Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1093281

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1093281

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Improving immune response to vaccines by selective targeting of epithelial regions with the Nanopatch. Vaccination protects us from infections like measles and flu. In principle, it could protect us from all diseases, even from skin cancer and arthritis. In practice, however, vaccines to diseases like cancer have largely proved ineffective. One problem is that we don't really understand how the body's immune system responds to vaccination. Our aim, therefore, is to investigate changes in the immune system when a vaccine enters the skin, as might happen by injection. Experimenting with laboratory mice and a special vaccine-injecting Nanopatch that is attached to each mouse's ear, we are starting to understand how a vaccine affects the immune cells in the skin. In the future we plan to apply this knowledge to improve vaccination in people.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-05-2010

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $825,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Medical Biotechnology | Biomedical Engineering | Immunology Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Immune system and allergy | Infectious diseases | Prevention—biologicals (e.g. vaccines) |

Other Keywords

Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified | Immune system and allergy | Immunology Not Elsewhere Classified | Infectious diseases | Medical Biotechnology | Prevention—biologicals (e.g. vaccines)

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