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CompletedNCT03392389Updated Feb 6, 2020

Safety, Reactogenicity, and Immunogenicity of mRNA-1653 in Healthy Adults

A Phase 1 interventional study of mRNA-1653 and Placebo in Human Metapneumovirus and Human Parainfluenza Infection, sponsored by ModernaTX, Inc.. Completed at 3 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 49 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-02-06.

Sponsored by ModernaTX, Inc. (part of Moderna, Inc.) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Jul 2019, 7 years 3 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.

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Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
124
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 49 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 21 studies in Paramyxoviridae Infections with a site in United States — 2 open to participants now, 2 under way, 1 of them phase 3. Paramyxoviridae Infections · United States.

Enrollment
4th of 20
124 · median 51
Started
2017
the only one that year
Phase 1
14 of 21
1 open now
Registered
14th of 21
by date
Lead sponsor
2 of 21
ModernaTX, Inc.

Among the 21 studies in Paramyxoviridae Infections with a site in United States, this one is the 4th largest by enrollment of the 20 interventional ones that give a count, is the only one that started in 2017, is one of 14 in phase 1, and was the 14th registered.

Paramyxoviridae Infections

31 studies on the registry are indexed under Paramyxoviridae Infections; 3 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

2 of the 21 studies in Paramyxoviridae Infections with a site in United States are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:

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Who these studies take

Of the 3 Paramyxoviridae Infections studies recruiting now, 2 set no upper age limit and 1 stops at 75 or younger; 1 takes children under 18; 1 takes healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 49 Years · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.

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Study summary

This clinical study will assess the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of mRNA-1653, a combined human metapneumovirus and human parainfluenza virus type 3 vaccine in healthy adults.

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Conditions studied

  • Human Metapneumovirus and Human Parainfluenza Infection

Keywords

  • mRNA-1653
  • human metapneumovirus
  • human parainfluenza vaccine
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 49 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Agrees to comply with the study procedures and provides written
  • 18 to 49 years of age
  • between 18 and 35 kg/m2
  • In good health based on medical history, physical examination, vital sign measurements and laboratory safety tests performed prior to initial study vaccination
  • Negative urine pregnancy test at the screening visit and the day of each vaccination for females of
  • Female subjects must either be of non-childbearing potential or use acceptable methods of from at least 30 days prior to enrollment and through 3 months following last vaccination
  • Willing to comply with the requirements of the protocol (eg, complete Diary Cards, return for follow-up visits, be available for safety phone calls)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any ongoing, symptomatic acute or chronic illness requiring medical or surgical care
  • A history of in the last 10 years
  • If female and of , is pregnant or lactating, has not adhered to an adequate method from at least 30 days before study entry, or does not plan to do so for at least 3 months after the last vaccination
  • Abnormal screening safety laboratory test results including liver enzyme tests
  • Administration of any or non-registered product (drug or vaccine) other than the study vaccine within 30 days preceding the first dose of study vaccine or has plans for administration during the study period
  • Prior administration of investigational agent using lipid nanoparticle formulations
  • A positive test result for surface antigen, virus antibody, or types 1 or 2 antibodies
  • A positive test result for drugs of abuse
  • Chronic administration of potentially hepatotoxic drugs or have other medical conditions that affect the liver (eg, alcohol abuse)
  • A history of idiopathic urticaria
  • Plans for administration or has been administered a vaccine within the period from 30 days before through 30 days after each study vaccination, with the exception of any licensed influenza vaccine administered ≥15 days before or after any study vaccination
  • Any chronic administration of an or other immune modifying drug
  • Prior administration of immunoglobulins and/or any blood products within the 3 months before the first study vaccine or has plans for administration during the study period
  • Any known or suspected immune-mediated disease or immunosuppressive condition as determined by medical history and/or physical examination
  • A history of or serious reactions to previous vaccinations
  • Any bleeding disorder considered a to IM injection or blood draw
  • Any acute illness or fever at screening
  • Any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would pose a health risk to the subject if enrolled or could interfere with evaluation of the study drug or interpretation of study results
  • Donation of blood or blood products > 450 mL within 30 days of dosing.
  • Is an immediate family member or household member of study personnel
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

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Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

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.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

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.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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.

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.

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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
124 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    mRNA-1653

    Biological: mRNA-1653

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Other: Placebo

Interventions

  • BiologicalmRNA-1653

    Escalating dose levels

  • OtherPlacebo

    Saline

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Frequency of solicited AEs (local and systemic reactogenicity events)

    Time frame: 7 days following each dose administration

  2. Frequency of unsolicited adverse events

    Time frame: 28 days following each dose administration

  3. Frequency of serious adverse events (SAE), adverse events of special interest (AESI), and medically-attended AEs

    Time frame: one year following the last dose administration

  4. Frequency of clinical laboratory adverse events

    Time frame: 1 month following the last dose administration

  5. Geometric mean titer (GMT) of the serum anti-hMPV and anti-PIV3 neutralizing antibodies

    Time frame: 1 month following the last dose administration

  6. Proportion of subjects with a ≥ 4-fold increase in serum anti-hMPV and anti-PIV3 neutralizing antibody titer from baseline to post-vaccination

    Time frame: 1 month following the last dose administration

  7. Proportion of subjects who achieve serum anti-hMPV and anti-PIV3 neutralizing antibody titers greater than the third quartile of the serum anti-hMPV and anti-PIV3 antibody titers overall distribution at baseline

    Time frame: 1 month following the last dose administration

Secondary outcomes

  1. Geometric mean titer (GMT) of the serum anti-hMPV and anti-PIV3 neutralizing antibodies

    Time frame: 6 months and 1 year following the last dose administration

  2. Proportion of subjects with a ≥ 4-fold increase in serum anti-hMPV and anti-PIV3 neutralizing antibody titer from baseline to post-vaccination

    Time frame: 6 months and 1 year following the last dose administration

  3. Proportion of subjects who achieve serum anti-hMPV and anti-PIV3 neutralizing antibody titers greater than the third quartile of the serum anti-hMPV and anti-PIV3 antibody titers overall distribution at baseline

    Time frame: 6 months and 1 year following the last dose administration

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Study locations

3 sites
  • Meridian Clinical Research, LLC
    Omaha, Nebraska 68134, United States
  • Benchmark Research
    Austin, Texas 78705, United States
  • Benchmark Research
    Fort Worth, Texas 76135, United States
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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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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Dec 2017 to primary completion in Jul 2019, 19 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jan 2, 2018
First posted
Jan 8, 2018
StartActual
Dec 4, 2017
Primary completionActual
Jul 29, 2019
CompletionActual
Jul 29, 2019
Last update
Feb 6, 2020
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 6, 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
NCT03392389
Lead sponsor
ModernaTX, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 8, 2018
Start date
Dec 4, 2017
Primary completion
Jul 29, 2019
Completion
Jul 29, 2019
Last update
Feb 6, 2020

Oversight

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