A Phase 2 interventional study of AHB-171 Injection in Hepatitis B, Chronic (CHB), sponsored by Ausper Biopharma Co., Ltd.. Recruiting at 10 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-21.
Sponsored by Ausper Biopharma Co., Ltd. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The study adopts an open-label, multiple-dose design and aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of AHB-171 Injection after multiple doses in treatment-naïve (HBeAg-negative/positive) and nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA)-treated (HBeAg-negative) participants with chronic hepatitis B (CHB)
1,045 studies on the registry are indexed under Hepatitis B; 139 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 138 is close to the median of 147 across 756 interventional studies indexed under Hepatitis B.
Browse Hepatitis B studies →Ausper Biopharma Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 14 studies on the registry; 9 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Washout period
A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Drug: AHB-171 Injection
Drug: AHB-171 Injection
Subcutaneous injection
Proportion of participants with HBsAg <10 IU/mL and HBV DNA < LLOQ (10 IU/mL)
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants achieving complete response (HBsAg <0.05 IU/mL and HBV DNA < LLOQ)
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Change of HBsAg (log₁₀ IU/mL) from baseline and maximum reduction at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with HBsAg decline from baseline of <0.5, ≥0.5, ≥1.0, ≥1.5, ≥2.0, ≥3.0 log₁₀ IU/mL at each visi
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with HBsAg <100 IU/mL, <10 IU/mL, <1 IU/mL at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants achieving HBsAg clearance (HBsAg <0.05 IU/mL) at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with HBV DNA < LLOQ (10 IU/mL) at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants achieving complete response (HBsAg <0.05 IU/mL and HBV DNA < LLOQ) at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with anti-HBs seroconversion (HBsAg clearance and HBsAb >10 IU/L) at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Absolute or log change from baseline for HBsAg at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Absolute or log change from baseline for HBV RNA at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Absolute or log change from baseline for HBcrAg at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Absolute or log change from baseline for HBeAg at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Absolute or log change from baseline for HBeAb at each visit
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with baseline ALT > ULN achieving ALT normalization, and time to ALT normalization
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Incidence and severity of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAE) and serious adverse events (SAE)
CTCAE will be used to describe severity.
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with clinically significant abnormalities in laboratory tests
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with clinically significant abnormalities in ECG
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with clinically significant abnormalities in physical examinations and vital signs
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Changes in ECG from baseline
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with HBsAg decline ≥2.0 log₁₀ IU/mL
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Plasma concentration of AHB-171 at different time points
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Proportion of participants with detectable anti-drug antibody (ADA)
Time frame: Up to 90 days
Plan to share: No
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Started Jun 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2029, 33 months after the start.
Of 40 industry-sponsored phase 2 interventional studies under Hepatitis B, half reached primary completion within 33 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 19 and three quarters within 40. This study's planned 33 months is close to that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 50 studies reached it within 30 months; a quarter within 19 and three quarters within 40.
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