A Phase 1/2 interventional study of GX-19 and Saline in SARS-CoV-2, sponsored by Genexine, Inc.. Terminated at 1 site in South Korea. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 50 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-08-20.
Sponsored by Genexine, Inc. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Prevention
The objective of our study is to evaluate safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of COVID-19 preventive DNA vaccine in healthy volunteers.
This clinical study is phase 1/2a clinical trial to evaluate safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of COVID-19 preventive vaccine by intramuscularly administration in healthy volunteers.
Phase 1 of this study is designed as dose escaltion, single arm, open-labeled and a total of 60 subjects will be enrolled. Phase 2a of study is designed as randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled and a total of 150 subjects are planned to be enrolled.
Genexine, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 36 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.
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Each participant must meet all of the following criteria during the screening period:
Exclusion Criteria:
Participants meeting any of the following criteria at the Screening Visit:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Dose A of GX-19 will be intramusculary administered via EP on day 1 and day 29.
Drug: GX-19
Dose B of GX-19 will be intramusculary administered via EP on day 1 and day 29.
Drug: GX-19
Dose C of GX-19 will be intramusculary administered via PharmaJet® Needle Free Delivery on day 1 and day 29.
Drug: GX-19
Placebo will be intramusculary administered on day 1 and day 29 via EP or PharmaJet® Needle Free Delivery
Drug: Saline
DNA vaccine expressing SARS-CoV-2 S-protein antigen
Also known as: DNA vaccine expressing SARS-CoV-2 S-protein antigen
Saline
Incidence of solicited adverse events
solicited local and systemic AEs after vaccination
Time frame: Through 1 year post vaccination
Incidence of unsolicited adverse events
unsolicited AEs after vaccination
Time frame: Through 1 year post vaccination
Incidence of serious adverse events
percentage of subjects with SAEs
Time frame: Through 1 year post vaccination
Geometric mean titer (GMT) of antigen-specific binding antibody titers
Change from baseline in antigen-specific binding antibody titers
Time frame: Through 1 year post vaccination
Percentage of subjects who seroconverted after vaccination
Seroconversion rate can be calculated based on test results reaching the quantifiable antibody level after vaccination
Time frame: Through 1 year post vaccination
Geometric mean titer (GMT) of neutralizing antibody level
NAb is regarded as produced when FRNT50 is detected more than four times the baseline after vaccination
Time frame: Through 1 year post vaccination
Geometric mean fold rise (GMFR) of antigen-specific binding antibody titers
Change from baseline in antigen-specific binding antibody titers
Time frame: Through 1 year post vaccination
Change from baseline in antigen-specific IFN-g cellular immune response
Antigen-specific IFN-γ T cell immune response assessed before/after vaccination
Time frame: Through 1 year post vaccination
Plan to share: No
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