Application of Viral Vectors for Vaccine Development

Dear Colleagues, 

In the quest to develop novel vaccines, DNA, mRNA, inactivated, live attenuated, virion-like particle, recombinant subunit and viral vector platforms have been employed. Both traditional and genetically engineered vaccines have contributed to the control of infectious disease pandemics, such as COVID-19. However, viral vectors, which can induce robust humoral and cellular immune responses, have attracted increased attention in recent years. Viral vector vaccines have been applied in both pre-clinical and clinical trials as vaccines against a variety of infectious diseases, such as HIV-1, Malaria, Ebola, and SARS-CoV-2, etc. 

This Special Issue will provide a platform through which to discuss potential novel strategies and provision of enhanced vaccine designs, research works, and experimental results regarding the development of viral vector vaccines for both infectious and non-infectious diseases. We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue with original research articles and reviews that focusing topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Viral vector vaccine development and efficacy evaluation
• Vaccine technology
• Cancer vaccine
• Multiple vaccine technological platforms
• Protective mechanisms
• Immune response to vaccines 

We eagerly anticipate receiving your contributions. 

Prof. Dr. Fei Guo
Guest Editor

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