JABSOM Tropical Medicine Seminar

September 22, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Manoa Campus, via Zoom Add to Calendar

TRMD 690 Wednesday, September 22, 2021 via Zoom @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM *****Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/97962975142?pwd=aFdJZmhrbjdDOGQ2UFZHZTYyeDhUZz09 Meeting ID: 979 6297 5142 Passcode: 306033*****"Development and pre-clinical efficacy of an adjuvanted recombinant subunit COVID-19 vaccine" Vaccination a crucial component of an effective public health strategy against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. FDA-approved and Emergency Use Authorized (EUA) vaccines using new mRNA and viral-vector technology are highly effective in preventing moderate to severe disease, however information on their long-term efficacy and protective breadth against SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (VOC) is currently scarce. This seminar will cover the development and pre-clinical evaluation of an adjuvanted, recombinant subunit vaccine in mice and cynomolgus macaques. We show that this vaccine is highly immunogenic and induces robust spike-specific and cross-variant neutralizing antibodies against circulating VOC for at least 3 months after the final boost. Protective efficacy and post-exposure immunity are evaluated using a late, heterologous P.1 (Gamma) challenge model. Our results indicate that our vaccine candidate effectively reduces viral load in the upper & lower respiratory tract and seems protective against disease in macaques even as vaccine immunity wanes.*****Albert To, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa


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JABSOM Tropical Medicine, Mānoa Campus

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Vivek Nerurkar, Ph.D., 808-692-1668, nerurkar@hawaii.edu, TRMD 690_Albert To (PDF)

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