Abstract

The major discovery this year are as follows. 1. Initiated a phase II clinical trial in Kenya in 5-12 month infants to assess whether irradiated PfSPZ given by the IV route is safe, and confers durable immunity and protection against natural exposure 2. Isolated monoclonal antibodies against malaria specific proteins ( eg CSP) in vaccinated and protected subjects. Showed these antibodies were protective in vivo in two different mouse models. Defined a novel epitope on PfCSP which is the site of neutralization. A crystal structure of a human antibody was obtained binding to a specific and unique epitope on PfCSP. The data provide an antibody that can be advanced for prevention of malaria in humans and defines a novel site of vulnerability on PfCSP that can be advanced as a vaccine using structure based vaccine design.

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National Institute of Health (NIH)
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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Investigator-Initiated Intramural Research Projects (ZIA)
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1ZIAAI005107-08
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9554412
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8
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2017
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  Publications

Jongo, Said A; Shekalaghe, Seif A; Church, L W Preston et al. (2018) Safety, Immunogenicity, and Protective Efficacy against Controlled Human Malaria Infection of Plasmodium falciparum Sporozoite Vaccine in Tanzanian Adults. Am J Trop Med Hyg 99:338-349
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Lyke, Kirsten E; Ishizuka, Andrew S; Berry, Andrea A et al. (2017) Attenuated PfSPZ Vaccine induces strain-transcending T cells and durable protection against heterologous controlled human malaria infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114:2711-2716
Sack, Brandon K; Mikolajczak, Sebastian A; Fishbaugher, Matthew et al. (2017) Humoral protection against mosquito bite-transmitted Plasmodium falciparum infection in humanized mice. NPJ Vaccines 2:27
Mordmüller, Benjamin; Surat, Güzin; Lagler, Heimo et al. (2017) Sterile protection against human malaria by chemoattenuated PfSPZ vaccine. Nature 542:445-449
Ishizuka, Andrew S; Lyke, Kirsten E; DeZure, Adam et al. (2016) Protection against malaria at 1 year and immune correlates following PfSPZ vaccination. Nat Med 22:614-23
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Kastenmuller, Kathrin; Espinosa, Diego A; Trager, Lauren et al. (2013) Full-length Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein administered with long-chain poly(IýýC) or the Toll-like receptor 4 agonist glucopyranosyl lipid adjuvant-stable emulsion elicits potent antibody and CD4+ T cell immunity and protection in mice. Infect Immun 81:789-800
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