An, Weiteng (Date of defense: 2021-04-14)
Peptide-based vaccines have raised as an attractive alternative strategy to overcome many of the limitations of conventional vaccines. Some drawbacks for an optimal immune response in vivo are, a poor ...
Gallo, María (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)
This thesis focuses on one of the biggest challenges facing drug discovery field: the efficient targeted delivery of therapeutic compounds, and how cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) acting as drug delivery ...
Ripoll Pastor, Greta (Date of defense: 2021-05-10)
Serologic tests detecting anti- T. gondii IgM are the gold standard for the diagnosis of acute toxoplasmosis. Nevertheless, most commercial kits are based on lysate antigens obtained from tachyzoites ...
Pérez-Peinado, Clara (Date of defense: 2020-01-20)
This work describes the discovery and optimization of efficient, selective, cost-effective and proteolytic-resistant antimicrobial and antitumoral peptides. To this end, we first identified novel ...
Forner, Mar (Date of defense: 2021-02-24)
Vaccination constitutes one of the most efficient and cost-effective methods of promoting global health. Nevertheless, few vaccines are fully effective, for manifold reasons ranging from intrinsic ...