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Enhancement by Poly-ICLC During HIV-1 Infection

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02071095

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Official title

Simultaneous Disruption of Latency and Immune Enhancement by Poly-ICLC During HIV-1 Infection

Brief summary

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This study involves researching new approaches to treating HIV infection. Currently, HIV infection is treated with combinations of drugs called antiretrovirals. These drugs protect cells from infection by interfering with the viruses' ability to make copies of itself by infecting new target cells. Though these drugs are very effective, they cannot cure HIV infection and must be taken each and every day at prescribed doses to maintain their beneficial effect. This research study is investigating a new approach that involves an addition to existing medications. The study is investigating a medication called Poly-ICLC (Hiltonol®, Oncovir), which is an adjuvant. Adjuvants are medications that are designed to boost your body's immune responses resulting from a vaccine. The investigators want to test whether Poly-ICLC is an adjuvant that is effective in HIV-infected patients. A vaccine is not given in this study, but just investigating the adjuvant, Poly-ICLC, to determine whether it may be safe and useful in future vaccines that could be used to treat HIV, called therapeutic vaccines. One goal of future therapeutic vaccines is to reduce the virus that remains persistently inside of cells in a dormant or resting state despite treatment with HIV medications. This persistent pool is termed the "latent virus pool" or "viral reservoir". One tactic to reduce this viral reservoir is to first stimulate HIV to start replicating in order to force it out of hiding. Once viral replication occurs, the infected cells may then be recognized and killed by cells of the immune system. Therefore, we also want to see what effect Poly-ICLC has on the virus that lives inside of cells. Specifically, the investigators want to look at whether Poly-ICLC increases the level of virus inside your cells while also improving your immune system's responses. The investigators are doing this research in hope to find new ways to treat HIV infection that may reduce exposure to medications that are called antiretrovirals. Antiretrovirals are medications used to treat HIV infection. They are very effective but have side effects and have to be taken each and every day and cannot cure HIV.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02071095
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1, Phase 2
Lead sponsor
Nina Bhardwaj
Other
Enrollment
15 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 55 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Mar 31, 2014
Primary completion
Jul 25, 2016
Completion
Jul 25, 2016
Last update posted
Mar 12, 2018

2014 – 2016

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
The Rockefeller University Hospital New York New York 10065

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