferentiated allogenic UC-MSCs N/A 2
NCT04361942 Treatment of Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia with Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (COVID_MSV) (COVID_MSV) Recruiting Red de Terapia Celular COVID-19, Pneumonia Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 106 MSCs N/A 2
NCT04346368 Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem cell treatment for severe patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 Not recruiting yet Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 106 MSCs kg/body weight on day 1 N/A 1 and 2
NCT04416139 Mesenchymal stem cells for acute respiratory distress Syndrome due to COVID-19 Recruiting Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive a single dose of 1 × 106 MSCs N/A 2
NCT04336254 Safety and Efficacy Study of Allogenic Human Dental Pulp Mesenchymal Stem Cells to treat severe COVID-19 Patients Recruiting Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 3 × 107 human dental pulp stem cells on day 1, day 4 and day 7 N/A 1 and 2
NCT04428801 Autologous Adipose-derived Stem cells (Ad-MSCs) for COVID-19 Not recruiting yet Celltex Therapeutics Corporation COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 2 × 108 Ad-MSCs on day 0, day 3 and day 6 N/A 2
NCT04269525 Umbilical Cord (UC)-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) Treatment for the 2019-novel Coronavirus (nCOV) Pneumonia Recruiting ZhiYong Peng, Zhongnan Hospital COVID-19 Pneumonia Intravenous Participants will receive UC-MSC infusions and day 1, day 3 and day 5 N/A 2
NCT04429763 Safety and Efficacy of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the management of severe COVID-19 pneumonia Not recruiting yet Trustem COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 dose of 1 × 106 MSCs N/A 2
NCT04366323 Clinical Trial to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Administration of Allogeneic Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells of Expanded Adipose Tissue in Patients with Severe Pneumonia Due to COVID-19 Recruiting Andalusian Network for design and translation of Advanced Therapies COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 8 × 107 allogenic Ad-MSCs N/A 1 and 2
NCT04352803 Adipose Mesenchymal cells for Abadement of SARS-CoV-2 Respiratory Compromise in COVID-19 Disease Not recruiting yet Regeneris Medical COVID-19, Cytokine Storm Intravenous Participants will receive 0.5 × 106 autologous ad-MSCs N/A 1 and 2
NCT04398303 ACT-20 in Patients with severe COVID-19 Pneumonia Not recruiting yet Aspire Health Science COVID-19 Pneumonia Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 106 allogenic human umbilical derived MSCs N/A 2
NCT04339660 Clinical Research of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Treatment of COVID-19 Pneumonia Recruiting Puren Hospital Affliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 106 per kg/bodyweight UC-MSCs N/A 1
NCT04444271 Mesenchymal Stem Cell Infusion for COVID-19 Infection Recruiting Armed Forces Bone Marrow COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 106 cells/kg body weight of MSCs N/A 1 and 2
2020-001682-36 Double-blind, placebo-controlled phase I/II clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells (MSV®-allo) in acute respiratory failure in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Ongoing CITOSPIN S.L. COVID-19 Intravenous Adult allogeneic stem cell mesenchymal stem cells expanded in suspension N/A 1
NCT0444520 A Study of Cell Therapy in COVID-19 Subjects with Acute Kidney Injury Who Are Receiving Renal Replacement Therapy Not recruiting yet Sentien Biotechnologies, Inc. COVID-19 Integration Allogenic SB-101 biologic combination device N/A 1
NCT04461925 Treatment of Coronavirus COVID-19 Pneumonia (Pathogen SARS-CoV-2) With Cryopreserved Allogeneic P_MMSCs and UC-MMSCs Recruiting Institute of Cell Therapy COVID-19 and Pneumonia Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 106 cells/kg body weight 3 times a day on day 1, 4 and 7 N/A 1 and 2
NCT04445454 Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy for Severe Covid-19 Infection Recruiting University of Liege COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 3 doses of (1.5)–3.0 × 106/BM-MSC kg/body weight at 3–4 days interval N/A 1 and 2
NCT04437823 Efficacy of Intravenous Infusions of Stem Cells in the Treatment of COVID-19 Patients Recruiting Jinnah Hospital COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 5 × 105 of UC-MSCs on day 1,3 and 5 N/A 2
NCT04456361 Use of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Caused by COVID-19 Active, not recruiting Instituto de Medicina Regenerativa COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 108 of Wharton jelly derived UC-MSCs N/A 2
NCT04457609 Administration of Allogenic UC-MSCs as Adjuvant Therapy for Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Recruiting Indonesia University COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will 1st receive standardized treatment oseltamivir and azithromycin and then 1 × 106 UC-MSCs in 100 cc of 0.9% NaCl in 1 h N/A 2 and 3
NCT04467047 Safety and Feasibility of Allogenic MSC in the Treatment of COVID-19 (COVID19) Not recruiting yet Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 106 MSCs N/A 1
NCT04466098 Multiple Dosing of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Patients with ARDS (COVID-19) Not recruiting yet Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive a thawed product consisting of 300 × 106 in DMSO in 1: w/ Dextran 40 + 5% human serum albumin N/A 2
NCT04486001 Study of Intravenous Administration of Allogeneic Adipose Stem Cells for COVID-19 (CoronaStem1) Not recruiting yet Personalized Stem Cells, Inc. COVD-19 Intravenous Participants will receive adipose derived stem cells N/A 1
NCT04490486 Umbilical Cord Tissue (UC) Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) Versus Placebo to Treat Acute Pulmonary Inflammation Due to COVID-19 (COVID-19) Not recruiting yet Joshua M Hare COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 108 UC-MSCS on day 0 and day 3 N/A 1
NCT04456439 Intermediate-size Expanded Access Program (EAP), Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC) for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Associated with Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Available Mesoblast International Sàrl COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 2 × 106 remestemcel-L within a 5-day period N/A N/A
NCT04313322 Treatment of COVID-19 Patients using Wharton Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells Recruiting Stem Cells Arabia COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive WJ-MSCs suspended in 25 mL of saline solution N/A 1
NCT04371601 Safety and effectiveness of mesenchymal stem cells in the treatment of pneumonia of coronavirus disease 2019 Active, Not recruiting Fuzhou General Hospital COVID-19 Pneumonia Intravenous Participants will first receive standard treatment (oseltamivir and hormones) followed by 1 dose of 1 × 106 cells kg/body weight once daily for 4 days N/A 1
NCT04362189 Efficacy and Safety of Allogenic HB-adMSCs for the treatment of COVID-19 Recruiting Hope biosciences COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 × 108 of HB-adMSCs on day 0, 3, 7 and 10 N/A 2
NCT04384445 Organicell Flow for Patients With COVID-19 Not yet recruiting Organicell Regenerative Medicine COVID-19 Intravenous Participants will receive 1 mL of organicell flow on days 0, 4, and 8 N/a 1 and 2
NCT04341610 ASC Therapy for Patients with Severe Respiratory COVID-19 (ASC COVID-19) Withdrawn (Not approved by ethical committee) Rigshospitalet, Denmark Respiratory tract diseases (COVID-19) Intravenous 100 million allogenic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells in 100 mL saline N/A 1 and 2
NCT04293692 Therapy for Pneumonia Patients Infected by 2019 Novel Coronavirus Withdrawn (Patients were transferred to designated hospitals for treatment as needed, the clinical trials cannot be conducted.) Puren Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology COVID Intravenous 0.5 × 106 UC-MSCs kg/body weight suspended in 100 mL saline on day 1, day 3, day 5 and day 7 N/A N/A

N/A= Not yet available.