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Herpes Zoster: full-pipeline trial registry

1 of 17 indexed Herpes Zoster trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #1,004 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

17 US clinical trials · 1 currently recruiting · #1,004 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Herpes Zoster: 17 US clinical trials tracked, 1 recruiting.

Herpes Zoster is the subject of 17 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 1 of them currently open to new participants. 6 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 9 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is GlaxoSmithKline, running 8 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition herpes-zoster

OPEN 1 | RECR 6% | LATE 6 | EARLY 9 | RANK #1004 | SPON 8

Nearest open-share peer: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (6% recruiting · 18 trials)

Acute Myeloid Leukemia, in R70.6%Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm52.9%Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia23.5%Actinic Keratosis11.8%Herpes Zoster (this)6%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Herpes Zoster

Herpes Zoster lists 1 open slots (6% of 17 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Herpes Zoster on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Herpes Zoster is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    1 of 17 indexed trials (5.9%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Herpes Zoster research.

    GlaxoSmithKline accounts for 8 of 17 trials (47.1%). 7 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Herpes Zoster enrolment sits around 410 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 410 among the 17 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 2 of those (11.8%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Herpes Zoster research is mostly interventional.

    15 interventional and 2 observational studies make up this index (88.2% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 15Phase 24Phase 35Phase 41

Open and recent trials

17 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING Phase 1 225 participants

Safety and Immunogenicity of Recombinant Varicella Zoster Virus Vaccine in People With HIV Who Have a CD4 Count Less Than 300 or Greater Than or Equal to 300 and a Healthy Control Population

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

NCT05580458

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 3,038 participants

A Study on the Long-term Efficacy, Safety and Persistence of Immune Response of a Vaccine Against Herpes Zoster in Older Adults

GlaxoSmithKline

NCT05371080

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 2,844 participants

Safety of Herpes Zoster Subunit (HZ/su) Vaccine During Pregnancy in Adult Women With Immunocompromised Conditions

GlaxoSmithKline

NCT05811754

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 2 1,516 participants

Safety and Immunogenicity of CRV-101 Vaccine for the Prevention of Herpes Zoster in Adults Aged 50 Years and Older

Curevo

NCT05304351

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 659 participants

A Study to Evaluate the Safety, Reactogenicity, and Immunogenicity of mRNA-1468 in Healthy Adults ≥50 Years of Age

ModernaTX

NCT05701800

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 2 154 participants

The Immunogenicity and Safety of Zostavax® and Shingrix® in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Using Abatacept

Kevin Winthrop

NCT03604406

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 150 participants

A Study to Describe the Safety, Reactogenicity, and Immunogenicity of Herpes Zoster IN001 mRNA Vaccine (IN001) in Healthy Participants

Shenzhen Shenxin Biotechnology Co.

NCT06375512

COMPLETED Phase 3 14,819 participants

Study to Evaluate Efficacy, Safety and Immunogenicity of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals' Herpes Zoster (HZ) Vaccine GSK1437173A in Adults Aged 70 Years and Older

GlaxoSmithKline

NCT01165229

COMPLETED Phase 3 8,687 participants

Cross-vaccination Study of GSK Biologicals' Herpes Zoster Subunit (HZ/su) Vaccine (GSK 1437173A) in Subjects Who Previously Received Placebo in ZOSTER-006 (NCT01165177) and ZOSTER-022 (NCT01165229) Studies.

GlaxoSmithKline

NCT02690207

COMPLETED Phase 3 913 participants

Immunogenicity and Safety Study of GSK Biologicals' Herpes Zoster Vaccine GSK1437173A When Co-administered With Prevenar13 in Adults Aged 50 Years and Older

GlaxoSmithKline

NCT03439657

COMPLETED Phase 3 865 participants

Study to Evaluate Immunogenicity and Safety Study of GSK Biologicals' Herpes Zoster (HZ) Vaccine GSK1437173A When Co-administered With Pneumovax 23™ in Adults Aged 50 Years and Older

GlaxoSmithKline

NCT02045836

COMPLETED Phase 2 410 participants

Immunogenicity and Safety Study of GSK Biologicals' Herpes Zoster Vaccine With Various Formulations in Adults >= 50 Years

GlaxoSmithKline

NCT00802464

COMPLETED Phase 1 160 participants

Comparison of a Live Herpes Zoster Vaccine and a Recombinant Vaccine in 50-59 and 70-85 Year Olds

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT02114333

COMPLETED Phase 2 121 participants

Safety & Immunogenicity of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals' Herpes Zoster Vaccine 1437173A

GlaxoSmithKline

NCT00920218

COMPLETED Phase 4 105 participants

Persistence of Protection by Shingrix

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT04169009

COMPLETED Phase 1 90 participants

Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of CRV-101 in Healthy Adult Subjects

Curevo

NCT03820414

COMPLETED 19 participants

Immune Response to Varicella-Zoster Vaccination and Infection

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

NCT00921999

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 5
Phase 2 4
Phase 3 5
Phase 4 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Herpes Zoster records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Placebo Biological
6 trials
Shingrix Biological
5 trials
Zostavax Biological
2 trials
Herpes Zoster Vaccine GSK1437173A Biological
2 trials
HZ/su vaccine Biological
2 trials
CRV 101 Biological
1 trials
Herpes zoster vaccine GSK1437173A Biological
1 trials
Placebo vaccine (saline) Biological
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Herpes Zoster trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Maryland 6 trials
Florida 6 trials
North Carolina 5 trials
Kansas 5 trials
Arizona 5 trials
Tennessee 4 trials
Pennsylvania 4 trials
Nevada 4 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Herpes Zoster page

17 registered trials, 1 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Herpes Zoster condition card totals 17 registered trials; most-linked intervention Placebo; top US site state Maryland. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.