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RecruitingNCT05657782Updated Dec 20, 2022

First in Human Phase 1 Ascending Dose Study of PanChol in Healthy Volunteers

A Phase 1 interventional study of PanChol in Cholera and Cholera Vaccine Toxicity, sponsored by Brigham and Women's Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 55 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-12-20.

Sponsored by Brigham and Women's Hospital · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2024, 1 year 11 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Dec 2022; still recruiting 3 years 10 months later.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
53
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 55 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a first-in-human, Phase 1 study of the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of PanChol in healthy volunteers. There will be three modules in this clinical trial assessing dosing, safety, and immunogenicity:

  1. a fixed dose-ranging module,
  2. an adaptive dose-finding/optimization module, and
  3. a placebo-controlled expansion module.
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The primary objectives of this study are:

  • To evaluate the reactogenicity and the safety of a single-dose PanChol over a range of doses in healthy volunteers.
  • To evaluate the immunogenicity of a single-dose PanChol over a range of doses as measured by vibriocidal antibody titers.

The secondary objectives of this study are:

  • To further characterize PanChol immune response, such as the magnitude of vibriocidal titers, the IgG, IgA, and IgM antibodies targeting Inaba- and Ogawa-specific polysaccharides, cholera toxin B subunit, and TCP, IgA- and IgG-antibody secreting cell responses (ALS/plasmablast responses) and/or the memory B cell (MBC) response.
  • To characterize the stool shedding of the PanChol organisms after vaccination.
  • To evaluate the changes of the gut microbiota after PanChol vaccination and to compare these changes with cholera-induced changes on microbiota

Participants will be enrolled at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). For the first days of the trial, participants will be inpatients in BWH, for optimal safety monitoring and for fecal and blood samples collection. PanChol or placebo will be administered on Day 1. On Day 6, participants will be starting doxycycline to eradicate the shedding of the vaccine organisms. On Day 7, those who are no longer excreting PanChol in their stool will be discharged. After discharge, volunteers will return on days 15, 29, 57, and 180 for monitoring of general health, AE assessment, immune responses, and fecal microbiota composition. Approximately 53 adult healthy volunteers are planned to be enrolled in this study if all planned treatment groups are conducted.

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Conditions studied

  • Cholera
  • Cholera Vaccine Toxicity

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Keywords

  • cholera
  • vaccine
  • safety
  • immunogenicity
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In context

Cholera

83 studies on the registry are indexed under Cholera; 16 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 53 is below the median of 262 across 72 interventional studies indexed under Cholera.

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Lead sponsor

Brigham and Women's Hospital is the lead sponsor of 1,267 studies on the registry; 228 are open to participants now.

Of its 116 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 65 (56%) have results posted.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 55 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Healthy adults aged from 18 to 55 years old.
  2. Considered healthy, as judged by the clinical investigator, according to medical history, physical examination, vital signs, screening laboratories, and medication history.
  3. Understanding and agreeing to comply with the study protocol including the inpatient period.
  4. Female participants must be non-pregnant and non-lactating and either

    1. surgically sterile (history of bilateral ligation, bilateral salpingectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, total hysterectomy) or (defined as as amenorrhea for at least 12 consecutive months before screening without an alternative medical cause)
    2. be of and practicing an acceptable method of or abstaining from all activities that could result in pregnancy for at least 28 days before vaccination until 3 months after receiving the IP.

Acceptable methods of contraception include barrier methods (such as condom, diaphragm, or cervical cap used in conjunction with spermicide), intrauterine device, hormonal contraception (that may be taken or administered by oral, intravaginal, transdermal, subdermal or IM route), vasectomized partner (the vasectomized partner should be the sole partner for that participant).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Each participant must not meet any of the following exclusion criteria to be eligible for enrollment in the study:

  1. Confirmed or suspected condition, as a result of a disease (e.g., primary immune deficiency, , infection) or have taken any systemic immunosuppressive therapy within 6 months of enrollment.
  2. Pregnant or lactating women
  3. History of gastrointestinal (GI) disorder, such as previous major GI surgery, malabsorption, or any chronic GI disorders that would interfere, according to the investigator, with the IP.
  4. Acute GI or febrile illness within 7 days of enrollment.
  5. Have any acute or chronic medical condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would make vaccination unsafe or interfere with the evaluation of immune response to study vaccination.
  6. History of cholera vaccination
  7. History of cholera infection
  8. Abnormal stool pattern, defined as \< 3 or >21 stools per week.
  9. Allergy or intolerance to PanChol or placebo component (sodium bicarbonate, lactose, ascorbic acid)
  10. Use of any systemic antibiotics within 1 month of PanChol administration
  11. Receipt of a in the previous 4 weeks or planned in the 4 weeks following enrollment
  12. Receipt of a killed or subunit (non-live) vaccine in the previous 2 weeks or planned in the 2 weeks following enrollment.
  13. Individuals who do not speak English will not be enrolled into this trial. This study involves more than minimal risk and no prospect of direct benefit for participants. Additionally, a subject who did not speak English may not be able to easily communicate safety concerns in a timely fashion to the study investigators
  14. Childcare workers with direct contact with children ≤ 2 years of age
  15. Individuals whose occupation involves handling of food
  16. Healthcare workers who have direct contact with patients who are immunodeficient, HIV-positive, or have an unstable medical condition
  17. Use laxatives regularly
  18. Have diarrhea within 48 hours before enrollment
  19. Have a history of to any of the tetracyclines
  20. Have a history of hypersensitivity to streptomycin or any aminoglycoside due to the known cross-sensitivity of patients to drugs in this class.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(8)

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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator)
Enrollment
53 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Fixed Dose-Ranging

    The first, fixed dose-ranging module utilizes a classical "3+3 design". The name is derived from the typical cohort size at a given dose \[3\], and the typical expansion size at that dose \[3\] if 1 dose-limiting side effect is observed. This module will address the uncertainty regarding the relationship between dose and adverse events (AEs). A set of pre-specified doses (log10 values 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10) will be employed, based on animal experiments and other live OCV trials. Three participants will be administered each dose (15 participants total).

    Biological: PanChol

  • Experimental
    Adaptive Dose-finding/Optimization

    A modified continual reassessment method (CRM) adaptive design will guide the dose optimization module. CRM cohorts comprise 3 participants treated concurrently at each dose. All three subjects in each cohort will receive a single dose based on the CRM model fit to all the available dose-response data.

    Biological: PanChol

  • Active comparator
    Expansion module - active product

    The purpose of the expansion cohort is to gather additional clinical experience at the optimal dose of PanChol and increase the precision with which the rate of AEs is estimated. The expansion module will be randomized, double blind and placebo-controlled (20 receiving active product, 6 receiving placebo, 26 participants total).

    Biological: PanChol

  • Placebo comparator
    Expansion module - placebo

    The purpose of the expansion cohort is to gather additional clinical experience at the optimal dose of PanChol and increase the precision with which the rate of AEs is estimated. The expansion module will be randomized, double blind and placebo-controlled (20 receiving active product, 6 receiving placebo, 26 participants total).

    Biological: PanChol

Interventions

  • BiologicalPanChol

    PanChol is a new second generation live-attenuated oral cholera vaccine (OCV) that circumvents limitations of previous live-attenuated OCVs. In contrast to other live OCVs, PanChol is derived from a current circulating pandemic V. cholerae strain, thus eliminating the risk of vaccine-derived genes from extinct V. cholerae strains (such as CVD 103-HgR) recombining with circulating V. cholerae strains.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The incidence of solicited and unsolicited adverse events, including serious adverse events, following PanChol vaccination.

    Time frame: 180 days

  2. The seroconversion (4-fold rise titer over baseline) of the vibriocidal titers to both Inaba and Ogawa V. cholerae between pre- and post-vaccination with PanChol.

    Time frame: 180 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. The magnitude of pre- and post-vaccination serum vibriocidal titers to both Inaba and Ogawa V. cholerae.

    Time frame: 180 days

  2. The stool shedding of PanChol organisms using stool cultures.

    Time frame: 180 days

Other outcomes

  1. The changes of antibodies targeting cholera specific polysaccharides.

    Time frame: 180 days

  2. The changes of antibody secreting cell response.

    Time frame: 180 days

  3. The stool microbiota modification according to 16S rRNA sequencing and/or metagenomics.

    Time frame: 180 days

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Dec 2022 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2024, 23 months after the start.

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

Registered
Nov 12, 2022
First posted
Dec 20, 2022
StartActual
Dec 12, 2022
Primary completionEst.
Dec 1, 2024
CompletionEst.
Dec 1, 2025
Last update
Dec 20, 2022
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 Dec 20, 2022, 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
NCT05657782
Responsible party
Lindsey R. Baden, MD (Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 20, 2022
Start date
Dec 12, 2022
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 1, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 20, 2022

Study contacts

Lindsey Baden, MD
Contact
lbaden@bwh.harvard.edu
617-525-8418

Oversight

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