Safety of and Immune Response to the Experimental Preventive HIV Vaccine, EP HIV-1090, in Healthy, HIV-1 Uninfected Adults

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine the safety of and immune response to the investigational HIV vaccine, EP HIV-1090, in HIV uninfected adults.

Timeline

Start

2006-01

Primary completion

2007-12

Completion

2007-12

Publications

• Background Esparza J, Osmanov S. HIV vaccines: a global perspective. Curr Mol Med. 2003 May;3(3):183-93. doi: 10.2174/1566524033479825.
• Background Gaschen B, Taylor J, Yusim K, Foley B, Gao F, Lang D, Novitsky V, Haynes B, Hahn BH, Bhattacharya T, Korber B. Diversity considerations in HIV-1 vaccine selection. Science. 2002 Jun 28;296(5577):2354-60. doi: 10.1126/science.1070441.
• Background Livingston BD, Newman M, Crimi C, McKinney D, Chesnut R, Sette A. Optimization of epitope processing enhances immunogenicity of multiepitope DNA vaccines. Vaccine. 2001 Sep 14;19(32):4652-60. doi: 10.1016/s0264-410x(01)00233-x.
• Background McKinney DM, Skvoretz R, Livingston BD, Wilson CC, Anders M, Chesnut RW, Sette A, Essex M, Novitsky V, Newman MJ. Recognition of variant HIV-1 epitopes from diverse viral subtypes by vaccine-induced CTL. J Immunol. 2004 Aug 1;173(3):1941-50. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.173.3.1941.
• Background Wilson CC, McKinney D, Anders M, MaWhinney S, Forster J, Crimi C, Southwood S, Sette A, Chesnut R, Newman MJ, Livingston BD. Development of a DNA vaccine designed to induce cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses to multiple conserved epitopes in HIV-1. J Immunol. 2003 Nov 15;171(10):5611-23. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.10.5611.
• Jin X, Morgan C, Yu X, DeRosa S, Tomaras GD, Montefiori DC, Kublin J, Corey L, Keefer MC; NIAID HIV Vaccine Trials Network. Multiple factors affect immunogenicity of DNA plasmid HIV vaccines in human clinical trials. Vaccine. 2015 May 11;33(20):2347-53. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.03.036. Epub 2015 Mar 25.

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