A Phase 3 interventional study of TPOXX and TPOXX Placebo in Smallpox, sponsored by SIGA Technologies. Completed at 9 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-11.
Sponsored by SIGA Technologies · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a study to assess the safety, tolerability, and PK of oral TPOXX 600 mg when administered twice daily (BID) for 28 days in adult subjects.
This is a Phase 3, multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study to assess the safety, tolerability, and PK of oral TPOXX 600 mg when administered BID for 28 days in adult subjects.
73 studies on the registry are indexed under Smallpox; 5 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 467 is above the median of 150 across 61 interventional studies indexed under Smallpox.
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Women of have a negative beta human chorionic gonadotropin pregnancy test (serum) at the screening visit and a confirmatory negative pregnancy test on Day 1 or Day -1 (PK subset) before receipt of study drug, and meet one of the following criteria:
i. Condoms, male or female, with a spermicide NOTE: For male subjects, condoms must be used for 90 days after the last dose of study drug. 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
Exclusion Criteria:
Subject has a history of any conditions including:
Subject has any of the following laboratory test results within 28 days before the first dose of study drug:
Subject is at a high risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection, including, but not limited to, individuals with known close contact with:
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
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.
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HbA1c
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Treatment Group 1: An oral dose of 600 mg (3 x 200 mg capsules)TPOXX
Drug: TPOXX
Treatment Group 2: An oral dose of placebo (3 capsules identical to TPOXX)
Other: TPOXX Placebo
Study is based on Animal Regulatory Rule
Also known as: tecovirimat
Does not apply
Also known as: Placebo
Cmin
Cmin - Minimum TPOXX concentration in plasma
Time frame: 28 days
Cmax
Peak exposure when administered TPOXX
Time frame: 28 days
AUC(0-last) - Total Systemic TPOXX Exposure
Total systematic exposure when administered TPOXX
Time frame: 28 days
Time To Maximum TPOXX Exposure
Median hours post dose when administered TPOXX
Time frame: 28 days
Adverse Events
Number of participants with adverse events (Threshold: \>/=2%)
Time frame: 58 Days
| Milestone | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo |
|---|---|---|
| Started | 372 | 95 |
| Completed | 329 | 86 |
| Not completed | 43 | 9 |
| Withdrew: Adverse event | 4 | 3 |
| Withdrew: Failure to meet cont. criteria | 7 | 0 |
| Withdrew: Lost to follow-up | 8 | 2 |
| Withdrew: Physician decision | 5 | 0 |
| Withdrew: Protocol violation | 0 | 1 |
| Withdrew: Withdrawal by subject | 18 | 3 |
| Withdrew: Subject was randomized in error | 1 | 0 |
Cmin - Minimum TPOXX concentration in plasma
| ng/mL | TPOXX Pharmacokinetic Population Day 28 |
|---|---|
| Cmin | 792 ± 52.5 |
Peak exposure when administered TPOXX
| ng/mL | TPOXX Pharmacokinetic Population Day 28 |
|---|---|
| Cmax | 1950 ± 45.1 |
Total systematic exposure when administered TPOXX
| ng*h/mL | TPOXX Pharmacokinetic Population Day 28 |
|---|---|
| AUC(0-last) - Total Systemic TPOXX Exposure | 51100 ± 46.0 |
Median hours post dose when administered TPOXX
| hours | TPOXX Pharmacokinetic Population Day 28 |
|---|---|
| Time To Maximum TPOXX Exposure | 4 (2.00 to 8.00) |
Number of participants with adverse events (Threshold: \>/=2%)
| participants | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo |
|---|---|---|
| Adverse Events | 90 | 20 |
Collected over Adverse event data was collected from Day 1 though the Day 58 follow-up telephone call. All AEs were followed until stable or until resolution as determined by the investigator and/or medical monitor.. Non-serious events are listed at a 2% frequency threshold.
| Group | Deaths | Serious | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPOXX | — | 1/369 (0.3%) | 90/369 (24.4%) |
| TPOXX Placebo | — | 1/95 (1.1%) | 20/95 (21.1%) |
| Event | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo |
|---|---|---|
| Dengue feverInfections and infestations | 0/369 | 1/95 |
| Abortion spontaneousPregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions | 1/369 | 0/95 |
| Event | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo |
|---|---|---|
| HeadacheNervous system disorders | 31/369 | 4/95 |
| NauseaGastrointestinal disorders | 25/369 | 4/95 |
| DiarrhoeaGastrointestinal disorders | 18/369 | 2/95 |
| VomitingGastrointestinal disorders | 8/369 | 2/95 |
| Upper respiratory tract infectionInfections and infestations | 4/369 | 2/95 |
| Alanine aminotransferase increasedInvestigations | 1/369 | 2/95 |
| FatigueGeneral disorders | 3/369 | 2/95 |
| ArthralgiaMusculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders | 0/369 | 2/95 |
| Age, Continuous(years) | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 41.9 ± 15.17 | 41.7 ± 15.48 | 41.9 ± 15.22 |
| Sex: Female, Male(Participants) | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 222 | 58 | 280 |
| Male | 147 | 37 | 184 |
| Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)(Participants) | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 163 | 43 | 206 |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 204 | 52 | 256 |
| Unknown or Not Reported | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants) | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Asian | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Black or African American | 101 | 28 | 129 |
| White | 249 | 60 | 309 |
| More than one race | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| Unknown or Not Reported | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Height (cm)(cm) | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 167.96 ± 10.070 | 166.55 ± 11.061 | 167.64 ± 10.283 |
| Weight (kg)(kg) | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 80.46 ± 16.684 | 78.89 ± 16.724 | 80.14 ± 16.686 |
| Body Mass Index (BMI)(Kilograms Per Square Meter) | TPOXX | TPOXX Placebo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 28.41 ± 4.642 | 28.41 ± 5.286 | 28.41 ± 4.775 |
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