Team:NTU-Taida/Project/Future-Plan

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Future Plan

Future Plan

Following are some diseases that can be potentially treated with our PEPDEX systems. Our focus will be put on the immunological diseases, such as anti-allergy therapies and anti-cancer vacicines.

Contents

Neuroscience

● Neurological diseases

Alzheimer disease (Perry and Greig 2004; Li, Duffy et al. 2010)

Multiple sclerosis (Bielekova et al. 2000; Holz et al. 2000; Jurynczyk et al. 2010)

Parkinson’s disease (Szeto 2006)

Epilesy (Brothers and Wahlestedt 2010)

● Psychiatric diseases

Anxiety disorder (Holmes et al. 2003; Leonard et al. 2008; Steckler 2008; Madaan and Wilson 2009)

Depression (Holmes et al. 2003; Leonard et al. 2008; Madaan and Wilson 2009)

Eating disorder (Brothers and Wahlestedt 2010)

Immunology

● Anti-cancer vaccine

Melanoma(Minor 2011; Schwartzentruber, Lawson et al. 2011)

Cervical cancer (Zwaveling, Ferreira Mota et al. 2002)

● Anti-allergy vaccine

Asthma (Campbell, Buckland et al. 2009)

Rheumatoid arthritis (Holgate and Broide 2003)

Allergic rhinitis (Larche and Wraith 2005) (Takagi, Hiroi et al. 2005)


Immunological therapy

Anti-malignancy

Reference