Novel Nanoparticle-in-Hydrogel Co-delivery of Adjuvanted saRNA as HIV Vaccine

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Abstract

Particle-Based Co-Delivery of HIV Immunogens as Next-Generation HIV Vaccines: A major focus of HIV vaccine research has been the development of immunogens that elicit broadly neutralizing antibody responses targeting the envelope protein (Env). While the field has predominantly focused on immunogen design and soluble antigens, the targeted and controlled delivery of antigens has not received much attention and is a gap in the HIV field that needs to be addressed. Tailored immunogens (such as Envs, monomers, native and/or native-like trimers, nucleic acids/RNA such as mRNAs, selfamplifying RNAs) combined with an effective multivalent antigenic display on nanoparticles for delivery may provide a strategy to promote strong and long-lived neutralizing antibody responses against HIV and direct affinity maturation toward HIV neutralizing antibodies.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10215313
Project number
75N93020C00011-0-9999-1
Recipient
ZYMERON CORPORATION
Principal Investigator
FANG LIU
Activity code
N43
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$300,000
Award type
Project period
2020-06-01 → 2021-05-31