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DR WEIGUANG ZENG



Contact Details

Organization: Microbiology and Immunology
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER NH&MRC
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Work: 83449942
Level: 04
Building: Microbiology Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
My research interest is in designing synthetic vaccines and preparing vaccine with self-adjuvanting activity. Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Jiangxi Medical College
Master of Science Beijing
Doctor of Philosophy Institution not known

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
SELF ADJUVANTING CTL-BASED INFLUENZA VACCINES FOR HUMAN USE Chief Investigator NHMRC Potential Avian Influenza-Induced Pandemic Research Grants 01/01/2006
A New Method for Vaccine Design Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Lipopeptide Vaccines Illustrate the Potential Role of Subtype-Crossreactive T Cell Responses in the Control of Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Options for the Control of Influenza VI
    Conference Publication: Options for the Control of Influenza VI
    Page numbers: 199-201
    Publisher: International Medical Press(London)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Exploiting information inherent in binding sites of virus-specific antibodies: design of an HCV vaccine candidate cross-reactive with multiple genotypes


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Antiviral Therapy
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1005-14
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  • Intranasal Lipopeptide Primes Lung-Resident Memory CD8+ T cells for Long-term Pulmonary Protection against Influenza
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Immunology
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 770-778
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  • Intranasal Vaccination with a Lipopeptide Containing a Conformationally Constrained Conserved Minimal Peptide, a Universal T Cell Epitope, and a Self-Adjuvanting Lipid Protects Mice from Group A Streptococcus Challenge and Reduces Throat Colonization
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 194
    Page numbers: 325-330
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  • Lipid-containing mimetics of natural triggers of innate immunity as CTL-inducing influenza vaccines
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Immunology
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1801-1813
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Characterisation of the antibody response to a totally synthetic immunocontraceptive peptide vaccine based on LHRH
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 35
    Page numbers: 4427-4435
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Identification of dominant epitopes of synthetic immunocontraceptive vaccines that induce antibodies in dogs
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 37
    Page numbers: 4589-4597
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A totally synthetic vaccine of generic structure that targets TLR2+ dendritic cells and promotes either antibody or CTL responses
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 101
    Page numbers: 15440-15445
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  • A totally synthetic vaccine of generic structure that targets TLR2+ dendritic cells and promotes either antibody or CTL responses.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 101
    Issue: 43
    Page numbers: 15440-5
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  • Effects on Rotavirus Cell Binding and Infection of Monomeric and Polymeric Peptides Containing α2β1 and αxβ2 Integrin Ligand Sequences
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Virology
    Volume: 78
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 11786-11797
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A Novel Method for the Rational Construction of Well-Defined Immunogens: The Use of Oximation To Conjugate Cholera Toxin B Subunit to a Peptide-Polyoxime Complex
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Bioconjugate Chemistry
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 614-618
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Dissecting the Role of Peptides in the Immune Response: Theory, Practice and the Application to Vaccine Design
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Peptide Science
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 255-281
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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  • Maturation of dendritic cells with lipopeptides that represent vaccine candidates for hepatitis C virus
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 81
    Page numbers: 67-72
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Highly Immunogenic and Totally Synthetic Lipopeptides as Self-Adjuvanting Immunocontraceptive
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Immunology
    Volume: 169
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 4905-4912
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  • Identification of antigenically active tryptic fragments of apical membrane antigen-1 (AMA1) of Plasmodium chabaudi malaria: strategies for assembly of immunologically active peptides
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 3477-3484
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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