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Phase 1, First in Human (FIH), Open-Label, Single-Arm, Ascending Dose Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability and Preliminary Immunogenicity of ITI-9001 in Japanese Patients With Japanese Red Cedar (JRC) Pollinosis

A Phase 1 interventional study of ITI-9001 and Placebo in Allergen Immunotherapy, sponsored by Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc.. Recruiting at 1 site in Japan. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-25.

Sponsored by Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jun 2026; still recruiting 4 months later.
Updated Sep 25, 2026Eligibility revisedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
45
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a Phase 1, first-in-human clinical trial to test a new treatment called ITI-9001 for people with allergies to Japanese Red Cedar (JRC) pollen-a common cause of seasonal allergies in Japan. The main goals are to find out if ITI-9001 is safe, how well people tolerate it, and whether it can trigger helpful immune responses.

Read the detailed description

Phase I, open-label, single-arm, ascending dose study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and preliminary immunogenicity of ITI-9001. The study will be conducted in 2 parts -Part A and Part B.

Part A is a 'dose escalation' phase where two different doses will be given (a low dose and a high dose), where the total duration of study participation for each patient will be approximately 6 months.

Part B is an 'expansion' phase using the highest tolerated dose from Part A, where a total duration of study participation for each patient will be approximately 12 months if they receive all 3 planned doses and complete all 4 subsequent visits. Part B contains ITI-9001 and a placebo.

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Conditions studied

  • Allergen Immunotherapy

Keywords

  • Japanese Red Cedar (JRC) pollinosis
  • Japanese Cedar Pollen (JCP) allergy
  • seasonal allergic rhinitis
  • self-amplifying RNA (saRNA)
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In context

Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal

404 studies on the registry are indexed under Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal; 24 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 45 is below the median of 131 across 366 interventional studies indexed under Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal.

Browse Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal studies →

Lead sponsor

Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 7 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 65 Years
Sexes eligible
All
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. Signed and dated form (ICF)
  2. Female of non- or male aged 18-65 years (inclusive). Women are not considered to be of childbearing potential if they have had a hysterectomy or tubal ligation, or are (≥12 months without menstruation, or FSH in postmenopausal range for women \<55 years)
  3. Confirmed JCP sensitivity by positive skin prick test (wheal diameter ≥3 mm)
  4. Confirmed JCP sensitivity by ImmunoCAP (serum JCP-specific IgE ≥ class 2)
  5. ≥2 year history of seasonal rhinoconjunctivitis symptoms requiring medication upon JCP exposure
  6. requirements: \<br> a. Women of non-childbearing potential: negative serum pregnancy test ≤3 days before first dose \<br> b. Men: surgically sterile, or agree to abstinence or use 2 highly effective methods of contraception during study and for 3 months after last dose if partner is of childbearing potential (male condom + oral hormonal contraceptives, intrauterine device, or intrauterine hormone-releasing system)
  7. No significant ischemic heart disease or myocardial infarction within 6 months before first study drug administration; adequate cardiac function at screening ( ≤470 msec for females or ≤450 msec for males; average of triplicate ECGs). Participants with ventricular arrhythmia assessed case-by-case
  8. Willing and able to participate and comply with all study procedures

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Women of (do not meet inclusion criterion #2)
  2. Respiratory function: \<br> a. Fever ≥38°C (100.4°F) on day of study drug administration \<br> b. \<80% as predicted on spirometry \<br> c. Current smoker/tobacco user \<br> d. History of asthma requiring daily medication (except exercise-induced or mild intermittent asthma)
  3. : \<br> a. Known allergy to ITI-9001 components \<br> b. Contraindication to intramuscular injections or blood draws \<br> c. History of intolerance or severe allergic reaction to previous immunotherapy \<br> d. History of anaphylaxis requiring medical intervention (including severe reactions to mRNA vaccines)
  4. Prior/concurrent treatments: \<br> a. Participation in another therapeutic clinical trial within 30 days before screening \<br> b. Prior or current immunotherapy for JCP \<br> c. Specific or nonspecific immunotherapy within 1 year prior to screening \<br> d. Biologics (e.g., anti-IgE, anti-IL-5, anti-TNFα) \<br> e. mRNA vaccine within 28 days before first study drug administration \<br> f. within 28 days or inactivated/toxoid vaccine within 7 days before first study drug administration \<br> g. Chronic (more than 30 days) systemic (inhaled, oral, IM, IV, potent topical) \<br> h. Inability/unwillingness to discontinue beta-blockers up to 48 hours before first study drug administration and during the study \<br> i. Inability/unwillingness to comply with for antihistamines and other allergy medications (per Table 3)
  5. Medical history/comorbidities: \<br> a. abnormalities on physical exam, labs, or medical history that jeopardize safety or validity of results (except HEENT findings consistent with allergic rhinitis) \<br> b. Malignant tumor diagnosed or treated within 5 years prior to first study drug administration (except adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or carcinoma in situ) \<br> c. Congenital or acquired immune deficiency or suppression (e.g., , infection, chemotherapy, radiation, corticosteroids) \<br> d. History of organ transplant, hematologic malignancy, or disease \<br> e. History of stroke, , unstable angina, myocardial infarction within 3 months prior to first study drug administration \<br> f. Symptomatic congestive heart failure ( Class III-IV), unstable angina, significant arrhythmia, or \<45% \<br> g. History of myocarditis or pericarditis \<br> h. Risk factors for torsades de pointes or use of medications known to prolong /QTc (except low-risk premedications) \<br> i. Clinically significant gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic, neurologic, or hematologic disease \<br> j. /AIDS, , or infection \<br> k. Recurrent sinusitis, urticaria, or angioedema within past 12 months prior to first study drug administration \<br> l. Symptomatic overlap with JRC pollinosis requiring regular medications \<br> m. Alcohol or drug abuse within 1 year before screening or current dependence
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(19)

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Informed consent

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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.

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).

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.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

FEV1

From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

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No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
45 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Arm 1 - Part A, ITI-9001 Dose Escalation

    Part A Eligible participants receive two intramuscular doses of ITI-9001 (either 1 µg or 10 µg) 21 days apart to find maximum tolerated dose.

    Drug: ITI-9001

  • Experimental
    Arm 2, Part B ITI-9001 Dose Expansion

    Arm 2 of Part B is a double-blind, placebo-controlled group in which eligible Japanese adults with Japanese Red Cedar (JRC) pollinosis receive intramuscular injections of ITI-9001 at the maximum tolerated dose (determined in Arm 1, Part A).

    Drug: ITI-9001

  • Placebo comparator
    Arm 3, Part B Placebo Control

    Arm 3 of Part B is a double-blind, placebo-controlled group in which eligible Japanese adults with Japanese Red Cedar (JRC) pollinosis receive intramuscular injections of placebo (normal saline) on the same schedule as the ITI-9001, Part B arm

    Other: Placebo

Interventions

  • DrugITI-9001

    ITI-9001 is a self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) immunotherapy formulated with lipid nanoparticles for intramuscular injection. The saRNA encodes a CryJ2-LAMP-1 fusion protein, targeting Japanese Red Cedar (JRC) pollen allergy. ITI-9001 is designed to enhance antigen presentation and stimulate robust immune responses, aiming to reduce allergic symptoms in JCP-sensitive patients.

  • OtherPlacebo

    Saline placebo injection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Frequency and severity of dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs)

    DLTs will be summarized by frequency and severity from first study drug administration through End of Study (see timeframe below)

    Time frame: From enrollment to Day 382

Other outcomes

  1. Measurements of blood antibody titers from immune biomarkers, and skin prick tests

    Immune biomarkers of pharmacodynamic activity, including blood antibody titer assessments from screening through end of study (see timeframe below)

    Time frame: From screening through Day 382

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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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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar 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 Jun 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Feb 2028, 20 months after the start.

Of 16 phase 1 interventional studies under Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal, half reached primary completion within 5 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 4 and three quarters within 9. This study's planned 20 months is above that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jul 15, 2026
First posted
Jul 24, 2026
StartActual
Jun 20, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Feb 2028
CompletionEst.
Feb 2028
Last update
Sep 25, 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.
Eligibility
Minimum age 18 Months→18 Years
Sep 25, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Sep 25, 2026
    Eligibility Minimum age 18 Months→18 Years

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
NCT07726147
Lead sponsor
Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jul 24, 2026
Start date
Jun 20, 2026
Primary completion
Feb 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 25, 2026

Study contacts

Scott Wehage, M.S.
Contact
studyinquiries@immunomix.com
301-968-3501

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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