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Anti-Cytokine Active Immunotherapy Based on Supramolecular Peptides for Alleviating IL-1β-Mediated Inflammation.
Journal Article Advanced healthcare materials · February 2025 IL-1β is a principal proinflammatory cytokine underlying multiple local and systemic chronic inflammatory conditions including psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and type 2 diabetes. Passive immunotherapies and biologic drugs targ ... Full text Open Access CiteNext-Generation Vaccine Development with Nanomaterials: Recent Advances, Possibilities, and Challenges.
Journal Article Annual review of biomedical engineering · July 2024 Nanomaterials are becoming important tools for vaccine development owing to their tunable and adaptable nature. Unique properties of nanomaterials afford opportunities to modulate trafficking through various tissues, complement or augment adjuvant activiti ... Full text Open Access CiteSelf-Assembling Allergen Vaccine Platform Raises Therapeutic Allergen-Specific IgG Responses without Induction of Systemic Allergic Responses.
Journal Article ACS biomaterials science & engineering · March 2024 Allergen immunotherapies are often successful at desensitizing allergic patients but can require life-long dosing and suffer from frequent adverse events including instances of systemic anaphylaxis, leading to poor patient compliance and high cost. Allerge ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Supramolecular biomaterials for tuning the inflammatory properties of the complement system
ResearchGraduate Student · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2022 - 2027Sublingual Supramolecular Vaccines and Immunotherapies
ResearchGraduate Student · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026View All Grants