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HIV INFECTIONSPhase 1HIV-VACNCT01009762

Immunization With HIV-1 Peptides in Adjuvant for Treatment of Patients With Chronic HIV-infection

A Phase 1 study testing peptide vaccine (AFO-18) in people with HIV INFECTIONS, run by Gitte Kronborg at 1 site in Denmark.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Treatment: Immunization with a peptide-mix of 17 Clusters of Differentiation number 8 (CD8) T cell minimal epitopes and 3 Clusters of Differentiation number 4 (CD4) T cell epitopes and a new adjuvant (CAF01). The vaccine should induce cellular immunity against human immuno-deficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 60 years
Conditions the study is for
HIV INFECTIONS
What is being tested?
peptide vaccine (AFO-18)
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
11 participants
Where
1 siteDenmark
Study dates
Sep 2009to Mar 2012
Phase
Phase 1
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 60 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult

Who may be able to join

  • HIV-1 seropositive with measurable viral load >10e3 copies/ml and CD4+ T-cell count >400 CD4+ cells/µl
  • Not in Antiretroviral Therapy (>1 year)
  • Male or female with age between 18 and 60 years, where females are not breastfeeding, are not pregnant and use contraception until at least 3 months after end of vaccinations
  • Normal values for the area of liver and kidney enzymes, blood cell count with differential counts e.g. white blood cells, lymphocytes, platelets, thrombocytes, and Hemoglobin
  • Expected to follow the instructions
  • Written informed consent after oral and written information

Who cannot join

  • Vaccinated with other experimental vaccines within 3 months before the first vaccination
  • Treated with immune modulating medicine within 3 month before the first immunization
  • Other significant active chronic infectious diseases likely to influence the HIV-1 infection, like Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)
  • Significant medical disease as judged by the investigators, for example severe asthma/chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD), badly regulated heart disease, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
  • Severe allergy or earlier anaphylactic reactions
  • Active autoimmune diseases
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  • Simultaneous treatment with other experimental drugs
  • Laboratory parameters outside the 'normal' range for the area and which are considered clinically significant
  • Pregnancy and/or brest feeding

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Denmark1 site
  • Department Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre university hospital

    Copenhagen, DK-2650

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About this study

Official title: Immunization With HIV-1 Peptides in Adjuvant for Treatment of Patients With

Treatment: Immunization with a peptide-mix of 17 Clusters of Differentiation number 8 (CD8) T cell minimal epitopes and 3 Clusters of Differentiation number 4 (CD4) T cell epitopes and a new adjuvant (CAF01). The vaccine should induce cellular immunity against human immuno-deficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1).

Target group: Untreated healthy individuals with chronic HIV-1 infection who are not in antiretroviral treatment.

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Purpose: The primary purpose is to evaluate tolerability and safety of the vaccine.

The secondary purpose is to evaluate the clinical effect of the vaccination treatment as measured by induction of new T cell immunity, lowering of HIV-1 ribonucleic acid (RNA) viral load in plasma, and improvement in the patient CD4 lymphocyte blood counts.

Design: The experiment is designed as a single-blinded, placebo-controlled phase 1 clinical trial in HIV-1 infected individuals in Denmark.

Numbers of individuals: 20 fully evaluable HIV-1-infected patients should enter the study (15 vaccine treated and 5 placebo(saline) treated controls).

The hypothesis is that a redirection of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) immunity to selected relatively immune silent (subdominant) but conserved CTL targets on multiple sites in HIV-1 could provide a better immune control of the virus replication. This could result in lowering of viral load thereby prolonging the time to antiretroviral therapy.

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The HIV-1 vaccine in this trial is designed to prevent disease in healthy already HIV-1 infected individuals not in anti-retroviral treatment by inducing a strong cellular immune response against several immune subdominant selected target points in the patient's HIV-1 virus. The vaccine treatment is not harmful but could potentially lower viral load and thus delay the time to acquired immuno deficiency syndrome (AIDS) disease or to the need of antiviral medicine and thereby limit the spread of HIV-1 in the population.

The patient's cellular immune response can only partly control the HIV-1 infection and eventually leads to a destruction of the immune system, opportunistic infections, and ultimately death. Normally the natural HIV-1 infection does not provide adequate immunity and vaccines must therefore induce a more potent and broader and more rationally directed immunity. Individuals that have this kind of strong immunity have lower viral-load and live longer. The vaccine in this study is designed to develop this kind of potent cellular immunity against HIV-1, so the virus is controlled better by the individual and spread in the population is limited.

This vaccine is designed to match most individual's cellular immune system (HLA tissue types) and several conserved target points in the individual's own HIV-1 virus. On the basis of our previous vaccine trial of HIV vaccination of HIV-infected individuals in Denmark and years of research, we have been able to develop this HIV-1 vaccine. Our vaccine contains 18 peptides (15 major histocompatibility complex class 1 (MHC-I) restricted CD8-t-cell epitopes and 3 MHC class-II restricted CD4 T-cell epitopes) in a mix and should induce cellular immune responses to several conserved target points identified in HIV-1. Our vaccine is composed of 18 peptides in a lipid based adjuvant Cationic Adjuvant Formulation number 1 (CAF01) composed of dimethyl-deoctadecylammonium (DDA) and trehalose-dibehenate (TDB) and is deemed safe and the technique is simple and also called 'peptide vaccination'. This and similar techniques have been tried in several studies against virus diseases around the world.

We want to know to which degree it is possible to immunize already HIV¬ 1 infected individuals to prolong the healthy period and prevent disease before initiation of antiviral medicine or other treatments of AIDS. In the present immunization study, healthy HIV-1 infected individuals not in treatment in Denmark will be invited to participate. This vaccine study will examine the immune responses and effects of the vaccine on these healthy HIV-1-infected individuals. The first purpose is first to determine if there are any side-effects of the vaccine. From several trials on animals and humans and in our own recent HIV vaccination trial on HIV-1 infected individuals in Denmark, with very similar vaccine techniques (peptides in autologous Dendritic Cells (DC) no serious side-effects has been observed. The second purpose is to examine if the vaccine induces the expected immune responses in HIV-1 infected individuals and how it enforces and supplements the already existing 'own' immune response of the infected individual. Finally, a clinical beneficial effect (on viral load and CD4 counts) of our vaccine will be evaluated.

Conditions
HIV INFECTIONS
Being tested
peptide vaccine (AFO-18)
Keywords
VACCINE, THERAPY, CELLULAR IMMUNITY, IMMUNITY
Medical subject headings
HIV Infections

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • peptide vaccine (AFO-18)Biological

    Also called DDA/TDB, peptides

    18 Peptides (250 ug of each peptide) in Adjuvant CAF01 (= 625/125 ug DDA/TDB), i.m. injection week 0, 2, 4, 8.

Study groups in NCT01009762
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
SalinePlacebo comparatorSterile saline for injection is used as placebo arm. It is administered i.m. in the same way as for the active vaccine, week 0, 2, 4, 8.
AFO-18 vaccineActive comparatorthe intervention is injection of the experimental therapeutic peptide vaccine (AFO-18) consisting of 18 peptides in CAF01 adjuvant intra muscularly (i.m.) week 0, 2, 4, 8
Receives: Biological: peptide vaccine (AFO-18)

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Numbers of Treatment Related Side Effects (DLT = Reaction 3 or More)

    the numbers of treatment related side effects (DLT = reaction 3 or more) are registered for participants

    Measured: up to 6 months after end of treatment

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Number of Participants With New T Cell Response to the Vaccine Target Epitopes

    Number of Participants with New T Cell Response to the Vaccine Target Epitopes as Measured by Intracellular Cytokine Stain Flowcytometry (IC-FACS) and/or IFNg-ELISPOT Analysis.

    Criteria's for meeting anticipated secondary end-point was that >50% of vaccinees reacted with new Clusters of differentiation 8 (CD8) T-cell and/or Clusters of differentiation 4 (CD4) T-cell response to al least one of the vaccine target epitopes as measured by IC-Facs and/or interferon-gamma (IFNg) - Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSpot (ELISPOT) assays.

    Measured: 10-14 days or 3 months or 6 months after last immunisation

  2. Numbers of Participants With Lowering of HIV RNA Viral-load

    HIV-1 RNA Viral load was measured by Quantitative-PCR in plasma as numbers of virus RNA copies/mm^3 relative to baseline viral-load for each participant. The numbers of participant with lowering of HIV RNA plasma Viral-load is counted at base-line and at 6 months (end of study) and provided in the table (analysis population description) and the number of participants that showed lowering of viral-load was counted.

    Criteria for this anticipated end-point was a significant lowering of HIV RNA viral-load in >50% of responders (defined as participants with new T-cell responses).

    Measured: up to 6 months after treatment stop

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted9 Nov 2009 (estimated)
  2. Study startSep 2009
  3. Primary completionMar 2012
  4. Study completionMar 2012

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Single blind
Who is masked
Participant
Enrolment
11 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01009762
Sponsor's protocol ID
EudraCT 2008-002980-15
Other IDs
2008-002980-15, 2008
Acronym
HIV-VAC
Status last verified
Feb 2014
First submitted
6 Nov 2009
Last updated
27 Mar 2014
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Kloverpris H, Karlsson I, Bonde J, Thorn M, Vinner L, Pedersen AE, Hentze JL, Andresen BS, Svane IM, Gerstoft J, Kronborg G, Fomsgaard A. Induction of novel CD8+ T-cell responses during chronic untreated HIV-1 infection by immunization with subdominant cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes. AIDS. 2009 Jul 17;23(11):1329-40. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32832d9b00.

    PubMed 19528789
  • Karlsson I, Brandt L, Vinner L, Kromann I, Andreasen LV, Andersen P, Gerstoft J, Kronborg G, Fomsgaard A. Adjuvanted HLA-supertype restricted subdominant peptides induce new T-cell immunity during untreated HIV-1-infection. Clin Immunol. 2013 Feb;146(2):120-30. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2012.12.005. Epub 2012 Dec 21.

    PubMed 23314272

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing peptide vaccine (AFO-18) in people with HIV INFECTIONS, run by Gitte Kronborg at 1 site in Denmark.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 9 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Mar 2014. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Denmark. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 27 Feb 2014). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Numbers of Treatment Related Side Effects (DLT = Reaction 3 or More) (time frame: up to 6 months after end of treatment). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01009762, which also lists 2 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Mar 2014.

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