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Nikolai Petrovsky, J <strong>Vaccines</strong> Vaccin <strong>2013</strong>, 4:5http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2157-7560.S1.0163 rd International Conference on<strong>Vaccines</strong> & VaccinationJuly 29-31, <strong>2013</strong> Embassy Suites Las Vegas, NV, USAStrategies for generation of broadly cross-neutralising anti-influenza vaccine responsesNikolai PetrovskyFlinders Medical Centre and Vaxine Pty Ltd., AustraliaIncreasing evidence points to the importance of broadly cross-neutralizing anti-influenza responses in providing protectionagainst pandemic strains but current seasonal influenza vaccines are poorly effective at generating such responses. Ourgroup has been exploring techniques to enhance broadly cross-neutralizing anti-influenza responses that involve use of novelrecombinant influenza antigens adjuvants (FluBlok TM , Protein Sciences Corporation) together with novel adjuvant technology(Advax TM , Vaxine Pty Ltd). This novel approach has already been advanced to the clinic and has shown promising results in itsability to modulate both anti-influenza B- and T-cell responses, in the process inducing changes in plasmablast and memoryB-cell frequency, immunoglobulin subtype and B-cell receptor usage. The significance of these changes is still being explored inanimal challenge models, but suggests that these new approaches to influenza vaccine design may one day enable production of auniversal influenza vaccine that no longer needs to be administered on an annual basis to at risk individuals. Such vaccines couldbe major life savers in the event of a future pandemic involving H5N1, H7N9 or some other new serotype of avian influenza.BiographyNikolai Petrovsky MBBS, FRACP, Ph.D. is an active hospital clinician, research professor at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide Australia andresearch director of Vaxine, an Australian vaccine development company. He is Secretary-General of the International Immunomics Society andhas received major funding from the US National Institutes of Health to develop novel biodefense vaccines and adjuvants. He has won prestigiousawards including the AMP Innovation Award at the 2009 Telstra Business Awards and an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010. He hastaken four vaccines to the clinic and has authored over 100 scientifi c papers and book chapters.nikolai.petrovsky@flinders.edu.auJ <strong>Vaccines</strong> Vaccin <strong>2013</strong>ISSN: 2157-7560, JVV an open access journal<strong>Vaccines</strong>-<strong>2013</strong>July 29-31, <strong>2013</strong>Volume 4 Issue 5Page 44

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