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CompletedNCT01624532GC1109Updated Jan 4, 2023

A Study to Assess Dose-Response, Efficacy (Immunogenicity) and the Safety of GC1109

A Phase 2 interventional study of GC1109 or Placebo of GC1109 in Anthrax, sponsored by Green Cross Corporation. Completed at 1 site in Korea, Republic of. Open to participants aged 19 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-01-04.

Sponsored by Green Cross Corporation · Phase 2, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
240
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
19 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to Assess Dose-Response, Efficacy (Immunogenicity) and the Safety of GC1109 Administered in Multi Intramuscular Doses to Healthy Subjects.

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  1. Step 1

    Primary objective

    • Investigate the optimum volume of GC1109 to compare the subject ratio after seroconversion in each Anti-PA Ab by TNA at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times with the immunogenicity of each treatment (GC1109 and placebo cohort) in healthy adults.
    • In healthy adults, three times the clinical dose of about four weeks, compare immunogenicity of each treatment group (GC1109 group and the placebo group) with subsects ratio who have been Seroconversion for Anti-PA Ab by TNA

    Secondary objective

    • Percentage of subjects after seroconversion in each anti-PA IgG level (by ELISA) at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times in healthy adults
    • Check the Seroprotection antibody titer (survival rate : 50%) with passive immune (nonclinical tests) at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times in healthy adults
    • Establish the Seroconversion rate from the percentage of subjects after seroconversion at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times and seroprotection antibody titer in healthy adults
    • Compare the immunogenicity of each treatment with the GMT's assessment of Anti-PA Ab by TNA for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times
    • Compare the immunogenicity of each treatment with the GMT's assessment of Anti-PA IgG by ELISA for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times
    • Determine the safety of the each treatment cohort
  2. Step 2

Primary objective

  • Evaluate whether the Toxin Neutralization Antibody by TNA assay satisfy the NF50 standard or not at 4 weeks following infuse the optimal dose of GC1109 4 times in healthy adults.

Secondary objective

  • Establish the safety of the GC1109 in healthy adults
  • Establish the GMT of Toxin Neutralization Antibody by TNA assay after infusing the drug 4 times until 24 weeks in healthy adults
  • Establish the GMT of Anti-PA IgG by ELISA after infusing the drug 4 times until 24 weeks in healthy adults
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Conditions studied

  • Anthrax

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Keywords

  • Anthrax vaccine
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In context

Anthrax

75 studies on the registry are indexed under Anthrax; 12 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 240 is above the median of 100 across 57 interventional studies indexed under Anthrax.

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Lead sponsor

Green Cross Corporation is the lead sponsor of 63 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
19 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Eligibility criteria

Step1

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Healthy 18 to 55 year-olds of either sex
  • above 18.5kg/m2 or below 30kg/m2 at the screening time
  • A medical history without congenital or chronic disease at the screening test before administrating the study drug within 28 days
  • Agreement to avoid pregnancy or use measure between 1 week prior to first dose and the 4 weeks following the final administration
  • Female subjects of childbearing age, have negative serum β-HCG prior to infuse the study drug within 7 days and urine test at the every pre-vaccine
  • Signed, informed voluntarily consents the clinical trials
  • Willingness and agreement to comply with the constraints of the study protocol and ability to understand the study
  • Willingness and ability to return for all follow-up visits and blood draws for the duration of the study
  • Subjects who can have the study vaccine administered into the deltoid muscle and don't have the tattoo
  • Agreement to stop drinking for 7days following the administration of the each study vaccine
  • Agreement not to donate the blood for 24 hours following the administration of the each study vaccine

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Prior history of, or known exposure to any form of B.anthracis or any anthrax immunization
  • Employment in an industry involved in contact with ruminant animals, slaughterhose workers, handle the animal raw hides or raw wool, veterinary sciences involving ruminant animals, suspect exposure to any form of B. or anthrax immunization producer and developer.
  • positive or syphilis HAV, , positive or suspect
  • Clinically significant out-of-range of laboratory tests at screening including : hypernatremia, hyponatremia, hypopotassemia, hyperchloremia, hypoproteinemia
  • Prior history of, immunodeficiency or clinically active disease
  • Subjects with a history of Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Subjects with hemophilia or being treated with an anticoagulant who are at increased risk of serious bleeding during intramuscular injection
  • History or evidence of tumor for internal organs, blood or flesh
  • Medical significant or idiosyncratic reaction related to any medical product including study drug or with a history of anaphylaxis
  • Subjects who have had an acute fever exceeding a body temperature of 38.0℃ within 72 hours prior to the administration of the study vaccine, or who have had a symptom suspicious for acute febrile disease within 14 days prior to the administration of the study vaccine.
  • Individuals who have received or intend to receive medication within 30 days of injection of the any experimental drug
  • Donation of blood within 30 days prior to administrate the study drug
  • Subjects who have received or are scheduled for the treatment with the following drug within 120 days (except for inhaled, nasal or topical )
  • Subjects who have received or are scheduled for the treatment with the following drug within 120 days (except for inhaled, nasal or topical corticosteroid)

    • Systemic therapy, radiotherapy, a high dose of steroid at the similar dose level
    • Blood-derived products including immunoglobulin
  • Systemic immunosuppressant therapy, radiotherapy, a high dose of steroid at the similar dose level Blood-derived products including immunoglobulin
  • Subjects who have received or are scheduled for the treatment with the following drug within the specified period
  • Pre-injection of the IP within 30 days: oriental medicine
  • Pre-injection of the IP within 7 days: ethical the counter drug (ETC), over the counter
  • History or suspect of drug abuse (Amphetamine, barbiturates, cocaine, opioids, benzodiazepines etc)
  • Subject without safety for the administration of vaccine, who in the investigator's opinion are unsuitable for the study or disturb the assessment of clinical trials

Step2

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Healthy 19 to 65 year-olds of either sex
  • A medical history without clinically significant congenital or chronic disease at the screening test before administrating the study drug within 28 days.
  • For woman of childbearing age who have not undergone sterilization operation and woman who have not been more than 12 months after menopause, those who agree to avoid pregnancy or use appropriate contraceptive measure for the duration of the study from within one week prior to the first clinical drug administration. Man, who agree to avoid pregnancy or use contraceptive measure for the duration of the study
  • Female subjects of childbearing age, have negative in pregnancy test at the screening visit
  • Signed, informed voluntarily consents the clinical trials
  • Subjects who can have the study drug administered into the deltoid muscle and don't have the tattoo
  • Agreement not to donate the blood for the duration of the study

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Prior history of, or known exposure to any form of B. anthracis or any anthrax immunization
  • Employees in an industry involved in contact with ruminant animals(slaughterhouse workers, handle the animal raw hides or raw wool, veterinary sciences involving ruminant animals, suspect exposure to any form of B. or anthrax), immunization producer and developer.
  • HIV positive or suspect
  • HAV, HBV, HCV positive or suspect
  • Prior history of, immunodeficiency or clinically active autoimmune disease
  • Subjects with a history of Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Subjects with hemophilia or being treated with an anticoagulant who are at increased risk of serious bleeding during intramuscular injection
  • History or evidence of metastatic malignancy tumor for internal organs, blood or flesh
  • Medical significant hypersensitivity, idiosyncratic reaction related to any medical product included in study drug or with a history of anaphylaxis
  • Subjects who have had an acute fever exceeding a body temperature of 38.0℃ within 72 hours prior to the administration of the study vaccine, or who have had a symptom suspicious for acute febrile disease within 14 days prior to the administration of the study drug.
  • A person who has received a split vaccine, inactivated vaccine, or actived vaccine within four weeks prior to administration of a study drug
  • Subjects who have received or are scheduled for the treatment with the following drug within 120 days (except for inhaled, nasal or topical corticosteroid)

    • Systemic immunosuppressant therapy, radiotherapy, a high dose of steroid at the similar dose level
    • Blood-derived products including immunoglobulin
  • A person who has a history of drug abuse within 6 months prior to the administration of a study drug or suspected of taking drugs for fear of abuse through questionnaire and physical examination
  • Pregnant women and lactating women
  • A person whom the investigator determined unsuitable for the study
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

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BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
240 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    GC1109

    Step1: GC1109 0.3 mL or 0.5 mL or 0.1mL administered in Multi Intramuscular Doses (3 times) to Healthy Subjects Step2: GC1109 1.0 mL administered in Multi Intramuscular Doses (4 times) to Healthy Subjects

    Biological: GC1109 or Placebo of GC1109

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo of GC1109

    Step1: Placebo of GC1109 0.5mL administered in Multi Intramuscular Doses (3 times) to Healthy Subjects Step2: Placebo of GC1109 1.0 mL administered in Multi Intramuscular Doses (4 times) to Healthy Subjects

    Biological: GC1109 or Placebo of GC1109

Interventions

  • BiologicalGC1109 or Placebo of GC1109

    Step1: Administer 0.3mL or 0.5mL or 0.1mL or placebo of GC1109 into the deltoid muscle three times every four weeks. Step2: Administer 1.0mL of GC1109 or placebo of GC1109 into the deltoid muscle three times every four weeks, and once after 24 weeks.

    Also known as: rPA or Placebo

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Step 1) Investigate the optimum volume of GC1109

    Investigate the optimum volume of GC1109 to compare the subject ratio after seroconversion in each Anti-PA Ab by TNA at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times with the immunogenicity of each treatment (GC1109 and placebo cohort) in healthy adults.

    Time frame: at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times

  2. Step 2) Toxin Neutralization Antibody (by TNA assay) of GC1109

    Percentage of subjects with an 0.56 or higher NF50 by evaluating Toxin Neutralization Antibody (by TNA assay) at 4 weeks following infuse the optimal dose of GC1109 4 times in healthy adults.

    Time frame: at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 4 times

Secondary outcomes

  1. Step 1) Percentage of subjects after seroconversion

    Percentage of subjects after seroconversion in each anti-PA IgG level (by ELISA) at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times in healthy adults

    Time frame: for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times

  2. Step 1) Check the Seroprotection antibody titer

    Check the Seroprotection antibody titer with passive immune (nonclinical tests) at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times in healthy adults

    Time frame: for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times

  3. Step 1) Seroconversion rate

    Establish the Seroconversion rate from the percentage of subjects after seroconversion at 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times and seroprotection antibody titer in healthy adults

    Time frame: for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times

  4. Step 1) Compare the immunogenicity with GMT by TNA

    Compare the immunogenicity of each treatment with the GMT's assessment of Anti-PA Ab by TNA for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times

    Time frame: for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times

  5. Step 1) Compare the immunogenicity with the GMT by ELISA

    Compare the immunogenicity of each treatment with the GMT's assessment of Anti-PA IgG by ELISA for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times

    Time frame: for 4 weeks following infuse the drug 3 times

  6. Step 1), Step 2) Adverse Events

    Adverse events such as subjective and objective symptoms

    Time frame: By 24 weeks following infuse the drug 4 times

  7. Step 2) GMT of Toxin Neutralization Antibody by TNA assay

    Establish the GMT of Toxin Neutralization Antibody by TNA assay after infusing the drug 4 times until 24 weeks in healthy adults

    Time frame: By 24 weeks following infuse the drug 4 times

  8. Step 2)GMT of Anti-PA IgG by ELISA

    Establish the GMT of Anti-PA IgG by ELISA after infusing the drug 4 times until 24 weeks in healthy adults

    Time frame: By 24 weeks following infuse the drug 4 times

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Study locations

1 site
  • Seoul National University Hospital
    Seoul, 110-744, Korea, Republic of
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 4, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01624532
Collaborators
Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 20, 2012
Start date
Jul 14, 2021
Primary completion
Aug 2, 2022
Completion
Dec 19, 2022
Last update
Jan 4, 2023

Study contacts

Nam Joong Kim, M.D.
principal investigator · Seoul National University Hospital
Seong Heon Wie, M.D.
principal investigator · Saint Vincent's Hospital, Korea
Won Suk Choi, M.D.
principal investigator · Korea University Asan Hospital
Eun Jung Lee, M.D.
principal investigator · Soonchunhyang University Hospital
Jacob Lee, M.D.
principal investigator · Hallym University Medical Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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