ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Acquired adaptive immune cell dysfunction and restoration in chronic hepatitis B
This proposal aims to investigate the development of dysfunctional adaptive immune cells during chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and to develop new strategies to reprogram them into functional cells with potent antiviral activity. Our hypothesis, based on extensive preliminary data, is that HBV induces a unique type of adaptive immune cell dysfunction that differs from that observed in other viral infections or cancer. To investigate this, we will use unique mouse models of HBV pathogenesis, several of which have been generated ad hoc for this proposal, and well-characterized patient cohorts to identify, dissect and target dysregulated pathways that cause adaptive immune cell…
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