Vaccines
The overall goal of the Vaccines Theme Area is to develop, test, and validate vaccines against known and newly emerging threat agents.
Current Projects
Department of Homeland Security Funded Projects
- Development of T Cell-based Vaccine Against African Swine Fever Virus
- Novel Vaccine Approaches Against African Swine Fever
- Development of efficacious DIVA compatible vaccines for Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVFV)
Kansas Biosciences Authority Funded Projects
- Efficacy of different vectors–based CSFV and PEDV vaccines in pigs
- Establishment and evaluation of non-spreading single-cycle replicon of RVFV in a novel RVFV challenge model in sheep
- Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD): epidemiology and development of vaccine for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
- Novel chimeric vaccine and delivery system for classical swine fever virus
- Efficacy study of an alphavirus replicon-based vaccine for African swine fever virus in a swine challenge model
- Selection of adjuvants suitable for CSF subunit vaccines
Kansas Biosciences Authority /National Pork Board Joint Call Funded Projects
- Development of recombinant vaccinia virus vectored African swine fever vaccines
- Construct and Test Recombinant Adenoviruses Vectoring African Swine Fever Virus Genes in Inducing Immune Protection in Pigs