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NCT03684655
Imaging Immune Activation in HIV by PET-MR
Phase 2 trial testing [18F]F-AraG (2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-9-β-D-arabinofuranosylguanine) in HIV Infections in 30 participants. Currently enrolling.
1 October 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | CellSight Technologies, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Phase | Phase 2 |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | diagnostic |
| Enrollment | 30 |
| Start date | 21 September 2018 |
| Primary completion | 1 October 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 1 November 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- [18F]F-AraG (2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-9-β-D-arabinofuranosylguanine) — full drug profile →
Conditions studied
- HIV Infections — all drugs for HIV Infections →
Sponsor
CellSight Technologies, Inc. — full company profile →
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with HIV Infections. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This is a single center exploratory imaging study involving one intravenous microdose of \[18F\]F-AraG followed by whole-body positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance (PET-MR) imaging in HIV infected individuals to determine the anatomical distribution of the PET tracer. Participants will be enrolled if they were treated during early or late HIV infection. In addition, individuals not on antiretroviral therapy (ART) or with HIV-1 plasma RNA levels \>5,000 copies/mL will be enrolled. Up to 30 participants will be enrolled with HIV.
Publications & conference data
3 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Noninvasive Imaging of Cancer Immunotherapy.
Abousaway O, Rakhshandehroo T, Van den Abbeele AD, Kircher MF, et al · · 2021 · cited 27× · PMID 33391977 · DOI 10.7150/ntno.50860 -
Molecular Immune Targeted Imaging of Tumor Microenvironment.
Rakhshandehroo T, Smith BR, Glockner HJ, Rashidian M, et al · · 2022 · cited 19× · PMID 35223381 · DOI 10.7150/ntno.66556 -
Metabolic [¹⁸F]F-AraG PET imaging of T Cell activation: a functional complement to cell-specific immune tracers.
Almutairi WM, Gopaulchan M, Bhaskara R, Zheng QH, et al · · 2026 · PMID 42001384 · DOI 10.1186/s13550-026-01436-6
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Other CellSight Technologies, Inc. trials
Trials by the same sponsor.
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03684655 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by CellSight Technologies, Inc.
- Last refreshed: 24 October 2024
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