BIKEN Endowed Department of Dengue Vaccine Development

Staff:

Endowed Chair Professor

Eiji Konishi, Ph.D.

Endowed Assistant Professor

Atsushi Yamanaka, Ph.D.

Graduate Student (student of Mahidol University)

Hisham Ahmed Imad

Paweena Manmee

Chayada Khamsawad

Subjects:

1. Development of dengue vaccine candidates
2. Analysis of dengue-induced antibodies

Paper published in 2015

1. Dengue virus infection-enhancing antibody activities against Indonesian strains in inhabitants of central Thailand.

   Atsushi Yamanaka, Duangjai Oddgun, Nantarat Chantawat, Tamaki Okabayashi, Pongrama Ramasoota, Siti Churrotin, Tomohiro Kotaki, Masanori Kameoka, Soegeng Soegijanto and Eiji Konishi

   Microbes Infect, 18 (4), 277-284, 2016.
2. Divergence of the dengue virus type 2 Cosmopolitan genotype associated with two predominant serotype shifts between 1 and 2 in Surabaya, Indonesia, 2008-2014.

   Tomohiro Kotaki, Atsushi Yamanaka, Kris Cahyo Mulyatno, Siti Churrotin, Teguh Hari Sucipto, Amaliah Labiqah, Nur Laila Fitriati Ahwanah, Soegeng Soegijanto, Masanori Kameoka and Eiji Konishi

   Infect Genet Evol, 37, 88-93, 2016.
3. Expression of enhancing-activity-free neutralizing antibody against dengue type 1 virus in plasmid-inoculated mice.

   Atsushi Yamanaka, Pannamthip Pitaksajjakul, Pongrama Ramasoota and Eiji Konishi

   Vaccine, 33 (45), 6070-6077, 2015.
4. Potential chemotherapeutic targets for Japanese encephalitis: current status of antiviral drug development and future challenges.

   Tomohiro Ishikawa and Eiji Konishi

   Expert Opin Ther Targets, 19 (10), 1379-1395, 2015.
5. Immunogenicity of a Candidate DNA Vaccine Based on the prM/E Genes of a Dengue Type 2 Virus Cosmopolitan Genotype Strain.

   Dwi Hilda Putri, Tjahjani Mirawati Sudiro, Rina Yunita, Ungke Anton Jaya, Beti Ernawati Dewi, Fithriyah Sjatha, Eiji Konishi, Hak Hotta and Pratiwi Sudarmono

   Jpn J Infect Dis, 68 (5), 357-363, 2015.

Link

BIKEN Endowed Department of Dengue Vaccine Development

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University