NCT07881809Not yet recruitingPhase 2
A Clinical Study of Ixazomib to Reactivate HIV and Reduce HIV Reservoir Size
A Phase 2, Double-Blinded, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Ixazomib to Reactivate HIV and Reduce HIV Reservoir Size
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study tests whether a medicine called ixazomib is safe for people living with HIV, and whether it can wake up HIV that is hiding in the body so the immune system and treatment can reach it. HIV can stay hidden inside cells even when antiretroviral therapy (ART) keeps the virus under control. These hidden cells are called the HIV reservoir, and they are the reason HIV is not cured by ART alone. Laboratory research suggests ixazomib may reactivate hidden HIV and also help kill the cells that carry it. Ixazomib is already approved to treat a cancer called multiple myeloma and has been given to a smaller group of people with HIV in an earlier study. About 45 adults with HIV that is well controlled on ART will take part. Participants are assigned by chance to take either ixazomib or a placebo - a capsule with no active medicine - one capsule by mouth once a week for a total of 25 doses. Two out of every three participants receive ixazomib and one out of three receives placebo. Neither participants nor the study staff know which one a participant is taking. Everyone continues their own HIV treatment throughout the study. Participation lasts about 7 months: 24 weeks of weekly capsules and 4 more weeks of follow-up after the last dose. Participants come to the clinic for about 14 visits, and take their capsule 24 to 36 hours before each visit so blood samples can show the effect of the dose. The main purposes of the study are to evaluate whether ixazomib is safe and tolerable, and to measure whether it increases the very small amounts of HIV in the blood compared with placebo. The study also measures the size of the HIV reservoir and how the immune system responds.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 45 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 13 Oct 2026
- Start date
- 23 Nov 2026
- Primary completion date
- 8 Oct 2027
- Lead sponsor
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT07881809
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Planned participants: 45
- From 23 Nov 2026 to the primary completion date, 8 Oct 2027
- 20 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study design.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Receiving an HIV protease inhibitor or efavirenz as part of the antiretroviral regimen.
- Receipt of an investigational HIV vaccine or HIV-specific monoclonal antibody, or participation in a trial of any investigational product, within 180 days prior to study entry, or expected participation in such a study during this study.
- History of an HIV-associated malignancy, including Kaposi sarcoma or lymphoma of any type, treated with systemic chemotherapy or immunotherapy.
- Active or recent non-HIV-associated malignancy requiring systemic chemotherapy or surgery within 36 months prior to study entry, or for whom such therapy is expected within the following 12 months. Surgical removal of minor localized skin cancers is not exclusionary.
- Use of prohibited medications within 30 days prior to study entry or planned use during study participation.
- Active drug or alcohol use or dependence that, in the investigator's opinion, would interfere with adherence to study requirements.
- Acute or serious illness requiring systemic treatment or hospitalization within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Current uncontrolled cardiovascular symptoms, including uncontrolled hypertension (systolic blood pressure above 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure above 90 mmHg), uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina, or myocardial infarction within 24 weeks prior to study entry.
- Previous treatment with ixazomib.
Other illness
- Untreated, active AIDS-defining illness.
- Any current clinically significant acute or chronic medical condition other than HIV infection that in the investigator's opinion would preclude participation.
- Any history of peripheral neuropathy, or peripheral neuropathy detected during screening.
- Known allergy, sensitivity, or hypersensitivity to ixazomib or its formulation.
- Any serious medical or psychiatric illness that in the investigator's opinion could interfere with completion of protocol treatment.
- Known gastrointestinal disease or procedure that could interfere with oral absorption or tolerance of ixazomib, including difficulty swallowing.
Other
- Current pregnancy or breastfeeding.
- Anticipated change in antiretroviral regimen during the 24 weeks following study entry.
- Known resistance to two or more classes of antiretrovirals.
Who the study is looking for
- Documented HIV-1 infection.
- Plasma HIV-1 RNA of 50 copies/mL or lower, for at least 48 weeks prior to study entry while on antiretroviral therapy. One blip above 50 but below 200 copies/mL in the preceding 48 weeks is permitted provided at least two other measurements in that period were 50 copies/mL or lower.
- Plasma HIV-1 RNA below the lower limit of quantification within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Receiving antiretroviral therapy for less than 10 years.
- On antiretroviral therapy for at least 48 weeks prior to study entry, with no interruption of more than 7 consecutive days in the 90 days prior to entry, and no change in regimen within 90 days prior to entry.
- CD4+ T cell count of at least 500 cells/mm\^3 within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Laboratory values within 30 days prior to study entry: absolute neutrophil count at least 1,000/mm\^3; hemoglobin at least 10 g/dL (female participants) or at least 11 g/dL (male participants); platelet count at least 75,000/mm\^3; estimated glomerular filtration rate at least 30 mL/min/1.73m\^2; bilirubin no more than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal, or no more than 3 times the upper limit of normal if the isolated elevation is attributable to a participant medication or Gilbert syndrome, or direct bilirubin within the normal range.
- For participants who can become pregnant, a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 24 hours prior to study entry.
- For participants who can become pregnant, agreement to use two methods of contraception from 10 days prior to study entry through 90 days after the last dose of study treatment. Egg donation is prohibited over the same period.
- For participants whose sexual activity could result in a partner becoming pregnant, agreement to use condoms from 10 days prior to study entry through 90 days after the last dose of study treatment. Sperm donation is prohibited over the same period.
- Negative hepatitis B surface antigen within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Negative hepatitis C antibody, or if positive, a negative HCV RNA PCR, within 30 days prior to study entry.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 70 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (20)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ponce de Leon Center CRS Site# 5802 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Colorado Hospital CRS (Site #6101) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aurora | United States | Unknown status |
| Alabama CRS (Site # 31788) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Unknown status |
| Massachusetts General Hospital CRS (MGH CRS) (Site #101) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
| Chapel Hill CRS (Site #3201) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chapel Hill | United States | Unknown status |
| Northwestern University CRS (Site # 2701) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
| Cincinnati Clinical Research Site (Site #2401) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cincinnati | United States | Unknown status |
| Case Clinical Research Site (Site #2501) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cleveland | United States | Unknown status |
| Ohio State University CRS (Site #2301) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbus | United States | Unknown status |
| Houston Advancing Research Team CRS (Site # 31473) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
| University of California, Los Angeles CARE Center CRS (Site #601) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
| Vanderbilt Therapeutics (VT) CRS (Site #3652) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Unknown status |
| Columbia Physicians & Surgeons (P&S) CRS (Site #30329) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Penn Therapeutics CRS (Site #6201) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Pittsburgh CRS Site# 1001 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pittsburgh | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Rochester Adult HIV Therapeutic Strategies Network CRS (Site #31787) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rochester | United States | Unknown status |
| UCSD Antiviral Research Center CRS (Site #701) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Diego | United States | Unknown status |
| University of California, San Francisco HIV/AIDS CRS (Site #801) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Francisco | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Washington Positive Research CRS (Site #1401) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Unknown status |
| Whitman-Walker Institute, Inc. CRS (Site #31791) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington D.C. | United States | Unknown status |
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