Virology and Immunology of Gene Therapy

Dear Colleagues,

The interplay between virology, immunology, and gene therapy is a dynamic and critical area of research. Virology provides the tools and vectors for gene therapy and immunology and ensures that these tools are safely and effectively accepted by the body, and gene therapy offers new ways to treat diseases by harnessing and modifying biological systems. Therefore, we have created a Special Issue to address the most important scientific areas of the field:

• Development of efficient viral vectors;
• Development of new vector production technology to reduce potential immune responses;
• Better vector characterization technology;
• Immunogenicity of viral vectors;
• Immunotherapy using gene therapy;
• Overcoming pre-existing immunity;
• Gene editing for immune modulation;
• Autoimmune diseases and gene therapy;
• Viral vector-based vaccines.

Prof. Dr. Weidong Xiao
Prof. Dr. Jianming Qiu
Guest Editors

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• gene therapy
• viral vector
• vaccine
• immune responses
• viruses
• AAV
• lentiviral vectors
• neutralizing antibody