Broadly Protective Anti-Viral Vaccines 2025
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 August 2025 | Viewed by 1213
Special Issue Editor
Interests: influenza virus; coronavirus; vaccinology; adaptive immunity; universal vaccine; antigen modification; cross-reactive antibody; antibody affinity maturation; B and T cell epitope; nanoparticle vaccine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the Special Issue “Broadly Protective Anti-viral Vaccines 2024” will open in March 2023. This Special Issue will accept original articles on the preventive and therapeutic anti-viral universal vaccine research, including but not limited to structural vaccinology, vaccine immunology, broadly-protective antibodies, T-cell epitope-based vaccines, vaccination regimens, vaccine genetics, vaccine production processes, vaccine pharmacology, vaccine adjuvants, and so on. The submissions of research articles, reviews, and commentary pieces are welcomed.
Vaccination is an effective and economical approach to control the spread of viral diseases. Emerging viruses could escape from vaccination-elicited prevailing herd immunity by antigenic mutations, thereafter vaccine efficacy often wanes over time. Seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-2 are the most prominent representatives of rapidly evolving respiratory viruses. In addition, there are still no effective prophylactic or therapeutic vaccines that have been approved for human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C virus, and others. It necessitates the development of universal vaccines for conferring strong long-term cross-protection against these highly variable pathogens. In our Special Issue, we hope to include articles that will help us to address the relevant scientific questions.
Prof. Dr. Lei Deng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- universal vaccines
- structure-based rational design
- cross-protection
- broadly neutralizing antibody
- T-cell epitopes
- preventative and therapeutic vaccines
- adaptive immunology
- highly variable virus
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