Phase Ia Study of ChAd63/MVA PvDBP

A Phase Ia Clinical Trial to Assess the Safety and Immunogenicity of New Plasmodium Vivax Malaria Vaccine Candidates ChAd63 PvDBP Alone and With MVA PvDBP

This is an open label phase Ia study, to assess the safety of two novel malaria vaccines, ChAd63 PvDBP, with or without MVA PvDBP. Heterologous prime-boost with ChAd63-MVA is, to our knowledge, one of the most potent T cell-inducing subunit vaccine regimens which can importantly also induce antibodies. Previous clinical trials using this regimen expressing ME-TRAP, AMA1 & MSP1, have shown that administering ChAd63 as a prime followed 8 weeks later by MVA as a boost is a very immunogenic schedule (32-34). For this reason, and to provide comparability with previous ChAd63-MVA trials, we propose to use a similar administration schedule.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Malaria; Plasmodium Vivax
• Intervention / Treatment: Biological: ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^9; Biological: ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10; Biological: MVA PvDBP 1 x 10^8; Biological: MVA PvDBP 2 x 10^8

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 24
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United Kingdom
  • Oxfordshire
    • Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX3 7LE
      • Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 50 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy adults aged 18 to 50 years.
• Able and willing (in the Investigator's opinion) to comply with all study requirements.
• Willing to allow the investigators to discuss the volunteer's medical history with their General Practitioner.
• For females only, willingness to practice continuous effective contraception during the study and a negative pregnancy test on the day(s) of vaccination.

Agreement to refrain from blood donation during the course of the study.

-Provide written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participation in another research study involving receipt of an investigational product in the 30 days preceding enrolment, or planned use during the study period.
• Prior receipt of an investigational malaria vaccine or any other investigational vaccine likely to impact on interpretation of the trial data.
• Administration of immunoglobulins and/or any blood products within the three months preceding the planned administration of the vaccine candidate.
• Any confirmed or suspected immunosuppressive or immunodeficient state, including HIV infection; asplenia; recurrent, severe infections and chronic (more than 14 days) immunosuppressant medication within the past 6 months (inhaled and topical steroids are allowed).
• History of allergic disease or reactions likely to be exacerbated by any component of the vaccine, e.g. egg products, Kathon.
• History of clinically significant contact dermatitis.
• Any history of anaphylaxis in reaction to vaccination.
• Pregnancy, lactation or willingness/intention to become pregnant during the study.
• History of cancer (except basal cell carcinoma of the skin and cervical carcinoma in situ).
• History of serious psychiatric condition.
• Any other serious chronic illness requiring hospital specialist supervision.
• Suspected or known current alcohol abuse as defined by an alcohol intake of greater than 42 units every week.
• Suspected or known injecting drug abuse in the 5 years preceding enrolment.
• Seropositive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg).
• Seropositive for hepatitis C virus (antibodies to HCV) with positive PCR for hepatitis C at screening.
• History of clinical malaria (any species).
• Travel to a malaria endemic region during the study period or within the previous six months.
• Any clinically significant abnormal finding on screening biochemistry or haematology blood tests or urinalysis.
• Any other significant disease, disorder or finding which may significantly increase the risk to the volunteer because of participation in the study, affect the ability of the volunteer to participate in the study or impair interpretation of the study data.
• Inability of the study team to contact the volunteer's GP to confirm medical history and safety to participate.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

4

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Group 1; 4 volunteers; 1 dose of ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^9 vp intramuscularly	Biological: ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^9; 1 dose of ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^9 vp intramuscularly
Experimental: Group 2A; 4 volunteers; 1 dose of ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10 vp intramuscularly	Biological: ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10; 1 dose of ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10 vp intramuscularly
Experimental: Group 2B; 8 volunteers; 1 dose of ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10 vp intramuscularly and 1 dose MVA PvDBP 1 x 10^8 pfu 8 weeks later intramuscularly	Biological: ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10; 1 dose of ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10 vp intramuscularly; Biological: MVA PvDBP 1 x 10^8; 1 dose MVA PvDBP 1 x 108 pfu 8 weeks later intramuscularly
Experimental: Group 2C; 8 volunteers; 1 dose of ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10 vp intramuscularly and 1 dose MVA PvDBP 2 x 10^8 pfu 8 weeks later intramuscularly	Biological: ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10; 1 dose of ChAd63 PvDBP 5 x 10^10 vp intramuscularly; Biological: MVA PvDBP 2 x 10^8; 1 dose MVA PvDBP 2 x 108 pfu 8 weeks later intramuscularly

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The safety in healthy volunteers of two new candidate malaria vaccines, ChAd63 PvDBP administered alone, and with MVA PvDBP, in a prime-boost regime.	To assess the safety of ChAd63 PvDBP when administered alone and in heterologous prime-boost with MVA PvDBP. Safety will be assessed by the frequency, incidence and nature of adverse events and serious adverse events arising during the study as well as abnormalities in Hematology and Biochemistry lab tests.	Up to 20 weeks post first vaccination

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The humoral and cellular immunogenicity of ChAd63 PvDBP, when administered to healthy volunteers alone and with MVA PvDBP.	PvDBP_RII-specific immunogenicity will be assessed by a variety of immunological assays. These may include ex vivo ELISpot assays for interferon gamma and flow cytometry assays, as well as antibody ELISAs. Other exploratory immunological assays including cytokine analysis, antibody assays, anti-adenovirus antibodies, DNA analysis of genetic polymorphisms potentially relevant to vaccine immunogenicity and gene expression studies amongst others may be performed at the discretion of the investigators. Other exploratory immunology may be carried out in collaboration with other specialist labs, including labs outside of Europe. This would involve transfer of serum/plasma, but samples will be anonymised. Volunteers will be consented beforehand.	U to 20 weeks post first vaccination.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Oxford
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Adrian V S Hill, MD, University of Oxford

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Payne RO, Silk SE, Elias SC, Milne KH, Rawlinson TA, Llewellyn D, Shakri AR, Jin J, Labbe GM, Edwards NJ, Poulton ID, Roberts R, Farid R, Jorgensen T, Alanine DG, de Cassan SC, Higgins MK, Otto TD, McCarthy JS, de Jongh WA, Nicosia A, Moyle S, Hill AV, Berrie E, Chitnis CE, Lawrie AM, Draper SJ. Human vaccination against Plasmodium vivax Duffy-binding protein induces strain-transcending antibodies. JCI Insight. 2017 Jun 15;2(12):e93683. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.93683. eCollection 2017 Jun 15.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: April 1, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2014
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 13, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 18, 2013
• First Posted (Estimate): March 21, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 8, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 5, 2017
• Last Verified: May 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Malaria; Plasmodium vivax; PvDBP
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Infections; Vector Borne Diseases; Parasitic Diseases; Protozoan Infections; Malaria
• Other Study ID Numbers: VAC051