A Phase 2 interventional study of BPL-1357 IM and BPL-1357 IN in Influenza and Human, 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 2026-11-10.
Sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · Phase 2, Interventional, and Prevention
Background:
Influenza (flu) infections are a serious global health threat. Each year, between 3 and 5 million people get the flu, and up to 500,000 die from it. Current vaccines protect against seasonal flus, but broader vaccines are needed to protect against potential flu pandemics.
Objective:
To test an experimental flu vaccine.
Eligibility:
Healthy people aged 18 to 55 years.
Design:
The study will last 5 to 8 months and has 2 phases, A and B.
The study vaccine will be given either as a shot in the arm or as a nasal spray. Participants will receive 1 of 3 combinations: (1) study vaccine in the nose and placebo in the arm; (2) placebo in the nose and study vaccine in the arm; or (3) placebo in the nose and placebo in the arm. A placebo is just like the real vaccine but contains no active ingredients.
Phase A: Participants will have 5 clinic visits over 56 days. They will receive a shot and a nasal spray at 2 of the visits, 28 days apart. At each visit, they will have a physical exam, with tests of their blood, urine, and nasal secretions. They will check their temperature at home and record any symptoms for 7 days after each vaccine.
Phase B: Participants will stay in the hospital for at least 9 days. They will be infected with a flu virus. They will provide blood, urine, and nasal fluid samples. They will have tests of their heart function. They will remain in the hospital until they test negative for the flu 2 days in a row.
They will have 2 follow-up visits, 4 and 8 weeks after leaving the hospital.
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Study Description:
This is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter, phase 2 clinical trial of beta-propiolactone (BPL)-inactivated quadruple influenza virus cocktail vaccine (BPL-1357) administered intramuscularly (IM) or intranasally (IN) in 2 doses 28 days apart. The study has 2 phases: a vaccination phase (Phase A) and a challenge phase (Phase B). In phase A participants will be randomized to 1 of 3 groups for treatment assignment: group A IM BPL-1357 plus IN placebo, group B IM placebo plus IN BPL-1357, or group C IM placebo and IN placebo. In phase B, participants will undergo influenza challenge as inpatients. The primary hypothesis is that IN and IM BPL-1357 will be safe and offer protection against mild-moderate influenza disease (MMID) caused by H1N1 influenza challenge compared to placebo.
Objectives:
Primary Objective:
Secondary Objective:
Tertiary Objective:
Endpoints:
Primary Endpoints:
Safety:
Secondary Endpoints:
Immunogenicity at 28 days after vaccine dose 2 (PAD56):
Tertiary Endpoints:
Additional antibody titer characterization via:
Additional immune response characterization through:
2,356 studies on the registry are indexed under Influenza, Human; 184 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 129 is below the median of 227 across 1,957 interventional studies indexed under Influenza, Human.
Browse Influenza, Human studies →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.
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Individuals must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for study participation:
Participants of must meet one of the following criteria through the end of study participation (PBD63):
the following:
EXCLUSION CRITERIA
Individuals meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded from study participation:
Current medical conditions (self-reported or medically documented) including but not limited to:
Individuals meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in Phase B:
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
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.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
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BPL-1357 given intramuscularly. Placebo given intranasally.
Biological: BPL-1357 IM · Other: Placebo IN
BPL-1357 given intranasally. Placebo given intramuscularly.
Biological: BPL-1357 IN · Other: Placebo IM
Placebo given intramuscularly and intranasally.
Other: Placebo IM · Other: Placebo IN
Quadrivalent, inactivated, whole-virus vaccine containing 4 different wild-type avian viruses given intramuscularly.
Quadrivalent, inactivated, whole-virus vaccine containing 4 different wild-type avian viruses given intranasally.
Placebo given intramuscularly.
Placebo given intranasally.
Safety (solicited AEs 7 days after vaccination, unsolicited adverse events (AEs) within 28 days post-vaccination, serious AEs (SAEs)
Safety of the vaccine will be assessed, including standardized measurement of immediate reactogenicity by symptom survey, as well as long-term follow-up for any SAEs, including after challenge, will be performed.
Time frame: 15-25 weeks
Rate of mild-to-moderate influenza disease (MMID), defined as a positive US FDA-approved clinical test for influenza plus one or more influenza symptoms
Rate of MMID will be compared across groups to estimate vaccine efficacy.
Time frame: 7-17 weeks
Immunogenicity at 28 days after vaccine dose 2 (PAD56):
Antibodies against N1, N3, N8, and N9 and H1, H3, H5, H7 head and stalk as measured by NAI, HAI and/or ELISA from blood and mucosal samples to assess immunogenicity.
Time frame: 8 weeks
Mean duration (days) of shedding as measured by rtPCR.
Vaccine, IM or IN, may affect the duration of shedding.
Time frame: 7-17 weeks
Proportion of patients who shed virus after influenza challenge as measured by rtPCR.
Vaccine, IM or IN, may affect the rate of infection (whether symptomatic or asymptomatic).
Time frame: 7-17 weeks
Total FLU-PRO questionnaire scores after influenza challenge.
Vaccine, IM or IN, may affect duration and severity of symptoms as measured by FLU-PRO, a validated survey tool for measuring severity of symptoms with influenza.
Time frame: 7-17 weeks
Plan to share: No
Start is estimated for Nov 2026; primary completion for Mar 2028, 15 months later.
Of 36 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Influenza, Human, half reached primary completion within 19 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 9 and three quarters within 56. This study's planned 15 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 122 studies reached it within 10 months; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 19.
Start moved 32 times since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026: Sep 2026 → Nov 2026, last on Nov 10, 2026.
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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