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RecruitingNCT07710703Updated Jul 17, 2026

NWRD09 for Persistent Cervical HPV16 Infection

An interventional study of NWRD09/ Placebo administered by IM injection in Persistent Cervical HPV16 Infection, sponsored by Newish Biotech (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to female participants aged 45 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-17.

Sponsored by Newish Biotech (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 5 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Feb 2026, registered Jul 2026).
  • Started Feb 2026; still recruiting 9 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
60
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
45 Years to 65 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study to determine the efficacy and safety of NWRD09 in adult women with persistent cervical HPV16 infection.

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This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of NWRD09 in patients with persistent cervical HPV16 infection who may or may not have concomitant cervical LSIL. Eligible participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to two groups: NWRD09 and placebo.

Participants will receive intramuscular injections of either NWRD09 or placebo at the corresponding dose at weeks 0, 2, 4, and 12 (a total of 4 doses).

Efficacy evaluations at Week 16 will include cervical cytology and HPV testing.

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Conditions studied

  • Persistent Cervical HPV16 Infection

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Keywords

  • NWRD09
  • HPV16
  • Persistent Infection
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In context

Persistent Infection

44 studies on the registry are indexed under Persistent Infection; 5 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 60 is below the median of 104 across 28 interventional studies indexed under Persistent Infection.

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Lead sponsor

Newish Biotech (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; 6 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
45 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Female, aged 45 to 65 years (inclusive).
  2. Documented positive result for HPV 16 from a cervical sample collected at screening, with a confirmed duration of positivity for at least 12 months before screening.
  3. Satisfactory colposcopy examination. For participants with concomitant cervical LSIL, the entire aceto-white staining area or the suspected cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) lesion, including the upper border of the transformation zone, must be fully visualized.
  4. Adequate organ function within 1 week before the first dose, defined as:

1) Hematology: (Hb) ≥ 100 g/L; count (PLT) ≥ 75 × 10⁹/L; (ANC) ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L.

2) Hepatic: Total (TB) ≤ 1.5 × (ULN); (ALT) and Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 1.5 × ULN; Plasma albumin ≥ 30 g/L.

3) Renal: Serum creatinine (Scr) ≤ 1.5 × ULN, or calculated ≥ 60 mL/min (using the Cockcroft-Gault formula) [for participants with serum creatinine > 1.5 × ULN].

(5) For premenopausal women of : a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days before the first dose. Eligible participants of childbearing potential and their partners must agree to use highly effective throughout the trial and for 6 months after the last study dose (at Week 12).

(6) Ability to understand the study and voluntarily provide written (ICF), willingness and ability to communicate effectively with the investigator, and to comply with all protocol-required treatment, examinations, and visits.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Any histopathologically confirmed cervical adenocarcinoma/adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), high-grade cervical, vulvar, vaginal, or anal intraepithelial neoplasia, or invasive cancer.
  2. Cervical cytology results indicating ASC-H (Atypical Squamous Cells - cannot exclude HSIL), HSIL (High-grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion), SCC (Squamous Cell Carcinoma), AGC (Atypical Glandular Cells), or AIS; *Exception: Participants with ASC-H or HSIL may be enrolled if histopathological evidence confirms no lesion or CIN1, upon investigator's assessment.*.
  3. Pregnant or lactating women, or individuals planning to conceive during the study period.
  4. Participation in another clinical trial within 30 days before screening, or currently within the observational follow-up period of another clinical trial.
  5. Continuous systemic therapy (at a dose equivalent to >10 mg/day of prednisone) for more than one week within 30 days before screening; Exceptions: Hormone replacement therapy, and local administration (e.g., intra-tracheal, ocular).
  6. Continuous use of (e.g., cyclosporine, tacrolimus, azathioprine, 6-mercaptopurine, antilymphocyte globulin) for more than one week within 30 days before screening.
  7. Administration of any non- within 4 weeks, or any live vaccine within 4 weeks, before the first dose.
  8. History of receiving any therapeutic HPV vaccination; Note: Vaccination with approved prophylactic HPV vaccines is acceptable.
  9. Use of blood or blood-derived products (including immunoglobulins) within 3 months before the first dose, or planned use during the study period.
  10. History of immunodeficiency or diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis).
  11. Current or anticipated use during the study period of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (e.g., azathioprine, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, methotrexate) or biologic disease-modifying agents (e.g., infliximab, adalimumab, etanercept).
  12. History of solid organ or bone marrow transplantation.
  13. History or current diagnosis of other .
  14. Presence of active infection requiring systemic therapy (including active tuberculosis, active syphilis, and bacterial, fungal, or viral infections requiring systemic treatment).
  15. Positive test results for any of the following: surface antigen (HBsAg), virus antibody (anti-HCV), Treponema pallidum antibody (TP-Ab), or antibody (anti-HIV).
  16. Known history of allergy to any component of the product or similar drugs; or history of severe allergy to any food, drug, or other substances (e.g., urticaria, eczema, dyspnea, angioedema).
  17. Severe dysfunction of other organs or severe cardiopulmonary disease.
  18. Presence of tattoos, scars, or active lesions/rashes within a 2 cm radius of the intended injection site (deltoid muscle) that may interfere with safety assessment.
  19. Known psychiatric disorders or substance abuse disorders that may interfere with the subject's ability to comply with study requirements.
  20. Any condition, therapy, laboratory abnormality, history of other circumstances, or current evidence that, in the investigator's judgment, may increase the risk associated with study participation or investigational product administration, may interfere with the interpretation of study results, or render the participant unsuitable for enrollment in this study.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(19)

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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.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

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.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
60 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    NWRD09

    Each participant will be administered NWRD09 by IM injection at weeks 0, 2, 4, and 12.

    Biological: NWRD09/ Placebo administered by IM injection

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Each participant will be administered placebo by IM injection at weeks 0, 2, 4, and 12.

    Biological: NWRD09/ Placebo administered by IM injection

Interventions

  • BiologicalNWRD09/ Placebo administered by IM injection

    NWRD09/ Placebo

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of participants with virologically-proven clearance of HPV 16 at week 16.

    The number of participants with virologically-proven clearance of HPV 16 at week 16.

    Time frame: Week 16

Secondary outcomes

  1. Incidence and severity of local and systemic adverse events (AEs).

    Based on the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) V5.0, adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) will be monitored.

    Time frame: up to 36 weeks

  2. Proportion of participants with virologically-proven clearance of HPV 16 at week 28.

    The number of participants with virologically-proven clearance of HPV 16 at week 28.

    Time frame: Week 28

  3. Proportion of participants with virologically-proven clearance of HPV 16 at weeks 16 and 28.

    The number of participants with virologically-proven clearance of HPV 16 at weeks 16 and 28.

    Time frame: Weeks 16、28

  4. Proportion of participants with baseline cervical LSIL showing histopathological regression to no lesions at 28 weeks after the first dose.

    The number of participants with cervical LSIL showing histopathological regression to no lesions at week 28.

    Time frame: Week 28

  5. Levels of cellular immune responses.

    Levels of cellular immune responses measured by interferon-gamma enzyme-linked immunospot (IFN-γ ELISPOT) assay in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of participants at baseline and at weeks 6, 16, 28.

    Time frame: Weeks 6, 16 , 28

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 17, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07710703
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 17, 2026
Start date
Feb 10, 2026
Primary completion
Nov 30, 2026 (estimated)
Completion
May 31, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 17, 2026

Study contacts

Jian Zhao, M.D.
Contact
854496@qq.com
+86-15601199333

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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