New approach to active immunotherapy of Hepatitis C related cancer

Project Details

Description

Project goal is to develop a prototype active immunotherapy to complement directly acting antiviral drugs in treatment of chronic hepatitis C, which would target and eliminate HCV-infected cells, specifically malignant (transformed) hepatocytes and lymphocytes. The immunotherapy will be based on a conserved HCV antigen nucleocapsid (Core) protein and tumor-associated antigen involved in the early events in hepatocarcinogenesis, human telomerase reverse transcriptase, presented by synthetic genes (HCV/TERT-DNA).
AcronymLIVE®VAC
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/12/1828/02/21

Total Funding

  • Latvian Council of Science: €200,000.00

Keywords

  • hepatitis C
  • hepatocellular carcinoma
  • non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma
  • DNA vaccine
  • TLR ligand
  • checkpoint inhibitor
  • mouse model

Field of Science

  • 3.3 Health sciences

Smart Specialization Area

  • Biomedicine, medical technologies and biotechnology

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