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CLDN6 CAR-T is used as a general term to refer to CLDN6 CAR-T cells from the manual and automated manufacturing processes. The trial consists of two parts. The trial began using a manual CLDN6 CAR-T production process. Part 1 is a CLDN6 CAR-T dose escalation in lymphodepleted patients until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of CLDN6 CAR-T are defined. Dose escalation with CLDN6 CAR-T cells from the automated manufacturing process follows an accelerated titration design, as opposed to the classical 3+3 trial design used for the dose escalation with CLDN6 CAR-T manufactured with the manual process. In addition, an optional de-escalation dose level may be explored to further evaluate clinical safety and efficacy of CLDN6 CAR-T manufactured with the automated process. Part 2 is a vaccine-modulated dose escalation using a bifurcated design until the MTD and/or RP2D of CLDN6 CAR-T + CLDN6 RNA-LPX are defined. The trial started with a CLDN6 encoding uridine containing RNA formulated in lipoplexes (CLDN6 uRNA-LPX). In order to optimize CAR-T cell persistence in patients, an alternative RNA-LPX, CLDN6 modRNA-LPX, will be tested once the RP2D dose for CLDN6 CAR-T ± CLDN6 RNA-LPX is identified. The planned trial duration per patient in the main trial is 25 months. Patients exposed to genetically engineered therapies may be at risk of delayed adverse events. Therefore, after patients complete or prematurely discontinue participation in the main trial, they will be asked to participate in a long-term follow-up (LTFU) period to assess long-term safety and efficacy for up to 15 years. Patients will be asked to re-consent to participate in this LTFU period.

An open-label, controlled, multi-site, interventional, 2-arm, Phase II/III trial of BNT113 in combination with pembrolizumab vs pembrolizumab monotherapy as first line treatment in patients with unresectable recurrent or metastatic HPV16+ HNSCC expressing programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) with combined positive score (CPS) ≥1. This trial has two parts. Part A, is an initial non-randomized Safety Run-In Phase to confirm the safety and tolerability at the selected dose range level of BNT113 in combination with pembrolizumab. Part B, is a randomized part to generate pivotal efficacy and safety data of BNT113 in combination with pembrolizumab versus pembrolizumab monotherapy in the first line setting in patients with unresectable recurrent or metastatic HPV16+ HNSCC expressing PD-L1 with CPS ≥1. Patients included in the Safety Run-In Phase of the trial (Part A) will not be randomized to Part B and will continue on-trial treatment (BNT113 plus pembrolizumab) within Part A. For Part B, an optional pre-screening phase is available for all patients where patients' tumor samples may be submitted for central HPV16 DNA and central PD-L1 expression testing prior to screening into the main trial. Patients will be treated with BNT113 in combination with pembrolizumab or with pembrolizumab monotherapy for approximately up to 24 months.

About half of all psychiatric inpatients with depression suffer from persistent depressive disorder (PDD). Given their high degree of treatment-resistance (TR), comorbidity, suicidality, and hospitalization rates, this patient group appears to be particularly difficult to treat and, from a health economic perspective, constitutes a major challenge. The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is the only psychotherapy specifically tailored for PDD developed. Originally developed as an outpatient treatment by James P. McCullough, CBASP has been modified for the severely ill PDD patients with TR as a multimodal inpatient concept. Pilot studies indicate very good feasibility and promising outcome. Therefore, a randomized controlled trial is now mandatory for testing the superiority of the inpatient CBASP program vs. the evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the 'gold standard' in depression treatment. Behavioral Activation (BA) was chosen as the control intervention because BA, as a specific variant of CBT, is at least as effective as standard CBT in severely depressed patients while being easier to train and implement in inpatient settings. Both therapies will be applied as a treatment-phase program (5-week inpatient and dayclinic acute treatment followed by 6-week outpatient continuation group-treatment) in combination with standardized and guideline-based pharmacotherapy. The proposed prospective, multi-center, randomized study with 396 PDD patients with TR will therefore address the primary research question: Is the CBASP program more effective than the BA program in this patient group? The primary hypothesis is that after 16 weeks of treatment, CBASP will show a significant superiority over BA in reducing depressive symptoms. In addition, the important psychotherapy research question: what works for whom and why? will be addressed. Moderator analyses will examine whether childhood maltreatment and methylation of exon IV of the BDNF gene have an impact on the differential efficacy of the treatments. Regarding mediator analyses, it will be examined whether symptom improvements can be explained by an amelioration of interpersonal problems in CBASP and an increase of activity levels in BA. A follow-up survey 48 weeks after the end of the interventions will provide valuable results regarding the long-term outcome of the treatments. Finally, the health economic potential of the interventions will be investigated through cost-benefit analyses in order to provide important information on the cost-effectiveness of implementation in routine care for health policy. Thus, the results of this study will have the potential to relieve the burden of this very serious and cost-intensive disorder while improving human health. In addition, moderator and mediator analyses may guide personalized treatment and enable therapists to more specifically address psychotherapeutic needs of individual PDD patients in the future.

This study will compare the retention rates for UPA vs. TNFi treatment in adult participants with moderate to severe active RA per local label and according to local standard of care This is a mono-country, prospective, multi-center observational study in patients with moderate to severe active RA receiving UPA or TNFi therapy. Around 678 participants will be enrolled in approximately 80 sites in Germany. Study recruitment will last approximately 24 months, and the study participation time will be up to 24 months, for a total study duration of approximately 48 months.

The study will include ET patients (diagnosed according to "International consensus classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemias - 2022" criteria) who are JAK2V617F positive and have progressed to PV (diagnosed according to "International consensus classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemias - 2022" criteria) by 31/12/2020. The date of PV diagnosis will be defined as the index date and this group of patients will be defined as ET-to-PV cases. Part A - Nested case-control study Controls for ET-to-PV cases will be patients diagnosed with ET, according to the "International consensus classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemias - 2022" criteria, JAK2V617F positive who did not progress to PV after a comparable period of time. This control group will be selected using a 1:1 matched case-control design. For each patient who progressed to PV (case), a control will be selected with the following characteristics: * year of ET diagnosis (+/-2 years as compared to the date of the case); * age at ET diagnosis (+/-3 years as compared to the age of the case); * duration of ET disease (+/-2 years as compared to the period between the diagnosis of ET and the index date of the respective case). Part B - Comparative retrospective cohort study Patients diagnosed with de novo PV (no progression from previous ET) according to the "International consensus classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemias - 2022" data criteria, will be recruited using a 1:1 matching procedure according to the following characteristics: * year of PV diagnosis (+/-2 years as compared to the date of the case); * age at PV diagnosis (+/-3 years as compared to the age of the case); * duration of PV disease (+/-2 years as compared to the period between PV diagnosis and the last follow-up of the respective case). Furthermore, to have at least 5 years of follow-up, de novo PV patients must be diagnosed no later than 2020.

This study is open to people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) or progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF). They can only take part if they have completed treatment in a previous study with a medicine called nerandomilast or BI 1015550. The goal of this study is to find out how well people with pulmonary fibrosis tolerate long- term treatment with nerandomilast. The study also tests whether nerandomilast improves lung function and prolongs the time until symptoms get worse, participants need to go to the hospital, or die. Every participant takes nerandomilast as tablets for up to 1 year and 10 months. The participants may also continue their regular treatment for pulmonary fibrosis during the study. Participants visit their doctors regularly. During these visits, the doctors collect information on any health problems of the participants. Participants also regularly do lung function tests.

This is a Phase III, two-arm, randomized, double-blind, global, multicenter study assessing the efficacy and safety of rilvegostomig compared to pembrolizumab, both in combination with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy, as a 1L treatment for patients with non-squamous mNSCLC whose tumors express PD-L1 (TC ≥ 1%).

This is a Phase III, two-arm, randomized, double-blind, global, multicenter study assessing the efficacy and safety of rilvegostomig compared to pembrolizumab, both in combination with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy, as a first-line (1L) treatment for patients with squamous metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) whose tumors express PD-L1 (tumor cells (TC) ≥ 1%).

The main purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of volrustomig compared to observation in participants with unresected locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LA-HNSCC) who have not progressed after receiving definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT).

The purpose of this study is to assess the long-term safety and tolerability after an intravitreal injection (a shot of medicine into the eye) of JNJ-81201887 administered in parent clinical studies.