A Milk Protein-Hitchhiking Strategy for the Oral Delivery of Amphiphilic Vaccines

Abstract

We are grateful for this Discovery award to enable an oral vaccine delivery platform against infectious diseases. Following the last report, we have performed in vitro and in vivo experiments according to the original SOW. While we are encouraged by in vitro data we have obtained over the past year, to date our progress has been primarily hindered by the low efficacy in vivo. To address the lack of efficacy in vivo, we have made extensive efforts in two major directions: (1) development of an in vitro gut model to understand the transport properties of amphiphilic peptides; (2) identification of a more potent adjuvant system targeting the STING pathway to augment the in vivo performance. The latter effort has resulted in one manuscript recommended for publication pending a minor revision at Advanced Therapeutics. We are hopeful that with the new adjuvant system we would be able to induce immune responses following oral vaccination.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1145922

Entities

People

  • Jiahe Li

Organizations

  • Northeastern University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Biomedical And Dental Materials
  • Cell Physiological Processes
  • Cells
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Lymphatic System
  • Lymphocytes
  • Materials Science
  • Microscopes
  • Oncology
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Polymeric Films
  • Sodium Compounds
  • Vaccines

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Clinical Trial Research.
  • Oncology (Cancer Research).
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Biotechnology - Cancer Biotech