Synthetic Vaccines

"Nearly nine million children under 14 years of age die every year from infectious disease. And at least a third of them could be saved if existing vaccines were more widely used, but the rest only if suitable new vaccines were developed...” - the World Health Organization [more]

The research group of Prof. Seeberger is working towards the chemical synthesis of bacterial bound antigens to develop a synthetic carbohydrate based vaccine for many of the prevalent diseases. [more]