Mpolokang Elliot Fana

Mr
Mpolokang Elliot
Fana

Supervisor OIE FMD Regional Reference lab for sub-Saharan Africa
BOTSWANA VACCINE INSTITUTE
Biography

I have worked in the Foot and Mouth Disease diagnostics laboratory for over ten years, most of which was in molecular diagnostics and reserach. I am currently persuing interest in vaccinology, using alternative production technology, such as transient expression of foreign proteins in plants.

 

Research interests

Next Generation vaccines, use of alternative methods to produce recombinant peptides.

Discipline
Bio-manufacturing Bioinformatics Cellular biology Clinical trials – efficacy Clinical trials – safety Commercialisation Deployment Ethics Formulation technology Immunology – B-cells Immunology – T-cells Immunology – innate Molecular biology Protein biology Structural biology Virology
Host species
Buffalo Cattle Pigs Small ruminants Wildlife
Pathogen
Viruses VirusesBovine viral diarrhoea VirusesNewcastle disease virus VirusesPeste des petits ruminants virus
Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design Pre-clinical trials