Mr
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 Viruses›Bovine viral diarrhoea Viruses›Newcastle disease virus Viruses›Peste des petits ruminants virus Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design Pre-clinical trials