A Phase 1 interventional study of A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) and Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel) in Influenza, sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Recruiting at 2 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 55 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-06.
Sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Other
Among 186 studies in Influenza, Human by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — 12 open to participants now, 12 under way, none of them phase 3. Influenza, Human · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Among the 186 studies in Influenza, Human by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this one is the 80th largest by planned enrollment of the 166 interventional ones, is one of 5 that started in 2025, is one of 77 in phase 1, reaches primary completion later than 2 of the 10 other live ones, and was the 182nd registered.
2,356 studies on the registry are indexed under Influenza, Human; 184 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 90 is below the median of 227 across 1,957 interventional studies indexed under Influenza, Human.
Browse Influenza, Human studies →12 of the 186 studies in Influenza, Human by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are open now, in 1 country. Each count lists the studies.
Of the 119 Influenza, Human studies recruiting now, 62 (52%) set no upper age limit and 47 (39%) stop at 75 or younger; 31 take children under 18; 65 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years to 55 Years · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.
The full table on the hub →186 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
First in 2000; this study’s year is marked. 5 started in 2025.
Median enrollment 83 across the 166 interventional studies, 190 across the 20 observational. Of the 165 that completed or were terminated, 52 (32%) have results posted.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is the lead sponsor of 2,446 studies on the registry; 179 are open to participants now.
Of its 405 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 302 (75%) have results posted.
9 of the studies in Influenza, Human by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 0 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT07169318National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)First-in-Human Study of VNT-101: Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics | 2026-11-01 |
| NCT06863142National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)Evaluating the Dose, Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of Mosaic Hexavalent Influenza Vaccine VRCFLUMOS0116-00-VP (FluMos-v2) With and Without ALFQ Adjuvant in Healthy Adults | 2027-02-09 |
| NCT07110532National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)pH1N1 Blinded Challenge Study | 2027-03-29 |
| NCT07703514National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)Safety and Immunogenicity of Chimeric Hemagglutinin mRNA Vaccine Candidates | 2027-04-12 |
| NCT02511002National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)Long-term Observation of Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase Inhibition Antibody Titers After Influenza Challenge | 2027-05-12 |
Among the 186 studies in Influenza, Human by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), from their registry updates:
This protocol describes a clinical trial to develop and validate a Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM) for influenza A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1). The study is designed to determine the optimal infectious dose of the pH1N1 challenge strain for use in future clinical trials evaluating influenza countermeasures. The study will enroll and challenge adult volunteers with the pH1N1 influenza virus challenge or sham inoculations. Given the adaptive design of this trial, the potential number of participants can vary. Depending on the pathway recommended by the PSRT and followed in the Trial Schema, the study population can range from around 30 to 99. The anticipated final sample size will be approximately 90 receiving pH1N1 challenge product plus and 6 persons receiving a sham inoculation. Participants will be pre-screened for health and for serological HAI antibody titers of \</1:40 against the challenge strain. Eligible participants will be enrolled sequentially into challenge cohorts and will be randomly assigned to receive a single dose of either sham inoculation or the interventional study product at a dose between 10\^6 to 10\^7 TCID50 (or 10\^5 TCID50 if needed). Dose titration will be conducted under an adaptive escalation schedule whereby dosing will start at 10\^6 TCID50 and escalate to the next dose if a pre-determined symptomatic influenza attack rate and clinical symptom score thresholds are not met and if the dose is determined to be safe with no pre-defined halting criteria being met.
The primary objectives of this study are to determine the optimal infectious dose of a pH1N1 viral challenge to cause laboratory-confirmed clinical influenza and to assess the safety profile of pH1N1 viral challenge.
This protocol describes a clinical trial to develop and validate a Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM) for influenza A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1). The study is designed to determine the optimal infectious dose of the pH1N1 challenge strain for use in future clinical trials evaluating influenza countermeasures. The study will enroll and challenge adult volunteers with the pH1N1 influenza virus challenge or sham inoculations. Given the adaptive design of this trial, the potential number of participants can vary. Depending on the pathway recommended by the PSRT and followed in the Trial Schema, the study population can range from around 30 to 99. The anticipated final sample size will be approximately 90 participants receiving pH1N1 challenge product and 6 persons receiving a sham inoculation. Participants will be pre-screened for health and for serological HAI antibody titers of \</=1:40 against the challenge strain. Eligible participants will be enrolled sequentially into challenge cohorts and will be randomly assigned to receive a single dose of either sham inoculation or the interventional study product at a dose between 10\^6 to 10\^7 TCID50 (or 10\^5 TCID50 if needed). Dose titration will be conducted under an adaptive escalation schedule whereby dosing will start at 10\^6 TCID50 and escalate to the next dose if a pre-determined symptomatic influenza attack rate and clinical symptom score thresholds are not met and if the dose is determined to be safe with no pre-defined halting criteria being met.
The primary objectives of this study are to determine the optimal infectious dose of a pH1N1 viral challenge to cause laboratory-confirmed clinical influenza and to assess the safety profile of pH1N1 viral challenge. The secondary objectives are to describe clinical symptoms following pH1N1 viral challenge, to describe viral detection by qualitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and to describe the host serum influenza hemagglutination inhibition and microneutralization antibody responses.
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In good general health.*
*Good health, as determined by medical history, medication use and physical examination to evaluate ongoing chronic medical or psychiatric diagnoses or conditions, defined as those that have been present for at least 90 days, which would not affect the assessment of the safety of participants or the immunogenicity of challenge. These medical diagnoses or conditions should be stable for the last 90 days -- no hospitalizations, emergency room or urgent care for condition (excluding musculoskeletal conditions). If a participant has an ongoing symptomatic condition for which they have had or have ongoing medical investigations but have not yet received a diagnosis or treatment plan, they may not be in good health, as determined by the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572. Participants may be on a medical intervention (such as device or medication) only if the condition or disease being treated is stable and not deteriorating, the medications are not listed in the Exclusion Criteria and treatment poses no additional risk to participant safety or assessment of adverse events. This also includes no change in prescription medication, dose, or frequency as a result of new symptoms or deterioration of the condition or disease being treated in the 30 days prior to enrollment. Any prescription change that is due to change of health care provider, insurance company, etc., or that is done for financial reasons, as long as in the same class of medication, will not be considered a deviation of this inclusion criterion. Any change in prescription medication due to improvement of a condition or disease outcome (e.g., lowering of the dosage or frequency), as determined by the site Principal Investigator (PI) or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572, will not be considered a deviation of this inclusion criterion.
Participants of * agree to the use of acceptable forms of ** for at least 30 days prior to enrollment and agree to use such a method during study participation.
*Childbearing potential in a participant is defined as not sterilized via tubal ligation, bilateral oophorectomy, salpingectomy, hysterectomy, or successful Essure(R) placement (permanent, non-surgical, non-hormonal sterilization) with documented radiological confirmation test at least 90 days after the procedure, and still menstruating or \<1 year since last menses if menopausal.
**Acceptable forms of primary contraception include true abstinence (100% of time no insertional sexual intercourse), or, if heterosexual intercourse is anticipated, monogamous relationship with a vasectomized partner who has been vasectomized for 180 days or more prior to enrollment, intrauterine devices, birth control pills, condoms, and injectable/implantable/insertable/transdermal hormonal birth control products. Must use at least one acceptable form of contraception for at least 30 days prior to enrollment and through study completion.
Non-smoker or non-habitual smoker* of tobacco, e-cigarettes, or marijuana
*A non-habitual smoker is a person who smokes no more than four cigarettes, other tobacco products, e-cigarettes (to include vaping and Juul products), and/or marijuana in a week.
Agrees not to use the listed prescription or over the counter medications* within 7 days prior to confinement and through the confinement period**.
*Oseltamivir, zanamivir, peramivir, baloxavir marboxil, amantadine, rimantadine, aspirin, intranasal , decongestants, antihistamines, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
**An exception can be made with the approval of the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572
Screening pulse is 55 to 100 beats per minute, inclusive*
*Screening pulse values in the normal range or with grade 1 abnormalities deemed not by the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572 are considered acceptable.
Screening systolic blood pressure is 90 to 140 mmHg, inclusive*
*Screening systolic blood pressure values in the normal range or with grade 1 abnormalities deemed not clinically significant by the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572 are considered acceptable.
Screening diastolic blood pressure is 55 to 90 mmHg, inclusive*
*Screening diastolic blood pressure values in the normal range or with grade 1 abnormalities deemed not clinically significant by the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572 are considered acceptable.
Screening lab test results are within acceptable parameters:*
Has a negative test result for surface antigen, virus antibody*, or types 1 or 2 antibodies at screening.
*Persons testing positive for hepatitis C virus antibody with a history of treatment and a negative HCV viral load may be acceptable in the opinion of the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572.
(ECG) and chest X-ray (CXR) at screening are within normal range or are not deemed clinically significant*
*As determined by the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572.
Exclusion Criteria:
A history (self-reported or medically documented) of medical or psychiatric condition(s)* or physical exam finding that precludes participation.
Current pregnancy* or lactation
*Participants of must have a negative serum pregnancy test at screening, a negative urine pregnancy test after admission to the confinement unit but before challenge, and a negative pregnancy test before any CXR (if >/= 7 days have passed since a serum pregnancy test).
Currently enrolled in any other study or plans to enroll in any other study within the period of this study*
*Co-enrollment in an observational study, an investigational study in a follow-up/post vaccination stage, or a study involving a licensed drug or biologic may be allowed at the discretion of the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) at a dose of 10\^6 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. If the Protocol Safety Review Team (PSRT) agrees that the dose is safe then Cohort 1B and Cohort 2A will begin. If proven unsafe the dose will be de-escalated to Cohort XA. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) at a dose of 10\^6 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. If the PSRT agrees that the dose is safe then Cohort 1C and Cohort 2A will begin. If proven unsafe the dose will be de-escalated to Cohort XA. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) at a dose of 10\^6 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. If the PSRT agrees that the dose is safe then Cohort 2A will begin. If proven unsafe the dose will be de-escalated to Cohort XA. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) at a dose of 10\^7 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. If the PSRT agrees that the dose is safe then Cohort 2B will begin. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus, (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1), at a dose of 10\^7 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. If the PSRT agrees that the dose is safe then Cohort 2C will begin. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus, (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1), at a dose of 10\^7 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered two inoculations of intranasal virus, (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1), at a dose of 10\^5 TCID50 administered 2-5 hours apart. If the PSRT agrees that the dose is safe, then Cohort 3B will begin. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered two inoculations of intranasal virus, (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1), at a dose of 10\^7 TCID50 administered 2-5 hours apart. If the PSRT agrees that the dose is safe, then Cohort 4 will begin. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered two inoculations of intranasal virus, (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1), at a dose of 10\^6 TCID50 administered 2-5 hours apart. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus, (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1), at a dose of 10\^5 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. De-escalation will occur after PSRT review of Cohort 1A, Cohort 1B, and Cohort 1C. If the PSRT agrees that the dose is safe then Cohort XB will begin. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus, (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1), at a dose of 10\^5 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. If the PSRT agrees that the dose is safe then Cohort XC will begin. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
Subjects will randomly be administered a single intranasal virus, (RG) -A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1), at a dose of 10\^5 TCID50. One of the subjects will receive a sham dose of 0 TCID50. N=30
Biological: A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) · Other: Sham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)
GMP-grade, cell-based influenza A (pH1N1) virus (Lot #24-005), derived via reverse genetics for use in controlled human infection studies.
Sterile diluent containing 1X Sucrose Phosphate Glutamate (SPG), 1% arginine, and 1% hydrolyzed gelatin, used as a sham comparator in the human challenge trial.
Number and percentage of participants reporting a related SAE at any time from the time of the first challenge inoculation.
Time frame: Through Day 57
Number and percentage of participants reporting any related AE from the time of the first challenge inoculation.
Time frame: Through Day 29
Number and percentage of participants with symptomatic influenza virus infection.
"Symptomatic influenza virus infection" is defined as meeting both of these criteria: 1. Viral shedding detected in NP swab specimens by qualitative RT-PCR; and 2. A cumulative symptom score \>/=6 using a Modified Jackson Score.
Time frame: Day 2 through Day 6
Number of related adverse events (AE) reported from the time of the first challenge inoculation.
Time frame: Through Day 29
Number of related serious adverse events (SAE) from the time of the first challenge inoculation.
Time frame: Through Day 57
Duration of viral shedding quantified by number of days of qualitative RT-PCR influenza detections in NP swab samples
Using qualitative RT-PCR by dose and study day
Time frame: Day 2 through Day 6
Geometric Mean Fold Rise (GMFR).
Time frame: Day 6 through 29
Geometric Mean Titers (GMTs).
Time frame: Day 6 through 29
HAI and MN antibody geometric mean titers (GMTs) at baseline.
Time frame: Before Day 0
Investigator-assessed clinical symptoms as measured by Modified Jackson Score, post challenge through antiviral administration.
Time frame: Through Day 6
Investigator-assessed clinical symptoms as measured by Modified Jackson Score, post challenge.
By dose, qualitative RT-PCR detection status, and clinical case definition status
Time frame: Through Day 15
Number and percentage of participants with seroconversion by dose.
Seroconversion is defined as a minimum 4-fold rise in serum antibodies
Time frame: Day 6 through 29
Percentage of participants with influenza virus detected in nasopharyngeal (NP) swab sample.
Using qualitative RT-PCR by dose
Time frame: Day 2 through Day 6
Self-reported clinical symptoms as measured by FLU-PRO/Validation Diary, post challenge through antiviral administration.
Time frame: Through Day 6
Self-reported clinical symptoms as measured by FLU-PRO/Validation Diary, post challenge.
By dose, qualitative RT-PCR detection status, and clinical case definition status
Time frame: Through Day 15
Started Sep 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2027, 18 months after the start.
Of 54 non-industry phase 1 interventional studies under Influenza, Human, half reached primary completion within 16 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 29. This study's planned 18 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 148 studies reached it within 11 months; a quarter within 4 and three quarters within 21.
Since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026, the dates moved once, on Nov 6, 2026: primary completion Oct 2026 → Mar 2027 and completion Oct 2026 → Mar 2027.
Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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