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TerminatedNCT03462004Updated Mar 18, 2026

Evaluating the Live-Attenuated Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 Vectored Vaccine Candidate Expressing Ebolavirus Zaire Glycoprotein as the Sole Envelope Glycoprotein

A Phase 1 interventional study of HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine and Placebo in Ebola Virus Disease, sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Terminated at 2 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 50 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-03-18.

Sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention

Why this study was terminated
Cancel Enrollment due to Covid-19 Pandemic, Not restarted

From the registry’s dates

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

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Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 50 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

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

Among 20 studies in Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — none open to participants now, none under way, none of them phase 3. Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Enrollment
16th of 17
15 · median 57
Started
2018
with 2 others
Phase 1
14 of 20
none open now
Registered
17th of 20
by date

Among the 20 studies in Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this one is the 16th largest by enrollment of the 17 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 3 that started in 2018, is one of 14 in phase 1, and was the 17th registered.

Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola

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

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 4 Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola studies recruiting now, 2 set no upper age limit and 2 stop at 75 or younger; none take children under 18; 4 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 50 Years · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.

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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, infectivity, and immunogenicity of two doses of the HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine candidate when administered intranasally in healthy adults.

Read the detailed description

This study will evaluate the safety, infectivity, and immunogenicity of two doses of the HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine candidate when administered intranasally in healthy adults.

Participants will be enrolled sequentially in two cohorts. Participants in Cohort 1 will be randomly assigned to receive two doses of either 10\^6.0 PFU/mL of HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ-GP vaccine or placebo. The first dose will be given on Day 0 and the second dose will be given 4-8 weeks later. Participants in Cohort 2 will be randomly assigned to receive two doses of either 10\^7.0 PFU/mL of HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ-GP vaccine or placebo on Days 0 and 28.

Participants will be admitted to the inpatient unit 2 days prior to receiving their first dose of the vaccine or placebo. While in the inpatient unit, study procedures will include physical examinations, nasal washes, and blood collection. Participants will be discharged from the inpatient unit on Day 8 or thereafter once two consecutive rRT-PCR assay results are below the pre-determined threshold. An additional study visit will occur on Day 14.

On Day 26 (+28), participants will be readmitted to the inpatient unit, and will receive their second dose of the vaccine or placebo on Day 28 (+28). Participants will undergo the same study procedures that occurred during the first inpatient stay, and will be discharged 7 days after the second dose, or once the subject is without respiratory symptoms and rRT-PCR assay is below the pre-determined threshold (around Day 35). Additional study visits will occur on Days 42 ± 3, 56 ± 5, 84 ± 5, 112 ± 7, 180 ± 14, 270 ± 14, and 360 ± 30.

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Conditions studied

  • Ebola Virus Disease

Keywords

  • Healthy Volunteer
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Adult males and non-pregnant females between 18 and 50 years of age inclusive
  • General good health, without significant medical illness, physical examination findings, or significant laboratory abnormalities as determined by the investigator
  • Agree to storage of blood specimens for future research
  • Available for the duration of the trial
  • Able to demonstrate understanding of key study concepts, study rationale, and study participation requirements by scoring greater than or equal to 70% on a written comprehension assessment in less than or equal to 3 attempts.
  • Willingness to participate in the study as evidenced by signing the document
  • Female subjects of must agree to have used effective methods beginning at least one month prior to vaccination, and continuing with 'per label/fully effective use' for the chosen method for the duration of the study, from amongst these:

    • pharmacologic/hormonal contraceptives, including oral, parenteral, subcutaneous, and transcutaneous delivery;
    • condoms with spermicide;
    • diaphragm with spermicide;
    • intrauterine device;
    • absolute abstinence from heterosexual intercourse as a matter of normal preferred lifestyle;
    • or must be surgically sterile, or must be age 50 AND have had no menses at all for at least one full year.
    • All females must provide samples for urine and serum pregnancy testing prior to enrollment (immediately prior to each vaccination), as well as a statement of menstrual history and a summary of all potentially reproductive sexual activity for the month prior to each vaccination, and at each study contact throughout the study, and report if they may be pregnant immediately.
  • Willingness to refrain from blood donation during the course of the study
  • Willingness to refrain from receiving other vaccines or products during the first 4 months of the study after enrollment
  • Willingness to follow admission and isolation requirements for the indicated duration per protocol.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnancy as determined by a positive human choriogonadotropin (ß-HCG) test or history of recent unprotected intercourse in a woman of reproductive capacity
  • Currently breastfeeding
  • Evidence of neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic, rheumatological, , or renal disease by history, physical examination, and/or laboratory studies
  • History of intranasal pathology or evidence of structural abnormalities of the sinuses or nasal cavity upon examination
  • Behavioral or cognitive impairment or psychiatric disease that, in the opinion of the investigator, affects the subject's ability to understand and cooperate with the study protocol
  • Positive urine drug toxicology test indicating narcotic use or history of dependency
  • Have medical, occupational, or family problems as a result of alcohol or illicit drug use during the past 12 months
  • Other condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would jeopardize the safety or rights of a subject participating in the trial, or would render the subject unable to comply with the protocol.
  • History of anaphylaxis
  • Current diagnosis of asthma or reactive airway disease (within the past 2 years)
  • Current history of allergic rhinitis requiring the use of medication in the 2 weeks before enrollment or the first 56 days of the study
  • History of Bell's palsy
  • Positive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and confirmatory test (e.g., Western blot or -1/HIV-2 differentiation assay) for human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1)
  • Positive ELISA and confirmatory test (e.g., polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for virus) for virus (HCV)
  • Positive virus surface antigen (HBsAg) by ELISA test
  • Known immunodeficiency syndrome or history suggestive of impaired immune function
  • Use of (excluding topical preparations) or drugs within 30 days prior to vaccination
  • Receipt of a within 4 weeks or a killed vaccine within 2 weeks prior to study vaccination
  • History of asplenia.
  • (BMI) less than 18.5 or greater than 40
  • Receipt of blood or blood-derived products (including immunoglobulin) within 6 months prior to study vaccination
  • Current tobacco user unwilling to refrain from smoking, snuffing, vaping, or chewing for the duration of the inpatient study (subjects may use nicotine patches if needed)
  • Travel to an Ebola-endemic region at the time when cases were present or planned travel to West or Central Africa during the study period
  • Receipt of another vaccine or drug within 30 days prior to study vaccination
  • Previous receipt of an investigational Ebola or Marburg virus vaccine, a chimpanzee adenovirus, or human parainfluenza virus (HPIV)-vectored vaccine, or any other investigational vaccine likely to affect interpretation of the trial data
  • Current or past (in the last 4 weeks) user of intranasal medications (including steroids, decongestants, or hormonal medications), or planning to use them within 28 days of study vaccination
  • Live or have close contact with vulnerable individuals, including infants, the elderly, or immunocompromised individuals (those with HIV/AIDS, , or transplant patients)
  • History of Liver disease.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
15 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1: HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine

    Participants will receive two doses of 10\^6.0 PFU/mL of HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine on Days 0 and 28 (+28).

    Biological: HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine

  • Placebo comparator
    Cohort 1: Placebo

    Participants will receive two doses of placebo on Days 0 and 28 (+28).

    Biological: Placebo

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2: HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine

    Participants will receive two doses of 10\^7.0 PFU/mL of HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine on Days 0 and 28 (+28).

    Biological: HPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine

  • Placebo comparator
    Cohort 2: Placebo

    Participants will receive two doses of placebo on Days 0 and 28 (+28).

    Biological: Placebo

Interventions

  • BiologicalHPIV3/ΔHNF/EbovZ GP vaccine

    Administered intranasally

  • BiologicalPlacebo

    Administered intranasally

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Frequency of vaccine-related solicited adverse events

    Graded according to Division of AIDS (DAIDS) Table for Grading the Severity of Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events, Version 2.1, March 2017

    Time frame: Measured through Day 35

  2. Area under the curve of nasal virus shedding after each dose of vaccine

    Assessed by liquid titration of nasal secretions on LLC-MK2 monkey kidney cells

    Time frame: Measured through Day 35

  3. Development of serum antibody to the EbovZ GP

    As measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)

    Time frame: Measured through Day 360

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Study locations

2 sites
  • Center for Immunization Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
  • CIR Inpatient Unit, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
    Baltimore, Maryland 21224, United States
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References and documents

Study documents

PDFs hosted by the registry, ClinicalTrials.gov.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Mar 2018 to primary completion in Mar 2019, 12 months.

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

Registered
Mar 6, 2018
First posted
Mar 12, 2018
StartActual
Mar 5, 2018
Primary completionActual
Mar 15, 2019
CompletionActual
Mar 15, 2019
Last update
Mar 18, 2026
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 Mar 18, 2026, 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
NCT03462004
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 12, 2018
Start date
Mar 5, 2018
Primary completion
Mar 15, 2019
Completion
Mar 15, 2019
Last update
Mar 18, 2026

Study contacts

Kawsar Talaat, MD
principal investigator · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Oversight

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