Peptide-Based Vaccines against Infectious Diseases and Cancer
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 5438
Special Issue Editors
Interests: peptide-based vaccines; gene delivery; medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis
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Interests: peptides; subunit vaccines; vaccine development; infectious diseases
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Interests: vaccines and nanomedicine; vaccine design; nanotechnology; peptide chemistry; medicinal chemistry; vaccine/drug delivery; antimicrobial agents; macromolecules; adjuvants; immunology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vaccination is one of the most successful tools for reducing the incidence of infectious diseases. Peptide-based subunit vaccines have emerged as promising prophylactic and therapeutic medication against several infectious diseases including group A streptococcus, malaria, TB, and cancer. Peptide-subunit-based vaccines contain only the minimal immunogenic region of an antigen necessary to elicit the desired immune response. Therefore, only safe and effective epitopes can be selected, removing the risk of allergic and autoimmune responses. However, peptides do not contain the danger signals that are needed to activate the immune system. Thus, an adjuvant/delivery system must be included to stimulate an immune response against the peptide antigen.
Dr. Waleed Hussein
Dr. Rachel Stephenson
Dr. Mariusz Skwarczynski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- peptide-based vaccine
- infectious Diseases
- prophylactic vaccines
- therapeutic vaccines
- cancer
- vaccine formulations
- adjuvants
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