Publications by authors named "Changzhen Weng"

Food allergy (FA) poses a major global health issue due to the increasing prevalence and lack of effective prevention strategies. Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) has emerged as a disease-modifying therapy for FA. However, due to long-term treatment duration and unexpected adverse reactions, only a minority of patients benefit from AIT.

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Here we report on the development and comprehensive evaluations of an mRNA vaccine for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) treatment. In two different HBV carrier mouse models generated by viral vector-mediated HBV transfection (pAAV-HBV1.2 and rAAV8-HBV1.

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Herpes zoster remains an important global health issue and mainly occurs in aged and immunocompromised individuals with an early exposure history to Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV). Although the licensed vaccine Shingrix has remarkably high efficacy, undesired reactogenicity and increasing global demand causing vaccine shortage urged the development of improved or novel VZV vaccines. In this study, we developed a novel VZV mRNA vaccine candidate (named as ZOSAL) containing sequence-optimized mRNAs encoding full-length glycoprotein E encapsulated in an ionizable lipid nanoparticle.

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