Clinical Trial for Malaria Vaccines to Test for Safety, Immune Response and Protection Against Malaria — DNA-Ad  

Malaria Clinical Trial

Official title: Clinical Trial on Safety, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy of a Prime Boost Regimen of DNA- and Adenovirus-vectored Malaria Vaccines Encoding Plasmodium Falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein and Apical Membrane Antigen 1 in Healthy Malaria-Naïve Adults in the US

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the safety and effectiveness of a new malaria vaccine, the DNA-Ad vaccine. The study is specifically looking at a vaccine regimen against Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly form of malaria.

Clinical Trial Description

The goal of this study is to evaluate if the DNA-Ad vaccine that targets both the liver and blood stages of the malaria life cycle is safe and protective, in hopes to develop a vaccine to prevent infection and/or lessen the severity of disease caused by the P. falciparum malaria parasite. More specifically, this DNA-Ad vaccine contains a liver stage antigen (circumsporozoite protein) and an antigen (apical membrane antigen 1) that is present in both the liver and blood stages designed to prevent infection by killing the majority of developing parasites in the liver and to prevent severe disease and death should break-through blood stage infections occur.

This study is an open-label, Phase 1/2a study designed to assess the safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a DNA-Ad vaccine in healthy adults who are Ad5 seropositive or seronegative. The vaccinated study group will consist of up to 20 healthy, malaria-naïve adults aged 18 to 50 years, who have been previously screened to meet inclusion and exclusion criteria and will receive three priming doses of the DNA vaccine and a single dose of the boosting component, an adenovirus-vectored vaccine to be given 4 months after the last dose of DNA. Follow up visits will occur after each immunization. The control group will consist of six non-immunized subjects that will participate in a challenge to assure that vaccinated subjects were indeed exposed to P. falciparum. Subjects in both the immunized and control cohorts will receive malaria challenge. Subjects will be assessed for development of parasitemia by daily blood smears and will be closely observed in hotel after the challenge. Subjects will then be followed periodically and have the final in-person visit twelve weeks after the challenge, followed by annual contact by phone, email, or mailings up to five years after the first dose of immunization per FDA recommendation. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Malaria

• NCT number: NCT00870987
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Start date: May 2009
• Completion date: July 2015