This healthy related donor clinical trial is linked to a recipient clinical trial protocol for therapeutic purposes. In this healthy donor protocol, haploidentical relatives of a patient with recurrent or metastatic human papilloma virus (R/M HPV) 16-associated malignancy will be invited to be vaccinated with a therapeutic HPV vaccine series (PVX1) to generate HPV-specific white blood cells. In the linked recipient phase 1 clinical trial protocol, patient with incurable, locally recurrent or metastatic HPV 16-associated head and neck cancer will be randomized to one of two arms: Arm A: non-myeloablative (NMA) allogeneic bone marrow transplant (alloBMT) OR Arm B: CD8-depleted donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) on Day 0 of a dose escalation scheme These two clinical trials are separated so that the healthy donor trial deals exclusively with issues of safety and immunological efficacy of the HPV vaccine series and this companion recipient trial examines the safety, feasibility and clinically efficacy of the allogeneic bone marrow graft and CD8-depleted DLI. The central hypothesis of the clinical trial is that patients with R/M HPV-associated malignancies can be safely and effectively treated by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation and/or CD8-depleted DLI from a healthy related donor that has been vaccinated against HPV16 E6 and E7 proteins.
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Safety of Vaccine series as assessed by number of adverse events
Timeframe: 3 months