Adjuvanted Virus-Mimicking Nanoparticle HIV Vaccine

NIH Pandemic-Era Grants

Pandemic Era Grants

2021

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Principal Investigator: XU  LI
Organization: ZYMERON CORPORATION
Fiscal Year: 2021
Award: $300,000
Funding agency: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Particle-based Co-delivery of HIV immunogens as Next-generation HIV Vaccines: Tailored immunogens (such as Envs, monomers, native and/or native-like trimers, nucleic acids/RNA such as mRNAs, self-amplifying 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. The objective of this contract is to develop a novel nanoparticle delivery system to elicit potent and long-lasting antibody response and broadly neutralizing activity against HIV.

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