Sentences with phrase «enhance vaccine design»
Comprehensive knowledge about the evolution of Dengue in response to selection pressure is currently unavailable, but would greatly enhance vaccine design efforts.
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Instead, the vaccine is designed to enhance natural immunity so the body flushes out the parasite before it gets entrenched.
«Results from a former AIDS vaccine study have shown that in a worst case scenario, immunization against HIV could enhance infection,» says Christiane Stahl - Hennig, who designed the project in cooperation with the former DPZ employee Sieghart Sopper.
His lab has extensive experience evaluating and modulating T cell responses to tumors and viruses, including introducing genes into T cells to impart specificity and modulate function, designing strategies to overcome tolerance and enhance in vivo activity, and developing mouse models that more accurately model human immune responses to candidate vaccines.
Using enhanced DNA technology, the lab has designed DNA vaccines that drive immune responses in prophylactic or therapeutic settings against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Dengue (DV), Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, and Zika Virus (ZV).