Safety and Acceptability Study of a Placebo Antibody-Based Nonhormonal Contraceptive Intravaginal Ring

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Female Subjects

Treatments: Device: Placebo intravaginal ring (IVR)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06740253

24-0194

1R43HD108823-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

In order to deliver nonhormonal vaginal contraceptive using anti-sperm antibodies, a new vaginal ring design using a capsule-IVR will be utilized. Evaluating the safety and acceptability of this device early in the product development cycle is important, not only because device/formulation characteristics become increasingly difficult to alter as product is advanced into clinical trials, but also because user adherence can directly impact clinical trial outcomes.

Full description

There is a gap in commercially available reliable, effective contraception methods that do not contain hormones. Mucommune is developing a novel non-hormonal contraceptive in the form of a capsule-intravaginal ring (IVR) that releases highly potent contraceptive antibodies (MM008) that rapidly bind and trap sperm. These antibodies have been developed over the past 5 years and the target on sperm cells was initially obtained from a patient with infertility due to anti-sperm antibodies.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Provide written informed consent

2. Age of 18 - 45 years at enrollment

3. Female participants, born female

4. Willing and able to

   • communicate in English
   • complete all required study procedures

5. Subjects willing to abstain from vaginal intercourse and use of vaginal products for the first week of the study and until cleared by the study physician.

Exclusion criteria

Participant reports any of the following:

1. Gynecologic or genital procedure (e.g., tubal ligation, dilation and curettage, piercing) within 21 days prior to Enrollment Note: Colposcopy and cervical biopsies for evaluation of an abnormal Pap smear as well as IUD removal are not exclusionary

2. Current use of an IVR (e.g., Nuvaring)

3. Prior hysterectomy

4. Females who are pregnant based on positive pregnancy test by urine HCG

5. Cervicovaginal inflammation or epithelial disruption on colposcopy at the screening examination.

6. Current active gynecological abnormalities or sexually transmitted infection and/or vaginal pathogens (e.g. gonorrhea, chlamydia, mycoplasma genitalium, trichomonas, candida species, bacterial vaginosis) at the screening examination.

   Note: Subjects may be treated and re-screened for participation.

7. Has any other condition or is participating in another research study that, in the opinion of the Principal Investigator or designee, would preclude informed consent, make study participation unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving study objectives.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Device Feasibility

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Placebo IVR

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will use a placebo IVR for 14 days.

Treatment:

Device: Placebo intravaginal ring (IVR)