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CompletedNCT03072030Updated Aug 25, 2020

International Multicenter Study of the Immunogenicity of Medicinal Product GamEvac-Combi

A Phase 4 interventional study of GamEvac-Combi (vaccine) and Placebo in Ebola Virus Disease and Prevention, sponsored by Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Health Ministry of the Russian Federation. Completed at 2 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 60 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-08-25.

Sponsored by Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Health Ministry of the Russian Federation · Phase 4, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
2,000
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 60 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate immunogenicity, epidemiological efficacy and safety of medicinal product GamEvac-Combi - Combined Vector-Based Vaccine against Ebola Virus Disease, 0.5 ml+0.5 ml/dose

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This clinical trial is designed as a double blind randomized placebo-controlled study to evaluate immunogenicity of medicinal product GamEvac-Combi - Combined Vector-Based Vaccine against Ebola Virus Disease, 0.5 ml+0.5 ml/dose.

The study includes three periods: screening, administration of the investigated product and follow-up. Vaccine will be administered to groups of volunteers (each group will include not more than 40 volunteers at a time; a new group of volunteers cannot be hospitalized before the earlier vaccinated volunteers are discharged from the hospital. In total, 8 visits will be held, including a screening visit; two of the visits will take place during the inpatient stage and six - during the outpatient observation.

Study design in the both facilities will be the same for all volunteers, except that the biomaterial collected for immunogenicity evaluation from volunteers included in the study in the Russian Federation will be delivered directly to the testing laboratory; biomaterial from volunteers included in the study in the Republic of Guinea will undergo primary specimen processing, be frozen and stored under the assigned temperature conditions in the research center and, as biomaterial is accumulated, it will be transported in a fridge to the study site.

In addition, laboratory tests for such concomitant infectious diseases, as yellow fever, Denge fever, Ebola and Marburg virus diseases will be carried out for epidemiological indications (i.e. in the endemic regions if disease cases are reported).

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Conditions studied

  • Ebola Virus Disease
  • Prevention

Keywords

  • Ebola Virus Disease
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
  • Vaccines
  • GP protein, Ebola virus
  • Ebola Virus Vaccines
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In context

Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola

104 studies on the registry are indexed under Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola; 13 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 2,000 is above the median of 94 across 81 interventional studies indexed under Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola.

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Lead sponsor

Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Health Ministry of the Russian Federation is the lead sponsor of 41 studies on the registry; 11 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 60 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Males and females within the age range from 18 to 60 years;
  • written ;
  • absence of acute infectious diseases/relapses of chronic diseases at the time of vaccine administration and 7 days prior to the vaccination;
  • absence of severe allergic diseases in the medical history (anaphylactic shock, Quincke's edema, polymorphic exudative eczema, serum disease)
  • no serious post-vaccination complications in patient's history following the earlier administration of immunobiological products
  • negative blood or urine test for pregnancy (for child-bearing age females) not more than 24 hours prior to the administration of the first dose of investigated product;
  • absence of concomitant illnesses, especially dangerous or endemic for a particular region, proved by laboratory and/or clinical methods (malaria, yellow fever, Denge fever, Ebola or Marburg virus disease, poliomyelitis).
  • negative results of , and C and syphilis tests.
  • adequate for females and males of reproductive age.
  • negative results of urine test for narcotic drug residues;
  • negative result of breath alcohol test (in the expired air sample)
  • absence of haematological
  • absence of malignant neoplasms

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

    • volunteer involvement in another study over the last 90 days;
  • any immunization with vaccine over the last 30 days;
  • symptoms of acute respiratory diseases within the last 7 days;
  • administration of immunoglobulins or other blood products; taking medications and/or immunomodulating agents over the last 3 months;
  • pregnancy or breast feeding;
  • exacerbation of allergic diseases, previous history of anaphylactic reactions or angioneurotic edema;
  • previous history of or allergic reactions to the administration of any vaccines;
  • allergic reactions to the vaccine components;
  • presence of a concomitant illness which might affect the evaluation of study results: active tuberculosis form, chronic liver and kidney diseases, serious thyroid dysfunction or other endocrine disorders (diabetes mellitus), severe hematopoietic diseases, epilepsy and other CNS disorders, myocardial infarction in the medical history, myocarditis, endocarditis, pericarditis, ischemic heat disease and other illnesses which, in opinion of the investigator, make patient ineligible for study enrollment or may affect the course of the study.
  • blood donation (450 ml or more of blood or plasma) less than 2 months prior the study commencement date.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(7)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
2,000 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Active Drug Group

    1900 volunteers will be immunized with vaccine GamEvac-Combi They will receive product twice according to the following dosing regimen: on Day 1 (component A) and Day 21 of the study (component B) in the dose of 0.5 ml

    Biological: GamEvac-Combi (vaccine)

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo Drug Group

    100 volunteers will be immunized with placebo They will receive product twice according to the following dosing regimen: on Day 1 (placebo - component A) and Day 21 of the study (placebo- component B) in the dose of 0.5 ml

    Biological: Placebo

Interventions

  • BiologicalGamEvac-Combi (vaccine)

    vaccination

  • BiologicalPlacebo

    vaccination

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. determination of immunity duration by ELISA method

    immunity duration determination by ELISA method includes time points in which the assessment of the immunity response (antibody titer) should be provided (21, 28, 42 days and 3, 6, 12 months after the vaccination respectively)

    Time frame: the total Time Frame is 12 month after the vaccination

Secondary outcomes

  1. assessment of antigen-specific cell-mediated immune response

    determination of specific T-cell- mediated response to Ebola virus proteins vs. baseline values and placebo

    Time frame: on days 0 and 28

  2. determination of immunity duration in virus neutralization reaction

    Determination of the immunity duration will be provided by the assessment of the neutralizing antibody titer for a virus in virus neutralization reaction vs. baseline values and placebo

    Time frame: on days 0 and 42

Other outcomes

  1. safety and tolerability

    Incidence in the healthy volunteers vital parameters changes and the occurrence of systemic and local post-vaccination reactions in comparison with placebo; reviewing its impact on the vital parameters in healthy volunteers (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature) and the occurrence of systemic and local post-vaccination reactions in comparison with placebo

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  2. epidemiological effectiveness of vaccination

    2. Where possible, to evaluate epidemiological effectiveness of vaccination based on the follow-on morbidity indicators of immunized and non-immunized individuals, manifestations of the epidemiological process in time and space

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year"

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Study locations

2 sites
  • Centre de recherche en épidémiologie, microbiologie et de soins médicaux (CREMS) de Pastoria à Kindia
    Kindia, Guinea
  • Infectious Disease Clinical Hospital No. 1 of the Moscow Healthcare Department
    Moscow, Russian Federation
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 25, 2020, 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
NCT03072030
Lead sponsor
Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Health Ministry of the Russian Federation
Collaborators
CREMS (Centre de Recherche Epidémiologie, Microbiologie et Soins médicaux )
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 7, 2017
Start date
Aug 3, 2017
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2019
Completion
Jul 31, 2020
Last update
Aug 25, 2020

Study contacts

Sylla Ali Lathyr
principal investigator · physician administrator
Marina Rusanova, MD, PhD
principal investigator · doctor of infectious department

Oversight

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