HPV Vaccine Reduced Dose

Eligibility Criteria

• * Individuals aged 18-45 years old (inclusive), as the HPV vaccine is approved for this age range in adults
• * BMI ≤ 32
• * Able to understand and give informed consent (in American English).
• * In good health based on physical examination, vital signs, medical history, and the investigator's clinical judgment.
• * Available and willing to participate for the duration of this study
• * Willing to undergo lymph node fine needle aspiration and bone marrow aspiration
• * Willing to consent to the future use of remaining (residual) samples/specimens with IRB review
• * Willing to defer completion of the recommended 9vHPV series
• * Ever received a dose of an HPV vaccine
• * HPV 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52 or 58 seropositivity
• * Any history of genital warts, an abnormal pap smear, or positive HPV DNA test
• * Known allergy or history of anaphylaxis or other serious adverse reaction to a vaccine or vaccine products
• * Known allergy or history of anaphylaxis to yeast or products containing yeast.
• * Any allergy to lidocaine.
• * Pregnancy or breastfeeding.
• * Participants who believe they cannot tolerate the lymph node fine needle aspirate or bone marrow aspirate procedures without general sedation
• * Any history of lymphoma involving axillary nodes, any history of breast cancer, bilateral inflammatory process of upper arms in the past 2 weeks, prior breast or axillary biopsy and/or surgery that in the opinion of the investigator would affect the immune response results.
• * Local infection, lymphadenitis, or rash in the targeted area.
• * Received any vaccine from 14 days before the vaccine dose until 30 days after each vaccine dose\* (\*An individual initially excluded from study participation based on one or more of the time-limited exclusion criteria (fever, receipt of other vaccines) may be reconsidered for enrollment once the condition has resolved as long as the participant continues to meet all other entry criteria)
• * Volunteers with fever (≥100.4 F or 38°C regardless of the route) within 3 days before vaccination\*. (\*An individual initially excluded from study participation based on one or more of the time-limited exclusion criteria (fever, receipt of other vaccines) may be reconsidered for enrollment once the condition has resolved as long as the participant continues to meet all other entry criteria)
• * History of or presence of severe co-morbidities as determined by the investigator, including autoimmune disease, or clinically significant cardiac, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, hepatic, rheumatologic, renal disease, thrombocytopenia, and grade 4 hypertension\*\* (\*\*Grade 4 hypertension per CTCAE criteria is defined as life-threatening consequences (e.g., malignant hypertension, transient or permanent neurologic deficit, hypertensive)
• * History of a bleeding disorder or currently taking anti-coagulant products\*\*\* (e.g. warfarin, direct thrombin inhibitors, heparin products, etc.), anti-platelet products, and/or NSAIDs including aspirin. (\*\*\*including in the past week; however, an individual who is initially excluded from study participation based on one or more of the time-limited exclusion criteria may be reconsidered for enrollment once the condition has resolved as long as the participant continues to meet all other entry criteria)
• * History of active malignancy other than squamous cell or basal cell skin cancer, unless there was a surgical excision considered to have achieved a cure.
• * Current and/or expected immunosuppression due to cancer, receipt of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and other immunosuppressive therapies (including anti-TNF therapy).
• * Known or suspected congenital or acquired immunodeficiency, including functional or anatomic asplenia, or recent history or current use of immunosuppressive therapy\*\*\*\*. (\*\*\*\*Anti-cancer chemotherapy or radiation therapy within the preceding 3 years, or long-term (≥2 weeks within the previous 3 months) systemic corticosteroid therapy (e.g., prednisone at a dosage of ≥20 mg per day or on alternative days). Intranasal or topical prednisone (or equivalent) is allowed)
• * Known chronic infections including, but not limited to, HIV, tuberculosis, hepatitis B or C.
• * Is post-organ, bone marrow, and/or stem cell transplant, whether or not on chronic immunosuppressive therapy.
• * Received blood products or immunoglobulin 3 months before study entry or planned use during this study.
• * Had major surgery (per the investigator's judgment) within 4 weeks before study entry or planned major surgery during this study.
• * Insulin-dependent diabetes\*\*\*\*\* mellitus type 1 or type 2 requiring therapy. (\*\*\*\*\*History of isolated gestational diabetes is not an exclusion criterion)
• * Received experimental therapeutic agents within 12 months before the first vaccine dose or plans to receive any experimental therapeutic agents 12 months after the first vaccine dose that, at the investigator's discretion, would interfere with the safety or objectives of the study. COVID-19 vaccines that fall under FDA EUA will be treated as approved vaccines for this study.
• * Is currently participating or plans to participate in another clinical study that would involve the receipt of an investigational product or undergo a procedure that, in the investigator's opinion would interfere with the safety or objectives of the study.
• * Current diagnosed or self-reported alcohol abuse, drug abuse, or psychiatric conditions that in the opinion of the investigator would preclude compliance with the study.
• * Social, occupational, or any other condition that in the investigator's discretion might interfere with compliance with the study.