Vaccines Treatment Options

This was a Phase 1, open-label, non-randomized study of the combination of NY-ESO-1 plus ipilimumab in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma for whom treatment with ipilimumab was indicated. Patients must have had evidence of NY-ESO-1 or LAGE-1 tumor positivity and radiologically measurable disease by the immune-related Response Criteria (irRC). Primary study objectives were to determine the safety and tolerability of the combination and to evaluate humoral and cellular immune response. Secondary objectives were to evaluate tumor response and immunological changes in the tumor microenvironment. Read Less

A Phase 2 Randomized, Placebo- and Active-Controlled, Human Influenza A/California/04/2009 (H1N1) Challenge Study Following Administration of an Oral H1N1 Hemagglutinin (HA) Adenoviral-Vector Based Seasonal Influenza Vaccine and dsRNA Adjuvant (VXA-A1.1) to Healthy Adult Volunteers. Read Less

VXA-NVV-103 is a phase 1B Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multi-Center Safety and Immunogenicity Study of Adenoviral-vector Based Oral Norovirus Vaccines Expressing GI.1 or GII.4 VP1 with Monovalent or Bivalent Dosing in Healthy Adult Volunteers. The study consists of 2 parts: Part 1 is the double-blinded portion where subjects will be randomized to one of two monovalent vaccine groups, bivalent vaccine group or placebo. Subjects will be followed for \~4 weeks post vaccination for safety and immunogenicity. Part 2 will consist of an open label booster vaccination for the bivalent treatment group \~4 months post initial vaccination. All subjects will be followed for long term safety for 1 year post initial vaccination. Read Less

Background: * PSA (prostate specific antigen) is a protein found on normal and cancerous prostate cells. Levels of this protein are used to identify men who are at risk for prostate cancer and to monitor responses to treatment in men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. * Research has shown that men who continue to have an elevated PSA level following primary treatment for prostate cancer are at increased risk for cancer progression. Studies have shown that the change in PSA levels over time, or PSA doubling time (PSADT), can be accurate in predicting how quickly the cancer is likely to progress. Individuals with a PSADT of less than 3 months are at extremely high risk for disease progression and death from prostate cancer. Individuals with a PSADT of greater than 15 months have a very low risk of death from prostate cancer. * T-cell receptor alternate reading frame protein (TARP) is a protein that is found in about 95% of prostate cancers and is known to stimulate the immune system. The TARP prostate cancer vaccine is made from pieces of the TARP protein called peptides and includes peptides that have been modified to make them more effective at stimulating immunity. Although these TARP peptides have been shown to stimulate the immune systems of mice, information is needed to determine if they also stimulate the immune system in humans. Since it is unclear what is the best way to give peptide vaccines, the TARP peptides will be given with substances known to stimulate the immune system or in a vaccine made with the patient s own cells. Objectives: * To determine the immune systems response to vaccination with TARP peptides. * To determine the safety and toxicity of TARP peptide vaccination. * To determine if vaccination with the TARP prostate cancer vaccine can slow down PSADT in men with an intermediate PSADT of 3 to 15 months. Eligibility: * Males 18 years of age and older who have completed their primary treatment for prostate cancer, have stage D0 disease, are Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) A\*0201 positive and who have a PSADT greater than 3 and less than 15 months. Design: * Patients will be randomized to one of two treatment arms: * Arm A will receive the TARP vaccine with other substances that stimulate the immune system. * Arm B will receive the TARP vaccine that includes a patients own white blood cells. * First week of study, after screening for eligibility has been completed: * Day 1: Apheresis procedure to extract white blood cells to test the immune response to the vaccine. * Day 3: Flu vaccine to allow researchers to determine how well a patients immune system is working. * Clinic visits in Weeks 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15 for physical examination, blood samples, and administration of the TARP peptide vaccine. * Physical examination and blood samples only in Weeks 18 and 36. * Additional blood samples and apheresis procedures in Weeks 24 and 48. * A 6th dose of TARP peptide vaccine will be administer to those patients who have a response to vaccination at week 24. * No follow-up or long-term study is associated with this study. Read Less

Vaccine adjuvants are compounds used to increase specific immune responses to antigens, but have minimal toxicity or lasting immune effects on their own. This study investigates the use of dendritic cells as an adjuvant for NY-ESO-1 and Melan-A/MART-1 peptides compared to Montanide® in study subjects with melanoma in complete clinical remission. Read Less

This Phase 1 and Phase 2 study will evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of V116 when administered to adults. Phase 1 has no formal hypothesis. The primary hypotheses for Phase 2 are: V116 is noninferior to Pneumovax™23 as measured by the serotype-specific opsonophagocytic activity (OPA) geometric mean titers (GMTs) for the common serotypes at 30 days postvaccination and that the serotype-specific OPA GMTs for the unique serotypes in V116 at 30 days postvaccination are statistically significantly greater following vaccination with V116 than those following vaccination with Pneumovax™23. Read Less

This is a Phase Ib study in healthy adults (18-70 years) to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of same season and sequential season vaccination schedules consisting of the 2012/2013 seasonal influenza DNA vaccine (HA DNA) and licensed trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) administered intradermally (ID) or intramuscularly (IM). The hypothesis is that evaluation of these investigational schedules will inform development of novel influenza vaccine strategies that may offer improved and cross-protective immunity against antigenically diverse influenza strains. Read Less

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of the AIDSVAX B/E vaccine and the MVA/HIV62B vaccine in healthy, HIV-1-uninfected adults who previously received MVA/HIV62B in DNA/MVA or MVA/MVA vaccine regimens in the HVTN 205 study. Read Less

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of and immune response to a two-vaccine regimen in healthy, HIV-uninfected adults who have never received an HIV preventive vaccine before. Read Less

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, reactogenicity and immune responses of two doses of the investigational RSV vaccines (with different formulations), when administered intramuscularly (IM) according to a 0, 2 month schedule, in older adults aged 60 to 80 years. As the investigational vaccines have not yet been tested in humans before, the study will first assess the safety, reactogenicity and immune responses in young adults aged 18 to 40 years. The study will thus be conducted in 2 parts (Part A and Part B). Read Less

This study evaluates an investigational vaccine that is designed to protect humans against infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and is administered as a nasal spray. Specifically, the study analyzes the safety of, and the immune response to, the vaccine when administered to healthy children between the ages of 6 and 24 months who are seronegative to RSV. Read Less

This study evaluates an investigational vaccine that is designed to protect humans against infection with SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 disease. The investigational vaccine, MV-014-212, is a live attenuated vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that is expressing the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2. MV-014-212 is administered as drops or a spray in the nose. Specifically, this study analyzes the safety of, and the immune response to, the vaccine when administered to healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 69 years who are seronegative to SARS-CoV-2 and have not received a prior vaccine against COVID-19. Read Less