Objective
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in humans. According to the Alzheimer Association there are currently 12 million patients worldwide with estimated social costs for every patient reaching 40,000 per year. At present, no effective treatment is available to stop the progressive neuro-degeneration and associated cognitive decline in AD patients. AD is characterized by the abnormal accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain.
These plaques mainly consist of the Amyloid-(A) peptides Aß40/42 derived from the Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP). Immunotherapeutic treatment targeting Aß led to amyloid plaque reduction and had beneficial impact on disease progression in animal models. However, the first phase II clinical vaccination trial in AD patients using full length Aß42 as antigen had to be discontinued due to severe neuroinflammatory side effects including brain infiltration by autoreactive T-cells. In humans most of the amyloid plaque material is formed by N-terminally truncated and modified Aß derivatives. These truncated Aß species are correlated with increasing severity and early onset of neurodegeneration in AD patients.
In light of the characteristics of amyloid composition in patients, these truncated Aß peptides are highly attractive targets providing neoepitopes not present on parental APP. The Mimotope technology presented in this proposal will be used to create antigens mimicking potentially pathological B-cell epitopes on truncated Aß. A Mimotope-based AD vaccine targeting truncated forms of Aß would therefore induce a safe antibody response exclusively reacting with the pathological Aß molecules but not with parental APP and would avoid the induction of autoreactive T-cells. Thus the MimoVax vaccine will provide an innovative, safe, cost effective and efficient approach to successfully treat AD patients and to limit the severe personal and economic impact of AD on patients, their families and society.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences neurobiology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology dementia alzheimer
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunisation
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs vaccines
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pathology
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FP6-2005-LIFESCIHEALTH-7
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VIENNA
Austria
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