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A Phase 1, Placebo-controlled, Randomized, Observer-blinded Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine VLPCOV-U-01 in Healthy Adult Subjects (First-in-Human Study)

A Phase 1, Placebo-controlled, Randomized, Observer-blinded Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine VLPCOV-U-01 in Healthy Adult Subjects (First-in-Human Study)

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Source
JPRN
Registry ID
JPRN-jRCT2051250250
Enrollment
80
Registered
2026-03-09
Start date
2026-03-09
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-09-14

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Prevention of infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2

Interventions

The study drug will be administered intramuscularly into the upper arm deltoid muscle of the subjects at the specified dose twice in total, with a four-week interval between doses. Subjects will be in

Sponsors

Aboshi Masayuki
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1.Aged >=18 years at the time of obtaining consent 2.Aged <75 years at the time of obtaining consent 3.Signed written informed consent for participation in this study 4.HLA genotyping result at Visit 00 showing any of the following alleles: A asterisk 24:02, A asterisk 02:01, A asterisk 02:06, A asterisk 26:01, A asterisk 11:01, or A asterisk 02:07 5.Able to comply with the rules during study participation, receive tests and physical examinations prespecified in the study protocol, complete the e-Diary themselves, and report their symptoms, etc. 6.Received the 2-dose primary vaccination series with the same SARS-CoV-2 RNA vaccine (hereinafter referred to as "mRNA vaccine"), followed by booster dose(s) immunization with an Omicron adapted vaccine (irrespective of the type of vaccine and the number of doses), with at least 6 months having elapsed since the most recent SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. 7.Body mass index (BMI) of 18.0 to 35.0 kg/m2 at Visit 00

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1.Any flu-like symptom (findings suggestive of infection, such as fever at axillary body temperature of 37.5 degrees or higher (or intraoral temperature of 38.0 degrees or higher), chill, cough, nasal discharge, headache, and myalgia) within 72 hours before study drug inoculation 2.Positive SARS-CoV-2 antigen test before study drug inoculation at Visit 00 or Visit 01 (Day 1) or positive SARS-CoV-2 antigen test/nucleic acid detection test during screening (Visit 00 to Visit 01) 3.History of SARS-CoV-2 infection (including asymptomatic and deemed positive) within 6 months before obtaining consent 4.Systolic blood pressure of >160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure of >100 mmHg 5.History of myocarditis or pericarditis, or any concomitant unstable serious cardiovascular (including thrombosis), hematologic, respiratory, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal, and/or psychoneurological disease."Unstable" is defined as: having undergone surgery or invasive procedures within 90 days prior to screening for this study, having required a change in therapeutic agent, etc. due to a worsening of disease status, or having any of the above planned during the study period. 6.Any concomitant active infection "Active infection" is defined as: being diagnosed as having a bacterial, viral, mycotic, or parasitic infection and requiring treatment, or having a chronic infection with ongoing activity, such as chronic hepatitis (e.g., hepatitis B or hepatitis C) and active tuberculosis. 7.Disease or status, or a known history deemed to interfere with the evaluation of the study drug, such as immunodeficiency (e.g., common variable immunodeficiency, severe combined immunodeficiency) and autoimmune disease (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis) (including use of immunosuppressive agents [e.g., high-dose steroids, anti-TNF-alpha]) 8.Receiving or scheduled to receive medications or therapies that may interfere with the evaluation of the study drug "Medications or therapies that may interfere with the evaluation of the study drug" refer to biological products (e.g., anti-TNF-alpha agents [infliximab, adalimumab, etc.], anti-IL-6, anti-IL-5, etc.), JAK inhibitors (e.g., tofacitinib, baricitinib, etc.), and cell/cytokine therapies (e.g., CAR-T therapy, IL-2 therapy, etc.). Other medications or therapies that may clearly interfere with immune assessment will be determined through discussion between the principal investigator or sub-investigator and the sponsor. This criterion will also apply to medications approved overseas but not approved in Japan (e.g., oral minoxidil, medications administered at doses exceeding those approved in Japan) if they are judged to potentially interfere with the evaluation of the study drug based on their characteristics and overseas safety information (warnings, etc.). 9.History of anaphylaxis or severe allergy caused by food or pharmaceutical products (including vaccines), etc. 10.History of convulsion (excluding febrile seizure), Guillain-Barre syndrome, or acute disseminated encephalomyelitis 11.Positive for hepatitis B surface (HBs) antigen, hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies, serologic test for syphilis, or human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) antibodies 12.Experienced a long-lasting (approximately 2 weeks as a guide) symptom of any kind from vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-CoV-2 infection in the past 13.Females who do not agree to use appropriate contraception m

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Incidence and severity of the following adverse events: - Solicited local adverse events which occurred through 7 days after study drug inoculation - Solicited systemic adverse events which occurred through 7 days after study drug inoculation - Adverse events which occurred from the first dose of study drug inoculation through 4 weeks after the last dose of study drug inoculation

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
[Immunogenicity] Frequency of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)-producing T cells following antigen stimulation with HLA-restricted peptide pools (ELISpot assay) through 4 weeks after the second dose of study drug inoculation [Safety] - Incidence of the following events through 52 weeks after the last dose of study drug inoculation: - Serious adverse events - COVID-19 which occurred on or after the 7th day (Day 8) following the first dose of study drug inoculation -Incidence of the following events up to 17 weeks after the first dose of study drug inoculation - Medically Attended unsolicited Adverse Event (MAAE)

Contacts

Public ContactMasayuki Aboshi

VLP Therapeutics Japan, Inc.

clinical@vlptherapeutics.com+81-70-8336-6345

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Sep 19, 2026