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Clinical Trial Summary

Background:

- Ebola virus is a rare disease that starts with fever and muscle aches, but can lead to death. The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest to date. There are no approved treatments for Ebola. Researchers want to see if two new vaccines VRC-EBOMVA079-00-VP (MVA-EbolaZ) and VRC-EBOADC069-00VP ( cAd3-EBO ) are safe and able to induce an immune response against Ebola.

Objectives:

- To see if the two new vaccines are safe and if they cause any side effects. Also, to study immune responses to the vaccines.

Eligibility:

- Healthy adults ages 18-66

Design:

- Participants will get one or two study vaccine injections depending on the study group they are assigned to. Each injection will repeat the same schedule:

- A needle and syringe will inject the vaccine into an upper arm muscle.

- 1-2 days later, participants must call the clinic to report how they feel.

- For 7 days they will check their temperature with a thermometer given to them. They will look at the injection site, and measure any redness or swelling with a ruler. They will write down any symptoms they have.

- In the first 2 months, participants will have at least 6 clinic visits and 1 phone contact. At each visit, participants will be checked for health changes or problems. They will tell how they feel and if they have taken any medications. Blood and urine samples may be collected.

- Participants might need to have extra clinic visits and laboratory tests if they have health changes that need to be checked.


Clinical Trial Description

This Phase 1/1b study will examine dose, safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of an investigational MVA-vectored Ebola vaccine in healthy adults. The vaccine encodes wild type (WT) glycoprotein (GP) from Zaire strain of Ebola and will be administered intramuscularly (IM) with needle and syringe. The safety and tolerability of the MVA-EbolaZ will be evaluated at escalating doses of 1x10(7) and 1x10(8) plaque forming units (PFU). Part 1 includes enrollment of vaccine-naive subjects to conduct a dose escalation of the MVA-EbolaZ vaccine and to evaluate the vaccine as a boost for the cAd3-EBO vaccine. In Part 2 of the study, up to 140 subjects who received the cAd3-EBO or cAd3-EBOZ vaccine in VRC 207 study will be boosted with MVA-EbolaZ. The hypotheses are that the study vaccines will be safe and elicit immune responses to Ebola GP, and that the prime-boost regimens will be safe and result in a more polyfunctional response to Ebola GP that is of greater magnitude and duration than response to either of the vaccines alone. ;


Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms

  • Healthy Adult Immune Responses to Vaccine
  • Vaccinia

NCT number NCT02408913
Study type Interventional
Source National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Contact
Status Completed
Phase Phase 1
Start date March 26, 2015
Completion date April 6, 2017

See also
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Completed NCT03478891 - Safety and Pharmacokinetics of a Human Monoclonal Antibody, VRC-EBOMAB092-00-AB (MAb114), Administered Intravenously to Healthy Adults Phase 1
Completed NCT02231866 - Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of the Ebola Chimpanzee Adenovirus Vector Vaccine (cAd3-EBO), VRC-EBOADC069-00-VP, in Healthy Adults Phase 1