Team:NTU-Taida/Project/Future-Plan
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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.
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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
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