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Active, not recruitingNCT04957485Updated Sep 14, 2026

Study to Assess the Safety and Immunogenicity of TPOXX® When Administered Orally for 28 Days With JYNNEOS

A Phase 2 interventional study of Tecovirimat and Smallpox and Mpox Vaccine in Smallpox, sponsored by SIGA Technologies. Active, not recruiting at 2 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 42 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-14.

Sponsored by SIGA Technologies · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 42 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is designed to evaluate the immunogenicity profile of JYNNEOS® when 2 doses are administered subcutaneously (SC) 4 weeks apart; and potential immunological interference while concomitantly administering TPOXX or placebo orally twice daily (BID) for 28 days.

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This is a Phase 2, open-label (JYNNEOS), double-blind (TPOXX and placebo), multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, drug-vaccine interaction study to examine whether administering TPOXX with JYNNEOS concomitantly affects JYNNEOS immunogenicity in healthy adult subjects. A total of 100 subjects (approximately 50 subjects per treatment group), ages 18 to 42, inclusive, will be enrolled and randomly assigned to 1 of 2 treatment groups.

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Conditions studied

  • Smallpox

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In context

Smallpox

73 studies on the registry are indexed under Smallpox; 5 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 100 is below the median of 150 across 61 interventional studies indexed under Smallpox.

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Lead sponsor

SIGA Technologies is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 42 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

Each subject must meet all of the following criteria to be enrolled in this study:

  1. Subject is a healthy male or female between 18 and 42 years of age, inclusive, at the time of .
  2. Subject has a resting heart rate >40 beats per minute (bpm) or \<110 bpm at screening.
  3. Subject has negative test for antibodies, surface antigen, and virus antibody.
  4. Subject has white blood cells ≥2500/mm3 and \<11,000/mm3.
  5. Subject has within normal limits.
  6. Subject has ≥ lower normal limits.
  7. Subject has adequate renal function defined as a calculated >60 mL/min as estimated by the Cockcroft-Gault equation.
  8. Creatinine in males ≤1.7 mg/dL and in females ≤1.4 mg/dL (1.3 times the upper laboratory reference range).
  9. Subject has adequate hepatic function in the absence of other evidence of significant liver disease defined as:

    1. Total \<1.5 times above the upper laboratory reference range
    2. \<1.5 times above the upper laboratory reference range
    3. Aspartate aminotransferase \<1.5 times above the upper laboratory reference range
    4. Alkaline phosphatase \<1.5 times above the upper laboratory reference range.
  10. Male subject has a corrected using Fridericia's formula (QTcF) \<450 ms or female subject has a QTcF \<470 ms at screening or Day 1.
  11. Women of have a negative B-human chorionic gonadotropin pregnancy test (serum) at the screening visit and a negative urine pregnancy test on Day 1 before receipt of study drug, and meet one of the following criteria:

    1. The subject or their partner has undergone surgical sterilization.
    2. The subject is , defined as 12 consecutive months with no menses without an alternative medical cause and has a documented plasma follicle stimulating hormone level >40 mIU/mL.
    3. The subject agrees to be abstinent (heterosexually inactive) for the duration of the study.
    4. The subject agrees to consistently use one of the following methods of from the beginning of screening (which they had been consistently using for at least 30 days before the first dose of study drug) through 30 days after the second JYNNEOS injection:

    i. Condoms, male or female, with a spermicide NOTE: For male subjects, condoms must be used for 90 days after the second JYNNEOS injection. Male and female condoms should not be used together, as this can reduce their effectiveness.

    ii. Diaphragm or cervical cap with spermicide iii. Intrauterine device with spermicide iv. Oral contraceptives or other hormonal methods NOTE: Another nonhormonal method of contraception must be used in conjunction with oral contraceptives.

    v. Male sexual partner who had undergone a vasectomy at least 3 months before screening.

  12. Male subjects must agree to not donate sperm from the first JYNNEOS injection through 90 days after the second JYNNEOS injection.
  13. The subject agrees to not donate blood or blood components for 4 weeks after the completion of the study.
  14. The subject agrees to not consume caffeine- or xanthine-containing products during all study visits; sodas, coffee, and tea designated as caffeine-free or noncaffeinated may be consumed on study days; caffeine may be consumed while at home and between study visits.
  15. The subject agrees to comply with the study dietary requirements.
  16. The subject agrees to comply with all protocol requirements.
  17. The subject is considered by the investigator to be in good general health as determined by medical history, clinical laboratory test results, vital sign measurements, 12-lead results, and physical examination findings at screening.
  18. The subject has read, signed, and dated the informed consent, having been advised of the risks and benefits of the trial in a language understood by the subject and prior to performance of any trial-specific procedure.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Subjects meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded from the study:

  1. Subject is a female who is pregnant or breastfeeding or planning to become pregnant within 3 months after the second JYNNEOS injection.
  2. Subject has a history or suspected exposure of smallpox, monkeypox or cowpox disease, or previous vaccination with any poxvirus-based vaccine.
  3. Subject has received any vaccinations within 28 days prior to Day 1 or plans to receive a vaccination at any time during the treatment period or within 28 days after Day 29.
  4. Subject weighs 120 kg or more.
  5. Subject has been administered or plans to be administered immunoglobulins and/or any blood products during a period starting from 3 months prior to administration of the vaccine and ending at trial conclusion.
  6. Subject has used any or nonregistered drug or vaccine other than the trial vaccines within 28 days preceding the first dose of the trial vaccine or planned administration of such a drug /vaccine during the trial period, including the COVID-19 vaccine prior to marketing approval by the FDA.
  7. Subject has a known or suspected history of smallpox vaccination defined as visible vaccination scar or documentation of smallpox vaccination or as reported by the subject.
  8. Subject has had a previous anaphylactic reaction, severe systemic response, or serious to a prior immunization.
  9. Subject has a history of any conditions including the following:

    • Asthma treated with oral systemic within the past 6 months
    • Diabetes mellitus (type 1 or 2), with the exception of gestational diabetes
    • Hypertension that is poorly controlled (repeat readings >140 mm Hg systolic and/or >90 mm Hg diastolic)
    • Serious angioedema episodes within the previous 3 years or requiring medication in the previous 2 years
    • Head trauma resulting in a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury other than concussion
    • Frequent episodes of headache
    • Active disease. Persons with vitiligo or thyroid disease taking thyroid hormone replacement are not excluded
    • History of or active immunodeficiency or caused by acquired or congenital diseases or caused by ongoing treatments such as chronic (greater than 14 days) high-dose corticosteroids (smaller than 5 mg prednisone [or equivalent] per day applied systemically, i.e., parenterally or orally), chronic or planned treatment with steroid eye drops or ointment at time of enrollment or radiation, or immunosuppressive drugs; low-dose corticosteroid topical products and nasal sprays used sporadically, i.e., pro re nata (according to circumstances) are permissible
  10. Subject has received treatment in another clinical study of an investigational drug (or medical device) or investigational vaccine within 30 days or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer) before the first dose of study drug.
  11. Subject has previously participated in this or any other clinical trial involving TPOXX (tecovirimat).
  12. Subject has known allergies to any components or of TPOXX or JYNNEOS.
  13. Subject has any condition possibly affecting drug absorption (e.g., previous surgery on the gastrointestinal tract, including removal of parts of the stomach, bowel, liver, gallbladder, or pancreas, with the exception of appendectomy).
  14. Subject has evidence or history of clinically significant allergic (except for untreated, asymptomatic, seasonal allergies at time of the first JYNNEOS injection), hematological, endocrine, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, hepatic, psychiatric, or neurological disease. Exceptions to these criteria (e.g., stable, mild joint disease unassociated with collagen vascular disease) may be made following discussions with the medical monitor.
  15. Subject has a history of cardiac disease, symptomatic or asymptomatic arrhythmias, syncopal episodes, chest pain (that is diagnosed as cardiac related) or trouble breathing on exertion, or risk factors for torsades de pointes (e.g., heart failure, hypokalemia).
  16. Subject has a blood pressure considered to be clinically significant by the investigator. Blood pressure may be retested twice in the sitting position at 5-minute intervals.
  17. Subject has a family history of an immediate family member (father, mother, brother, or sister) who has had an onset of ischemic heart disease before the age of 50 years.
  18. Subject is 20 years of age and older and has a ≥10% risk of developing a myocardial infarction or coronary death within the next 10 years using the National Cholesterol Education Program's Risk Assessment Tool: https://www.mcw.edu/calculators/ldl-cholesterol-goal-level.
  19. Subject has a seizure disorder or history of seizures (does not include childhood febrile seizures) or a past history that increases seizure risks such as significant head injury that caused loss of consciousness or other changes in the subject's daily function, concussion, stroke, central nervous system infection or disease, or alcohol or drug abuse or family history of idiopathic seizures.
  20. Subject has a history of a peptic ulcer or significant gastrointestinal bleeding.
  21. Subject has had radiation or x-ray treatment (not routine x-rays) within the last 3 months.
  22. Subject is post organ and bone-marrow transplant whether or not receiving chronic immunosuppressive therapy.
  23. Subject has a bleeding disorder diagnosed by a doctor (e.g., factor deficiency, coagulopathy, or disorder requiring special precautions) or significant bruising or bleeding difficulties with blood draws.
  24. Subject has neutropenia or other blood dyscrasia determined to be clinically significant by the investigator.
  25. Subject has a major congenital defects or serious chronic illness, including any cancer other than the following: a) any nonmetastatic cancer (excluding hematologic ) or melanoma of which the participant has been disease-free for at least 5 years and b) localized skin cancer, resected (including squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas).
  26. Subject has active or a history of chronic alcohol abuse and/or intravenous and/or nasal drug abuse (within the past 6 months).
  27. Subject has a current or recent (\<30 days before screening) history of clinically significant bacterial, fungal, or mycobacterial infection.
  28. Subject has a known clinically significant chronic viral infection (e.g., human T-cell lymphotropic virus I or II) or acute disease (illness without fever) at the time of enrollment. Note that screening laboratory tests may be delayed allowing the resolution of a transient acute condition or the subject may be rescreened.
  29. Subject has any confirmed or suspected immunodeficiency condition (congenital or secondary) or autoimmune disease based on medical history and physical examination, e.g., Guillain Barré.
  30. Subject has a family history of congenital or hereditary immunodeficiency.
  31. Subject has any planned elective surgery during the study through 12 months after the last vaccination.
  32. Subject has planned receipt of immunoglobulins and/or any blood products within the 3 months preceding study enrollment or at any point during the study period until after the final safety telephone contact.
  33. Subject is a member or family member of the investigator site team.
  34. Subject demonstrates long-term use (≥14 consecutive days) of glucocorticoids, including oral or parenteral prednisone or equivalent (>20 mg total dose per day), or high-dose inhaled steroids (>800 µg/day of beclomethasone dipropionate or equivalent) within the preceding 30 days (low-dose [≤800 µg/day of beclomethasone dipropionate or equivalent] inhaled and topical steroids are allowed).
  35. Subject has donated >450 mL blood or blood components within 30 days before the first dose of study drug.
  36. Subject reports participation in strenuous activity or contact sports within 24 hours before the first dose of study drug.
  37. Subject has a positive test result for amphetamines (including methamphetamines and ecstasy/methylenedioxymethamphetamine), barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cannabinoids (including tetrahydrocannabinol), cocaine metabolites, opiates (including heroin, codeine, and oxycodone), or alcohol at screening or Day 1.
  38. Subject has used any of the following prohibited medications within 14 days (or 5 half lives, whichever is longer) before the first JYNNEOS injection: antidiabetic medication; anticoagulants; anticonvulsants; substrates of the breast cancer resistance protein transporter including methotrexate, mitoxantrone, imatinib, irinotecan, lapatinib, rosuvastatin, sulfasalazine, and topotecan; substrates of CYP2C8 including repaglinide, paclitaxel, montelukast, pioglitazone, rosiglitazone; and substrates of CYP2C19 including S-mephenytoin, clobazam, diazepam, rabeprazole, voriconazole, lansoprazole, and omeprazole. Medications not listed here that are known (or thought) to be substrates may be allowed at the investigator's discretion, after consultation with the medical monitor, if administration poses little to no risk to the subject.
  39. Subject has used any prescription antiviral drugs with the intention of COVID-19 prophylaxis, including those that are thought to be effective for prevention of COVID-19 but have not been licensed for this indication, within 1 month prior to study entry or during the study.
  40. In the opinion of the investigator, the subject is not suitable for entry into the study.
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Informed consent

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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.

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.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

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.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

ECG (electrocardiogram)

A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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.

CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers

CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.

Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    JYNNEOS + TPOXX

    An oral dose of 600 mg (3 × 200 mg capsules) TPOXX BID (every 12 hours \[±30 minutes\]) for 28 days and a single AM SC dose of 0.5 mL JYNNEOS on Day 1 and Day 29. JYNNEOS will be administered with TPOXX concomitantly on Day 1

    Drug: Tecovirimat · Drug: Smallpox and Mpox Vaccine

  • Placebo comparator
    JYNNEOS + matching TPOXX placebo

    An oral dose of placebo (3 capsules identical to TPOXX) BID (every 12 hours \[±30 minutes\]) for 28 days and a single AM SC dose of 0.5 mL JYNNEOS on Day 1 and Day 29. JYNNEOS will be administered with TPOXX placebo concomitantly on Day 1.

    Drug: Smallpox and Mpox Vaccine · Other: Placebo

Interventions

  • oral antiviral

    Also known as: TPOXX

  • DrugSmallpox and Mpox Vaccine

    vaccine

    Also known as: JYNNEOS

  • OtherPlacebo

    TPOXX Placebo

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Adverse Events

    Number of participants with adverse events when TPOXX or TPOXX Placebo is coadministered with JYNNEOS

    Time frame: 59 Days

  2. Immunogenicity

    Least squared geometric mean

    Time frame: Day 43

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Study locations

2 sites
  • Meridian Clinical Research
    Omaha, Nebraska 68134-3664, United States
  • Aventiv Research Inc
    Columbus, Ohio 43213-6510, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Apr 2022 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jan 2027, 56 months after the start.

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

Registered
Jun 23, 2021
First posted
Jul 12, 2021
StartActual
Apr 5, 2022
Primary completionEst.
Jan 1, 2027
CompletionEst.
Jan 1, 2027
Last update
Sep 14, 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 Sep 14, 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
NCT04957485
Lead sponsor
SIGA Technologies
Collaborators
United States Department of Defense
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 12, 2021
Start date
Apr 5, 2022
Primary completion
Jan 1, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 1, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 14, 2026

Study contacts

Dennis Hruby, Ph.D.
study director · SIGA Technologies

Oversight

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