Giulio Tarro
Foundation T. & L. de Beaumont Bonelli for cancer research, Italy
Title: Vaccine for Viral and Oncological Diseases
Biography
Biography: Giulio Tarro
Abstract
The lethal virus that causes the smallpox was eraticated in 1979 in man, thanks to a global scale vaccination.Recently the Worl Health Organization (WHO) declared that India and Southeast Asia are free for poliovirus, that can cause paralisis, after the use of vaccines since 60 years ago.Last year over 800 million doses of combination vaccines were used to vaccinate Chinese children whereas more than 20 million children worldwide do not receive one or more important vaccinations that would protect them from preventable diseases. The vaccine for hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to prevent 50% of all liver cancers. Human Papilloma Viruses (HPV) have been correlated with the cervical cancer for genotypes oncogenic in humans: in 2006 the first vaccine against HPV was released. Finally, the ability of the immune system to recognize a tumor-associated antigen, thus enabling development of a vaccine approach for preventive as well as therapeutic application, represents a main target of this field of research. application and represents a main target of this field of research.