LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE FORMULATION OF VACCINES AGAINST COVID-19

SANCHEZ SANCHEZ, MARIA VICTORIA

Mendoza

Congreso; XXXIX Reunión Científica Anual. Sociedad Biología de Cuyo; 2021

Sociedad Biología de Cuyo

The COVID-19 disease caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 virus, have proposed a great challenge for the entire global scientific community in order to respond to different needs. The production of knowledge and information exchange have occurred at a level of magnitude never seen before. At the local level, the same challenges were assumed and several networks were generated between researchers to work collaboratively. In this context, new ties were generated, where each of the parties contributed, from their expertise, to generate new solutions or begin investigations that would respond to the “unknowns” given by this new disease. The Laboratory of Immunology and Vaccine Development of IMBECU, participated in different networks with researchers in the country and thus began with vaccine formulation studies to develop a vaccine against COVID-19. The objective of this still current research is to provide knowledge on the immune responses induced by different formulations with the combination of adjuvants that help to induce robust immune responses, and to elucidate the immune mechanisms necessary to generate more efficient immune responses to protect against SARS-CoV-2.