Safety, Tolerability and Immunogenicity Study of 2 Dose Levels of Trimeric Glycoprotein140 (gp140) in Healthy Adult Volunteers

This is a single-center, randomized (the study drug is assigned by chance), placebo-controlled (study in which the experimental treatment or procedure is compared to a pretend treatment with no drug in it to test if the drug has a real effect), and double-blind (neither physician nor participant knows the treatment that the participant receives) study. The study comprises a Screening Period (up to 4 weeks), a Vaccination Period (participants will be vaccinated on Days 1 and 29), and a Follow-up Period (up to 48 weeks). All eligible participants will be randomly assigned to 1 of the 2 sequential cohorts (low dose cohort and high dose cohort). Participants in low dose cohort will receive 1 of the following treatments: low dose (50 microgram [mcg]) gp140 drug product (DP), low dose gp140 DP with adjuvant (aluminum phosphate), placebo matched to low dose DP; and participants in high dose cohort will receive 1 of the following treatments: high dose (250 mcg) gp140 DP, high dose gp140 DP with adjuvant, and placebo matched to high dose DP. There will be an interim safety review of safety/tolerability from low-dose cohort before the high-dose cohort receives study treatment. Total study duration will be 56 weeks per participant. Participants' safety will be monitored throughout the study.

Inclusion criteria

• Participant must be healthy on the basis of physical examination, medical history, electrocardiogram (ECG), laboratory criteria, and vital signs measurement performed at Screening
• Participants are negative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection at Screening (negative United States Food and Drug Administration-approved HIV diagnostic blood test)
• All female participants of childbearing potential must have a negative serum (beta human chorionic gonadotropin) at Screening, and a negative urine pregnancy test pre-dose on Day 1 and Day 29
• A woman must agree not to donate eggs (ova, oocytes) for the purposes of assisted reproduction until 3 months after receiving the last dose of study vaccine. A man must agree not to donate sperm until 3 months after receiving the last dose of study vaccine
• Participants are assessed by the clinic staff as being at low risk for HIV infection

Exclusion criteria

• Participant has chronic active hepatitis B or active hepatitis C, active syphilis infection, chlamydia, gonorrhea, or trichomonas. Active syphilis documented by exam or serology unless positive serology is due to past treated infection
• In the 12 months prior to enrollment, participant has a history of newly acquired syphilis, gonorrhea, non-gonococcal urethritis, herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV2), chlamydia, pelvic inflammatory disease, trichomonas, mucopurulent cervicitis, epididymitis, proctitis, lymphogranulomavenereum, chancroid, or hepatitis B
• Participant has any clinically significant acute or chronic medical condition that in the opinion of the Investigator would preclude participation (for example, history of seizure disorders, bleeding/clotting disorder, autoimmune disease, active malignancy, poorly controlled asthma, active tuberculosis or other systemic infections)
• Participant has had major surgery within the 4 weeks prior to study entry or planned major surgery through the course of the study
• Participant has had a thyroidectomy, or thyroid disease requiring medication during the last 12 months