A Challenge Study to Assess the Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy of a Malaria Vaccine Candidate

Malaria Clinical Trial

Official title: A Phase I/IIa Clinical Trial to Assess the Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy of the Blood-stage Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria Vaccine Candidate RH5.1/AS01

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This is an open-label, multi-centre Phase I/IIa dose escalation blood-stage malaria CHMI trial to assess the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the candidate malaria vaccine RH5.1/AS01. All volunteers recruited will be healthy, malaria naïve adults aged between 18 and 45 years.

Volunteers will be recruited and vaccinated at the CCVTM, Oxford; Guys and St Thomas' NIHR CRF, London; and the NIHR WTCRF, Southampton for the Phase Ia part of the trial, and at the CCVTM, Oxford and Guys and St Thomas' NIHR CRF, London for the Phase IIa stage.

Clinical Trial Description

This is a descriptive phase I trial to assess the safety and immunogenicity of the RH5.1/AS01 vaccine in healthy volunteers at different doses, and to establish whether the RH5.1/AS01 vaccine can demonstrate a reduced parasite multiplication rate in vaccinated subjects compared to infectivity controls in a blood-stage controlled human malaria infection model.

There will be 6 study groups across two phases of the trial, with a total of 66 - 78 volunteers.

Vaccination of groups will be sequential from Group 1 to Group 3. Group 3 and 4 can be recruited simultaneously. Volunteers will be able to choose which group they are allocated to.

The vaccination dose for Group 5 has been decided following the analysis of safety and exploratory immunology assays from Groups 1, 2 and 4. They will undergo blood-stage CHMI 2 weeks after the final vaccination and will be followed up until approximately 6 months after the final vaccination.

Group 6 volunteers will be infectivity controls, so will not receive any vaccinations.

Volunteers will be recruited and undergo screening visits, vaccination and clinic visits post-vaccination at their local trial site. Procedures will be performed on the visit time points indicated in the schedule of attendances.. Additional procedures or laboratory tests may be performed, at the discretion of the Investigators. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Malaria

• NCT number: NCT02927145
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Oxford
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Start date: October 17, 2016
• Completion date: June 27, 2019