VACCINE DISCOVERY @ GUELPH

Professor M.A. MONTEIRO

Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA

E-mail: monteiro@uoguelph.ca

●Click here to familiarize yourself with our research or watch videos 1, 2 and 3

LATEST LAB NEWS:

►Stellar Biotechnologies announces exclusive option to license Clostridium Difficile technology

►GMP grade anti-diarrhea vaccine being manufactured for Phase I human trial

►Our group receives government funding to develop an anti-tuberculosis vaccine

►Yuening Jiao delivers oral presentation at the 4^th Annual Congress of Vaccine in China

►Lisa Bertolo presents her work at the 112^th ASM General Meeting in San Francisco

►Prof. Monteiro delivers presentation at the 26^th International Carbohydrate Symposium in Madrid

Read about our most recent discoveries here:

Campylobacter jejuni vaccine (anti-diarrhea vaccine)

●Discovery of Campylobacter jejuni polysaccharides ●Review of Campylobacter polysaccharides

●Research publication about anti-diarrhea vaccine (Campylobacter jejuni) and ●news article

Clostridium difficile vaccine (antibiotic-associated diarrhea vaccine)

●Discovery of Clostridium difficile polysaccharides PS-I and PS-II

●Patent describing Clostridium difficile polysaccharides PS-I, PS-II and PS-III

●Discovery of glucan in Clostridium difficile spores and immunogenicity of PS-II

●Synthesis and immunogenicity of Clostridium difficile PS-II conjugate vaccines

Helicobacter pylori vaccine (gastric cancer vaccine)

●Discovery of Helicobacter pylori polysaccharides ●Review of Helicobacter pylori polysaccharides

●Research publication about gastric cancer vaccine (Helicobacter pylori) and ●news article

Otitis media vaccine (middle-ear infection vaccine)

●Discovery of Alloicoccus otitidis polysaccharides

●Alloiococcus otitidis vaccine patent (otitis media)

►Research article about new conjugation strategy for vaccine development

●Publications, Patent List 1 and Patent List 2

●List of our publications on PubMed and Google

●Professional Experience

●Editorial Board Member of Carbohydrate Research

Research Team

●MA, Zuchao (Post-Doctoral Associate)

●BERTOLO, Lisa (Ph.D. Student)

●JIAO, Yuening (M.Sc. Student)

●PEQUEGNAT, Brittany (M.Sc. Student)

●POTTIER, Max (M.Sc. Student)

●REDKYNA, Olena (M.Sc. Student)

●VALLIANI, Moez (M.Sc. Student)

●WANG, Zhe (M.Sc. Student)

●LEE, Ginyoung (Undergraduate Student)

●RAJAKARUNA, Rakshika (Undergraduate Student)

●KULAK, Monika (Undergraduate Student)

●GABARA, Adam (Undergraduate Student)

►List of Former Group Members

Former group members are working as government scientists, pharmaceutical scientists, professors and as teachers. Join our research group and be part our educational and scientific discoveries!

NEW GROUP MEMBERS and VISITORS PLEASE NOTE

►New students must complete Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) training and the Safety Training Course, and read the laboratory safety guidelines before starting laboratory work in laboratory.

►Safety glasses and lab coats are required at all times when visiting or working in laboratory.

Are you interested in joining our research group?

Please send me (monteiro@uoguelph.ca) your complete curriculum vitae and two reference letters or contacts.

If you do not have any publications and are applying for a Ph.D. position, you must submit with your application a copy of your M.Sc. thesis.

Please note that I will reply only if a suitable position is available.

Potential graduate students have to be accepted by the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Contact Information-Prof. Mario A. Monteiro may be contacted by telephone at 519-824-4120 ext. 53447