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CompletedNCT04394689Updated Mar 29, 2023

Measles and Rubella Vaccine Microneedle Patch Phase 1-2 Age De-escalation Trial

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Measles Rubella Vaccine (MRV-SC) and MRV-MNP in Measles, Rubella and Vaccination, sponsored by Micron Biomedical, Inc. Completed at 1 site in Gambia. Open to participants aged 9 Months to 40 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-03-29.

Sponsored by Micron Biomedical, Inc · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Other

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
281
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
9 Months to 40 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a phase 1/2, single-centre, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, active-controlled, age de-escalation trial. Age de-escalation will be based on a review of the safety data from the preceding cohort (adults for toddlers and toddlers for infants) up to day 14 post study product administration by a data monitoring committee (DMC). All participants will receive either the MRV-MNP and a placebo (0.9% sodium chloride) SC injection (PLA-SC) or a placebo-MNP (PLA-MNP) and MRV by the SC route (MRV-SC). Only those study staff randomizing participants and preparing the study products for administration will be aware of the products administered. Those administering the study products, all other trial staff and the participants and parents will be blinded to treatment group. 45 adults (18 to 40-years-of-age) will be randomized in a 2:1 ratio. Thus, 30 adults will receive MRV-MNP and PLA-SC while 15 adults will receive MRV-SC and PLA-MNP. 120 toddlers (15 to 18 months-of-age) will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio. Thus, 60 toddlers will receive MRV-MNP and PLA-SC while the same number of toddlers will receive MRV-SC and PLA-MNP. 120 infants (9 to 10 months) will also be randomized in a 1:1 ratio. Thus, 60 infants will receive MRV-MNP and PLA-SC while the same number of infants will receive MRV-SC and PLA-MNP. Solicited local and systemic AE will be collected daily from all participants from the day of study product administration to day 13 post study product administration. Unsolicited AE and SAE will be collected from the day of study product administration to day 180 post study product administration. All participants will have laboratory investigations (hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hematology and biochemistry) conducted as part of screening. Adults will have safety laboratory investigations repeated on day seven and day 14 post study product administration. Toddlers and infants will have safety laboratory investigations repeated on day seven post study product administration. All participants will have measles- and rubella-specific SNA titers and measles- and rubella-specific IgG concentrations measured at baseline and day 42 and 180 post study product administration. Other Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) vaccines due in toddler (oral poliovirus vaccine, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis) and in infants (oral poliovirus vaccine, yellow fever vaccine and MenAfriVac® [due at 12 months]) will be given by the investigator team at the day 42 study visit (V4).

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Conditions studied

  • Measles
  • Rubella
  • Vaccination
  • Healthy

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Keywords

  • Rubella vaccine safety
  • Measles vaccine safety
  • Microneedle patch
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In context

Measles

134 studies on the registry are indexed under Measles; 17 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 281 is below the median of 852 across 105 interventional studies indexed under Measles.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with Micron Biomedical, Inc as lead sponsor.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
9 Months to 40 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Adults: Be between 18 and 40 years inclusive on the day of consent.
  • Toddlers: Be between 15 and 18 months of age inclusive on the day of consent.
  • Infants: Be between 9 and 10 months of age inclusive on the day of consent.
  • Be judged to be able to comprehend and comply with study requirement and procedures and must be willing and able to return for all scheduled follow-up visits (adult cohort).
  • Have a parent who is judged to be able to comprehend and comply with study requirement and procedures and is willing and able to return for all scheduled follow-up visits (toddler and infant cohort).
  • Be willing to avoid consumption (ingestion and topical application) of herbal or other local traditional medications throughout the course of the study.
  • Have a readily identifiable place of residence within a reasonable travelling distance of the clinical trial site.
  • Have a consistent means of telephone contact for the duration of trial participation
  • Have a site on one wrist that is judged to be suitable for MNP administration.
  • Adult female cohort only: have a negative serum pregnancy test at screening (V0) and negative urine pregnancy test on the day of vaccination (V1).
  • Adult female cohort only: employ an effective method of for two months preceding and throughout the study
  • Toddler cohort only: have been parenterally vaccinated against measles and rubella at between nine and 12 months of age.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Have used any product within the 90 days prior to study product administration or plan to use any investigational products during the period of study participation.
  • Have consumed (by ingestion or topical application) any herbal or other traditional medication within 14 days of study product administration
  • Have a history of serious reactions to any prior vaccination or known to any component of the MRV-MNP, MRV-SC or PLA-MNP including polyethylene foam with acrylic adhesive, silicone-coated Kraft paper, stainless steel, and severe allergic reactions to cow's milk.
  • Have a history of anaphylactic shock or other life-threatening allergic reactions
  • Have any chronic, pulmonary, cardiovascular, hepatobiliary, gastrointestinal, renal, neurological, or haematological abnormality or illness that requires medical therapy.
  • Have a history of administration of any non-study vaccines within the 56 days before the administration of study products or planned vaccination during study participation, except for non-measles and rubella catch-up/national campaign administered through the Gambian Ministry of Health.
  • Have a history of chronic administration (defined as more than 14 consecutive days) of (> 0.5mg/kg/day of prednisolone or equivalent) or other immune modifying drugs within the 12 months prior to the administration of the study vaccine including the use of . The use of inhaled/per nasal glucocorticoids will be permitted. The use of topical glucocorticoids within 12 months is not permitted.
  • Have a history of the administration of immunoglobulins and/or any blood products within the 12 months prior to administration of the study vaccine or anticipation of such administration during the study period.
  • Have a history of known disturbance of coagulation or blood disorder that could cause anaemia or excess bleeding (e.g. sickle cell disorders, thalassemia, and coagulation factor deficiencies).
  • Have a history of keloid formation.
  • Have significant scars, tattoos, rashes or other dermatologic condition in the area of the vaccination site which will interfere with the application of the MNP and assessment of local solicited AE.
  • Have (HIV), or infection based on screening laboratory investigations.
  • Have any medical or social condition that in the opinion of the study clinician may interfere with the study objectives, pose a risk to the participant, or prevent the participant from completing the study follow-up.
  • Be an employee of, or direct descendant (child or grandchild) of any person employed by the investigator or sponsor.
  • Have plans to travel outside the study area for an extended duration during the period of study participation.
  • Have any screening laboratory test with a toxicity score of ≥ 2 or with a toxicity score of 1 which is nonetheless judged to be clinically significant by the trial clinician.
  • Have any vital sign (heart rate, respiratory rate, non-invasive blood pressure [adult cohort only]) with a toxicity score of > 1.
  • Have an axillary temperature of > 37.5°C and have had a documented fever at the same level in the 72 hours preceding randomization and vaccination.
  • Have a history of an illness with a fever and rash suggestive of measles in the preceding two months.
  • Have any acute illness (severity grade > 2).
  • Have a positive rapid diagnostic test (RDT) (or blood film) for malaria.
  • Adult cohort only: Have been vaccinated against measles or rubella in the preceding four years.
  • Adult cohort only: Have a of \< 18.5kg/m2 (underweight) or > 35kg/m2 (severely obese).
  • Adults cohort only: Have a recent history (within the past year) or signs of alcohol or substance abuse.
  • Adult cohort only: Have a history of major psychiatric disorder.
  • Adult cohort only: Have a history of blood donation within three months of study enrollment or plans to donate blood during participation in the study.
  • Adult female cohort only: Be pregnant or breast-feeding.
  • Toddler and infant cohort only: Have been vertically exposed to HIV based on maternal history.
  • Toddler and infant cohorts only: Have a weight for height z-score below -2SD (moderate malnutrition).
  • Infant cohort only: Have been vaccinated against measles or rubella.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(10)

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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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
281 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    MRV-SC

    A standard, single dose of Measles Rubella vaccine delivered subcutaneously with a needle and syringe

    Biological: Measles Rubella Vaccine (MRV-SC) · Other: PLA-MNP

  • Experimental
    MRV-MNP

    A single dose of Measles Rubella vaccine delivered intradermally with a microneedle patch

    Biological: MRV-MNP · Other: PLA-SC

Interventions

  • BiologicalMeasles Rubella Vaccine (MRV-SC)

    One dose as subcutaneous injection of a WHO prequalified MR vaccine

  • BiologicalMRV-MNP

    One standard dose of Measles and Rubella vaccine delivered intradermally as a dissolving microneedle patch

  • OtherPLA-MNP

    One placebo dose of a dissolving microneedle patch

  • OtherPLA-SC

    Placebo saline as subcutaneous injection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of treatment-emergent solicited adverse events as assessed by the DAIDS Table for Grading the Severity of Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events (V2.1 Jul 2017)

    The number, severity and relatedness of solicited local and systemic adverse events collected on the day of study product administration and daily until day 14 following study product administration.

    Time frame: 14 days

  2. Incidence of pan-study unsolicited adverse events, as assessed by the DAIDS Table for Grading the Severity of Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events.

    The number, severity and relatedness of unsolicited adverse events and serious adverse events from the day of study product administration until day 180 following study product administration.

    Time frame: 180 days

  3. Incidence of treatment-emergent biochemical and hematological abnormalities as assessed by regional laboratory normal values for a given test

    The number, severity and relatedness of biochemical and hematological abnormalities occurring until day 14 (Adult cohort only), or day 7 (toddler and infant cohorts) following study product administration.

    Time frame: up to 14 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percentage of measles seroprotected participants

    Measles serum neutralization antibody (SNA) titers by plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT). Measles serum IgG binding antibody concentrations by a bead-based multiplex assay. Measles seropositivity will be defined as a standardized titer of ≥ 200mIU/mL.

    Time frame: Days 42 and 180 post vaccination

  2. Percentage of rubella seroprotected participants

    Rubella SNA titers by indirect immunocolorimetric assay (ICA). Rubella serum IgG binding antibody concentrations by a bead-based multiplex assay. Rubella seropositivity will be defined as a standardized titer of ≥ 10IU/mL.

    Time frame: Days 42 and 180 post vaccination

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Study locations

1 site
  • Medical Research Center The Gambia at LSHTM
    Fajara, Gambia
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References and documents

Publications

  • Adigweme I, Akpalu E, Yisa M, Donkor S, Jarju LB, Danso B, Mendy A, Jeffries D, Njie A, Bruce A, Royals M, Goodson JL, Prausnitz MR, McAllister D, Rota PA, Henry S, Clarke E. Study protocol for a phase 1/2, single-centre, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, active-controlled, age de-escalation trial to assess the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of a measles and rubella vaccine delivered by a microneedle patch in healthy adults (18 to 40 years), measles and rubella vaccine-primed toddlers (15 to 18 months) and measles and rubella vaccine-naive infants (9 to 10 months) in The Gambia [Measles and Rubella Vaccine Microneedle Patch Phase 1/2 Age De-escalation Trial]. Trials. 2022 Sep 14;23(1):775. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06493-5. PubMed 36104719 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 29, 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
NCT04394689
Lead sponsor
Micron Biomedical, Inc
Collaborators
Medical Research Council, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 19, 2020
Start date
May 19, 2021
Primary completion
Nov 23, 2022
Completion
Dec 31, 2022
Last update
Mar 29, 2023

Study contacts

Ed Clarke, MD
principal investigator · Medical Research Center, The Gambia

Oversight

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