Dengue fever vaccine: Towards low cost production and delivery

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1074296

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

With rising populations and a warming climate mosquito borne viral diseases will become more prevalent and low-cost vaccine production & delivery systems will become increasingly important. Here a microalgae based vaccine production platform will be coupled to proven Nanopatch & low cost oral vaccine delivery. The focus is on a Dengue virus vaccine, as Dengue causes 400 million infections & 100 million symptomatic cases annually.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 01-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Development Grants

Funding Amount: $612,039.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Immunology not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

molecular biology | preventive health | vaccine design | vaccine development | vaccine technology

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