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RecruitingNCT07758972LTBNG601Updated Sep 23, 2026

Safety and Immunogenicity Study of a Multivalent Gonorrhoea Vaccine

A Phase 1 interventional study of LTB-NG6 and Sodium Chloride 0.9% in Neisseria Gonorrhea, sponsored by LimmaTech Biologics AG. Recruiting at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 50 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-23.

Sponsored by LimmaTech Biologics AG · Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Aug 2026; still recruiting 2 months later.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
142
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 50 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The main goal of this trial is to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the candidate N. gonorrhoeae vaccine, LTB-NG6.

Read the detailed description

LTB-NG6 is a vaccine including 6 N. gonorrhoeae antigens. During the study, healthy adults will be randomized to receive 1 of 5 different vaccine doses, or a placebo.

Participants will receive a 2-dose schedule.

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Conditions studied

  • Neisseria Gonorrhea

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In context

Gonorrhea

167 studies on the registry are indexed under Gonorrhea; 31 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 142 is below the median of 400 across 125 interventional studies indexed under Gonorrhea.

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Lead sponsor

LimmaTech Biologics AG is the lead sponsor of 10 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Aged 18-50 years (inclusive) at the time of the first injection
  2. Good and stable general health, determined by medical history, laboratory findings and physical examination as judged by the Investigator before receiving the first injection.
  3. Willingness and ability to comply with the requirements of the protocol (e.g., completion of the diary forms, return for follow-up visits)
  4. Signed written obtained
  5. Availability for the trial duration, including all planned follow-up visits and phone calls
  6. Negative urine pregnancy test for . WOCBP must be willing to use a highly effective method of during the trial

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Health conditions that, in the opinion of the Investigator, may interfere with optimal participation in the trial or place the participant at increased risk of adverse events
  2. Acute or active infectious disease (including symptomatic sexually transmitted infections or any other ongoing acute infections), fever (oral temperature ≥38.0°C), or acute illness at the time of enrollment.
  3. History of gonorrhea at any time (either self-reported or medically confirmed) or confirmed at screening by a positive nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) result for Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  4. History of prior confirmed N. meningitidis infection
  5. Previous vaccination with Bexsero or any meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (including self-report)
  6. Any deviation from the normal range in biochemistry or hematology blood tests in the opinion of the Investigator, measured at the screening visit
  7. Clinical conditions representing to intramuscular vaccination and blood draws (e.g., coagulation disorder)
  8. Known or suspected impairment of immunological function (e.g., documented infection, asplenia/splenectomy, or history of disease or lymphoproliferative disorder)
  9. Positive test for active infection (positive HBsAG test), any infection (positive HCV antibody test), or any HIV-1/2 infection
  10. Planned or actual administration of any licensed vaccine within 14 days prior to enrollment. Note: In case an emergency mass vaccination for an unforeseen public health threat (e.g., a pandemic) is organized by the public health authorities, the time period described above can be reduced, if necessary, for that vaccine, provided that it is licensed or authorized and that it is used according to the local governmental recommendations, and provided that a written approval from the Sponsor is obtained
  11. (BMI) ≤19 or ≥35
  12. History of systemic administration of (PO/IV/IM) within the last month prior to injection or for more than 14 consecutive days within 3 months prior to injection (i.e., prednisone or equivalent ≥20 mg/day). Inhaled and topical steroids are allowed
  13. Administration of antineoplastic, immune-modulating, agents or chemotherapy within 3 months prior to injection
  14. Suspected or known (including allergy) to any of the vaccine components or medical equipment whose use is foreseen in this trial
  15. Concurrently participating in another clinical trial or planned participation at any time during the trial period, in which the participant has been or will be exposed to an or a non-investigational interventional vaccine/product (pharmaceutical product)
  16. History of any chronic or progressive disease that according to judgment of the Investigator could interfere with the trial outcomes or pose a threat to the participant's health
  17. Received an investigational or non-registered product (medicinal drug or vaccine), within 3 months prior to enrollment or planned use during the trial period
  18. Administration of immunoglobulin and/or any blood products within the three months prior to enrollment
  19. Blood donation equal or greater to 500 mL of blood drawn within 3 months prior to enrollment
  20. Participants with an elective surgical intervention, planned during the trial period until one month after second injection
  21. Female participants lactating, pregnant, or intending to become pregnant as reported by the participant
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

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
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
142 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo

    Participants receive 2 administrations of Sodium chloride 0.9%

    Other: Sodium Chloride 0.9%

  • Experimental
    Dose 1

    Participants receive 2 Dose 1 administrations of the investigational product

    Biological: LTB-NG6

  • Experimental
    Dose 2

    Participants receive 2 Dose 2 administrations of the investigational product

    Biological: LTB-NG6

  • Experimental
    Dose 3

    Participants receive 2 Dose 3 administrations of the investigational product

    Biological: LTB-NG6

  • Experimental
    Dose 4

    Participants receive 2 Dose 4 administrations of the investigational product

    Biological: LTB-NG6

  • Experimental
    Dose 5

    Participants receive 2 Dose 5 administrations of the investigational product

    Biological: LTB-NG6

Interventions

  • BiologicalLTB-NG6

    LTB-NG6 administrated at 5 different doses

  • OtherSodium Chloride 0.9%

    sodium chloride 0.9% used as a diluent in LTB-NG6 and as a placebo

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety: local and systemic AEs (7-days-post)

    To evaluate the safety and tolerability of vaccination with LTB-NG6 in healthy participants after each injection in vaccinees vs. placebo and by dose: \- Percentage of participants reporting each solicited local and systemic AE during the seven days after each injection (i.e., day of injection and the six subsequent days).

    Time frame: During 7 days following each injection

  2. Safety: any events after each injection

    To evaluate the safety and tolerability of vaccination with LTB-NG6 in healthy participants after each injection in vaccinees vs. placebo and by dose: * Percentage of participants reporting any adverse event (AE) following each injection * Percentage of participants reporting each severity level (Grade 1-4) of solicited local, systemic and unsolicited AEs following each injection

    Time frame: During 28 days following each injection

  3. Safety: unsolicited AEs, SAEs, MAAEs

    To evaluate the safety and tolerability of vaccination with LTB-NG6 in healthy participants after each injection in vaccinees vs. placebo and by dose: * Percentage of participants with unsolicited AEs. * Percentage of participants with serious adverse events (SAEs) following each injection. * Percentage of participants with medically attended adverse events (MAAEs) following each injection.

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 18 months

  4. Immunogenicity - primary IgGs GMT

    To evaluate the immunogenicity of different doses of LTB-NG6 to identify the preferred dose(s). Serum IgG geometric mean titers (GMTs) against each of the N. gonorrhoeae antigens included in LTB-NG6 summarized by treatment group

    Time frame: At 28 days after the second injection

Secondary outcomes

  1. Immunogenicity - secondary IgGs

    To expand the evaluation of the immunogenicity of LTB-NG6 for each treatment group at baseline and 28 days after each injection for each of the antigens included in LTB-NG6: * Serum IgG GMTs (except for primary endpoint) * Serum IgG geometric mean fold ratio (GMFR) * Percentage of participants with ≥ 4-fold increase in serum IgG titer.

    Time frame: At baseline and 28 days after the second injection

  2. Safety: AEs relatedness to injection, vaccine vs. placebo

    To further evaluate the safety of LTB-NG6. Percentage of participants with solicited local, systemic, unsolicited AEs, and SAEs according to relatedness to injection, in vaccinees vs. placebo.

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 18 months

  3. Safety: lab abnormalities

    To evaluate changes in hematological and blood chemistry parameters following each injection. Percentage of participants with hematological and blood chemistry laboratory abnormalities at 7 days after each injection compared to baseline in vaccinees vs. placebo.

    Time frame: At baseline and 7 days after each injection

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Hedges SR, Mayo MS, Mestecky J, Hook EW 3rd, Russell MW. Limited local and systemic antibody responses to Neisseria gonorrhoeae during uncomplicated genital infections. Infect Immun. 1999 Aug;67(8):3937-46. doi: 10.1128/IAI.67.8.3937-3946.1999. PubMed 10417159 ↗
  • Petousis-Harris H, Paynter J, Morgan J, Saxton P, McArdle B, Goodyear-Smith F, Black S. Effectiveness of a group B outer membrane vesicle meningococcal vaccine against gonorrhoea in New Zealand: a retrospective case-control study. Lancet. 2017 Sep 30;390(10102):1603-1610. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31449-6. Epub 2017 Jul 10. PubMed 28705462 ↗
  • Russell MW, Jerse AE, Gray-Owen SD. Progress Toward a Gonococcal Vaccine: The Way Forward. Front Immunol. 2019 Oct 15;10:2417. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02417. eCollection 2019. PubMed 31681305 ↗
  • Wi T, Lahra MM, Ndowa F, Bala M, Dillon JR, Ramon-Pardo P, Eremin SR, Bolan G, Unemo M. Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Global surveillance and a call for international collaborative action. PLoS Med. 2017 Jul 7;14(7):e1002344. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002344. eCollection 2017 Jul. PubMed 28686231 ↗
  • Zhu W, Thomas CE, Chen CJ, Van Dam CN, Johnston RE, Davis NL, Sparling PF. Comparison of immune responses to gonococcal PorB delivered as outer membrane vesicles, recombinant protein, or Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replicon particles. Infect Immun. 2005 Nov;73(11):7558-68. doi: 10.1128/IAI.73.11.7558-7568.2005. PubMed 16239559 ↗
  • Bruxvoort KJ, Lewnard JA, Chen LH, Tseng HF, Chang J, Veltman J, Marrazzo J, Qian L. Prevention of Neisseria gonorrhoeae With Meningococcal B Vaccine: A Matched Cohort Study in Southern California. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 8;76(3):e1341-e1349. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac436. PubMed 35642527 ↗
  • Abara WE, Bernstein KT, Lewis FMT, Schillinger JA, Feemster K, Pathela P, Hariri S, Islam A, Eberhart M, Cheng I, Ternier A, Slutsker JS, Mbaeyi S, Madera R, Kirkcaldy RD. Effectiveness of a serogroup B outer membrane vesicle meningococcal vaccine against gonorrhoea: a retrospective observational study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2022 Jul;22(7):1021-1029. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00812-4. Epub 2022 Apr 12. PubMed 35427490 ↗
  • Belcher T, Rollier CS, Dold C, Ross JDC, MacLennan CA. Immune responses to Neisseria gonorrhoeae and implications for vaccine development. Front Immunol. 2023 Aug 17;14:1248613. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1248613. eCollection 2023. PubMed 37662926 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 23, 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
NCT07758972
Lead sponsor
LimmaTech Biologics AG
Collaborators
Nuvisan, Germany, Wellcome Trust, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 11, 2026
Start date
Aug 19, 2026
Primary completion
Apr 26, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 23, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 23, 2026

Study contacts

Steffen Haffner, Dr.
Contact
Steffen.Haffner@nuvisan.com
+49 731 9840 452
Christian Reh, Dr.
Contact
Christian.Reh@nuvisan.com
+49 731 9840 131

Oversight

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