Poxvirus and Vaccines
Poxvirus and Vaccines
The main objectives of our laboratory are geared to understand the molecular basis in the pathogenesis of infectious agents and their interaction with the host, as well as to use this knowledge in the development of vaccines that might be effective against viral and parasitic diseases like HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, malaria, leishmaniasis and cancer. As a model system of infectious agent and as a delivery vector for expression of genes of interest, we used vaccinia virus (VV) a member of the poxvirus family.