Clinical Trial of the PfSPZ Vaccine

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and tolerability of a non-replicating, metabolically active Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite (PfSPZ) vaccine in malaria-naïve healthy volunteers following multiple-dose subcutaneous (SC) or intradermal (ID) administration. In addition, the investigators wish to evaluate PfSPZ vaccine-mediated protection against P. falciparum challenge in the following 4 groups (see below) and compare protective efficacy of the PfSPZ vaccine when given by SC v ID administration in all these groups: * Group 1: 4 doses of 7,500 PfSPZ/immunization, * Group 2: 4 doses of 30,000 PfSPZ/immunization, * Group 3: 4 doses of 135,000 PfSPZ/immunization * Group 4: 4 or 6 doses of 135,000 PfSPZ/immunization. If \> 80% protective efficacy is not achieved in Groups 1, 2, or 3, volunteers in Group 4 will receive a fifth and sixth dose.

Timeline

Start

2009-04

Primary completion

2010-07

Completion

2010-09

Publications

• Results Epstein JE, Tewari K, Lyke KE, Sim BK, Billingsley PF, Laurens MB, Gunasekera A, Chakravarty S, James ER, Sedegah M, Richman A, Velmurugan S, Reyes S, Li M, Tucker K, Ahumada A, Ruben AJ, Li T, Stafford R, Eappen AG, Tamminga C, Bennett JW, Ockenhouse CF, Murphy JR, Komisar J, Thomas N, Loyevsky M, Birkett A, Plowe CV, Loucq C, Edelman R, Richie TL, Seder RA, Hoffman SL. Live attenuated malaria vaccine designed to protect through hepatic CD8(+) T cell immunity. Science. 2011 Oct 28;334(6055):475-80. doi: 10.1126/science.1211548. Epub 2011 Sep 8.

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