Code
01D02522
Duration
01 October 2022 → 31 October 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Virology
- Biopharmaceuticals
- Pharmaceutical technology
- Infectious diseases
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Engineering and technology
- Nanomaterials
Keywords
HIV
lipid nanoparticles
CRISPR/Cas9
Project description
In this proposal, we aim to design lipid nanoparticles coated with anti-CD4 nanobodies that encode CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoproteins targeting both ends of the HIV genome and the viral coreceptor CCR5. As such, our novel nanomedicine will selectively purge HIV reservoirs in CD4+ cells, while conferring healthy CD4+ cells resistant to HIV reinfection, and off-target effects in non-target cells will remain minimal.