hellfish allergy is one of the highest prevalence allergies in the world, accounting for 7.7% of the population including Indonesia. Thus, the development of T cell epitope and B cell epitope based vaccines play an important role in future prospects for alternative treatment for allergy. The vaccine aims to induce the immune system so it will not react towards the allergen though the body al…
In the past decades, the allergic disease prevalence has been increasing worldwide. It is estimated that 5-30% of populations in all America, Southeast Asia (such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, etc), Europe, and Australia have sensitivity and/or skin reactivity towards dust mites. House dust mites (HDM) are able to cause severe allergic reactions as well as represent the biggest s…
"Monkeypox (MPXV) is a zoonotic disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus (Poxviridae family) which was first identified in Democratic Republic of Congo. World Health Organization (WHO) has received increasing reports of monkeypox (Mpox) cases worldwide, and the mortality rate is 3-6%. Until now, fully effective & specific treatment for monkeypox virus infection is still absent.…
In 2020, breast cancer incidence in Indonesian women had become the highest among other cancers. There are different approaches to combat this disease; one of them is immunotherapy which focuses on utilizing the body’s immune cells to eliminate and evoke an immune response against cancer. This study aims to develop a multi-epitope peptide-based vaccine targeting Mucin 1 (MUC-1) and Matrix Met…
Cancer, the cause of the highest mortality number worldwide in 2020, had the majority of its deaths coming from low to middle income countries, which includes Indonesia. The importance of searching for cancer treatment therefore rose due to the high mortality number. Cancer vaccine is currently considered one of the most favorable approach among cancer therapies due to its high specificity, low…
Cervical cancer is included in the fourth list of most common cancer among women worldwide and the second top cancer among women in Indonesia. However, the available method to fight this cancer is only prevention, such as screening and prophylactic vaccination. As most cases arise from women who have not gotten HPV vaccination, developing a therapeutic vaccine is essential. Most of the case…