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Milestone
3.2.f

Alternative routes of administration

In progress
High priority

Evaluate the immunogenicity and efficacy of alternate routes of vaccine delivery (e.g., intranasal, oral, intradermal needle-free) to enhance mucosal immunity and/or block transmission.

Progress Highlights

Eiden 2024, Eiden 2023Eiden 2022, and Eiden 2021 reported on clinical trials evaluating the safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy (via a human challenge study) of FluGen M2SR influenza vaccine administered intranasally.

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Tong 2023 compared vaccine-induced humoral immune responses induced by two seasonal influenza vaccines, intramuscular Fluzone IIV and the intranasal LAIV FluMist, to assess whether different vaccine platforms/delivery methods can induce functional humoral immunity in a distinct manner. Results highlighted differences in Ab Fc-effector profiles induced systemically by the two distinct influenza vaccine platforms delivered IM vs IN.

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Kunzli 2022 found that IM and IN routes of mRNA vaccination in mice influence humoral and cell-mediated immunity, and that IM prime-boosting establishes respiratory tract resident memory T cells (Trm) that can be further enhanced by additional IN immunization.

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NIH initiated a phase 1 clinical trial NCT05027932 to evaluate beta-propiolactone (BPL)-inactivated quadruple influenza virus cocktail vaccine (BPL-1357) administered intranasally or intramuscularly in two doses 28 days apart.

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Kawai 2021 found that intranasal administration of rNA, but not rHA, conferred cross-protection against antigenically heterologous challenge in mice.

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Krishnan 2021: US CDC conducted a 2-year RCT of intranasal LAIV versus intramuscular IIV among children aged 2 to 10 years in India, in collaboration with All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (2015-17).

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NCT05397119 evaluates the safety and immunogenicity of a novel mucosal recombinant H5 influenza vaccine with a nanoemulsion adjuvant followed by a parenteral boost of licensed inactivated influenza A H5N1 vaccine (phase 1 randomized clinical study).

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Liebowitz 2020 evaluated the safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of Vaxart VXA-A1.1, a human-Ad5-based oral influenza vaccine candidate, in a phase 2 human challenge study; McIlwain 2021 further analyzed the clinical samples to characterize cellular correlates of protection for VXA-A1.1.

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Nesovic 2023 used a murine model to evaluate the immunogenicity of AuNP-M2e+sCpG, a gold nanoparticle-conjugated M2e vaccine with a soluble CpG adjuvant, administered via microneedle patch.

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Stinson 2021 developed a microneedle array patch (MIMIX) designed to release antigen over 1 to 2 weeks, mimicking the time course of an influenza infection, and evaluated it in a preclinical murine model. 

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