Progress in Antibody-Guided Vaccine Design for Viruses

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in vaccines for viruses are influenced by knowledge regarding immune responses to natural infection. For this Special Issue, we are interested in studies that use antibody responses to viruses to guide novel vaccine design. Studies may include polyclonal responses in model systems, monoclonal antibody-directed epitope identification, structural biology information of antibody-antigen interaction, synthetic antibody screening and reverse engineering of vaccines, traditional immunization approaches and monoclonal antibody discovery, or AI-assisted antibody engineering and bioinformatic analyses. The common theme must be the use of antibodies to guide viral vaccine design.

For this Special Issue, we are interested in receiving high-quality reviews or research articles describing the development of new vaccines for viruses that have been influenced by the detailed knowledge of antibody responses. Studies can be focused on any virus or animal humoral immune response or antibody synthetic platform. Accepted papers will be thoroughly peer-reviewed and must describe innovative research studies contributing to the field or be authoritative reviews of the subject. There must be a component of antibody-directed vaccine design.

Prof. Dr. Gary McLean
Guest Editor

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