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pH1N1 Blinded Challenge Study

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

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Sep 2025; still recruiting 1 year 2 months later.
Updated Nov 6, 2026Primary completion movedStudy completion movedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
90
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 55 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

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).

Planned enrollment
80th of 166
90 · median 83
Started
2025
with 4 others
Phase 1
77 of 186
6 open now
Primary completion
2027-03
later than 2 of 10 live
Registered
182nd of 186
by date

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.

By phase

186 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.

Phase 1this study77 · 6 open
Phase 248 · 2 open
Observational20 · 4 open
Phase 1/219 · 0 open
Phase 411 · 0 open
No phase6 · 0 open
Phase 35 · 0 open

By the year they started

First in 2000; this study’s year is marked. 5 started in 2025.

Size and results

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.

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Study summary

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.

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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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Conditions studied

  • Influenza

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Keywords

  • challenge
  • Double-blind
  • Influenza
  • Influenza A
  • pH1N1
  • Random
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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. Provides signed and dated form prior to the initiation of any trial procedures.
  2. Able to understand and agrees to comply with all planned trial procedures and to be available for all study visits.
  3. Age >/= 18 and \</= 55 years at time of enrollment.
  4. Must agree to collection of venous blood and nasal absorption specimens per protocol and enrollment in DMID 19-0025 biorepository protocol for use of residual/repository research blood specimens.
  5. 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.

  6. Able to take oral medication and willing to receive oseltamivir phosphate and/or baloxavir marboxil as part of the study.
  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. No self-reported or known history of alcoholism within the 2 years prior to enrollment.
  10. No self-reported or known history of illicit drug use for at least 30 days prior to enrollment.
  11. 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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Screening SpO2 >/= 95 percent
  16. Screening respiratory rate is \</= 16
  17. Screening oral temperature is \<100.4 degrees Fahrenheit
  18. Screening (BMI) >/=18.5 and \<40 kg/m\^2 at screening 19 Screening
  19. Screening lab test results are within acceptable parameters:*

    • White blood cell (WBC), Absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), (Hgb), (PLT). Lab tests within 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.
    • Alanine transferase (), Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST), Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase, Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP), Total , and Creatinine (Cr). Low values are acceptable for trial inclusion as they are not considered to be clinically significant.
  20. 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.

  21. (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.

  22. Negative respiratory virus panel (including influenza A and B, and SARS-CoV-2) by certified polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assay on Day -2 and Day -1.
  23. Agrees to remain in the confinement unit for at least 6 days after enrollment and until they meet discharge criteria.
  24. Agrees to adhere to lifestyle considerations during the study. Note: Deviations of lifestyle considerations will be reported as protocol deviations but not as eligibility deviations.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. A history (self-reported or medically documented) of medical or psychiatric condition(s)* or physical exam finding that precludes participation.

    • Any condition that, in the opinion of the site PI or designated clinician licensed to make medical diagnoses and listed on Form FDA 1572, might interfere with the safety of the participant and/or study objectives including, but not limited to the following:
    • Respiratory disease (e.g., [COPD], asthma) requiring daily medications (Inhaled, oral, or intravenous , leukotriene modifiers, long and short acting beta agonists, theophylline, ipratropium, biologics) or any treatment for respiratory disease exacerbations (e.g., asthma exacerbation) within the last 5 years
    • Significant cardiovascular disease (e.g., congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, ischemic heart disease) or history of myocarditis or pericarditis as an adult
    • Neurological or neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., epilepsy, stroke, encephalopathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, encephalomyelitis, or transverse myelitis). A history of febrile seizures during childhood alone is not diagnostic of epilepsy.
    • Anatomic or neurologic abnormality impairing the gag reflex or contributing to aspiration
    • Significant abnormality altering anatomy of nose/nasopharynx (including significant nasal polyps), nasal deviation, nasal/sinus surgery within 180 days prior to enrollment, spontaneous epistaxis requiring medical care within 180 days prior to enrollment, chronic or recurrent sinusitis (four or more distinct episodes of sinusitis, with symptom-free intervals between episodes) in the last year prior to enrollment
    • Significant immunodeficiency
    • Known infection by (HIV) or virus, or known untreated virus infection
    • Ongoing or diagnosis of malignancy in the last five years (excluding squamous cell or basal cell carcinoma of the skin)
    • Diabetes
    • Blood dyscrasias or significant disorder of coagulation
  2. HAI antibody titer >1:40 against influenza A/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1) at screening
  3. Current or within 4-month use of medications that may be associated with impaired immune responsiveness* *Including, but not limited to, immunoglobulin, interferon, immunomodulators, cytotoxic drugs, or systemic corticosteroids (i.e., exceeding 14 days of use and/or exceeding 10 mg/ day prednisone equivalent) or other similar or toxic drugs during the preceding 3-month period prior to screening. Low dose systemic corticosteroids (10mg/day or lower of prednisone) for 14 days or fewer are permitted. Low dose topical and intranasal steroid preparations are allowed, if not within 7 days of challenge or during the confinement period.
  4. 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).

  5. Presence of an internal cardiac device such as a pacemaker or other implanted electronic medical devices
  6. Has received blood or blood products in the last six months or has plans to donate blood or blood products in the duration of the study
  7. History of a previous severe allergic reaction to any drug or biologic with generalized urticaria, angioedema, or anaphylaxis
  8. Allergy or intolerance to treatments for influenza (including any neuraminidase inhibitors or baloxavir marboxil)
  9. Allergy to two or more classes of antibiotics (e.g., penicillins, cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, or glycopeptides)
  10. Allergy to in the challenge virus inoculum
  11. Presence of any febrile illness or symptoms suggestive of a respiratory infection at the time of enrollment, the time of confinement, or Day 1 pre-challenge
  12. Close contact with anyone known or suspected to have a respiratory viral illness within 7 days prior to enrollment
  13. 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.

  14. Received any in the 4 weeks prior to enrollment.
  15. Received any influenza vaccine in the 4 months prior to enrollment or plans to receive influenza vaccine during the study
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(19)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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.

Excipients

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

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
90 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1A

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1B

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1C

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2A

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2B

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2C

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 3A

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 3B

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort 4

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort XA

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort XB

    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)

  • Experimental
    Cohort XC

    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)

Interventions

  • BiologicalA/Arkansas/08/2020 (pH1N1)

    GMP-grade, cell-based influenza A (pH1N1) virus (Lot #24-005), derived via reverse genetics for use in controlled human infection studies.

  • OtherSham/Diluent (1X SPG+Arg+Gel)

    Sterile diluent containing 1X Sucrose Phosphate Glutamate (SPG), 1% arginine, and 1% hydrolyzed gelatin, used as a sham comparator in the human challenge trial.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 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

  2. Number and percentage of participants reporting any related AE from the time of the first challenge inoculation.

    Time frame: Through Day 29

  3. 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

  4. Number of related adverse events (AE) reported from the time of the first challenge inoculation.

    Time frame: Through Day 29

  5. Number of related serious adverse events (SAE) from the time of the first challenge inoculation.

    Time frame: Through Day 57

Secondary outcomes

  1. 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

  2. Geometric Mean Fold Rise (GMFR).

    Time frame: Day 6 through 29

  3. Geometric Mean Titers (GMTs).

    Time frame: Day 6 through 29

  4. HAI and MN antibody geometric mean titers (GMTs) at baseline.

    Time frame: Before Day 0

  5. Investigator-assessed clinical symptoms as measured by Modified Jackson Score, post challenge through antiviral administration.

    Time frame: Through Day 6

  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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Self-reported clinical symptoms as measured by FLU-PRO/Validation Diary, post challenge through antiviral administration.

    Time frame: Through Day 6

  10. 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

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Study locations

2 of 2 sites recruiting
  • University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health
    Baltimore, Maryland 21201-1509, United States
    Recruiting
  • Duke Vaccine and Trials Unit
    Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
    Recruiting
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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedDate before it movedWhere the date was before it movedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

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.

Registered
Jul 17, 2025
First posted
Aug 7, 2025
StartActual
Sep 10, 2025
Primary completionEst.
Mar 29, 2027was Oct 2026
CompletionEst.
Mar 29, 2027was Oct 2026
Last update
Nov 6, 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.
Primary completion
Oct 10, 2026→Mar 29, 2027
Nov 6, 2026
Study completion
Oct 10, 2026→Mar 29, 2027
Nov 6, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Nov 6, 2026
    Primary completion Oct 10, 2026→Mar 29, 2027
    Study completion Oct 10, 2026→Mar 29, 2027

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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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07110532
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 7, 2025
Start date
Sep 10, 2025
Primary completion
Mar 29, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 29, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 6, 2026

Study contacts

Meagan Deming
Contact
mdeming@som.umaryland.edu
14107068333

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
View the source record on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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